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It has recently been discovered that the whaleship Essex, who’s misadventure and destruction by a sperm whale in the Pacific Ocean inspired Herman Melville to write Moby Dick, was built in Amesbury, Mass. According to a recent article in the Newburyport Daily News, Steve Klomps, the Peabody Essex Museum‘s director of finance and a homeowner [...]

Olympic rowing medalist Xeno Muller is reaching out to offer veteran’s benefits at his Iron Oarsman rowing studio in Costa Mesa, Calif. As he explained on his blog, he wants to make veterans’ situations better, whether they are completely healthy or disabled. He writes: My idea is to open the IRON OARSMAN every Friday from [...]

There’s a great article on Wired magazine titled “Herding the Mob,” about a phenomenon that is rearing it ugly head and becoming more prevalent on Web sites that rely on positive feedback and customer rating systems. Any online content expert, retailer or Web site company will tell you that this could really hurt a site’s [...]