http://offbeatblog.projo.com/ en Copyright 2010 Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:07:58 -0500 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=4.23-en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss AP Photo/Suffolk County Sheriff It just doesn't seem fair that a sheriff in New York would pull over and fine a driver for traveling with a mannequin. What does the sheriff's office on Long Island have against mannequins or... http://offbeatblog.projo.com/2010/02/it-just-doesnt.html http://offbeatblog.projo.com/2010/02/it-just-doesnt.html Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:07:58 -0500 Happy belated birthday, beer can. Canned beer celebrated its 75th birthday this week, on Jan. 24 to be exact, and it's information like this that helps us realize just how difficult life must have been for those pioneers who... http://offbeatblog.projo.com/2010/01/happy-birthday.html http://offbeatblog.projo.com/2010/01/happy-birthday.html Thu, 28 Jan 2010 14:22:53 -0500 AP photo Don't look now, but this look, modeled during Fashion Week last week in Berlin, could be the hot new look this spring. Maybe it's not such a bad idea if we have another warm (sort of) wet... http://offbeatblog.projo.com/2010/01/this-look-might.html http://offbeatblog.projo.com/2010/01/this-look-might.html Tue, 26 Jan 2010 11:12:21 -0500 "Markus the Prostidude"/AP Photo/OC Modeling We've all seen the depressing headlines, but if you really want to know how bad the economy is, just ask "Markus," the country's one and only legal gigolo. He started his job last week... http://offbeatblog.projo.com/2010/01/weve-all-seen-t.html http://offbeatblog.projo.com/2010/01/weve-all-seen-t.html Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:06:35 -0500 It's finally safe to go back in the water off Cape Cod. Like so many Massachusetts and Rhode Island retirees, a great white shark spotted and tagged by harpoon off Chatham four months ago has apparently gone south for the... http://offbeatblog.projo.com/2010/01/snow-birds-and.html http://offbeatblog.projo.com/2010/01/snow-birds-and.html Thu, 21 Jan 2010 10:23:32 -0500 I'm not sure if he could hit Randy Moss on a post pattern, but I'm thinking that actor Michael C. Hall could play Tom Brady in "The Tom Brady Movie," unless, of course, Brady wanted to keep the starring... http://offbeatblog.projo.com/2010/01/now-subbing-for.html http://offbeatblog.projo.com/2010/01/now-subbing-for.html Thu, 14 Jan 2010 13:59:01 -0500 Forbes.com rates Rhode Island drivers as the safest in the country. Drivers in Massachusetts rank fourth. I can only wonder if anyone from Forbes.com has ever driven or tried crossing a street in Rhode Island or Massachusetts. If they have... http://offbeatblog.projo.com/2009/12/-forbescom-is-a.html http://offbeatblog.projo.com/2009/12/-forbescom-is-a.html Thu, 31 Dec 2009 10:43:42 -0500 Raising children is difficult, and it's understandable that parents would look for any advice, any help they can find to promote harmony in the home and ensure that their children don't grow up to star on "America's Most Wanted." But... http://offbeatblog.projo.com/2009/12/raising-childre.html http://offbeatblog.projo.com/2009/12/raising-childre.html Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:40:49 -0500 Are you the kind of father who wonders whether you're doing a good enough job? Maybe you missed your child's kindergarten graduation because you had to, of all things, spend the day at work. Maybe you wonder if you said... http://offbeatblog.projo.com/2009/11/dad-who-left-so.html http://offbeatblog.projo.com/2009/11/dad-who-left-so.html Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:02:45 -0500 Hip, hip hooray to the British for their effort to spread cheer this Christmas season. In a message that seems more likely to come from the passionate French, the normally stoic Brits are encouraging kissing for Christmas. No, they won't... http://offbeatblog.projo.com/2009/11/hip-hip-hooray.html http://offbeatblog.projo.com/2009/11/hip-hip-hooray.html Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:22:13 -0500 If you're a bicyclist, you don't want to share the road with a hybrid car. And you definitely don't want to share the road with the driver of a hybrid car who has the bad driver gene, which is said... http://offbeatblog.projo.com/2009/11/-if-youre-a-bic.html http://offbeatblog.projo.com/2009/11/-if-youre-a-bic.html Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:37:16 -0500 First we we got the bighorn sheep look, a hair style that left fashion models looking surprisingly similar to bighorn sheep. Then we got the book hat, a smart look that enables fashion models to look brainy and maybe... http://offbeatblog.projo.com/2009/11/post-3.html http://offbeatblog.projo.com/2009/11/post-3.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:07:38 -0500 The Associated Press reports that a woman in South Korea has passed the written exam for her driver's license after 950 tries. Cha Sa-soon, 68, succeeded after taking the test almost every day since April 2005. Good for her, but... http://offbeatblog.projo.com/2009/11/time-to-start-w.html http://offbeatblog.projo.com/2009/11/time-to-start-w.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:39:55 -0500 AP Photo This screen grab released by ABC and "America's Funniest Home Videos", shows a dog in a tree from "America's Funniest Home Videos." A exhaustive 19-year study has proven what most sensible animal lovers already knew: Dogs are... http://offbeatblog.projo.com/2009/10/a-exhaustive-19.html http://offbeatblog.projo.com/2009/10/a-exhaustive-19.html Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:02:36 -0500 A comfortable recliner is great, but what guy wouldn't want a recliner he could drive to the local bar? I wonder if the man in this story has met the Ohio man who was charged with drunken driving after crashing... http://offbeatblog.projo.com/2009/10/drinking-and-dr.html http://offbeatblog.projo.com/2009/10/drinking-and-dr.html Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:20:30 -0500