The SFist: “We’re just trying to spare you some panic tomorrow morning, folks — if you hear bells and sirens at 5:12 a.m., no need to wonder about the cosmic coincidence of an earthquake striking exactly 100 years after the big one of 1906 — it’s just Gavin Newsom, who’s ordered that all fire stations and churches ring their bells and sirens after the moment of silence at Lotta’s Fountain that traditionally commemorates the 1906 quake.”
Year / 2006
Charlene Li is Full of Shit
Podcasting News: “11% of all Americans have listened to audio podcasts. That translates into approximately 27 million Americans that have tried podcasts.”
Of course, the term “trying podcasts” sounds suspiciously like a teenager nervously smoking his first joint. But I’d believe Arbitron’s findings over Forrester.
Cartoon Blog
Here’s a new blog I discovered with taut posts, many headlines and frequent posting: The Daily Cartoonist.
Pulitzer Winners Announced
The 2006 Pulitzer winners have been announced:
FICTION: Geraldine Brooks, March
DRAMA: Declined to give award.
HISTORY: David M. Oshinsky, Polio: An American Story
GENERAL NONFICTION: Caroline Elkins, Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain’s Gulag in Kenya
BIOGRAPHY: Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, American Prometheus
POETRY: Claudia Emerson, Late Wife
MUSIC: Yehudi Wyner, “Chiavi in Mano.”