Over The Edge

From CNN: The carrot is to return to its roots when it goes on sale in what’s said to be its true colour of purple this summer. Growers say they have dug up the vegetable’s original colour and will revert to the new hue this summer for the first time in Europe in five centuries. […]

From The New York Times: Dr. Hugh Francis Hicks, a dentist whose fascination with light bulbs is said to have begun when his mother tossed one into his crib and culminated in his owning 60,000 bulbs, died on May 7 in Baltimore. He was 79. <snip> Not infrequently, patients had to wait as he welcomed […]

Jim McGee, an entrepreuneur and professor at the Kellogg School of Management, has some interesting comments about this item, which ran here on the 12th. The crux: Certainly in learning settings it’s nice if someone knows something to get the ball rolling, but it isn’t necessary. I’d argue (naturally) that the scientific method is essentially […]

William Grimes of The New York Times asks the right questions: Why does espresso in New York City suck? and Where can you get a good cup? Good food writing is so much better than good technology writing, it makes me want to weep.

FCC Chairman Michael Powell had an op-ed piece in the Washington Post yesterday, challenging all parts of the TV industry step off the curb and do their part to adopt digital television. He suggested, quite rightly, that all piece of the industry — programming, transmission, and receivers — have been unwilling to commit unless someone else […]