“LOST” star Rebecca Mader, who plays newcomer Charlotte, posted to Facebook that she was mugged. The posted item read: “Rebecca Mader is recovering from being mugged last night :( I’m OK, just shaken up. x.” The note collected dozens of sympathetic comments from friends and fans, though the item and its comments appear to have [...]
Entries from November 1st, 2008
Rebecca Mader of “LOST” Mugged
November 13th, 2008 · 1 Comment · People, Pop Culture, Television
Tags: abclost·Lost·mader·rebeccamader·Television·tv
Neil Abercrombie for Governor
November 12th, 2008 · 9 Comments · Hawaii, People, Politics
Last July, journalist and columnist Bob Jones said you could “bet on it”: longtime U.S. Rep. Neil Abercrombie would run for governor. Even though Abercrombie said no to challenging Gov. Linda Lingle in 2006, it looks like the time is right for a run in 2010. There has yet to be an official announcement, but [...]
Meetup Madness
November 12th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Events, Food, Hawaii, Social Media, Technology, The Web
Manoa Geeks — the Web 2.0 inspired social geek gathering I now help organize — is upon us! Come on down Thursday evening to Thirtyninehotel in Chinatown to talkstory and catch up with what’s going on in Hawaii’s vibrant tech scene. There’ll be food, drink, and lots of cool stories and websites to share. This [...]
Tags: flickr·flickrfriday·manoa·manoageeks·meetup·social·tweetup·twitter
Happy Birthday, HPR
November 12th, 2008 · No Comments · Media, Technology
On November 13, 1981, a switch was flipped in a makeshift studio in the University of Hawaii quarry and a Mahler opera burst onto the airwaves. The now twin stations have had a long and colorful history, beginning 27 years ago with egg-carton sound dampeners, a move in 1987, online streaming in 1991, and earlier [...]
Video Chat in Gmail
November 12th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Technology, The Web, Video
Taking another bold move into Skype‘s territory, Google has announced the addition of voice and video chat to Gmail. Interestingly, audio and video chats are currently available only as an extension to the Google Talk feature within Google’s free webmail service, and not via its standalone Google Talk chat client application. Since the new Gmail [...]
Sensational “Saltimbanco”
November 9th, 2008 · 9 Comments · Events, Family, Music
UPDATE: A special $20 discount is propagating on Twitter. If you’re thinking of checking out “Saltimbanco,” be sure to use the special link and save! Acrobats, gymnasts, dancers, a cyclist, a juggler and jester, and hapless subjects pulled from the audience. Around them, a kaleidoscope stage, and behind them, a live band. At “Saltimbanco,” I [...]
Hawaii State Quarter Debuts
November 9th, 2008 · 5 Comments · Events
The 50th State’s long awaited entry in the U.S. Mint’s immensely popular “50 State Quarters” program will be given a formal unveiling at noon tomorrow in downtown Honolulu. Its debut marks the end of a program that saw a special, limited edition quarter released every quarter since 1999. Each quarter came out in the order [...]
Bookmarks for November 5th
November 7th, 2008 · No Comments · Links
When I’m not blogging, I’m browsing. Here are sites and pages that I bookmarked on November 5th: How He Did It: exclusive behind-the-scenes reporting from the McCain and Obama camps assembled by a special team of reporters who were granted year-long access on the condition that none of their findings appear until after Election Day. [...]
“LOST” on Saturday
November 1st, 2008 · 3 Comments · Lost, Pop Culture, Technology
SPOILER ALERT! “LOST” was filming today — a Saturday — a sure sign the traditional winter break is drawing near. Today, they set up in Kakaako, taking over the long-unused parking lot of the former CompUSA store on Ala Moana Boulevard, and staging a car crash a few blocks away on the corner of South [...]
Tags: abclost·filming·locationshoot·Lost·Television·tv
