Tuesday, December 30, 2008

"Too Fat to Fish" by Artie Lange

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I recently finished reading comedian Artie Lange's memoir "Too Fat to Fish" and... man, what a train wreck (not the book, bu...

Cover Story on Cisco in Fast Company Magazine

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Really interesting story in the recent Dec/Jan issue of Fast Company Magazine on Cisco Systems . The piece by Ellen McGirt is titled ...
Sunday, December 28, 2008

HP PC Division & Other Stuff of Note from BusinessWeek

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The Dec 22 issue of BusinessWeek featured an interesting strategy profile on the HP PC business titled "How HP Got the Wow! Back...
Saturday, December 27, 2008

Obama Election Night Piece from Esquire

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A great piece from the Jan 2009 issue of Esquire Magazine is "American Surprise: How Election Night Brought Us Home Again" by no...

"2008: Best Sports Year Ever" Story from Sports Illustrated

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From the same Dec 29 Sports Illustrated issue with "Michael Vick's dog" on the cover comes an excellent piece from Michael Fa...
Thursday, December 25, 2008

"Michael Vick Dogs" Story from Sports Illustrated

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It being Christmas, it's more than appropriate to have linked here the cover story titled "Happy New Year" from the Dec 29 Sp...
Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Time Magazine - Person of the Year: Barack Obama

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No surprise at all, but it's still exciting to see President-elect Obama as Time's pick for 2008 Person of the Year. Featured in the...
Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Nancy Gibbs essay from Time Magazine

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I'm sure there's going to be other great stuff from Time's 2008 Person of the Year issue (one guess who it is), but I found com...
Friday, December 19, 2008

Sports Illustrated: Dec 15 Issue

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Some interesting stuff from the latest Sports Illustrated ... - Brief mention of former SI writer Roy Blount Jr. and his new book "A...
Thursday, December 18, 2008

"Hero of the Underground" by Jason Peter

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Sakes alive... "Hero of the Underground" by ex-Nebraska Cornhusker football star Jason Peter is quite the read. It's a memoi...

Time Magazine - Dec 22 Issue

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One really good opinion piece and several interesting tidbits from the recent Time Magazine ... - In his story "Black Gold: It's Ti...
Friday, December 12, 2008

"The Audacity of Hope" by Barack Obama

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I almost feel guilty for saying this, but I found "The Audacity of Hope" (at least the first half of it that I did read) by Presi...
Wednesday, December 10, 2008

"Multi-touch" Screen Technology

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I suppose I'm interested in it due to my huge appreciation of my iPhone and have come across a few different articles about multi-touch...
Sunday, December 07, 2008

2008 Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year Issue

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Two excellent articles from the SI Sportsman of the Year Issue... one being the cover story on Michael Phelps , SI's Sportsman of the Ye...
Saturday, December 06, 2008

BusinessWeek Magazine - Various Stuff

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Below are some various and sundry stories of note I've come across in BusinessWeek over the last few months... no common theme to them ...
Sunday, November 30, 2008

Time Magazine - Dec 8 Issue

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Quite a few interesting articles from the most recent issue of Time Magazine ... The cover story is about Michelle Rhee , the controversial...
Friday, November 28, 2008

"Zero Days" by Barbara Egbert

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Just finished reading "Zero Days" ... a pretty interesting book by Barbara Egbert, who took a sabbatical from writing for the San ...
Thursday, November 27, 2008

Interesting Television Articles

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Below are some interesting articles I've come across about various television shows... - "The Wire" : In the February 2008 iss...
Sunday, November 23, 2008

Esquire Magazine - December '08 Issue

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As is almost always the case, there was some excellent writing in Esquire Magazine's latest issue... it's "Best & Brightest...
Thursday, November 20, 2008

"The Hard Way" by Mark Jenkins

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I recently finished "The Hard Way" by Mark Jenkins and celebrated reading this tale of mountaineering exploits and excursions to...