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January 2006 Archives
11:54 AM Mon, Jan 30, 2006 | Permalink |
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Under the weather today, just a few links here. (Not much interests me today but going back to bed. Only the weather link was written today.). Area Forecast Discussion: The latest National Weather Service forecast, a log entry supported by......
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3:31 PM Sun, Jan 29, 2006 | Permalink |
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Today's Providence Journal A-1 centerpiece is a story for cynical times. Martha and Waitstill Sharp were New England Yankees who risked their own lives to save hundreds, perhaps thousands of artists, intellectuals, liberals, Jews and children from the Nazis in......
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12:11 PM Sat, Jan 28, 2006 | Permalink |
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Not a cube: At Artinfo, ArchInfo: The World's 12 Best New Buildings. My favorite, hands down, is Barcelona's Agbar Tower, built to house the city's water company: The tower was built at a cost of over 130 million euro to......
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9:24 AM Fri, Jan 27, 2006 | Permalink |
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Sherman’s March: How Naples, Florida, money manager Bruce S. Sherman muscled Knight Ridder—the nation’s second-largest newspaper company—into putting itself up for sale. At American Journalism Review. 2:12 a.m. It's not just for the birds: Scientists develop bird flu vaccine: University......
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11:22 PM Wed, Jan 25, 2006 | Permalink |
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Monitor: US to release five female prisoners in Iraq: Reuters. BAGHDAD – A US military spokesman in Baghdad confirmed Wednesday statements by Iraq Justice Ministry officials who said five women detainees are scheduled to be released Thursday. ...The American military......
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10:54 AM Wed, Jan 25, 2006 | Permalink |
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Dan Gillmor, author of the book We The Media, quit his job as tech columnist for the San Jose Mercury News a bit more than a year ago to start Bayosphere, a citizen journalism experiment. His backing was blue chip:......
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7:36 AM Tue, Jan 24, 2006 | Permalink |
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Not In Our Name photo Joan Baez performing in August 2005 at Cindy Sheehan's encampment in Crawford, Texas. Joan Baez: "We probably won't overcome." That quote seems a newsier headline than the one topping Emma Brockes' interview in The......
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10:22 AM Mon, Jan 23, 2006 | Permalink |
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Interception Virus infects NFL : Was that the same Denver team that walloped the Patriots last week? The Turnover Virus that deviled Brady seemed to have passed yesterday to Broncos QB Jake Plummer (four interceptions) , as Pittsburgh creamed Denver......
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11:02 AM Sun, Jan 22, 2006 | Permalink |
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The Aptera prototype, which is halfway to completion, will go for up to 330 miles on a gallon of gas thanks to an aerodynamic design and the lightweight composites that make up the chassis. There's a press release at pureenergysystems.com.......
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11:19 AM Fri, Jan 20, 2006 | Permalink |
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Medieval Irish warlord boasts three million descendants: From New Scientist. If your name is (O')Neill, (O')Gallagher, (O')Boyle, (O')Doherty, O'Donnell, Connor, Cannon, Bradley, O'Reilly, Flynn, (Mc)Kee, Campbell, Devlin, Donnelly, Egan, Gormley, Hynes, McCaul, McGovern, McLoughlin, McManus, McMenamin, Molloy, O'Kane, O'Rourke or......
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10:06 PM Thu, Jan 19, 2006 | Permalink |
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10:06 p.m. Sun may hide a companion star: Space.com reports, Debris disks discovered around two nearby stars look strikingly like the Kuiper Belt in the outer part of our solar system, astronomers said today.... The stars are about 60 light-years......
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8:16 PM Wed, Jan 18, 2006 | Permalink |
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8:16 p.m. BBC reports that, Iraq's ministry of justice has told the BBC that six of the eight women being held by coalition forces in Iraq are to be released early. The six will be freed because there is insufficient......
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10:16 AM Tue, Jan 17, 2006 | Permalink |
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Al Gore's speech yesterday: Video, C-Span (RealPlayer) Video excerpts (WMA) Audio: 30-mb high-quality mp3, Peacecast, Maine; 9.7 mb podcast (.mov) and mp4 at Irregular Times. Transcript, Washington Post Sponsors: Liberty Coalition, American Constitution Society WaPo: Gore Says Bush Broke the......
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11:48 PM Sun, Jan 15, 2006 | Permalink |
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This just in: NYT: Steeler Accuses Officials of Cheating Updated 11:48 p.m. Most disrespected, by a mile: Wrath descends on Peyton Manning. After reading these, I almost feel bad about dissing him myself this morning: Oh, Man-ning: Breakthrough game turned......
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10:20 AM Sat, Jan 14, 2006 | Permalink |
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Half man, half beast? Stem cell experts seek rabbit-human embryo. Guardian (UK). Coming right on thr heels of the fluorescent green pigs story, it brings to mind words like "abomination." Pats are still 'crippled' in the West: S.F. Chronicle amazes......
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9:00 AM Fri, Jan 13, 2006 | Permalink |
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Music video: Beatles' Revolution. Iraqi bloggers on Jill Carroll, her late translator Alan Enwiyah: The Christian Science Monitor issues a no-news update today on kidnapped reporter Jill Carroll, pointing to the posts of two Iraqi bloggers that know her --......
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7:25 AM Thu, Jan 12, 2006 | Permalink |
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Mail upgrade: The open-source Mozilla Foundation yesterday released Thunderbird v 1.5, a new version of the free stand-alone email client and companion to the Firefox browser. What's New includes an autosave (as a draft) feature , support for podcasts, Google......
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2:55 AM Wed, Jan 11, 2006 | Permalink |
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Aggravating/Enjoyable Travel Note of the Week by Peter King at Sports Illustrated. Lots of sportswriters covering the Patriots stay in Providence -- it's cheaper than Boston, and there's less traffic to fight to get to Gillette Stadium, which is about......
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12:48 PM Tue, Jan 10, 2006 | Permalink |
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Updated 12:48 p.m. Paper 'Surprised and Heartened' Media Went Along with Blackout Request: Ediot & Publisher quotes The Christian Science Monitor's managing editor, Marshall Ingwerson: "It wasn't just U.S. media, there were various Italian agencies that ran with a lot......
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1:58 AM Mon, Jan 09, 2006 | Permalink |
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AP After a warm January, the only snow in balmy Denver Saturday was on the distant mountaintops. National Weather Service 7-day forecast for Denver: Saturday: .Mostly clear. Highs in the 50s. Lows in the lower to mid 20s. It......
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10:03 AM Sun, Jan 08, 2006 | Permalink |
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In the spring of my senior year in high school, I received in the mail, wrapped in plain brown paper, a paperback book, The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens. The postmark was illegible, its sender a mystery. A young man,......
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10:49 AM Fri, Jan 06, 2006 | Permalink |
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This one is so dangerous that Microsoft released a fix without waiting for the monthly updates, recommending that customers apply the update immediately. The problem goes all the way back to Windows 98, and, unlike many previous security vulnerabilities, could......
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7:34 AM Thu, Jan 05, 2006 | Permalink |
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Jon Stewart to Host Oscar Show: L.A. Times. Joni Mitchell and James Taylor At The Royal Albert Hall, Oct 28, 1970: ROIO of the Week [Recordings of Indeterminate Origin] at BigO Worldwide magazine, based in Singapore. This one's worth bookmarking......
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6:25 AM Wed, Jan 04, 2006 | Permalink |
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Cheap PCs, anyone? L.A. Times Sources say Google has been in negotiations with Wal-Mart Stores Inc., among other retailers, to sell a Google PC. The machine would run an operating system created by Google, not Microsoft's Windows, which is one......
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6:54 PM Tue, Jan 03, 2006 | Permalink |
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New garden blogs: Jane Berger in Washington, D.C. writes to tell me about GardenDesignOnline, her Washington, D.C. blog about ... news, info, resources, book reviews and more on garden design, horticulture, and related subjects. I'm a professional landscape designer and......
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1:27 AM Sun, Jan 01, 2006 | Permalink |
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This is a New-Year's--resolution-free zone. Like a rickety, sagging old house, we're going for historic value and character rather than remodeling. Welcome to my walk-in fireplace. Hangover Helpers Beyond Sheep's Eyes. NYT. "Salty food, for instance, is not a bad......
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