Back in 2001, a huge brouhaha broke out in Merrimack (a town rich in huge brouhahas) because assessment data freely available at Town Hall was being put on the Web. For folks who were only dimly become aware of the Internet, it was startling to see floorplans of your house displayed for the whole cyber-world. [...]

Charges have been dropped against the three students who pried open a wall panel at the MIT Alumni Club as part of the long tradition of ‘late-night exploration’ of campus buildings. The suspicion is that MIT leaned on the prosecutor to drop the charges, because the mystique of real-world hacks is part of what [...]

Selling your own stuff on eBay doesn’t make you an auctioneer, requiring a state license, bonding and all the rest. But what if you sell other people’s stuff for a fee? That’s a stickier question, which has drawn lots of debate in Concord over the years.When eBay first cropped up, auctioneers wanted everybody who used [...]

… beavers in New York City?

Any news story with "senate," "bill" and "in-lieu-of-taxes" in the lead sentence is likely to put everybody to sleep - but this is the sort of boring event that has to happen if the country’s energy habits are going to change.
The story involves a New Hampshire bill that would give cities the right to [...]

Because I depended on a press rewrite and didn’t check the actual study (shame on me), I noted in an earlier post that a study said outsourcing of tech jobs could hit Boston hard in the next decade - but I missed the fact that the Brookings Institute also said Nashua was one of the [...]

No New Hampshire angle here, but it should be of interest to the state’s many wikipedia tinkerers (including me): Golf pro Fuzzy Zoeller has sued a law firm that he claims vandalized his wikipedia entry, says The Smoking Gun.
Wiki-messing is actionable? How things have changed.
I remember when you could vandalize wikipedia to [...]

In a nutshell, that’s the story of Dartmouth College undergrad Daniel Schneider, as this press release relates - complete with a photo of a very cool snow sculpture. (That’s the 2005 sculpture shown above)

A UNH researcher is studying ways the Clark’s nutcracker, a relative of the crow keeps track of its winter food stash - often as many as 30,000 pine nuts buried in 5,000 different spots - as a way to analyze the evolution of memory. (A UNH-provided picture of a male Clark’s nutcracker is shown [...]

As I found out on the SeacoastNRG blog, the Portsmouth Public Library will get the LEED certification from the U.S. Green Building Council (whose site is down as I type these words). A lot of different factors go into Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design certification, not just low energy usage. As Adam explains in [...]

UNH professor emeritus Paul Nahin

So says a study by a think tank, at least. "Among the findings: 28 areas, accounting for 13.5 percent of the U.S. population, will be disproportionately hurt by offshoring. Many of the areas are technology centers, such as Boston; SanJose, San Francisco, and Orange County in California; Seattle; andAustin, Texas." says the Boston Globe [...]

The Concord Monitor has a story about 22 loons found dead or dying on Lake Winipesaukee’s ice, and nobody know why. One possibility from the story: "the birds could have mistaken the black ice where theywere found for open water and tried to land there. But since thefront-heavy loons need a quarter-mile of open water [...]

Remember when free Wi-Fi was going to change the world? Towns would fill their downtowns with it to lure hipsters, young professionals and the next Google; everybody would leave their nodes open so you could drive from coast to coast and never lose connection on your laptop; and Information Would Be Free At Last.
Except for [...]

From the AP story: "The temperature of the world’s land and water combined … was 1.53 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than the20th-century average of 53.6 for January. … That didn’t just nudge past the old record set in 2002, but brokethat mark by 0.81 degrees, which meteorologists said is a lot, sincesuch records often are broken [...]