Last week was [Restaurant Week in Boston](http://www.bostonusa.com/visitor/resdet.php?seqnum=9680&type=event), where some of the finer restaurants in the area offer special discounts to the public.
> The 5th Annual, RESTAURANT WEEK ! August 22-26, 2005, is a culinary festival bound to whet your appetite each day as some of the finest restaurants in Boston & Cambridge and beyond […]
KMWorld is reporting a big acquisition in the KM industry:
> BEA Systems reports it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Plumtree Software. BEA says the acquisition will enable it to better provide customers with improved enterprise productivity by offering both collaborative and transactional portals across multiple platforms and application servers. Plumtree’s cross-platform […]
I think I witnessed police brutality on my way home from work today. I was with 3 friends walking up Winter Street near the Park Street T-stop when it happened, around 7:30 PM.
A police car had driven through the set of lights, and had to stop to allow a drunken homeless man slowly make […]
Like I’ve done five times before, I made a special trip to the local Newbury Comics today to grab the newest Simpsons DVD. And I’m not totally happy…
My compaint: The packaging of the DVD is some flimsy plastic shell shaped like Homer’s head.
Yes, I have a tendency to be a on the anal […]
Here’s a simple bookmarklet that lets you search all of del.icio.us from one click. Incredibly basic, but useful:
search all del.icio.us
To set it up, most browsers just require you to drag and drop it on your toolbar.
Heard for the first time today at work:
> **skunkworks** - A typically small and loosely structured group of people who research and develop a project for the sake of innovation. The term typically is used in regard to technology projects. A skunkworks often operates independent of a company’s normal research and development operations and therefore […]
In an interesting marketing move, Saab has launched a new website touting individuality:
What makes this interesting is that Saab is taking a chance, especially at a time when “Individuality” has never been more synonomous with conformity than it does today.
I think it started about 5-8 years ago in music/fashion, when “alternative” was […]
The latest installment of the Simpson’s legacy is out now on DVD.
Season six was the 1994 season that ended with the classic *Who Shot Mr. Burns?* cliffhanger.
(Wait… Who *did* shoot Mr. Burns? It’s been so long I forgot. Maggie, maybe?)
Just noticed today that GeoURL, the original location-to-URL reverse directory, is back up and running, with improvements.
[View my neighbors in meatspace.](http://geourl.org/near?p=http://trainque.com)
