Daily Archives: 04 June 4, 2008

Postmortem Photographs

Mourning is a strange thing, and different cultures deal with it in vastly different ways. But there’s a reason people associate the Victorians above all with morbidity and death, and one of them is memento mori like this: The fact … Continue reading

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In Escondido: Buy one (house), get one free

In a sign of how difficult it is to sell new homes in Southern California right now, a San Diego developer is offering a “buy one, get one free” deal, pairing million-dollar homes with less expensive homes. Full Article

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FedEx to Rename Kinko’s

FedEx Corp., the largest air-cargo shipper, will record a cost of $696 million to rename the Kinko’s unit as FedEx Office to win more large business customers. Full Article

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