Day 549: Vintage
Posted on February 28, 2007 - Filed Under funny, new orleans, pictures | Leave a Comment
This beauty of a paddywagon was found hiding on City Park Avenue, right next door to the Municipal Training Academy, also where the Parking Division’s Administrative Hearing Center NO LONGER EXISTS (would someone please inform the City of No’s stationers?)
Read More..>>Day 548: Viva Los Interwebs!
Posted on February 27, 2007 - Filed Under computing & internet, gizmos & hacks | 1 Comment
Microsoft’s ‘dirty tricks’ archive turns into hot Torrent
The material needs to find a home in a academic institution, which has the time to curate it, check for completeness, and put the material in context. And ideally this should be in a region beyond US jurisdiction - if there are any such places this side of […]
Day 547: New Orleans - Culture vs. Infrastructure
Posted on February 26, 2007 - Filed Under We Are Not Ok, culture-society-history, desi / india, global, government, new orleans, recovery | 20 Comments
Mark pointed the NOLA bloggers to da po blog’s take on Andrés Duany’s article on New Orleans in BusinessWeek. (Feel free to read the article and the post/comments before checking back in here). Here are some of Duany’s statements that da po’ boy emphasized:
I realized at that instant that New Orleans is not really an […]
Day 545: Dropped Some More
Posted on February 24, 2007 - Filed Under We Are Not Ok, government, new orleans, recovery | 2 Comments
Looks like Ms. Betty was an Allstate customer. Today’s nola.com reports that many homeowners are surprised that Allstate cancelled their policies although their flooded homes are fixed or being repaired, or in some cases didn’t flood at all.
The article sums up the problem nicely and includes the names of insurance companies that are following […]
Day 545: Don’t Be Silly, Toto
Posted on February 24, 2007 - Filed Under new orleans, weather | 2 Comments
Scarecrows don’t talk!
Severe storm warnings issued for New Orleans Metropolitan area
… there is moderate risk of severe weather beginning Saturday afternoon and ending Sunday night for our region. The local National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) office and severe weather outlook team are concerned that this group of thunderstorms could produce large hail, damaging winds […]
Posted on February 23, 2007 - Filed Under blurbs, culture-society-history, energy | Leave a Comment
“We Americans want it all: endless and secure energy supplies; low prices; no pollution; less global warming; no new power plants (or oil and gas drilling, either) near people or pristine places. This is a wonderful wish list, whose only shortcoming is the minor inconvenience of massive inconsistency.” — Robert Samuelson
Read More..>>Posted on February 23, 2007 - Filed Under blurbs, funny, government, movies/tv | Leave a Comment
Conan O’Brien’s Meet The Press For Dummies.
Read More..>>Day 544: Yay FCC, For Once
Posted on February 23, 2007 - Filed Under government, media, music | 3 Comments
The proposed XM-Sirius merger concerns the Chairman of the FCC.
New York-based Sirius and XM of the District are lining up some of the best-known and highest-paid lawyers and lobbyists, while competitors and consumer groups vow to fight back. The biggest potential roadblock for the merger is a 1997 Federal Communications Commission declaration that a single […]
Day 543: Dropped
Posted on February 22, 2007 - Filed Under We Are Not Ok, new orleans, recovery | 5 Comments
In today’s post, Loki says,
We exist in a place where Katrina, the Federal Flood, and the ongoing trials infect every aspect of day to day life. Every interaction, every conversation, every walk down the block are tainted with the events of the past 18 months. In this sort of environment catharsis is essential … Every […]
Day 542: Bloggers Celebrate Mardi Gras
Posted on February 21, 2007 - Filed Under mardi gras, new orleans | 6 Comments
CBSNews.com: Bloggers Celebrate Mardi Gras
They mean bloggers outside NOLA, and one in. The rest of us were busy catching beads from Payton, Fujita and Payton. We don’t just celebrate Fat Tuesday but, like Adrastos said, blitz the parade route. The corner of St. Mary and St. Charles was pwn3d this year.
