Miscellaneous: November 2009 Archives

Going forward, Hub-o-sphere will experiment by filling the weekly post with reader submissions.

Bostonist woke up a little late for Cyberposium 15 yesterday, but still managed to attend a number of informative sessions about “Navigating the Digital Storm.” This year’s theme, inspired by the escalating (but potentially halted) economic crisis, was designed to explore ways for technology companies to get through this tough time. Cyberposium is organized entirely by Harvard Business School students, and while their presence was strong at the conference, some normal folk (though many of them HBS alumni or MIT Sloan students) made their way in as well. Not many women were among the presenters—we saw absolutely none on the panels we attended, and there were only a handful involved in the conference overall. More heartening was the presence of female students in the audience; we hope that in a few years some of these women will be answering, not asking, the questions. Diversity was also lacking in panels but more prevalent in the audience, suggesting a more varied future for technology.

Do you ever feel like weird shit hapens a lot in Boston? Well, you're not wrong. Tableseed.com, some kind of weird email system for restaurants, has inexplicably come up with a list of the strangest cities (and states) in the U.S. Boston makes the top ten, coming in at #7 behind (explicably) NYC, Philly, and Chicago, but (perhaps inexplicably) Lincoln, NE. Is it really that weird there? Boston shows well, but other Massachusetts cities are apparently a little more normal, relegating the state as a whole to a respectable but not overly strange #14.

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-- Alternative advice for bikers to not run red lights: only "slightly illegal." [Boston Biker] -- Danvers High can't even handle reading "meep." They passed on an attorney's email to the police. [Theodora Michaels] -- Statistically speaking, Coach Belichick wasn't that crazy. (And if they converted, everyone would call him a genius.) [Advanced NFL Stats]

Seattlest reminded us that we don't watch Mariners baseball for the game, we watch it for the player-on-player bromance.

Continue reading "Week Around the Ists, November 8–14"

Comedians Back of the Class present a short commercial touting what the school has to offer graduates from "exclusive prep schools." Apparently, the school leads to a number of amazing careers including "Nobel Prize winning physicist," "retired millionaire," and "Unabomber." [via

It's only a matter of time before Harvard gets its own anything. Money is certainly never an object. So it's no surprise that the FML phenomenon has gone Ivy with Harvard FML (a project of The Voice). Among the vicissitudes of the privileged? "I’m in my room, procrastinating writing my paper, eating a block of cheese," "Eight months until a new mad men episode," and "I’m in love with Steven Pinker" (hey, who's not a sucker for that hair?).

Seattlest talked about gay marriage, performing, and the sexiness of the Pacific Northwest with Rufus Wainwright.

Continue reading "Week Around the Ists, November 1–7"

So, everyone was Max from The Wild Things this Halloween, but one kid took it to the next level. Check it out at Fresh To Death.

Gothamist learned that Vespa owners are resorting to illegal measures (okay, scraping off their vehicle ID numbers) to keep their scooters on the street, not that it'll help.

Continue reading "Week Around the Ists: October 25–31"