Another tough day for Boston Archbishop Bernard Cardinal Law as the news of the arrest in San Diego of Fr. Paul Shanley, for years a priest under his jurisdiction and one who liked boys—little boys, was all over the pages of the Boston Globe and the Herald this morning. This all after the four principal… Continue reading

Site of the day: Total Rewind is about the only place on the Web where you can find a really detailed history of home video technology—dating back to the beginning, meaning the late 1960s and early 1970s. It’s a UK site that focuses on UK users, but most of what it says pretty much goes… Continue reading

That big puff piece on Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts in today’s Boston Globe had a rather amusing 2-column head atop it: “John Kerry hasn’t said he’ll run for President, but he’s hoping that people will get to know him—and like him.” Of course, every one at the Globe and the N.Y. Times which owns… Continue reading

Interesting prediction from Wired.com: Former Random House editorial director Jason Epstein bets $1000 that by 2010, 50% of books will be published by print-on-demand (at the place of sale). WorldCom V.P. Vint Cerf says no— they will be published in purely electronic format, either for e-book readers or for other devices like laptops and Palm… Continue reading

Donna Morrissey, a spokeswoman for Law, did not return phone calls last night… This is a sentence that Boston Globe readers have been seeing almost every day for the last three months. And from the way things seems to be going for the Cardinal, we’re going to keep seeing it until the day he resigns.