‘The Digg Reel’

Here at the Mark Czerniec Internet Testing Laboratories, we like The Digg Reel. As a matter of fact, we have secretly been enjoying The Digg Reel since — well, since September 6, which is when we discovered Miro, the thing we use to download and watch The Digg Reel....

Digital antenna: Could free TV make a comeback?

Consider the case of our neighbor Mary Jean (pictured above in warmer days). In her roughly 90 years as an American, she has seen all sorts of technological and economic waves break, splash, and recede. While not afraid of the latest and greatest, she also values the...

It’s blowing, it’s freezing

We didn’t get a very good sleep. All night long, the wind was plying the trees and testing for loose roofing shingles, flinging garbage cans and neighborhood Christmas decorations, causing much fitful tossing, not to mention frequent turning. Giant Hawaiian...

‘Black Dynamite’: Next big movie buzz?

Amy’s job puts her in regular contact with a number of software developer-type people who regularly wade in certain offbeat, cultish humor channels. She tells me that, among these plugged-in folks, there is a strong, giggly anticipation about a movie called...

Shoes thrown at George W. Bush by Iraqi reporter

High and outside: FishbowlDC posts NBC video and three entries about one Iraqi reporter’s goodbye today to President George W. Bush: Reporter Throws Shoe At President Bush VIDEO: Reporter Throws Shoes At Bush Block The Reebok: More From The Scene The official...

Attention, Richard Roeper: The new media flows two ways

I am lying on the sofa just now, reading a 5,500-word entry in Roger Ebert’s Journal about Bill Nack and Mark Twain and the beauty of ordinary language, masterfully employed. Roger Ebert publishes one of these wonders every few days in his online Journal — long,...

George W. Bush library pays $35,000 for Web domain name

The web domain name for the George W. Bush library was in the news today on NPR’s Morning Edition: The name is www.GeorgeWBushLibrary.com. A Florida firm was handling Web services for the presidential library. The Dallas Morning News reports that the...

‘Good Eats’ on YouTube

I have written here before about Good Eats — about the steel-cut oatmeal show, the gumbo show. Good Eats is one of my all-time favorite shows on television. At the same time, I currently loathe the Food Network. Where I once looked for Anthony Bourdain to explore...

T.D. Mischke fired from KSTP

(Update: Great news: Tommy Mischke will be heard again on weekday afternoons beginning March 4 from 2 to 4 p.m. via CityPages.com.) As you most likely know by now, broadcasting legend Steve Dahl was let go on Friday by CBS Radio. Phil Rosenthal has the details over at...

Kitchen: Kenmore electric range, InterMetro shelving

< Previous Photos Next > Kitchen: Kenmore electric range, InterMetro shelving Racine, Wisconsin — Our kitchen, with Kenmore electric oven range and InterMetro Professional shelving serving as an open pantry. See other posts about: Skechers Men's GO WALK 6...