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Daily TIPs, energy, Cybersecurity Neil Savage wrote: Virus-Built Battery Nothing to Sneeze At A new type of microbattery could power implantable drug delivery devices or run tiny labs-on-a-chip, thanks to a technique that uses a virus to build the battery’s components.

From Worcester Magazine’s blog: After 15 years of steady ownership, Worcester Magazine has been sold to the Holden Landmark Corporation, owner of The Landmark, Bay State Parent, Fitchburg Pride, among others. Update: Jeff Barnard disses the Landmark website, but I gotta say, I have been a longtime subscriber to the Save Fitchburg blog, which the Pride is involved with.

August 19th, 7:30 AM in 310, City Hall, Worcester MA Cable Advisory members met at City Hall, at 7:30 AM, to approve a final draft of their recommendations regarding the city’s PEG channels. WCCA was present. WCCA TV 13 is the Public Access channel (P of the PEG Channels).

Dorinda Wegener and Lea Deschenes, originally uploaded by Claudia Snell. Last evening we went down to the Worcester Public Library to check out Worcester Poet, Lea Deschenes, reading from her new book, The Constant Velocity of Trains. We got a bonus of being introduced to the work of Dorinda Wegener, another local-ish poet (Dorinda is from NH).

The Asian longhorned beetle, Anoplophora glabripennis, has arrived in Massachusetts. In fact, it seems to have popped up in the Worcester area and begun to spread. The infestation zone now extends as far as West Boylston according to a story in the Worcester Telegram & Gazette.

My first waitress job was at Ted's Big Boy Restaurant, which - in the summer of 1968 - had just opened for business. I was in the first cadre of waitresses hired, and we were trained by "girls" - as they and we were then known  - who were brought in from the original Bob's Big Boy in California as part of the deal to set up a franchise.

An afternoon with Worcester’s Food Not Bombs. mp3 link, other formats, feed, low-fi versions To get an e-mail each week alerting you of the new episode of 508, join the e-mail list: Email: We won’t share this list with others.

Most people are aware, economic development includes more than event attendance. The attention given to nurturing and building an audience and a cultural community plays an important role which will ultimately produce economic spin off.

The Big Picture team were at Dudley Zoo with hundreds of photos and a panel of the mosaic on Wednesday, so visitors could contribute to breaking that World Record. The Zoo’s section of the mosaic was completed in record time with help from John’s Lane Residents Group from Tipton Road Methodist Church, who were visiting as a treat.

Since I volunteer I The Hanover Theatre every couple days I check google news for a possible story or review about the Theatre that I may have missed. Today I stumbled across a story that originated in The Patriot Ledger and was also picked up and reported in The MetroWest DailyNews, The Brockton Enterprise and The Taunton Gazette.