ICANN, the group that decides on Internet domains (such as .com, .net, etc.) recently solicited bids for a whole new generation of "generic top-level domain names." Dan Rowinski notes that our very own Globe has applied to set up and run a domain of .boston (see all the applications).
Heidi took this photo of the sun coming up over South Boston from Carson Beach the other day.
We don't get nearly enough chances to use the word "kerfuffle" these days and it's a shame. In any case, the mosh-hating mayor says there's more to hip life in the city than 24-hour gyms and says he's just the hip kinda guy to provide what the young'uns want, rather than some upstart high-tech whippasnappas (who, as John Carroll notes, don't even have a functional Web site yet).
A storeowner's record of damages from the riots.
The origins of today's Boston Fire Department date to 1837. Alas, the reason had relatively little to do with improving fire protection in the city - and a lot to do with a riot that began 175 years ago today as some smack talking between some drunken Boston firefighters and participants in an Irish funeral procession.
The City of Boston Archives has posted some original documents related to the riot and the reorganization of the Boston Fire Department, including a report by a committee chaired by Mayor Samuel Eliot on the riots.
The Cape Cod Times reports the group that owns the Nantucket lightship that's long been docked in East Boston hopes to open it for tours starting mid-July, once it's moved to "a more accessible location nearby," which the Times doesn't specify, it being a paper on Cape Cod and all as opposed to a news outlet in Boston, which might have mentioned where it was moving, if only they'd reported on it.
Mayors and other civic leaders meet at South Station today to call for "statewide investment to build the 21st century transportation system Massachusetts needs." The conclave convenes at 2 p.m. in the station's mezzanine level.
Meanwhile, the T is getting ready with a bunch of bus-line cutbacks should the legislature not come through with $51 million for the 20th-century transportation system the Boston area uses today by July 1.
End of game, end of story.
Jay Fitzgerald pays his respects:
I'm trying to remember the last time a losing Boston sports team garnered as much fan respect as this year's Celtics. The only team I can think of is the 1967 Red Sox "Impossible Dream" team.
Boston Police report two men were shot around 12:40 this morning outside 5 Ballou Ave. in Dorchester.
Police found one man, 24, there, and had him transported to Boston Medical Center. A second man, 25, got himself to Boston Medical Center. Both are expected to survive.
Mark Levy at Cambridge Day noticed that three of the winners in a Boston Magazine "Best New England Craft Beers" article are based in Cambridge and Somerville, so he called them up to talk about local brewing:
There seems to be a lot of Cambridge and Somerville in the package. Is there a reason?
NPR reports Tom and Ray Magliozzi are retiring this fall from the locally produced show that gave them - and their accents - national prominence.
"Car Talk" will continue to air, but only with repeats from 25 years of car-advice call-ins, recorded at WBUR's studios. Hopefully, they'll keep their Dewey, Cheetham and Howe offices in Harvard Square.
that the T hailed as a temporary solution to the commuter rail's reliablity problems.
Well, I've learned from a reliable source (retired MBCR employee who's a friend of mine) that, at the direction of T management, the MBCR has taken all those locomotives out of service, and they will be heading back to Maryland early Saturday morning.
The reason for this - mechanical problems that made the locomotives too unreliable to operate.
A student at Boston Latin School was recently diagnosed with tuberculosis and a small number of students and teachers who had been in close contact with him or her will be tested next week.
Headmaster Lynne Mooney Teta informed students about the case today:
Just came across this:
FREEDOM RALLY THIS FRIDAY, JUNE 8!
To Be Held in at the corner of Park and Beacon Streets, across from the statehouse 11:30am - 1:30pmIn Parallel with an Anti-Abortion Rally Demanding That the Obama Administration Provide Full Contraceptive Coverage Exemption from the 2010 Affordable Care Act
This Friday, June 8, anti-abortion groups will be rallying in cities across the country to protest the contraceptive coverage mandate of the 2010 Affordable Care Act and demand that religious groups, under the guise of "Religious Freedom", be granted a full exemption from the mandate.
In Massachusetts, these rallies will be held in Boston, on Cape Cod, in Leominster, West Roxbury, and Worcester, All rallies are at 11:30 a.m.
Americans United is planning a counter-rally in parallel to let them know that we support the First Amendment and demand that religious organizations be held to the same standards of following the law as every other US institution.
But as Mayor Menino and Boston Police remind fans: Don't make officers get out their pepper spray.
John Barboza, 55, who faces arraignment on charges he stabbed a man repeatedly outside 175 Federal St. yesterday afternoon, was arrested in 2010 on a similar charge after a stabbing in Ramsay Park in Roxbury:
The suspect, post arrest, exclaimed, "I stabbed that (expletive) because he was a (expletive)."
Innocent, etc.
David Bernstein at the Phoenix has a new side project: Compiling photos of our politicians posed with animals, from Coolidge with a dog to Joe Kennedy with a cow.
The City Council today approved an ordinance that will ban the installation of satellite dishes on the fronts of houses, on historic buildings and on fire escapes or other areas that could pose a public-safety risk.
Existing owners won't have to remove any offending dishes - unless they cancel their satellite-TV service.
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