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August 4, 2006
Here's to the late 'Cosmic Muffin'; SI: Best QBs ever; Greenland ice cap beer; WaPo's first blogger's last post
The Cosmic Muffin died. I missed this last week. The former WBCN radio astrologer, aka Darrell Martinie, died in Saugus, Mass. If it weren't for the Muffin's three-minute "weather reports," would any of us know not to make major decisions when Mercury is retrograde? (Seems he died during such a retrograde, at 63, of cancer.)
You can hear his last radio report here.
The Saugus Advertiser has a long, affectionate obit: ’Born under a charitable star’. More photos.
Pros' pros: Photo Gallery - Top 10 Clutch Quarterbacks of All Time at Sports Illustrated's SI.com. Yeah, Tom Brady's in there, at number four.
Fossils filtered: Greenland ice cap beer launched. BBC.
A brewery in Greenland is producing beer using water melted from the ice cap of the vast Arctic island.
WaPo's first blogger's farewell: How the Web Was Won: Leslie Walker of The Washington Post looks back on eight years of chronicling the Web:
...As I sit to write my final column (I will be editing technology news at The Washington Post through year-end, then taking an early-retirement offer and doing personal writing while pursuing new opportunities) I have been re-reading what I wrote in the early years, when the Web still mystified most people even as it kicked off an investment stampede that ended badly in 2000.
Back then, I kept a folder on my desk labeled "big, bad bets," into which I dropped news releases about start-ups that raised gobs of money for loony ideas. The folder grew so fat I gave up trying to write about obvious losers. Remember Beenz and Flooz , creators of Internet "currency''? How about CueCat, that feline-shaped bar-code scanner that magazines thought would whisk readers from print ads to Web commercials?...
Posted by Sheila Lennon
at 4:47 AM | Permalink
Thanks for mentioning the Cosmic Muffin. He was a friend of my aunt and took me on a tour of Boston radio stations and gave me tons of free promo stuff when I was a kid.
Posted by: Cary Portway on August 4, 2006 8:16 PM