To be broadcast on ESPN? Iceland will hold a United Nations conference on gender equality — to which only males will be invited.
After a day of talking about gender issues, attendees will enjoy a playoff game as NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell’s guests in his personal luxury suite.
Comcastic new job: Seeking to repair a less-than-stellar reputation for customer service, Comcast has appointed a University of Washington graduate to the new position of senior vice president of customer experience.
According to Comcast, the new VP will examine everything the company does with customers, which presumably means he’ll be cooling his heels at home waiting for a service rep to show up sometime between 7 a.m. and 6 p.m.
Age of consent: In an experiment run in London, people who signed up for free wi-fi access signed terms of use that required them to give up their firstborn children.
Either they didn’t read the terms, or they did read them — right after their firstborn smeared peanut butter into a sibling’s hair.
— Mark Carlson, Herald staff
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