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Never trust statistics

By adamg on Tue, 01/27/2009 - 2:50pm

This report would make you think boston.com was having some issues - of the ten largest newspaper-based Web sites in the U.S. it was the only one to show a drop in traffic for December as compared to the year before.

But as a Globie graciously informs me (graciously because my original headline on this post was "As if the Globe didn't have enough problems"), the number is misleading: boston.com had unusually high traffic in December, 2007 because of that whole 19-0 Patriots/Super Bowl thing (remember those days?).


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John Updike dead

By adamg on Tue, 01/27/2009 - 1:39pm

The Beverly author died of lung cancer, Associated Press reports.


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City life may have proved too exciting for country cop

By adamg on Tue, 01/27/2009 - 12:32pm

The Cape Cod Times reports a Brewster police officer has been put on administrative leave (paid) while officials investigate his activities at a Metallica concert at the Boston Garden on Jan. 18.

The paper reports his superiors are looking at whether he urinated on another guy at the show and, after being ejected from the concert, tried to use his Brewster police badge to get back inside. When a black transit officer told him to leave, he allegedly called him "Obama." He was then arrested following "a brief struggle."

Innocent, etc.


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Byron Rushing makes his yearly effort to outlaw stupid laws

By adamg on Tue, 01/27/2009 - 12:10pm

Boston Daily reports state Rep. Byron Rushing has once again introduced a bill to strip the Mass. General Laws of a bunch of archaic sections, including ones that declare the Communist Party to be subversive, ban tattooing by anybody other than a physician and make fornication, lascivious acts and sex with an animal crimes (the latter punishable by up to 20 years in jail!).

The Roxbury/Fenway rep has been filing this sort of legislation annually since at least 2004 (read up on his 2008 and 2007 efforts), but apparently his fellow legislators are very concerned about unleashing an epidemic of Communists tattooing cows before performing lascivious acts on them.


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Mass. health care as a model for Obama?

By MarkNavin on Tue, 01/27/2009 - 11:44am

This week on Radio Boston, we're asking, "can the Massachusetts Health Care Reform Plan be used as a model for national reform? The Obama administration has said it wants to expand health care coverage to many of the un-insured, and they're looking at the was we did it in the Bay State. Let us know what you think at www.radioboston.org.

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Giant mosquito sighted on T

By roadman on Tue, 01/27/2009 - 11:36am

Actually, it was a man in a mosquito suit greeting commuters making their way through the concourse under Causeway Street. The man in the suit, and a group of people, were promoting a charity that is working to reduce the spread of malaria in Africa.

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Flippy car causes commuter fail on VFW Parkway

By adamg on Tue, 01/27/2009 - 11:24am

ParkwayBoston reports on a two-vehicle smashup that left one car on its back and the southbound side of the parkway shut between the skating rink and Spring Street during this morning's rush hour.


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Protests worked: Steve LeVeille to return to WBZ

By adamg on Tue, 01/27/2009 - 9:41am

A little bird chirps in our ear that management just let staff know that LeVeille is returning. The station had dropped the overnight host earlier this month to save money, but apparently decided it couldn't argue with the hundreds of people who barraged station management with letters and e-mail.


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Friends watching the sunset in the Public Garden

By adamg on Tue, 01/27/2009 - 9:16am
Friends

Kalim Saliba captured these two chillin' friends in the Public Garden yesterday.

Copyright Kalim Saliba. See your picture here: Tag it as universalhub or post it to the Universal Hub group on Flickr.


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Accident investigation causes 12-mile backup on Rte. 93

By adamg on Tue, 01/27/2009 - 9:04am

Channel 4 reports State Police shut down a lane on 93 south in Wilmington this morning so that troopers could investigate an accident that happened two days ago.


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