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July 2005 Archives
10:13 AM Sat, Jul 30, 2005 | Permalink |
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In Comments on Thursday's Playing with Google Maps post, a reader writes, Your article "Playing with Google Maps", published online at KVUE.com, asserts that "If you're a Mac user, Google Maps does not work with Safari." Sorry, that's wrong. Google......
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8:33 AM Sat, Jul 30, 2005 | Permalink |
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I keep the garden blogs list, but do I garden myself? I try. I spend far too much time online for the good of my waistline, my housekeeping and my garden. The weeds gain ground. One year I will not......
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11:40 AM Fri, Jul 29, 2005 | Permalink |
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Or maybe you can Catch 33 in half a minute. (I can't.)......
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4:11 AM Fri, Jul 29, 2005 | Permalink |
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Windows Vista: Where's the Buzz? John C. Dvorak at PC Magazine: As readers know, Microsoft has announced the name of its new operating system, which was followed by a collective yawn from the computing community. Vista? As in "Hasta la......
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6:34 PM Thu, Jul 28, 2005 | Permalink |
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I've been playing with a particularly promising Google Maps hack (that's a tool, not an illegal break-in) called gmaptrack that lets you upload coordinates of places you'd like to point out on a Google Map. The idea is to plot......
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11:25 AM Thu, Jul 28, 2005 | Permalink |
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I had an aunt, long dead now, who would ask about my friends and mutter the ethnic origin of each of their last names as I said it. NYC comedian Todd Levin, the author of this piece at Tremble, has......
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10:56 AM Thu, Jul 28, 2005 | Permalink |
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A Rockport, Maine photographer traveled to Washington state, and was taken by the long views possible when trees don't block the horizon. Xtracts from The Palouse, Washington Xspot is where the illusion meets reality. The result is a series of......
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5:46 PM Wed, Jul 27, 2005 | Permalink |
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Reporter Finds U.S. Sniper in Iraq Who Shot Knight Ridder Correspondent: Greg Mitchell at Editor & Publisher describes today's story in Salon (The victim and the killer, watch an ad to enter Salon Premium) this way: One of the most......
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5:39 AM Wed, Jul 27, 2005 | Permalink |
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NASA shows you where the shuttle Discovery is, plotted on a Day-Glo blue and green Earth, updated every minute. Here's the same view for the International Space Station. Both are updated every minute. Yet another view shows the current positions......
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5:08 PM Tue, Jul 26, 2005 | Permalink |
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Two new additions to the Garden Blogs list I've been maintaining here for a few years: Dreams and Bones is a stylish blog from West Tisbury, Mass. -- Martha's Vineyard. Gardener Leslie Gray writes, "I'm on the Vineyard and as......
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3:07 PM Tue, Jul 26, 2005 | Permalink |
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Updated Tuesday, 3:09 p.m. with new listings in red. Some sites suggested in the comments are bulletin boards, or "sites with Rhode Island contributors." For now, I'd like to stick with plain-vanilla Greater Rhode Island blogs. We'll revisit everythng else......
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12:37 AM Tue, Jul 26, 2005 | Permalink |
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Fellow beer blogger Sean Polay asks this question in the comments on the Heineken Light: The Tasting post, adding that he's always considered Amstel Light "Heineken Light." Both are about the same "weight," thinner than their full-bore parents, but in......
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6:30 PM Fri, Jul 22, 2005 | Permalink |
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Updated 12:53 a.m. 07.23.05 NYT: Government Defies an Order to Release Iraq Abuse Photos Lawyers for the Defense Department are refusing to cooperate with a federal judge's order to release secret photographs and videotapes related to the Abu Ghraib prison......
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6:23 PM Fri, Jul 22, 2005 | Permalink |
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I'm listening right now to full songs online by Celtic folk-rock-rap-reggae band Black 47, thanks to an email telling me about the First Annual Providence Fleadh on Aug. 14 where Black 47 will be playing along with Seanchai &......
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5:49 AM Fri, Jul 22, 2005 | Permalink |
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Longtime blogger and marketing pro Jeneane Sessum wrote "To Blog or Not to Blog: Blogs Help Corporations Answer the Call to Conversation" (pdf) for businesses, but her clear, readable how-to will get anybody up to speed and keep you from......
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5:12 AM Fri, Jul 22, 2005 | Permalink |
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Way too much like real life. Flo, the stockbroker dropout of Diner Daze, buys a restaurant and must juggle tables, plates, dirty dishes, lines and impatient customers who tip badly or leave in a huff if you ignore them.......
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4:15 AM Fri, Jul 22, 2005 | Permalink |
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GQ July 2005: The 20 Hamburgers You Must Eat Before You Die Alan Richman traveled 23,750 miles and consumed more than 150,000 calories while taking the measure of 162 burgers across the country -- with one goal: to find you......
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2:46 AM Fri, Jul 22, 2005 | Permalink |
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140 more Abu Ghraib photos and four videos were scheduled to be released today, delayed from the original court-ordered date (Army told to release abuse videos) by an Army request for more time to redact the faces of the prisoners.......
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2:59 PM Thu, Jul 21, 2005 | Permalink |
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Finally, Heineken stoops to enter the light beer market, testing Heineken Light in four U.S. cities. This historic tasting took place at twilight last night on my back porch in one of them: Providence. Our sample was small, but we......
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7:00 PM Wed, Jul 20, 2005 | Permalink |
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If you're interested in the buzz about new High Court nominee John G. Roberts, here are a few sites committed to tracking the action: -- The Supreme Court Nomination Blog (link fixed), sister site to The Scotus Blog -- Technorati......
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5:25 PM Wed, Jul 20, 2005 | Permalink |
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"Homeowners Ask U.S. Supreme Court: Rehear Eminent Domain Case" reads the press release at the site of the Institute for Justice, the nonprofit "libertarian public interest law firm" that represented New London, Conn., homeowners in the Kelo v. City of......
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3:51 PM Wed, Jul 20, 2005 | Permalink |
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Google Moon is a marriage of Google Maps with NASA imagery to mark the Apollo moon landing sites. The very first moon landing took place July 20, 1969, 36 years ago today. A site called Where Were You? compiles......
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12:05 PM Wed, Jul 20, 2005 | Permalink |
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Someday, in a galaxy far, far away, a little four-fingered mantis alien will be twiddling receiver dials and come upon the feed for this blog. It's on a satellite now, transmitted into space by MindComet's Blog in Space. The site......
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6:56 PM Tue, Jul 19, 2005 | Permalink |
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Cowboy Junkies: Early 21st Century Blues Stream all 11 songs (free), in Windows Media format only. By the middle of this past February (2005), we had been off the road for a few months, winter had her claws dug in......
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6:45 PM Tue, Jul 19, 2005 | Permalink |
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Doc Searls' first podcast is fun: Good background music, Doc himself has a great voice (a born radio voice!) and his son is a born editor (and straight man). It's short -- about four minutes -- and very real. They're......
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6:43 PM Tue, Jul 19, 2005 | Permalink |
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This post will stay on top today as I add new items below. Three years and (almost) four months after I began blogging, Subterranean Homepage News finally uses blog software. Movable Type will permit you to comment directly on an......
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4:02 PM Tue, Jul 19, 2005 | Permalink |
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U.S. lawmakers push a longer day to save energy: Reuters reports a classic attempt to override nature. (This is why they call it the "silly season.") On Tuesday, the negotiators from the Senate and House agreed to move the start......
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7:26 AM Tue, Jul 19, 2005 | Permalink |
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Get Out The Vote: Did Washington try to manipulate Iraq’s election? By Seymour M. Hersh. Disconnected at WBUR: Public radio kills morning mainstay `The Connection': Dick Gordon's ratings weren't stellar; Tom Ashbrook's "On Point" will take over Aug. 5. Gordon's......
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5:39 PM Mon, Jul 18, 2005 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
Super Drag And Go eliminates the need to click on urls in stories and blogs. Install it, and the next time you run into a link you'd like to open, just drag it slightly with your mouse. Drag it up......
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4:50 PM Mon, Jul 18, 2005 | Permalink |
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The New Nanny Diaries Are Online - New York Times Brooklyn freelance writer Helaine Olen and her husband hired a nanny, a 26-year-old student working for a year before studying for a PhD in Victorian English literature. Oddly, the nanny......
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