by David | Nov 11, 2009 | eating, media
Nobody likes spam, but when it suddenly comes from a business that you like(d), it feels like a personal betrayal. Check out this steaming pile of comment spam by Green’s Bakery, maker of my most favorite chocolate babka. I don’t know what’s the...
by David | Nov 3, 2009 | culture, design, economics, media, reading & writing, technology
I watched with interest as Barnes & Noble released the Nook, an electronic book reading thing that’s pretty similar to Amazon’s Kindle. I immediately thought of Microsoft’s Zune music player, released well after Apple’s iPod had pretty...
by David | Nov 2, 2009 | media, photo, reading & writing, technology
As you may have noticed, October was a pretty poor month posting-wise here at limeduck world headquarters. I was therefore quite excited to see a new inbound link in my dashboard. I followed it and found another example of an all-too-common blogging phenomenon:...
by David | Oct 31, 2009 | culture, design, media, urbanism
There hasn’t been a halloween themed post proper on the ‘duck yet, but a series of random events (and the annual invite to GP’s house o’ horrors) have conspired to make it so. I was up at Tufts for a panel discussion called Framed:...
by David | Sep 26, 2009 | design, eating, media, photo, urbanism
Passport in hand and GPS in car, I crossed the river into Newton. The quest was to see The Two Silences of Heaven and Earth, an exhibition of photos and paintings by Sung Won Yun at the Andover Newton Theological School. Not a place that’s on my regular...
by David | Sep 11, 2009 | culture, design, eating, media, photo, urbanism
In the name of new experience, I accepted an invitation from fab journalista and fashionista A to attend a launch party for a new fashion TV show at the ICA. And that was before I knew there was an open bar. Apparently StyleBoston is the new thing on New England...