Where would we be as a city without such a quick, easy resource for passing off irreparably damaged sofas and futons on unsuspecting online strangers? There’s no site quite like Craigslist on the Internet, and Boston’s little corner of it is especially unique. Here’s our roundup of some of the best posters on Boston Craigslist so far this month. More
While this past weekend’s snow showers may have you worried that winter will never end, there’s still hope. On Friday, the first day of spring, Framingham’s Chris Ryan posted a picture to reddit of some flowers, which appear to be crocuses, blooming in the Back Bay. More
Boston’s more architecture-conscious residents may finally be getting their prayers answered. On Monday, Mayor Marty Walsh put out a call to re-imagine the look of the infamous City Hall Plaza. According to BostInno, the mayor acknowledged that City Hall inadequately reflects “the kind of next-generation creativity and innovation teeming among its residents and businesses.” More
At 3:45 p.m. last Friday afternoon, I sat down and started watching season 3 of House of Cards. Around 12:30 on Sunday afternoon I finished the season. More
Here in Boston, you may or may not have heard of xkcd— an award-winning web comic run by former NASA roboticist and Somerville resident Randall Munroe, described by the author as “a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.” Since July 2012 there has been a sporadically published section of the comic called xkcd-What If, dedicated to answering unusual, often fantastically hypothetical questions posed by readers with hard science. More
Waltham-based robotics company Boston Dynamics has gotten a lot of press in the last few years for their amazing/terrifying creations, especially their line of DARPA-funded ATLAS robots. We reported on one in November, a bot named Ian with a programmed penchant for The Karate Kid’s crane stance. The ATLAS line is in the news again this week, more advanced than ever before and for the first time, cordless. More
