LZ Granderson on ESPN.com: But if you live here, you know the Grizzlies’ rallying cry of “Grit and Grind” is not just some cool marketing catchphrase to sum up its magical season. It is the autobiography of Memphis, Tenn. If you live here, you know that resilience is the sound of the blues on Beale [...]
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Memphis in Electric Vehicle Demonstration
Linsay Jones: It’s Official: Memphis is on the grid. On Tuesday morning, representatives from San Francisco-based ECOtality North America hosted a partner forum at The Peabody to welcome the Bluff City into a five-state embrace of electric vehicles and charging stations called “The EV Project.” “Electric vehicles are coming, and we want to make sure [...]
St. Jude Turns 49
The hospital has posted a great little slideshow of how the campus has changed over the years.
iPhones Stuck in Memphis?
This reminds me of this. Oddly, the weather is fine (albeit cold) here today. That might change overnight, though, with freezing rain and snow expected.
On Selection
Just soak these in: Comparison of Windows Phone 7 handsets1 Comparison of Android handsets Comparison of iOS handsets The moral of the story? Less is sometimes more. I would have linked to Microsoft’s page, but it kept crashing my browser. Seriously. ↩
New Elvis Photos Found
Michael Lollar: Graceland archivist Angie Marchese was cataloging receipts and other paperwork from Vernon Presley’s Graceland office about two weeks ago when she found a manila envelope with three photo negatives. “Just when you think you’ve seen everything, all of a sudden there’s something new,” said Marchese. Even though I’m a native Memphian, I’m not [...]
Pictures of Nashville Flood
The Tennessean has posted over 100 photos taken around the Nashville area of record-setting floodwater. Memphis really dodged the bullet this weekend.
The Memphis Flyer Looks Back
The Flyer — Memphis’ top alternative newspaper — turns 20 this week. Editor Tim Sampson looks back at a lost age of journalism: It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. It was the freakin’ weirdest of times. They were fun times and they were stressful times. It was two decades ago, [...]
Apple Ships Mixed CD From Memphis
Gizmodo: One of our readers recently received an unsolicited package from Apple. That alone is kind of weird, but the contents were even stranger: a mix CD titled “Boom Boom Pow,” complete with smiley faces and stars drawn in Sharpie. [...] Who knows how this ended up leaving the Apple distribution center in Memphis. Maybe [...]
Memphis Rapper Tackles H1N1
Memphis Rapper SIR VINCE has released “Swine Flu” — a song about H1N1 prevention. Even if rap isn’t your thing, you gotta listen to the whole thing. The second verse is my new ringtone.
