Tuesday, January 19, 2010

WEB BOHEMIAN (Tuesday, January 19, 2010)
(1)- WINE REACT – A Pennsylvania man cracked a wine bottle over the head of a man who had crawled through his window, capturing the intruder and scaring off an female accomplice trying to get in the door.

(2)- CHINA WOW! -- In thefrigid northeastern China city of Harbin (site of an ice and snow sculpture festival). One sees massive buildings built of ice from the frozen surface of the nearby Songhua River... and much more.

(2)- CANADA WOES -- A civic-minded but drunken man has been charged with pushing a snow blower into a major intersection north of Toronto. The 41-year-old man caused traffic mayhem during rush hour in Barrie, 50 miles north of Toronto.

(3)- PRESENT FOR UTAH -- It's not really a question whether Utah will be the disposal site for three trainloads of depleted uranium from a government atomic-weapons complex cleanup in South Carolina. It's a matter of how soon.

(4)- VERMONT'S UGLY MILK TRUTH -- Vermont likes to promote itself as a verdant, wholesome state with picturesque black and white Holsteins grazing on hillside pastures. But the postcard image hides an ugly truth.

(5)- STRANGE CRIME REPORT -- Police in Skåne in southern Sweden have busted an international ring of left shoe robbers. Two 50-year-old men have been arrested for stealing a total of seven single shoes, reported Sydsvenskan newspaper.

(6)- GET TO THE POINT – A big reason news seekers abandon print newspapers for the Internet has nothing directly to do with technology. It’s because newspaper articles are too long. On the Internet, news articles get to the point.

(7)- INTERNET QUESTIONS – You ask if the Internet will, in the long run, arrive at a much richer infrastructure, in which ideas can potentially evolve outside of human minds? In other words, can we change the way the Internet thinks?

(8)- KEROUAC QUESTIONS REMAIN -- A forged will sends Jack Kerouac scholars, fans, collectors, literary executors, and lawyers on the warpath. One can only guess at how things might have evolved had the will not been forged.

(9)- TOWNSEND WARNER -- Looking back four decades to the origins of her novel Summer Will Show, which was published in 1936, Sylvia Townsend Warner described her protagonist as more of a discovery than a contrivance of the imagination.

POLITICAL COMMENTARY

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