Archive for November 2006


Cricket

November 22nd, 2006 — 9:43pm

No matter what restrictions large media organizations put in place, there’s still people smart enough to do an end-run around them that harms nobody.

Therefore you can listen to the BBC’s live commentary of the Ashes series here (at least for now). And why not?

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Cranes in the sky

November 21st, 2006 — 9:55am

Construction in New York, as anyone here knows, is a crazy business – especially building narrow apartment buildings in a gap no larger than the building will eventually occupy – “sliver construction,” as the foreman told me it was called the other day as we waited for his colleagues to swing another girder over our heads into the hole.

Well now they’ve gotten themselves a real crane, we have this thing towering over us, and from our roof, it looks like it has designs on a local landmark.

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