Over The Edge – Dan Rosenbaum's random musings

Free Wi-Fi Hotspots in Lower Manhattan

The Alliance for Downtown New York will be installing free wireless internet access in parks all over lower Manhattan, the NYTimes reports today. Starting May 1, you’ll be able to get free bandwidth at City Hall Park, Bowling Green, South Street Seaport, Liberty Plaza, Rector Park, and the Vietnam Veteran’s Plaza. Byrant Park is already […]

Bomb Scare and Evacuation

I live on a mostly residential block on the neighborhood’s main commercial street. My building is nearly at the end of the street that runs into the Brooklyn Heights Promenade, which overlooks lower Manhattan. A couple of years ago, a bomb went off in the building two doors down. It was built and set off by a […]

Is This Ominous?

I was just looking at the logs for this web site, and noticed asomething interesting. Someone from within the “af.mil” domain — that’s the US Air Force — peeked in not long ago as a result of an MSN search. Our seeker had entered a search for the string “pictures of Bagdhad.” With that misspelling, there’s just […]

The Aerial War

When the World Trade Center was destroyed, so was New York’s main broadcast antenna. (In fact, six broadcast techs died in the collapse.) Ever since, people have been looking for a new place to build a mast. The NYDailyNews reports today that Univision is close to a deal to occupy a new antenna atop 4 […]

Victory! Now, On To Maury!

Ed points out the following at the Borowitz Report: Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told reporters at the Pentagon today that the U.S. has succeeded in removing Connie Chung from the airwaves, a primary objective of Operation Iraqi Freedom.ãTo those critics who would say that this campaign isnât moving quickly enough, let me say this: itâs […]

Apple Bafflegab

So I had a spare couple of minutes today, and I stepped into Apple’s luxe storefront in SoHo to check out the new 17-inch Powerbook. Apparently, words south of Houston Street don’t mean the same thing as they do elsewhere. When you walk into the store, you’re likely to see a sign that says “17-inch Powerbook. […]

Adam Osborne Dies

A lot of people have forgotten about Adam Osborne, which is a shame because he’s one of the most important people in the history of computerdom. He didn’t make the first portable PC; that came from Kaypro. But there was something completely sexy about the Osborne 1, a CP/M-based machine that looked like a Korean […]

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More Light on the Subject

Peter Shaplen, Ratcliffe’s production partner, chimes in on the discussion, making terrific points that show exactly how television’s slavery to the clock encourages the trivialization of developing news. A truly excellent post that defies adequate encapsulation here. Read it yourself, and feel your head nodding.

We’re Back After The Break

Mitch Ratcliffe, don’t you sleep? Here’s his response to my last. In truth, we’re agreeing more than we’re disagreeing. He gets to the nub of what’s wrong with televised coverage here: The access is no better than in World War II, when Ernie Pyle (who was killed by a Japanese sniper) chronicled the important elements […]