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Results tagged “cellphones”
- The seal seen swimming in the Charles River was caught and released. [Boston Herald]
- A 1.5 year old reindeer died from a blood parasite Wednesday at the Stone Zoo. [WCVB]
Massachusetts' texting while driving ban is now the law of the land. So, drop that phone while you are behind the wheel.
- Starting Saturday, Orange Line riders using AT&T or T-Mobile will have complete cell coverage. Red, Blue and Green are next in line. [Universal Hub]
- New MBTA general manager Richard A. Davey confirmed three T bus drivers will be terminated for allegedly violating the year-old ban on cell phones. [Boston Herald]
- Repetitive? Yes. Rare? Yes. Ridiculous? Maybe. That today's date is 9/9/09 means different things to different people. A repeating date like that won't happen again for almost a century. [MyFoxBoston.com]
- Cops and cabbies have something in common. Neither seem very concerned with the new city rule that bans cell-phone use by cabbies while driving. [Boston Herald]
- US District Court Judge William G. Young ruled Boston exceeded its authority by trying to force cabbies to convert to hybrid cars by 2015. [Boston Globe]
Today, "internet safety experts" will train law enforcement officers about sexting, which apparently refers to "the sending of sexually explicit photographs over cell phones," though we mistakenly thought it just referred to sending dirty texts. Guess we're behind the times, and have never sexted ourselves! Rats. Regardless, internet safety seminars covering sext-ed, online bullying, and identity theft will be offered throughout Massachusetts and Rhode Island this week. It seems silly, in some ways, but young people do need to know how to protect themselves—and behave properly—online and on cell phones. Let's hope the seminars are actually helpful and not just a waste of students' time.
People, so many people, mostly young people, people everywhere. There were so many people waiting in line for Senator Barack Obama's rally at the Seaport World Trade Center last night that the campaign turned the queue into a phone bank, handing out lists of voters and asking people to use their cell phones to plead for support. There were so many people waiting in the cold that a nearby Dunkin' Donuts had to prematurely close its doors after it sold every ounce of coffee in stock. So many people.
--So there was this blizzard in 1978, and the blizzard was ridiculous. But a blizzard can't be that bad if you get trapped at the Garden with color TV, beer, and hot dogs. [Boston Globe]
--An update on the murder of Daniel Yakovleff, who was stabbed to death in Dorchester. The lawyer for the man who owned the apartment in which Yakovleff died says that the BPD no longer considers the owner a suspect and that they are looking for a third man who may be involved with the crime. However, the BPD is saying that the owner is still a "person of interest." Police are still trying to find out how Yakovleff went from the Eagle bar in the South End to the Dorchester apartment. [Bay Windows]
Bus schedule improvements? Mattapan high-speed? New Blue Line trains? Oooh, Santa Charlie isn't finished with us yet!
Come on, it wasn't as if anyone thought that the mighty Toronto Raptors would snap the Celtics' unbeaten home streak. Sure, they could have - insert your "any given team, any given night" coaching adages here - but it wasn't a match up that was highly anticipated. You didn't hear any of the Raptors guaranteeing victory. We're just sayin'. So it was with a pleasant little lack of surprise that the Celtics took an early...
Imagine that you're stuck on the Green Line, wedged in between two people yammering away on their cell phones, and one of them is stinky. Each stop seems to last for an hour. When you reach your destination, you think to yourself, "I could have walked there in half the time." You were probably right. The Brookings Institution has declared Boston America's second-most walkable city, second only to DC, and Beacon Hill as one of...
The next time the MBTA shuts down due to a trash fire, riders might get some advance warning of a problem through the brand-spanking-new MBTA alert text messaging service. The Metro is reporting that a pilot program will start this week. After the widely rejected "innovation" of T Radio, it seems that the MBTA brass has gotten the message and is rolling out something that is useful for its customers. Alerts will be sent out...
State legislators are debating whether or not to ban the use of cell phones while driving. Last Tuesday, the Transportation Committee discussed a bill that would ban the use of all handheld phones in cars while permitting hands-free phones for grownups.
We at the Gothamist network would like to express our heartfelt wishes to the people of Minnesota in the days after their tragic bridge collapse. We're not trying to discount the severity of the accident by making note of it in opposition to our usual -Ist lightheartedness - we just wanted to take a moment and recognize those affected last week. After the Minneapolis bridge collapse, Bostonist did some research and found that Massachusetts bridges...
What with Paris Hilton's release earlier this week and the upcoming celebration of American Independence (sorry, Londonist!), we've been thinking a lot about freedom. Freedom to vote, freedom to choose, and most importantly, freedom to blog. Here are a few things we're happy we've been free to blog about this week. Being the nation's capital, DCist felt especially proud to let freedom ring this week by exposing the really important issues, like how sad they...
After a weekend of rain where all we heard was disgruntled Bostonians complaining, because that's what we do best, about the weather we rock into the week. Miraculously the Red Sox managed to play all their games this past weekend making us furiously check the forecast for WBOS' 14th annual EarthFest coming up this weekend. For us it marks the first of many outdoor events that will happen this summer, and it's Memorial Day...
It seems like, all across the network, folks were up to no good. Maybe it was all the green beer from last weekend... Gothamist spent the week writing about New Yorkers behaving badly: at the post office, at the Garden, and at the fertility clinic. Calvin Klein may not be misbehaving, but he's just a little dirty, and in a completely different way than some NYC kitchens. SFist had its share of misbehave-rs, too, like...
The reasons not to drive in this town keep adding up. First is the issue of shoveling your car out of the snow. Second is the need to fight over your shoveled space. Third is the possibility of a city employee plowing your car instead of the snow. Fourth is the high cost of parking.
The MBTA has teamed up with Dunkin Donuts today to launch part of their Courtesy Counts campaign, which will reward nice transit users with a $2 Dunkin Donuts gift certificate on the T, buses, and commuter rails. If you give up your seat to an expectant mother or help a clueless tourist figure out the Red Line, you might be a lucky winner. Unfortunately, only 25 MBTA employees are closely watching for niceness, with a...
Since November the Boston Police Department has been bringing a little bit of the blotter to the blogosphere. Reports of daily incidents, updates on publicly reported crime, announcements, and media corrections have been available on the BPDNews.com website. As usual Hollywood, well, LA, is getting all the attention. The AP picked up a story last week emanating from the LA Times and the Times of London about the Los Angeles Police Departments new blog. Apparently the research monkeys in the trenches had one of two problems: they didn't look hard enough or they don't think that Boston is a major city. Boston's finest don't come right out and say it – but the post today indicates that they're playing blog politics and playing nice, "still first in the nation." Perhaps the most surprising about this all is the usually police-force-friendly Boston Herald neglected an edit to the AP story before they ran it in order to mention the BPDNews.com site, and the bloggers at BPD politely pointed that out.
Shanghaiist probably knows a little more about China than the Chicago Sun-Times. Giving them the benefit of the doubt on that one. The city does to have a music scene. Don't even front like they don't. They also have Dorito bananas and white guys shopping for wives. What they don't have is any more tolerance for jaywalkers. Bostonist sees Boston and Somerville each whip out their art and face off. A plagiarized novel is the...
Bostonist once believed that we were defined as a "Gen X'er" since we were born on the tail end of that era (between 1961-1981). But after reading an article in yesterday's USA Today, we might have to recategorize ourselves as typical "Generation Y'ers." It seems that Generation Y, also known as "Generation Why?" with their questioning of everything, is 70 million strong and are taking over the office environment with lots of attitude, with flip flops on feet and iPods in hand. Defined by some as those born in the late 20th century, Generation Y is now starting to enter the "real world" and people are classifying them as those "who want to work, but don't want work to be their life." Now Bostonist must agree that work is work, and everyone should still have a life outside of a cubicle. But the Generation is also being called "nurtured", "pampered", and they've been active since pre-school, creating "high performance and high maintenance" individuals. This is the first generation who were introduced at a young age to the Internet, cell phones, and Instant Messager. Gen Y'ers, who are also finding themselves next to baby boomers in the work place, are also big mouths according to the experts; they like to have their opinion known, which some employers can find annoying to say the least.
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