Monthly Archives: April 2004

Joe’s Chickens and Turkeys

April 28, 2004 – 12:20 pm

Joe’s prized chickens and turkeys. In the brooders now. They’ll be in their coops by May.
More photos from MaisonBisson

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Restaurant Insider

April 22, 2004 – 11:42 am

A link from WiFi Networking News points to QSR Magazine, the trade mag for the quick service restaurant industry (think McDonalds and Taco Bell). The connection here is that McDonalds plans to offer wireless access in 13,000 locations. With McDonald’s off the market, WiFi hotspot operators are looking to hook the next big fish, and [...]

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Music Biz Sales Up

April 12, 2004 – 6:15 pm

UK markets first reported it, then Australia’s record industry tried to suppress it, now US sales figures suggest the trend has spread here: record sales are up. Yes, despite the RIAA’s whining and lawsuits (and P2P’s continued growth despite those lawsuits), record sales are up in the US.
BBC News reports US record sales up 9% [...]

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Bringing Digital Video Back to the Living Room

April 10, 2004 – 6:31 pm

You can burn DVDs of your home movies (and you probably ought to, just for backups), but what if you want to make a movie library to match your computer-based music library? Watching video on a computer is no more fun than listening to MP3s on the computer’s tinny internal speaker. The solution may be [...]

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Exploring the News

April 9, 2004 – 6:44 pm

NewsMap displays current news in an explorable two dimensional space. Headline sizes appear to be weighted based on the number of related stories. Like PlumbDesign’s Visual Thesaurus, it’s a truly new use of computer in the display of information.

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Jacque’s Cabaret

April 4, 2004 – 3:17 am

BostonNoise.org says “Jacques’ Cabaret is Boston’s oldest gay bar. The upstairs features live female impersonator shows five nights per week, including weekends. The downstairs basement is open only on Friday and Saturday, and hosts local bands.”
Jacque’s official website shows Norell Gardner & his cast of miss-leading ladies playing every Friday and Saturday upstairs. The [...]

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