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November 2005 Archives
11:38 PM Wed, Nov 30, 2005 | Permalink |
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AP/David Zalubowski The holiday lights of the Denver City/County Building ; slow shutter speed and in-camera zoom. Seeing what's there. The basic scene.......
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1:51 AM Wed, Nov 30, 2005 | Permalink |
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But first... Christmas lights on trees illuminate the Unter den Linden main boulevard in Berlin. (AP) 100 Notable Books of the Year -- to be published Sunday by the NYT -- is online now. The original review of each book......
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3:33 PM Tue, Nov 29, 2005 | Permalink |
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From Radio Free Europe, a story that makes our 21st-century world look medieval: ...(Iranian President Mahmud) Ahmadinejad said that someone present at the UN told him that a light surrounded him while he was delivering his speech to the General......
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9:02 AM Tue, Nov 29, 2005 | Permalink |
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Don't Bomb Us - A blog by Al Jazeera Staffers is Al Jazeera's response to a Mirror (UK) report (EXCLUSIVE: BUSH PLOT TO BOMB HIS ARAB ALLY: Madness of war memo). Excerpts: 5 things you should know about Al Jazeera......
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4:07 PM Sun, Nov 27, 2005 | Permalink |
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4:07 p.m. I'm not sure what we learned, except that Brady's sore right shoulder seems to have him throwing high, and that the Pats didn't show up till the second half, when they were already too far in the hole......
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10:47 AM Thu, Nov 24, 2005 | Permalink |
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10:47 a.m. The earlier Black Friday sale post. I'll update this later today. 7:33 a.m. Up early to make stuffing, cookies, stock, and it's snowing hard at first light.......
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1:02 AM Wed, Nov 23, 2005 | Permalink |
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I am flat out, trying to compress a week's work on our site into three days, with some key people on vacation. Time for an old-fashioned links dump -- it used to be called "emptying your notebook" but these days......
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4:02 PM Mon, Nov 21, 2005 | Permalink |
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Lennon Lives by Jeff Giles in Newsweek anticipates the 25th anniversary of John Lennon's death on Dec. 8. It all seems long ago and far away now, as it is. John would be 65. Out there on the wires, Mark......
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12:39 PM Sun, Nov 20, 2005 | Permalink |
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The Boston Globe today (Thousands in Mass. to get cheaper oil:) A subsidiary of the Venezuelan national oil company will ship 12 million gallons of discounted home-heating oil to local charities and 45,000 low-income families in Massachusetts next month under......
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9:49 PM Sat, Nov 19, 2005 | Permalink |
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AP Organic, free-range turkeys at Young's Farm in Dewey, Ariz., on Nov. 11. Captions, opinions, click the comments link.......
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8:12 AM Sat, Nov 19, 2005 | Permalink |
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The story behind Zubbles, at Popular Science: Tim Kehoe has stained the whites of his eyes deep blue. He's also stained his face, his car, several bathtubs and a few dozen children. He's had to evacuate his family because he......
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3:49 PM Fri, Nov 18, 2005 | Permalink |
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Reuters reports, In a sign he may seek new or revised charges in the CIA leak case, special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald said on Friday his investigation would be going back before a grand jury. It was the first time Fitzgerald......
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11:13 AM Fri, Nov 18, 2005 | Permalink |
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10:22 a.m. Washington Post executive editor Leonard Downie Jr.is in a chat right now discussing Woodward. Nothing new so far. 11:13: It's over now, but you can read the transcript at the link. When does Woodward himself chat? 8:27 a.m.......
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3:38 AM Thu, Nov 17, 2005 | Permalink |
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AP photo Kelsey Reynoso, 2, was among the shoppers lined up outside KB Toys waiting for the Glendale (Calif.) Galeria mall to open on Friday, Nov. 26, 2004. This feels a bit like publishing "what to do with leftover......
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3:00 AM Thu, Nov 17, 2005 | Permalink |
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Sand in the umpire's eyes? E&P comes right out with the headline, 'NY Times' Wonders If Cheney Is Key Woodward Source but the NYT story they cite is more restrained in its shout-out: New Disclosure Could Prolong Inquiry on Leak.......
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2:57 PM Wed, Nov 16, 2005 | Permalink |
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Woodward Was Told of Plame More Than Two Years Ago: WaPo reporters report on a WaPo manager: Washington Post Assistant Managing Editor Bob Woodward testified under oath Monday in the CIA leak case that a senior administration official told him......
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10:50 AM Wed, Nov 16, 2005 | Permalink |
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I've added new recipes at the bottom. In newspapers across the nation, Thanksgiving Food sections are landing today. (If you work on a news site, Thanksgiving sections can land anytime, and I spent Monday putting ours together. ) Since the......
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9:33 AM Tue, Nov 15, 2005 | Permalink |
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Updated Wednesday, 12:46 p.m. Brain blip: I got an email today from Forbes pointing out that I had credited Fortune with this idea. My apologies, and a correct attribution, to Forbes. In a short story titled, "The Other," an elderly......
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9:25 AM Mon, Nov 14, 2005 | Permalink |
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Updated Tuesday, Nov. 15, 1:22 p.m.: Part seven is now up. See link below. AP Photo/Shorefire Media, Peter Cunningham Bruce Springsteen performs at New York City's Bottom Line in 1975. Born to Run came out in August of that year.......
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10:54 AM Sun, Nov 13, 2005 | Permalink |
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Mansion Impossible: This little real estate game is the bubble on speed. Buy what you can, sell 'em before they go down and trade your way up to the biggest house in the 'hood before you're too decrepit to enjoy......
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9:20 AM Sat, Nov 12, 2005 | Permalink |
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Kill Bill's Browser: 13 Good reasons to switch from IE to Firefox is pretty funny. (8. Mozilla has never made a talking paperclip.) Number 14 is serious. Explorer Destroyer: Get this tool for switching people from IE to Firefox. For......
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1:39 PM Fri, Nov 11, 2005 | Permalink |
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It's from the memorabilia page of a Canadian site, the William G. Campbell & Lancaster Tribute Site at the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum.......
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4:16 PM Thu, Nov 10, 2005 | Permalink |
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A nurse and a teacher are garnering praise and blame -- from different quarters -- for defeating the propositions championed by Calif. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in Tuesday's election. First, the nurse: The Woman Behind Arnold's Defeat: Watch a PBS Now......
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8:50 AM Thu, Nov 10, 2005 | Permalink |
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Romenesko is all about Judy Miller this morning, and branching out (Keller has his own entanglement problem, says Bunch). This was news to me: Times executive editor Bill Keller's apparently chummy relationship with Paul Wolfowitz explains a lot, says Will......
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3:02 AM Wed, Nov 09, 2005 | Permalink |
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AP Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger speaks to the crowd at his election night party in Los Angeles last night. The California Secretary of State's Web site is tallying the vote live on eight propositions before the voters. L.A. Times explains......
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6:12 PM Mon, Nov 07, 2005 | Permalink |
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File-sharing firm Grokster shuts down: News.com reports, File-swapping company Grokster has agreed to stop distributing its peer-to-peer software, following a $50 million legal settlement announced Monday with Hollywood studios and record labels. Along with co-defendant StreamCast Networks, Grokster had been......
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6:02 PM Fri, Nov 04, 2005 | Permalink |
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More updates to the Garden Blogs list: Worms of Endearment author Amy Stewart writes to say that her blog's url has changed, and she's started two more blogs: Humboldt Hens has traced the lives of my chickens from their earliest......
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6:40 PM Thu, Nov 03, 2005 | Permalink |
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If your Cox digital-cable settop box is blinking all 8s (continuously or occasionally) where the time should be displaying, you need to contact the company to restore your service. My colleague Tim Barmann reported today (Glitch with Cox program guide......
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7:02 PM Wed, Nov 02, 2005 | Permalink |
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I'm still flat out, but this link has to be passed along (and there's good reading at the others). Bluegrass tributes to Pink Floyd: First blogger Jorn Barger's Robot Wisdom offers a link to some astonishing tunes, tucked into a......
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6:43 PM Tue, Nov 01, 2005 | Permalink |
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I've been very busy in the other part of my job, but here are some quick things worth noting: The Washington gadfly: The Toronto Globe and Mail interviews investigative reporter Seymour Hersh. Jim Romenesko has lots of inside-media reaction today......
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