I ran across this news release on the UNT site. Turns out UNT students are heading to Nepal  to learn about urban planning and the environment. Funny have they askede any of our students here from Nepal like Lhamu or Bibek or  Anuja?  Nepal comes here we go there, what’s up with all this?

Larry Summers was the Deputy Secy of Treasury under Clinton and then President of Harvard, until he started telling Harvard Professors what he really thought.  Anyway, he is seriously concerned about recession and makes some suggestions here.

Do you know the meaning of a Blue Pete flag hoisted aloft on  a ship in the harbor?  This Canadian lawyer has constructed an interesting cross section of literature, philosophy, and other classic resources.  I am adding it to my list of Helpful Websites.

But it is a cold, lifeless business when you go to the shops to buy me something, which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith’s. Ralph Waldo Emerson Essay on Gifts, 1844 Rachel’s good post about Black Friday calls to mind Emerson’s wonderful essay on gifts, I post it every year about…

Black Friday is the shopping day after Thanksgiving. it is named with the idea that on this day, stores are ‘in the black.’ JCP and Kohl’s opened at 4 AM a sure sign of worry. But sales overall are apparently up 8.3%.  Perhaps the credit cards are not maxxed out after all.   Again, what does…

Kermit the Frog is known for being Green, but an Auditor? Yep Page 3 if the In Style section of the 11/26/07 Business Week explains the Green Audit.  Green Team Advertising suggests that Progressive Brands will rate higher with consumers if compannies can truly show rather than just tout, their well greeness, eco friendliness.  They…

Apple has done just the opposite of what DELL did in 2001 – Apple is benchmarking five star hotels for the atmosphere it wants in an Apple Store.  When DELL had a store in Austin, it was the worst of San’s meets the Clearance Basement sale, crowded, no help, a mob scene.  Then DELL gave…

Denis Reggie is THE premier wedding photographer in the world. How premier, well he did Arnold and Maria, as well as 21 other Kennedy Family weddings.  Click and watch the video interview with Denis, really interesting, He describes how he works every weekend, often flying to say Belgium for the wedding and then another flight…

Well thanks to GPS and satellite communication, ordinary folks are now travelling like the Starship Enterprise, where a lot of folks have not gone before so to speak.  One can now follow the ill fated Shackleton tour to Antarctica. Indeed this tour even planned to visit the grave of the explorer who succumbed to a…

In a speech to the debating society at Trinity College in Ireland, Heather Mills lambasted the rich as stingy or snobby.  But as she says, ifyou want to change the world you have to deal with them.  Meanwhile Heather is rumored to be demanding $100 M from her ex husband Paul McCartney. He has apparently…