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August 2005 Archives
6:31 PM Wed, Aug 31, 2005 | Permalink |
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The lead story today in the Biloxi Sun Herald is headlined Make life here possible on its homepage. It's a signed editorial. Here it is, in its entirety. They need to get the word out. South Mississippi needs your......
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3:02 AM Wed, Aug 31, 2005 | Permalink |
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Josh Britton at LSU in Baton Rouge has the scoop on the New Orleans Times-Picayune staff (it also explains why nola.com was so silent today): ...The Times-Picayune, having evacuated New Orleans this morning, has temporarily relocated to the LSU Journalism......
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6:47 PM Tue, Aug 30, 2005 | Permalink |
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Cellphone communication has broken down in southern Louisiana, but Kaye Trammell, an assistant professor at LSU in Baton Rouge, reports that text messaging seems to be working: Many people are saying in comment section that if you can't get through......
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1:26 AM Tue, Aug 30, 2005 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
Facebook a hip college hit: BoingBoinger Xeni Jardin in the LA Times (Pouty-mouth poses for narcoleptic dudes): YOU COULD describe Facebook.com as a digital yearbook, or the Internet equivalent of Greek T-shirts on frat brothers. But most dead-tree yearbooks don't......
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12:11 PM Mon, Aug 29, 2005 | Permalink |
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Monday, 12.11 p.m. The Irish Trojan and Josh Britton are still blogging up a storm. Kaye Trammel has lost her net connection and is blogging (pithily, and without links) using her Blackberry (superphone). A tree brought down Hattie's Hattiesburg, Miss.,......
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3:54 PM Sun, Aug 28, 2005 | Permalink |
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Begun Saturday night, updated periodically Sunday. The Lone Star Iconclast reporters have the raw, "what I'm seeing" local stories from Crawford, Texas today: Updates from: 'You Don't Speak For Me, Cindy' Campaign Deborah Mathews reporting for The Iconoclast 4:20 p.m.......
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12:04 PM Sat, Aug 27, 2005 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
God was a more comfortable word. Short, complete, infinite. No matter that we each envision a different meaning for it, we all know the word. "Intelligent design" contains a question, a doozy: "What intelligence designed everything?" is intelligence questioning its......
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1:19 AM Fri, Aug 26, 2005 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
The PayPal story: PayPal -- give 'em a credit card number and pay anybody for anything; if it's eBay, they already fill in the auction details -- could have replaced the banking industry for most personal payments. It didn't. This......
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5:18 PM Thu, Aug 25, 2005 | Permalink |
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Montana's governor eyes coal to solve U.S. fuel costs: From Reuters, Montana's governor wants to solve America's rising energy costs using a technology discovered in Germany 80 years ago that converts coal into gasoline, diesel and aviation fuel.... The governor......
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5:23 PM Wed, Aug 24, 2005 | Permalink |
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Reinventing Television: We interrupt this broadcast to bring you a Special Report from Jon Stewart, at Wired, is one long yuk. Stewart and Ben Karlin, The Daily Show's executive producer, could be having a lot of fun with interviewer Thomas......
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6:28 PM Tue, Aug 23, 2005 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
I've been making some new prototype pages for the other part of my job here, and my eyes needed something restful to look at. I stumbled on this: "Prehistoric Spirits" by Walter King. King writes one of the art blogs......
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9:39 AM Tue, Aug 23, 2005 | Permalink |
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Providence is the ninth-riskiest housing "bubble." When prices dive will real estate taxes follow suit? Gonzo gone: Talk Left -- the site of Denver-based criminal defense attorney Jeralyn Merritt -- has pulled together lots of Hunter S. Thompson sendoff threads.......
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8:00 PM Mon, Aug 22, 2005 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
Joan Baez'a concert for protesters in Crawford, Texas Saturday yielded an mp3: Where Have All the Flowers Gone? is more a backyard singalong than a performance, but Joan's voice remains sweet. She's 64 now. The Lone Star Iconoclast, the little......
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10:52 PM Sun, Aug 21, 2005 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
10:52 p.m.: Providence Journal music writer Rick Massimo is at Fenway Park with the Rolling Stones, I'm at home in my den. Our phone connections were terrible early on -- it all felt like tin cans and string -- and......
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9:51 PM Sun, Aug 21, 2005 | Permalink |
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Peace activist and singer Joan Baez gestures while meeting with families at Cindy Sheehan's camp near President Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas, AP. Baez Performs for Crawford War Protesters......
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11:17 AM Sun, Aug 21, 2005 | Permalink |
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Podcasting with The Rolling Stones: Andy Carvin (blogging at Digital Divide Network) lives near Fenway Park, and made a podcast (mp3) of The Rolling Stones rehearsing Satisfaction last night with a cricket percussion section. (Don't get your hopes up, the......
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4:40 AM Sat, Aug 20, 2005 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
The Lone Star Iconoclast weekly newspaper of Crawford, Texas, which is critical of President Bush, publishes several updates each day from the protests to a simple page, a handmade blog. Last night , reporter Gene Ellis filed a long story,......
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3:23 AM Fri, Aug 19, 2005 | Permalink |
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Solar-Power-Augmented Prius Takes the Grid Out of 'Plug-in': At Green Car Congress, A Canadian engineer has prototyped a Photovoltaic Prius -- a 2001 Prius augmented with roof-top solar panels and an additional battery system to supplement the charge in......
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9:08 AM Thu, Aug 18, 2005 | Permalink |
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Malicious Software Removal Tool Updated: August 9, 2005 The Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool checks computers running Windows XP, Windows 2000, and Windows Server 2003 for infections by specific, prevalent malicious software—including Blaster, Sasser, and Mydoom—and helps remove any......
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5:58 PM Wed, Aug 17, 2005 | Permalink |
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Gas Buddy depends on volunteers to report prices. Here's the direct link to the Rhode Island version. Cheap Gas maps these onto a Google Maps interface. Update: At CNN, Gas prices around the world range from 12 cents a gallon......
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9:06 AM Wed, Aug 17, 2005 | Permalink |
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Shazia Mirza, born in Pakistan, is wowing Britain. Check out these lines from the Independent's coverage (The stand-up revolution) of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival which runs through Aug. 29: "My name is Shazia Mirza. At least, that's what it says......
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3:10 PM Tue, Aug 16, 2005 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
I've been headbanging here, upgrading the blog a bit: The comment listings on the left, and the search now works. AP Sean Lennon, 29, and his mother, Yoko Ono, 72, arrive at the Broadway opening of the musical Lennon......
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12:23 AM Mon, Aug 15, 2005 | Permalink |
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Woodstock Aug. 15, 16 & 17, 1969 NBC photo August 15, 2005 -- The Woodstock Music & Art Fair began 36 years ago today at Max Yasgur's dairy farm in Bethel, N.Y. I had seen an advertisement in the July......
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1:25 PM Fri, Aug 12, 2005 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
The premiere of Buddy, Providence native Cherry Arnold's documentary on the city's former, now incarcerated, mayor Vincent A. Cianci Jr., may have been the event of the year. The buzz, the sense of anticipation in the Columbus Theatre on Broadway,......
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12:37 AM Fri, Aug 12, 2005 | Permalink |
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Still in the wayback machine. Mercury is retrograde. Unconventional wisdom says we're "borne ceaselessly back into the past," like Gatsby. AP/The Rolling Stones, Frank Micelotta In this image made available by The Rolling Stones, the band, from left: Ron Wood,......
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1:37 PM Thu, Aug 11, 2005 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
At FMQB, a radio news site, Car Wars: HD Radio vs. Satellite Radio begins, A study by Strategy Analytics, In-vehicle Entertainment Systems Market 2004-2011, states that "automotive original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) should be cautious about introducing satellite digital radio options,......
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1:15 AM Thu, Aug 11, 2005 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
It's sultry in this computer corner in the den, and I just lost a blog item full of links when too many tabs (a few dozen) locked up my PC. So here's what's left. At NPR, Lucinda Williams' performance from......
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10:51 AM Wed, Aug 10, 2005 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
Legal Torrents is gathering and offering high-speed legal downloads (in .torrent format) of files whose creators want them to be shared under a Creative Commons license. .torrent format is used by Bit Torrent, a peer-to-peer file-sharing tool: August 6th -......
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6:25 PM Tue, Aug 09, 2005 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
(Gremlins have stolen my calendar, blogroll and archive links from the sidebar at right, and the admin tool says my main file contains no data. Until I'm sure I'm not going to hose everything by posting, I'll simply offer an......
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10:29 AM Sun, Aug 07, 2005 | Permalink |
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The Cuban musician Ibrahim Ferrer, whom American guitarist Ry Cooder thrust to fame late in life for the Wim Wenders film Buena Vista Social Club, died yesterday in a hospital in Havana. His manager said he returned ill from a......
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12:36 AM Sun, Aug 07, 2005 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
Updated 12:37 a.m. Sunday: Mother Takes Protest to Bush's Ranch. NYT. Publisher W. Leon Smith has added his photos to the end of The Lone Star Iconoclast's report. Blog reports (at Technorati) AP Cindy Sheehan of Vacaville Calif.,confronts McLennan County......
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4:41 PM Fri, Aug 05, 2005 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
Journalist Noriko Takiguchi is offering a "Sushi Lesson -- How to eat sushi properly," in several courses. Here are the individual links (or you could just go to her new blog) and read from the bottom: Part 1, Part......
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8:46 AM Fri, Aug 05, 2005 | Permalink |
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Did Robert Novak leave a live telecast of CNN's Inside Politics in a huff over something James Carville said yesterday, or just slip away? Decide for yourself: Here's the video (WMV); a QuickTime version. Here's the transcript. It's near......
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7:08 AM Fri, Aug 05, 2005 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
Cartoon Books Photo Gallery by Christopher Wheeler at pbase.com "Click on any cartoonist to see some of his or her volumes of cartoons and related ephemera. Almost all books shown are currently in my collection. I'm in the process of......
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6:42 AM Fri, Aug 05, 2005 | Permalink |
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Reporters Committee urges court to order Abu Ghraib photo release A coalition of 14 media organizations and public interest groups organized by The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press have filed a friend-of-the-court brief in U.S. District Court in......
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10:54 AM Thu, Aug 04, 2005 | Permalink |
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Later: Aargh. One thing led to another, and I got buried in tasks. From home, more. -- Dis-Connection: Dick Gordon speaks out about his surprise firing from WBUR On the second page, Gordon notes he has "4000 theories" why he......
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8:28 AM Thu, Aug 04, 2005 | Permalink |
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"It was June 17, 1933, when I first came to Arkham, Massachusetts..." There's more happening at Lovecraft Country, too, such as a game.........
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5:43 PM Wed, Aug 03, 2005 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
Years ago, poking around the Web, I came across the over-the-top site of The Blacklisted Journalist. Al Aronowitz claimed to have introduced Dylan to the Beatles (yeah, right) and led with this: A professional journalist since 1950, Al Aronowitz, founder,......
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11:07 AM Wed, Aug 03, 2005 | Permalink |
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It's called Mighty Mouse, sells for $49, and blogger (and Yahoo employee) Russell Beattie ran out to buy one of only 10 available at his nearest Apple store this morning. His hands-on review includes step-by-step install photos. The bottom line:......
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6:41 PM Tue, Aug 02, 2005 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
Paul at Kiplog (the kip stands for "knowledge is power") also has an impressive food blog where he tends a massive list of food blogs. I could spend a few days here. He's inspired me to port the Garden Blogs......
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6:01 PM Tue, Aug 02, 2005 | Permalink |
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Spendthrift nation is the headline of a story at the Christian Science Monitor that begins, Americans have stopped saving for a rainy day. Instead, they are living paycheck to paycheck, depending on credit cards to get them through emergencies, and......
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5:23 PM Tue, Aug 02, 2005 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
If you were around in the days of IBM/XTs and DOS, 15 years ago or so, you remember text-adventure games by InfoCom. (If you don't, you can play some of them here, but now they're java applets.) Here's how Wishbringer......
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6:48 PM Mon, Aug 01, 2005 | Permalink |
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Current TV, Al Gore's San Francisco-based news magazine network aimed at younger viewers, launched today, but only through DirecTV (it replaces News World International) and Time Warner and Comcast cable's extended channel lineups. Broadcasting & Cable Beat is live-blogging it.......
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3:45 PM Mon, Aug 01, 2005 | Permalink |
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No Direction Home: Bob Dylan, Martin Scorsese's nearly four-hour early Dylanmentary (it ends with '65), will air in two parts, on Sept. 26 and 27, on PBS's American Masters series and on BBC2. A DVD is to be released Sept.......
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