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March 2006 Archives


Jill Carroll: The Mujahedeen Interview video; Most-linked blogs of 2000

8:07 AM Fri, Mar 31, 2006 | | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

Jill Carroll: The Mujahedeen Interview: Video. (Transcript by ABC News : Insurgents Justify Release of Jill Carroll in Web Tape): ABC News has found a video on an insurgent Web site showing U.S. reporter Jill Carroll before she was......

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Jill Carroll updates at Monitor; Free mp3s: Dylan-Cash sessions; Obit for an eccentric pacifist, poet, garden designer

10:21 AM Thu, Mar 30, 2006 | | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

I'll be posting a new batch of garden blogs later today tomorrow. For now... Free at last: Jill Carroll update page at the Christian Science Monitor, for which she was reporting when she was abducted in Baghdad Jan. 7, now......

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Eclipse! Total, solar, rare; Turkish festival: Stage collapses?

9:36 AM Wed, Mar 29, 2006 | | Comments (3)
By Sheila Lennon    Email

9:27 a.m. I love this photo: Dutch tourists cheer as they view a solar eclipse in front of Apollo Temple in the Turkish Mediterranean coastal resort of Side, Turkey, AP. 6:01 a.m. NASA image I didn't intend to wake......

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Lemon Festival sculpture; 'Elegant Universe' online; World's best skylines; Rove helping prosecutor Fitzgerald? Gingrich's advice to Dems

11:07 AM Tue, Mar 28, 2006 | | Write a comment
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Lemon Festival: Menton, France -- near Monaco -- held its annual Lemon Festival last month. The most obvious part of it is a sculpture festival. (They don't sculpt the lemons, they assemble them on metal frames.) They've more than covered......

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Iraqi blogger 'Salam Pax' (Dear Raed) speaks in Calif.; 'Raed' in New Orleans; New Hapland game

11:00 AM Mon, Mar 27, 2006 | | Write a comment
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Spartan Daily, San Jose, Calif. 'Salam Pax,' left, the Iraqi blogger, and Mitch Berman, Director of the Center for Literary Arts at San Jose State University. Baghdad blogger in U.S.: Remember Iraqi blogger "Salam Pax" and his Dear Raed......

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Catching up on links: Noteworthy blogs; Texas's war on tipsy; San Francisco mayor wants wi-fi for all

3:49 PM Sun, Mar 26, 2006 | | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

A few links from the notebook while I take a break this weekend to catch up on sleep and novels. We played family Scrabble last night -- the 8-year-old played alone for the first time, which was frustrating for him.......

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When 'pro-lifers' turn to abortion; Free mp3s: Pink Floyd '72, Led Zep; RSS backlash

9:53 AM Fri, Mar 24, 2006 | | Write a comment
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"The Only Moral Abortion is My Abortion": When the Anti-Choice Choose. From a Canadian pro-choice site, Abortion is a highly personal decision that many women are sure they'll never have to think about until they're suddenly faced with an......

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Heavily loaded photos; Bird flu may flop; The '60s: Rehearsal for what?; Recover scratched CDs?

10:44 AM Thu, Mar 23, 2006 | | Comments (2)
By Sheila Lennon    Email

Overloaded is a series of photos at Ezpresso.com about what happens in some parts of the world when the load far exceeds the apparent capacity of the vehicle available to transport it. Sometimes it works /\, sometimes it doesn't \/.......

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'Jeopardy' screening online next week

12:05 AM Thu, Mar 23, 2006 | | Comments (1)
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Coming soon, Geek Jeopardy!: What are 'Jeopardy!' tests online? News.com: What is the online contestant test, Alex? The answer is: the innovative method "Jeopardy!" has devised for potential participants to take the first step toward appearing on the long-running game......

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The fall of Adam Vinatieri; 'Content-producing consumers'; Gmail invites here; Quick game

9:24 AM Wed, Mar 22, 2006 | | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

Selling weapons to the enemy: Adam Vinatieri a Colt, romping the Astroturf of the RCA Dome with Peyton Manning? Could Adam have found a crueler way to stick his thumb in our eye? It's already a wince to see pictures......

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Watch air traffic on your computer; Google Finance; links of the day

10:18 AM Tue, Mar 21, 2006 | | Write a comment
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Ants on parade: I've been mesmerized by Airport Monitor: This is Logan International in Boston. Arrivals are in blue, departures in green; the black ones are "in transit." This is jerky realtime -- everything moves every few seconds. Click on......

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Blogiversary: This blog turns 4 today

5:18 PM Mon, Mar 20, 2006 | | Comments (4)
By Sheila Lennon    Email

Here's how it started: Subterranean Homepage News, March 20, 2002. Day One: It's a cliche among musicians that you get your whole life to make your first album and three months to make your second. This "weblog" may never have......

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Update: New report, new videos from French labor protest

3:09 PM Sun, Mar 19, 2006 | | Write a comment
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Video, with sound, by Danielle Ameden in Paris: "Aujourd'hui, dans la rue" --> "Today, on the street" 3 secs mpg | Real Media | Windows Media The soundtrack is dance music. 18 secs mpg | Real Media | Windows Media......

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Danielle Ameden: Photos, clip from yesterday's Paris labor demonstration

11:01 AM Sun, Mar 19, 2006 | | Write a comment
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Danielle Ameden of Roger Williams University in Bristol has uploaded 85 photos of Paris demonstrations (background, from yesterday), many from yesterday afternoon's massive peaceful protest and some from more sinister nighttime protests. (She blogged that yesterday.) You may view them......

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R.I. blogger reports from Paris demonstrations; dissecting political macho; Sarandon direct; 'Save the Merc'

5:11 PM Sat, Mar 18, 2006 | | Write a comment
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Danielle Amaden, Paris Reporting from Paris: One of our R.I. Students Abroad, Danielle Almaden from Roger Williams University in Bristol, is blogging from Paris. She waded into Thursday night's demonstration -- over new policies which aim to stimulate employment by......

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'A Danny Boy for My Father'

10:27 AM Fri, Mar 17, 2006 | | Comments (2)
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All the corned beef in our house came out of a can. Mom -- born Marion McQuillian -- was schooled in the ways of lace-curtain Irish by her proud, formidable Irish mother, who had come to America alone at 16......

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Spring spawns new garden blogs

7:30 PM Thu, Mar 16, 2006 | | Write a comment
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Spring begins Monday (March 20) at 1:26 p.m. (EST), and we're seeing a resurgence of garden blogs. Kathy Purdy of Cold Climate Gardening writes that her Garden Links URL has changed, and adds, You should mention to all your readers......

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Hoard tuna for bird-flu time? Bill Gates wants to 'target' you; anti-gravity video;

7:00 AM Wed, Mar 15, 2006 | | Write a comment
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Stockpile tuna against bird flu? That's the government's advice. From AP (Preparing for a Pandemic): Over the weekend, the government told Americans to start storing canned foods and powdered milk under their beds as the prospect of a deadly bird......

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Word Sandwich; crop circle on Google Maps

8:59 AM Tue, Mar 14, 2006 | | Comments (1)
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Word Sandwich: Should be easy. Isn't. How to play: The object is to guess the mystery five letter word. Your guesses will float to the top if they are too “high” alphabetically, and they will float to the bottom......

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Slowlife; Knight-Ridder sold; Google Mars; Bill Withers; cabbage lasagna; Post-American Whitney Biennial

5:24 AM Mon, Mar 13, 2006 | | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

If you've followed this link from neatorama.com and are looking for the post that includes Meret Oppenheim's fur cup and saucer, it's Cat piano, houses made of trees. Welcome. Site for sore eyes. It's the site of an exhibit about......

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Free: Fort Minor's "(100 Percent Reason to) Remember the Name" to remix; blogger Kelsea on BBC; Toure interview

11:50 AM Sat, Mar 11, 2006 | | Write a comment
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Greg Watermann photo Fort Minor: From left, Cheapshot, Tak, Mike Shinoda (of Linkin Park), Ryu and Beat Down. Fort Minor's (100 Percent Reason to) Remember the Name is free, and in pieces, to play with: Mike Shinoda's Linkin Park......

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The Profumo Affair

9:05 AM Fri, Mar 10, 2006 | | Write a comment
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There it is on the AP wire, Profumo, Scandal-Plagued Briton, Dies: LONDON -- John Profumo, a former British Cabinet minister whose liaison with a prostitute nearly brought down a government, died after suffering a stroke, an official said Friday. He......

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Mp3s: Canned Heat, Neil Young, Beach Boys, Alpine dub; Marley's Rastafari mentor dies; Edit pictures online

3:21 AM Thu, Mar 09, 2006 | | Comments (1)
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Woodstock flashback: Four fine mp3s accompany this story about white blues band Canned Heat. It's at diddywah, a blog that seems to post a story and the music to go with it about once a week; the song links decay.......

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Desert bluesman Ali Farka Toure dies

10:41 PM Tue, Mar 07, 2006 | | Comments (1)
By Sheila Lennon    Email

Nov. 21, 2000: Two-time Grammy award winning guitarist Ali Farka Touré smiles on the banks of the Niger River in his hometown of Niafunke, about 110 miles northeast of Mopti, Mali. Ali Farka Touré died today, after a long......

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Jon Stewart : Oscar clips; Free mp3s: Kleptones; Providence Geeks dinner Wednesday; Camel jockeys become issue in ports deal

10:03 AM Mon, Mar 06, 2006 | | Write a comment
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Host bits: Just the Jon Stewart clips from the Oscar show. Quicktime Video 9.9MB 13:39. At One Good Move. 1:49 a.m. Free mp3s: (Links fixed. Sorry.) Kleptones put a four-song EP -- EP1 -- online; Sample a track from our......

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Art Buchwald goes out his way; 19 new indie games

2:40 PM Sun, Mar 05, 2006 | | Write a comment
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The Final Days of Art Buchwald: The legendary humor columnist has rejected dialysis and is eating all the junk food he wants, entertaining Kennedys and waiting to die in a Washington hospice. Turns out, his kidney function is better than......

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Weekend! Free mp3s: Carla Bley live; New garden blog:

6:49 PM Fri, Mar 03, 2006 | | Write a comment
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Free mp3s: Carla Bley, Escalator Over The Hill: Live 1997, is the ROIO of the Week [Recordings of Indeterminate Origin] at BigO, Singapore. New garden blog: At Calendula & Concrete, Christa Carignan blogs her plot at an organic community garden......

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Firefox extension contest winners

10:27 AM Fri, Mar 03, 2006 | | Comments (2)
By Sheila Lennon    Email

Extend Firefox Contest: Mozilla has announced the winners of a contest to encourage developers to write useful add-ons to the free, open-source Firefox browser. These extensions don't offer grand new function, but some offer functions previously unavailable -- ways......

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Sepia snowy night

8:24 PM Thu, Mar 02, 2006 | | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

Fluffy March snow out the window tonight. The only car that had trouble making it up the hill was a fishtailing long low SUV. No idea what sport it's supposed to be useful for. Not street slalom, for sure.......

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Cat piano, houses made of trees

7:06 PM Wed, Mar 01, 2006 | | Comments (2)
By Sheila Lennon    Email

Enough with the words... Unfortunately, this wasn't fun for the cats, who've been dead for hundreds of years... Comments on that post at the Athanasius Kircher Society lead to organism, a blog entirely about making art with living systems. (Giant......

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