The Omana World Herald unwrapped a new design for Omaha.com. For the most part, I like it. I like the simplicity and organizational structure. I like how local stories have comments available to users. Overall the site feels far less clunky and a step in the right direction for a fairly run-of-the-mill newspaper.

To say the least, it is leaps and bounds above what most newspapers are doing on the Internet.

In a weird twist, Virgin has shuddered its last music store in New York as the one or two people who actually bought things at the megastore will undoubtedly shed a tear or two.

I say “weird” in the sense that if we wound back the clock a decade and a half or so ago, it was the indie retailers bemoaning the plague of the megastores and how they were being driven to the brink because they couldn’t compete.

My. How times have changed. And that is the point. For those who hate the world now, just wait a moment or two – it will change.