The Tavis Smiley Show, which concluded December 2004 when Smiley chose not to renew his NPR contract, is back on public radio. This time, his show is distributed by PRI (Public Radio International). Filed in: Media ...

Oh my God, I just saw a link to this from Boing Boing and had to link to it here. It's a knitted digestive system!Made by craftster user "arrmatie" You can also get plush microbes from ThinkGeek.com. They come in pimple, syphillis, gonorrhea, flesh eating disease, bad breath, common cold, flu, HIV,...

"Wal-Mart Memo Suggests Ways to Cut Employee Benefit Costs" has been a popular article to e-mail this week on the New York Times Web site. Which reminds me that the documentary "WAL-MART: The High Cost of Low Price" will be released the second week of November. The film is directed...

If you live in Boston, you might want to attend the 2005 kickoff of Robert's Snow. Robert's Snow was founded by my friend Alice's sister, Grace, and Grace's husband Robert, a two-time cancer survivor. Their campaign seeks to raise money for cancer research through the auctioning off of wooden snowflakes...

On this week's edition of On the Media, they discussed the controversy surrounding Wie's disqualification from her first tournament as a pro. Thought it was worth mentioning because it concerns an ethical dilemma faced by a journalist. More on this later. I've also uploaded the photos that I took at the...