Music News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Reuters - Twelve previously unreleased tracks, including an early version of “Ooby Dooby” and a demo of “Claudette,” highlight a four-disc Roy Orbison boxed set due in stores on September 23. Original post by Reuters
The Neighborhood Retail Alliance (Free subscription) | yesterday
The cries for a congestion tax continue unabated-with the governor telling the NY Daily News that he'd like to see the Ravitch Commission re-intro the plan: " Gov. Paterson has a straightforward attitude when it comes to reviving talk of congestion pricing: Ladies and Gentlemen, start your engines. Paterson, a backer of the original - and defeated - plan to charge drivers to enter gridlocked areas...
The Anniston Star Online (Free subscription) | yesterday
Still laughing at box wines? Maybe it's time you put a cork in it. If you're looking for bargain prices, convenience and packability -- especially in what you're taking to the beach -- the box has it all over bottles.
Box Wines (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
The New York Times quotes Bloomberg News in Italy Joins the Boxed Wine Rebellion by Mike Nizza: Italy’s Agriculture Ministry said that some fine Italian wines that receive government quality guarantees will be allowed to be sold in boxes. I find this encouraging, if a bit odd. When I was last in Italy, there [...]
The Truth About Cars (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
There's a Letter to the Editor in the current issue of Automotive News that encapsulates everything that's wrong with the North American automotive industry. It's even the letter of the week, boxed and highlighted in GM taupe, given special prominence and headlined “Why won't consumers buy Detroit cars'” The letter is from a third-generation Canadian [...]
Engadget HD (Free subscription) | yesterday
Filed under: Cable , OTA , Satellite In case you missed the Discovery Channel's " When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions " and are too frugal to buy the Blu-ray boxed set , NASA TV will be airing two hours of historical footage in HD next week. It's a small subset of the 150-hours of footage that made the leap to HD for the Discovery Channel's production, but like we said, it's free. Honestly, some...
The Common Room (Free subscription) | yesterday
Only a couple of our children actually liked boxed Mac'n Cheese with the powdered cheese mix. I do like the powdered cheese on my popcorn, but I'm not a big fan of the boxed mac 'n cheese mix, either. When we make Macaroni and Cheese, it is not a frugal food. We make up the pasta, put it in a greased baking pan, stir in copious amounts of cheese (preferably at least three varieties) without measuring-...
Environmental Leader (Free subscription) | yesterday
Stacey Griffin, founder of Aqua2Go, which sells boxed water, is finding that labeling a product green is often fraught with difficulties, CNNMoney.com reports. Griffin believed boxed water was clearly a friend of the environment when compared with water sold in plastic bottles. What she’s finding is that that isn’t necessarily correct. The company’s water boxes are [...]
Diet Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
To most people 2,400 boxed-lunches of Kentucky Fried Chicken is one BIG coronary waiting to happen, but for Egyptian evangelicals it's a bona fide "loaves and fishes" miracle. It all happened when members of the Egyptian Evangelical Association finished passing out 3,500 preordered and accounted for boxed-lunches from KFC at a ministry meeting in Cairo, Egypt. ...
FlightSimX (Free subscription) | yesterday
This is a review of the RealAir Spitfire as distributed by Flight1 by Paul Webster. I was given the boxed product to review, but the full package is also available as a download from Flight1’s website. Initially, the most exciting aspect of this product for me is that it is FSX only meaning that unlike a [...]
CNNMoney.com (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
When Stacey Griffin launched Aqua2Go, which sells boxed water for kids, she did so with the best intentions. A skillful entrepreneur, Griffin expects her New Orleans company to reach $500,000 in annual sales in 2008, in part by stressing her product's "environmental benefits" on her packaging.
Inbox Robot: Swiss Reinsurance News (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
(Fortune Small Business) -- When Stacey Griffin launched , which sells boxed water for kids, she did so with the best intentions. A skillful entrepreneur, Griffin expects ...
cryptogon.com (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
WARNING: This is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any financial instrument. While this is speculation, I don’t see it as the same type of situation that we’re seeing in the “regulated,” black boxed commodity markets right now. If I understand what’s happening in the case below with the iron ore, the speculator doesn’t seem [...]
"GroundReport (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
Bangladesh Open Source Network (www.bdosn.org) in association with CSE Society and SUST OSN pleased to announced that a two days Code Sprint will be organized at CSE Dept, SUST on 8-9 August, 2008. A sprint is a time-boxed period of software development focused on a given list of goals but with variable scope. Sprints have become popular events among some Open Source projects. The First BdOSN Code...
yumsugar (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
Lately, I've heard an increasing amount of hype around how much wine in a box has improved over the years. Like screw-cap wines , boxed wine has become more widely accepted. Because of their unique dispensing system, the wines can last up to six weeks — much longer than the average bottle of wine, which can only survive a couple of days. I haven't tried a boxed wine in years, but I get a hangover...
