July 8, 2008
The Hub-o-sphere
-- A promotional site for XM Baseball lets you send personalized phone calls from Big Papi and put your face on a virtual bobblehead. [Sirius XM News]
-- See the awful results of professional playing with food: a giant bust of Hillary Clinton in hummus. [Boston MenuPages]
-- There's a new aggregator on the block to find those undiscovered blogs. [blogstring]
-- A Swampscott woman talks to ABC "World News" about blogging at 82-years-old. [Thoroughly Modern Millie]
-- Wacky wine guru Gary Vaynerchuk was in Boston on his book tour, so he filmed an episode of his video podcast. [Wine Library TV]

-- Someone devised a tool to make cool graphical "word clouds" out of any text. Spice up that "Dear John" letter or transform a boring blog post. [Wordle]
-- Real business cards are so passe. Create an electronic version to send via mobile phones or email. [211(me)]
-- God blesses America but not those "punkass" kids who cut in front of you at the fireworks. [Pasquinade]
-- Searching for your inner-burlesque queen? Want to learn "all about the pasties"? The Boston Babydolls will teach you "the three 'S' of walking"[sic] this S-S-Saturday. [Boston Babydolls]
Robert Vassegh contributed the charming good looks to this post. Blogtopus courtesy of bionicteaching and a Creative Commons license.



[ report this ]
Not only was Gary Vaynerchuk in town, your fellow Bostonist writer (ME!) intro'ed him on The Thunder Show! Drinks are on me! http://www.DrinksAreOnMe.net
[ report this ]
Sorry that I forgot to mention you, Dale!!
~r