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Ric Weiland, former Microsoft Employee, Leaves $65M LGBT GiftThe Seattle Times reported over the weekend on the $160 million bequest of early Microsoft employee Ric Weiland, who took his own life in June 2006 after suffering from depression. The Pride Foundation in Seattle, to which Weiland left $19, was directed to distribute another $46 million among var... |
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Sensing A Pattern: United Airlines Planes Clip Wings At Dulles International Airport [Travel]Pilots need to pay attention when they're taxiing around the airport. Just a week after two US Airways planes clipped wings at Reagan Airport, two United Airlines planes decided to snuggle up at Dulles International Airport. Two United Airlines planes were being inspected Sunday night after t... |
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A McCain Coincidence? NYT Stock Nosedived Thursday and FridayDuring the four weeks preceding February 20, New York Times Company stock had been staging a nice comeback. Lord only knows that the company's long-suffering shareholders, who before then had seen the share price drop more than 70% since June 2002, a point in time that roughly coincides with the ... |
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FYE: No Kids Under 18 Allowed Until After 4 P.M. [Signs]The bus-eating abominable snowmen that commandeered I-95 early yesterday morning flummoxed our plans to return to New York on the Chinatown bus. As we wandered through Union Station assuring our mother that we would take Amtrak, we came across this magnificent sign in the music store FYE telling ... |
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Disconnect These Cables, Overturn These Tables [Metro Section]“The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Virginia voters found Democrat Mark Warner still holding a significant lead over Republican Jim Gilmore in the race for the U.S. Senate.” [Below the Beltway] “The sign is formed by curling your forefinger down and tucking it i... |
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Ain't Got No Soul, No No No No [Metro Section]“Washington Monument! Lots and lots of government! A donkey and an elephant! The White House with the President!” [DCist] “Perhaps I should have looked a little deeper. Sure, the walk featured nothing but houses and a military retirement community. But one of the houses was s... |
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