It took six years for Roger Berkowitz to open Legal Harborside, the latest creation in the Legal Sea Foods empire, on Liberty Wharf. Business at the 700-seat, 23,000 square foot restaurant is thriving. It's in the spot that used to hold Jimmy’s Harborside. Two floors have yet to open. Remember to follow Bostonist on Twitter and like us on Facebook.
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On the eve of his book release, the Boston-based finance guy who tried to blow the whistle on Bernie Madoff says he was willing to kill the billion-dollar con man. [Wall Street & Technology]
People are collecting support the ban of the word "retahd" or "retarded". It's unclear what the next word to be banned would be. [Boston Herald]
After last week's storms, power is still out for thousands in Maine and New Hampshire. [Seacoast Online]
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Red Sox fans everywhere enjoyed Friday's resounding win over the bad guys. Fans who parked in Brookline along Beacon Street possibly didn't like paying $22 to park. The federal government is open! A last minute deal cut $38.5 billion in spending and stopped a government shutdown. Remember to follow Bostonist on Twitter and like us on Facebook.
Google might not have debuted some new, high-tech Internet equipment in Boston, but they managed to find us a nice consolation prize. The Internet juggernaut gave Boston's Museum of Science a $1 million grant, with no strings attached, to encourage science education. Similar grants were given to seven other science museums.
Google picked Kansas City, Kansas over every city in Massachusetts, and every other city or town in the USA, for some reason, to be the home to a new state-of-the-art fiber-optic data network the company is developing. Google pays to build the network. There's an unspecified fee to use it, though.
Google is adding an estimated 6,000 jobs in 2011. Some jobs will be added in Cambridge.
Sargent Shriver's funeral is open to the public today. More snow is here. Remember to follow Bostonist on Twitter and like us on Facebook.
Snow happened, especially on Cape Cod. Massachusetts wasn't ready. Traffic ensued. Remember to follow Bostonist on Twitter and like us on Facebook.
- Bay State hospitals like Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Children’s Hospital issued bonuses to thousands of workers as both institutions had good years. [Boston Herald]
- Details on the sale of Caritas Christi Health Care are still being ironed out. [Boston Globe]
Google's top web search trends for today have a distinct Boston flavor as of 3 p.m. Tom Brady's crash grabbed the top "hot searches" spot for obvious reasons. Brady was ninth on the "hot topics" list. Is there a difference? Brady was not hurt in his fenderbender, but a passenger in the other car appeared to be injured and went to the Brigham. . Had to do it.Rich Cronin's death at 35 is also a top search. Cronin was born in Roxbury and raised in Kingston, Massachusetts. Searches related to the LFO singer's death from Leukemia are 2nd, 3rd and 10th. (At 3:15, Brady dropped to 3rd. Cronin moved down to 4th.)
- Ten parishes in the Boston Archdiocese that were ordered closed in 2004 face a looming final verdict from a Vatican court. Parishioners at some churches have kept them open with around-the-clock vigils. [WBZ]
- Lord Jesus Christ was hit by a car in Pittsfield. He was not hurt. [MassLive.com]
- Despite a study finding that more casinos would increase the amount of money Bay Staters spend on gambling, House lawmakers voted 102-30 to block a public hearing on a gambling bill. [Boston Globe]
- Jerry Remy’s Sports Bar & Grill opened three weeks ago and already wants to expand. The Fenway Civic Association is upset. [Boston Herald]
Just in time for spring, Google Maps has rolled out one thing we always wanted: biking directions. The new feature keeps your wheels on bike paths (mapped through a Rails to Trails partnership) and in bike lanes as much as possible, avoids hills, and achieves other goals critical to a pleasant bike ride. The routes aren't necessarily the most efficient: getting from Harvard to the State House sends us down along the Esplanade, when we'd probably just take Broadway for the mileage and time it would save. (If you disagree with a listed bike route, you can report a problem).
A small part of Google's $23 billion in revenue comes from typos, Harvard researchers have found. Tyler Moore and Benjamin Edelman of the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Harvard Business School, respectively, studied the most popular .com sites, finding that each had about 280 registered typo domains associated with it, a "typo domain" being a domain that could feasibly be created from attempting to type the actual domain name (blogpot.com is one of our favorite examples). The researchers looked at the advertising practices on these sites, and extrapolated from average advertising revenue for Google pay-per-click (PPC) ads to estimate the amount of revenue that Google gets from ads on these "typosquatting" sites.
- National Guardsmen and women from the 379th Engineer Company left Brockton on Friday for a year-long deployment to Afghanistan. [WCVB]
- Somerville loves Google even if Harvard doesn't. [Somerille Journal]
Google's annoying Buzz service may have enraged all of your friends and launched an armada of terrible headline puns (our favorite: "Google has harshed humanity's Buzz"; it's tongue-in-cheek), but did you think that it would be the cause of a lawsuit?
We wouldn't be in this mess. In another case of "deleted" emails, a former Bear Sterns worker deleted his Google account, potentially to cover up emails that would reveal information about his alleged role in hedge fund fraud. Fortunately (and not surprisingly), Google has way better backups than the paper-happy mayor's office, and was able to turn in searchable information on CD-ROM to the government. Wow: companies cooperating with the government in a situation where government won't cooperate with itself. Maybe we should just turn everything over to Google. Or would that just lead to evil?
- Governor Deval Patrick says his plan to replace cops with civilian flaggers on major work sites would save Masachusetts $7.2 million per year. The city of Boston disagrees, and the City Council yesterday voted 12-1 to prove it. [Boston Herald]
- Several off-duty police officers protested the presence of a civilian flagger in a road crew on Route 6A in West Barnstable. [Cape Cod Times]
Independently owned Harvard Book Store just announced that it will be getting an Espresso Book Machine, the newfangled device that allows you to print your own public domain books straight from Google Books. According to the bookstore, Espresso "can produce library-quality, perfect bound paperback editions from a virtually limitless inventory of digital titles in multiple languages, including rare and out-of-print public domain titles." According to Wired, we lucked out: there is only a handful of Espresso Book Machines in operation across the world. (The closest? Northshire Bookstore in Manchester, Vermont.) Harvard's Espresso will go live September 29, right across the street from Widener Library, which might just have to lower its privilege fee to compete.
- Despite what appears to be a highly contested mayoral race in 2009, will the voter turnout be low? [The Boston Phoenix]
- Charles Baker is officially running for Governor, which means he can begin criticizing the incumbent and can start making empty promises that are really popular. [Boston Globe]
Hey, look! Boston.com is subtly wishing every father a happy Father's Day by sticking a tie around the "t" in "Boston." Is the icon a fun new twist on the age-old tie gift, a cheap and easy way to commemorate a holiday, or a reminder that children will strangle you financially and socially forever? We're not sure, but we are pretty sure that no one really wants to wear a tie, ever, or receive one as a gift, ever. Also, Google thinks dads do nothing but make sandcastles with their children. We'll see you on the beach later this rainy 60-degree June day.
- Governor Deval Patrick has called out MBTA "driver" Aiden Quinn and says he should talk to investigators about last week's crash he allegedly caused. [Boston Herald]
YouTube (slash Google) and Universal Music Group are teaming up to create a music video hub called Vevo for Universal artists. Vevo's main purpose, aside from having the most terrible name of all time, is to attract advertising revenue that YouTube has not been able to pull. Artist interviews will also be on the site, which may eventually offer viewers the chance to buy concert tickets and merchandise. Universal hopes the venture will help monetize its artists, while Google hopes to attract more advertisers to YouTube.
Well we were there and we couldn't really believe it happened. As part of a national press tour, evangelists from Google provided an informal meetup at Cambridge's Enormous Room. I was incredulous as I signed up for the event at Meetup.com - "hey wait a minute", I thought, as I entered my info, "this isn't a Google product or portal, WTF?"
Imagine this: your blog posts mysteriously disappear. You didn't delete them, and your ISP or blog host didn't tell you they deleted them. Who could be the culprit?
It's officially called Google Earth 5.0, but the new oceanographic additions to Google Earth are certainly remarkable enough to merit the Google Ocean moniker. That said, Google Ocean doesn't really begin to cover the extent of the recent Google Earth additions. In addition to a bathymetric map of the ocean floor, there's historical imagery (watch a place develop over time), a touring option (the ability to create your own "tour" of an area), and views of friggin' MARS, which is patchier than Earth but still pretty rad. Is there anything Google can't do? Powerful as it is, the internet giant had a lot of help in this endeavor. Parts of Google Ocean came from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's Dive and Discover feature, which allows you to, well, dive into the ocean and discover amazing things down there. Woods Hole contributed images and journal entries from various deep sea trips to Google Earth's expansion into "charted" waters.
Wikipedia founder "Top" Jimmy Wales spoke at Suffolk University last night as part of the Ford Hall Forum. Bostonist was there to get the scoop on how open source will kill Google in the search battle, how Wikipedia is evolving differently in different cultures (did you know the French think they invented the airplane?), and how much Jimmy Wales friggin' loves Ayn Rand.