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December 2005 Archives
7:58 PM Sat, Dec 31, 2005 | Permalink |
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It's snowing. New Year's Eve TV programming. WaPo. Times Square. More links to where it's already 2006. EarthCam's New Year's Eve Webcast. More live NYC. 10:58 p.m. Friday Longtime radio guy Lou Josephs has compiled an informed stream-of-consciousness guide to......
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2:59 PM Thu, Dec 29, 2005 | Permalink |
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Accidental fates: The Hard Road: Inside the Jennifer Porter case reads like a suspense novel, especially if you, like me, have never heard of Jennifer Porter, a 28-year-old Florida elementary-school dance teacher who lived with her parents and owned......
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4:05 AM Thu, Dec 29, 2005 | Permalink |
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The Asylum: You are a substitute psychiatrist at the Psychiatric Clinic for Abused Cuddly Toys, and you have four seriously disturbed patients to cure. The doctor left notes, and it helps to consult them frequently as your patients' narratives......
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11:05 AM Wed, Dec 28, 2005 | Permalink |
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The Net is a Boon for Indie Labels. NYT: Even as the recording industry staggers through another year of declining sales over all, there are new signs that a democratization of music made possible by the Internet is shifting the......
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4:08 AM Mon, Dec 26, 2005 | Permalink |
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My wonderful family -- husband, brother and daughter -- pooled their pennies for my Christmas gift and smuggled my new PC into the house wrapped in a bedspread. Several times they discussed giving it to me earlier, they said, after......
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10:00 AM Sat, Dec 24, 2005 | Permalink |
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Updated 10 a.m. Shelley Powers is now a Wikipedia entry. New pages are marked for deletion and their worthiness discussed for five days. ("Save me!") "The result of the debate was speedy keep due to clear and overwhelming consensus." --......
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5:26 PM Thu, Dec 22, 2005 | Permalink |
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An opening Friday evening at Dead Cat Gallery at 669 Elmwood Ave., Providence, features the work of 14 artists and 4 bands. The artists include Otom Charters-Jaffe, Felicia Cinquegrana, Shawn Gilheeney, Krista Sulfara, Ryan T. Conaty, Nick Marcoux, Kate Bachner,......
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6:58 PM Wed, Dec 21, 2005 | Permalink |
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The Funniest Pictures of 2005: Funny Pictures, Doctored Photos and Cartoons, at About.com. Bipartisan, but political humor generally targets those in power, not those on the outs. How does Google collect and rank results? A Google engineer answers for......
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11:46 AM Wed, Dec 21, 2005 | Permalink |
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AP: Winter Solstice at Stonehenge:Arch-Druid Arthur Pendragon watches the sun rise at the ancient stone monument of Stonehenge, Wiltshire, in southern England. Today is the longest night of the year. Winter begins at 1:35 p.m. (Solstice is Latin for "sun......
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4:25 PM Tue, Dec 20, 2005 | Permalink |
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AP A Christmas tree at Poklonnaya Gora, a park and museum complex in western Moscow. Back in the meat world: My laptop and desktop are both down and being repaired, so I am, for the first time in 16......
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7:59 AM Sun, Dec 18, 2005 | Permalink |
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AP: Santas root for the Patriots against the Buccaneers yesterday in Foxboro. Hey, Colts, watch out for the Patriots now BY JEMELE HILL The Orlando SentinelFOXBORO, Mass. - This was the horse's head for Tony Dungy and the Indianapolis......
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9:32 AM Fri, Dec 16, 2005 | Permalink |
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The winners of National Wildlife magazine's 35th annual photography competition. Top prize: Time magazine's Photos of the Year 2005 brilliantly captures mostly disasters. katrina leads. Flash slideshow. OtherMusic.com Year End Recap: favorite new albums and reissues released in 2005. Best......
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7:25 PM Wed, Dec 14, 2005 | Permalink |
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New England Weather (link fixed. ouch. sorry) is a blog by Joel McDermott of Warwick, who writes, "I have been a weather enthusiast for years and have learned through personal studying. Ever since my first snowstorm I have been interested......
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9:48 AM Wed, Dec 14, 2005 | Permalink |
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WaPo today: ...Dylan will select the music, offer commentary, interview guests and answer e-mail from listeners during the one-hour program, which will start in March, XM said yesterday.... ...Dylan was attracted by the promise of a national audience, a commercial-free......
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1:58 PM Tue, Dec 13, 2005 | Permalink |
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Read the movie: Director Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain, the story of cowboys in love, is is topping the Golden Globes buzz with seven nominations, and The New Yorker's Web site is republishing from its archives the original short story by......
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10:15 PM Mon, Dec 12, 2005 | Permalink |
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Bad Santas: Was old Santa this rowdy in his youth? These alt-carols (pdf) are sure to upset the grownups. China Daily uses the caption that came with its Reuters photo: Hundreds of Santas leave the South Street Seaport after......
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1:37 PM Sun, Dec 11, 2005 | Permalink |
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The Time reporter whose friendship with Karl Rove's lawyer, Robert Luskin, made her part of the story tells that story. (She is unrelated to columnist Robert Novak.) Back to the Patriots game.........
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2:46 AM Sun, Dec 11, 2005 | Permalink |
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AP Presidential candidate Sen. Eugene McCarthy, D-Minn., left, and his wife, Abigail, celebrate in Portland, Ore., in this May 29, 1968, file photo after the senator's victory in the Oregon Democratic presidential primary was forecast. McCarthy, whose insurgent campaign......
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12:08 PM Sat, Dec 10, 2005 | Permalink |
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Born of necessity, a musical counterculture: Podsafe Musicians Join Together To Record Christmas Anthem: ...The 2005 Christmas season includes one of the more interesting new musical efforts in recent years, an original Christmas tune recorded "We Are The World" style......
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1:42 PM Thu, Dec 08, 2005 | Permalink |
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Reaffirming once again that it's your party, you can do what you want to... Dressed in bizarre straw outfits with strapped-on cowbells and furs, their faces covered with devilish masks, traditional "Buttnmandl" runners shout and make noise to frighten people......
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9:57 AM Thu, Dec 08, 2005 | Permalink |
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From gHacks, a Free Music List December 2005 is in part a response to Sony-BMG's debacle of encoding certain CDs with Digital Rights Management code that gives Sony control over the customer's machine in the name of copyright protection. Here's......
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3:13 AM Wed, Dec 07, 2005 | Permalink |
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Live Christmas webcams from all over the world. The Christmas Cams: A similar list, links only. Two more. Live from Rockefeller Center in NYC. Another, larger view from WNBC. Computer Christmas is a links list that tracks some light displays......
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3:59 PM Tue, Dec 06, 2005 | Permalink |
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Feel free to add your own recommendations in the comments at the end of this item. 5:57 p.m. Tuesday I'm Dreaming of a White Trash Christmas.... Flash cartoon fun. 3:59 p.m. Christmasreviews.com reviews music (and can lead you to new......
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11:53 AM Sun, Dec 04, 2005 | Permalink |
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(I've had to turn off comments after getting about 30 autogenerated comment spams today. They begin with compliments, then degenerate into nonsense, all with the apparent attempt to insert links on a blog that will make them appear popular to......
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6:07 PM Thu, Dec 01, 2005 | Permalink |
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Tennyson Browning Kipling The Poetry Archive has launched, with an astonishing collection of more than a hundred poets reading in their own voices. I have just listened to William Butler Yeats reading, in 1932, The Lake Isle of Innisfree,......
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