Alexis and I seem to be having similar issues on I-35 with illiterate drivers: I-35 goes down to a single lane in each direction for a few miles between Rush City and North Branch. In the lead up to the merge, MNDOT has installed signs that clearly state to use both lanes when traffic is [...]
This just in from BenCredible: The Graves 601: Easy access to Hooters, Gameworks, and damn fine TP folding. That’s worth paying a bit more for than the La Quinta out by the airport, right?
The Yellow Pages Industry continues to be more talk than action. Their latest “effort” to offer an opt-out solution is limited to the purchase of a domain name. Yep. They bought the domain name: yellowpagesoptout.com But wait, there’s more: They sent out a press release about the domain name. If you visit yellowpagesoptout.com, you’ll find [...]
Dan Haugen at MinnPost points out (via Reuters) that our local processed food manufacturer, General Mills, is concerned about the recent rise in sugar costs. General Mills got huffy and suggested that the US may “virtually run out of sugar” which, as far as I can tell, means they’ll run out of sugar at the [...]
It turns out that WhitePages.com doesn’t really like the print white pages. Who’da thunk that a web based company would have a beef with offline competition? In an attempt to eliminate their offline competition through advocacy, WhitePages.com conducted a survey of US adults to get a feel for where they stand on the print phone [...]
Chris Newmarker’s piece in Minneapolis / St Paul Business Journal on Minnesota’s new nuclear advocacy group leaves something to be desired. Here’s the opening: A coalition of business, labor and environmental leaders is backing a nonprofit that wants to increase nuclear power generation in Minnesota. Sensible Energy Solutions for Minnesota, or SESM, wants repeal of [...]
Isabella, MN Case of the Mondays, originally uploaded by edkohler. Isabella, MN has one restaurant and it’s closed on Mondays. Not a big deal, except when the next restaurant is 40 miles up road in Ely. Clif Bar time. And it’s raining steadily, making it a good time to chillax and watch 3 hummingbirds duke [...]
Help me understand this report from the Yellow Pages Association Blog: Although the absolute number of General Web Searchers (167 million) and Local Web Searchers (160 million) was larger than the number of IYP/Local Web Searchers (88 million) in December 2008, the actual percent increase year over year for IYP searchers was 21%. This exceeded [...]
Housekeeping Minimalism, originally uploaded by edkohler. I was in my room when a housekeeper arrived today, and told the nice lady that I didn’t need anything done. That, it turns out, created a problem for her because she has a list of assigned rooms to clean that she to clean takes very literally. She asked [...]
