by David Brooks | Sep 9, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
A guy named Billy Mitchell holds a special place in a niche-y part of New Hampshire history: In 1999 at the iconic gaming arcade Funspot, a he achieved the first-ever perfect score on an arcade version of Pac-Man – 3,333,270 points over about six hours. Or did he?...
by David Brooks | Sep 9, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
A Vermont librarian now owns MetaFilter, a social network that was started in 1999. It’s one of those sites that I have occasionally encountered over the decades although I’ve never been part of it. “There’s some people who have been a part of this...
by David Brooks | Sep 8, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — One of the strictest internet privacy laws in the United States has withstood a legal challenge, as a group of telecommunication providers has dropped its bid to overturn the Maine standard. Maine created one of the toughest rules in the nation...
by David Brooks | Sep 7, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
Technology is cool but without rules and regulations and money, it doesn’t do much. So it’s cool that New Hampshire Electric Co-op is testing a “transactive” energy rate that pays for electric vehicles (and battery storage system) to discharge...
by David Brooks | Sep 6, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
(Note: This is the first article of a two-parter, as cleverly shown by the ellipses in the headline. The follow-up is here.) It’s time for another holiday weekend, which means it’s time for Concord residents to tear their hair out trying to get from one part of the...
by David Brooks | Sep 6, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
(This is the second of a two-parter. The first part is here.) This is a follow-up to a column that ran in Sunday’s Monitor, where I crunched some numbers from the Traffic Data Management System to quantify how I-93 through Concord gets jammed up on certain days. Among...