Thursday, January 13, 2005

Recommended Reading

Frank Rich rips Armstrong Williams into teensy-weensy bits over the latter's ethical transgressions as a news commentator.

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Make Room, Make Room!

If you are desperate for a hotel room for the Comic-Con in San Diego...or if you just are going somewhere and crave the best possible deal...here's a tip. Travelaxe is a free service that has sure helped me find cheap lodgings. It's a piece of software that you download to your computer. You tell it where you want to go and when, and it scans the websites of travel agents and finds you an array of rates. There are times when I've found a better price at a given hotel that way than I could have gotten by booking through the hotel's own website. Anyway, it's always worth a try.

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Broadway Demographics

Around 60% of the folks who attend shows in the Broadway area of New York are from out of state. This article in the New York Times reveals that and some other interesting facts about the theater-going audience.

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Checking In?

Hotel reservations for this year's Comic-Con International in San Diego were snatched up at a staggering rate yesterday. Heidi MacDonald is covering the story here and later here on her fine comics news weblog.

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This Just In...

Friday the Thirteenth is a day ahead of schedule. That's right: It's fallen on a Thursday this year. You can read all about this amazing phenomenon over at The Official Pogo Possum Website where, today only, they're celebrating a whole year of just being The Official Pogo Possum Website. Which is a fine thing to celebrate!

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Worth a Peek

Here's a comparison of the Dan Rather scandal with the one about those elusive Weapons of Mass Destruction.

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