Howard Owens

There's a great deal of consternation within the newspaper industry about what Google's up to. You've got Google local aimed at newspaper markets, and Google AdSense, which is a threat to traditional advertising, and of late, Google Base, which seems aimed squarely at newspaper's classified revenue.

As a dedicated Google watcher, I'm using Google's customizable start up page as my home page, and every day, Google serves me up three interesting quotes.

Here's today's quote:

Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock. - Ben Hecht

Do you think Google is trying to tell us something?

My friend Bruce sent along this link of wonderfully strange paintings.

I happen to think Bakersfield is a great, but some times that seems like a minority opinion. And the younger a person is, the greater the hosility toward Bako. This very funny rap video encapsulate's ever cliched complaint about "The Armpit of the State."

This house is now ours.