Over The Edge – Dan Rosenbaum's random musings

I Used to Think Accenture Was Bad

The accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers has changed its name. Henceforth, it will be known as: Monday No joke. Monday. As in www.monday.com. As in, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences will have its Academy Awards tallied by Monday. (Since the Oscars telecast is usually on a Sunday, that could be a problem.) Sheesh. Monday. As […]

Detritus of a Cranky Morning

A colleague on one of my e-mail lists sent around a list of “more wierd facts.” The bold comments are mine. More Wierd Facts: Did you know…It is impossible to lick your elbow.How did they find this out? A crocodile can’t stick its tongue out.I’m not worried about a crocodile licking me. A shrimp’s heart […]

Does Elvis Costello Get to be David Sedaris?

I’m not much of a fan of Michael Wolff. For those who came in late, Wolff invented the NetGuide series of books in the early ’90s, and “sold” CMP Publications a) the right to start a magazine called NetGuide (which I later edited) and b) his database from his NetGuide book, all for the bargain price […]

A GPS Watch, But Keep Moving

Timex has a new watch that uses GPS to tell you how far and how fast you’ve excercized. The GPS unit, by Garmin, straps onto your upper arm, and connects to the watch part using low-power FM (what — no Bluetooth?). The 50-lap version costs $200; a 100-lap version costs $225. It occurs to me: […]

Geek Heaven to Close

Mc-Graw Hill is closing its wonderful bookstore in the basement of its building. “The space is so subterranean that it’s more suitable as a destination like a health club than as retail space,” said Faith Consolo, vice chairman of Garrick-Aug, a real estate firm. She misses the point. The stuff in the MGH Bookstore was […]

Report from Ground Zero Procession

My friend Miriam Lewin went down to lower Manhattan to witness the final procession from Ground Zero, and wrote a brief report: The crowd around me clapped but did not cheer. We were respectful yet somehow exuberant — I was smiling through my tears. I didn’t clap — I had put my hand on my […]

Bulletin: CIPA Overturned

From the AP: PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Three federal judges on Friday threw out a federal law that would have forced public libraries to equip computers with software designed to block access to Internet pornography. In a 195-page decision, the judges said the Children’s Internet Protection Act went too far because it also blocking access to […]

The Net Goes to War

Fascinating piece on CNN about the electronic nerve center of what may be the First Wired War. Some combatants, however, are properly skeptical: “A computer with a bullet in it is just a paperweight,” Hauk said. “A map with a bullet in it is still a map.”

Ground Zero Cleanup Ceremony

I’m going to leave it for others to analyze and critique today’s ceremony at Ground Zero. I just wanted to post here an eyewitness piece I wrote the afternoon of 9/11 (and which ran the next day in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram) to remind us how it began.