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11:29 AM Sat, Apr 29, 2006 | Permalink |
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AP The International German Beard and Moustache Championships is going on today in Hesel. Willi Chevalier displays the whiskers that won last year's world champion freestyle chin beard award. The New Orleans Jazz Festival is under way, this weekend......
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6:52 PM Thu, Apr 27, 2006 | Permalink |
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New additions to the Garden Blogs list: Frog Garden: Roy Bilbie of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia is heading into autumn just as we're emerging from winter. His photos -- including those of frogs caught by flashlight -- are worth browsing for......
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2:09 AM Wed, Apr 26, 2006 | Permalink |
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Slideshow of 12 AP photos by Richard Drew from the 26th Annual New York International Orchid Show in Rockefeller Center last weekend. Google Maps: Street maps for all of Europe (as corrected by readers of that Google Maps Mania......
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4:13 AM Tue, Apr 25, 2006 | Permalink |
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12:01 p.m. Free ice cream day at Ben & Jerry's: Today from noon to 8 p.m., participating Ben & Jerry's stores offer free ice cream cones. 3:56 a.m. USA The Gas Buddy Price Map is zoomable, and a right click......
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3:56 AM Mon, Apr 24, 2006 | Permalink |
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I return from vacation to learn that Katie Holmes had Tom Cruise's baby almost a week ago. The earth didn't move where I was digging. Let's start slowly... eBay Express: Fixed-price purchases, no bidding. If this were Google, it would......
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3:37 AM Fri, Apr 21, 2006 | Permalink |
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I saw this play by accident. Yesterday was my brother's birthday, and he emailed that he'd been invited to Trinity to see Boots on the Ground. There were two more tickets, and would Joe and I like to come? Joe......
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9:21 AM Thu, Apr 20, 2006 | Permalink |
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Earth Day Energy Fast: "On Earth Day, cut back or go completely without man-made energy." Saturday is the day. Neil Young News is all over Young's upcoming Living With War CD, including a link to a first review of it......
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11:48 AM Wed, Apr 19, 2006 | Permalink |
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Journal / Frieda Squires Journal / Sandor Bodo Two views of the moment of detonation of the old Jamestown Bridge yesterday. Vacation update: I spent the afternoon at the Curious George movie with three kids under 9. Loved it,......
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11:47 AM Tue, Apr 18, 2006 | Permalink |
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Providence Geeks -- a group open to anyone who shows up at their gatherings -- will have their third monthly meeting tomorrow night at AS220, 115 Empire St., from, 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. or later. (Details). This group needs......
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6:36 AM Mon, Apr 17, 2006 | Permalink |
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Liz Petow When I received my first flat little white envelope, I was devastated. I wasn't upset, however, because the school had not been my first choice school. I hadn't wanted to go there. I was upset because the......
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9:22 PM Sun, Apr 16, 2006 | Permalink |
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Neil Young sets his sights on Bush Independent, UK: "He is country rock's biggest icon, and he is angry. Recorded in secret, his forthcoming album savages the war in Iraq. One track says it all: 'Impeach the President' " "I......
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1:58 PM Sun, Apr 16, 2006 | Permalink |
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We all slept late. My daughter is away, on a trip planned before she realized it would include Easter. Her son, Dylan, is staying with Joe and me, and eggs and chocolate are up to us. This weekend we have......
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5:20 AM Sun, Apr 16, 2006 | Permalink |
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A scrabbling noise just woke me up. Dylan left a plate of baby carrots out. The carrots are gone, and there's this... I'm taking a few days off, and blogging will be light. Tomorrow, guest blogger Liz Petow will......
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11:00 PM Thu, Apr 13, 2006 | Permalink |
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Liz Petow MySpace.com has become either an addiction or a plague for most people I know. More than sixty million people belong to MySpace. Sixty million people have their own free little piece of the Internet, where they can......
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9:17 AM Thu, Apr 13, 2006 | Permalink |
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Google Calendar screenshot Google Calendar, a free Web app, launched today -- it's beta, of course. Here's the ZDNet story. Fodder for new bookmarks: The 10th Annual Webby Awards nominees are out, in an amazing number of categories. The......
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4:23 AM Wed, Apr 12, 2006 | Permalink |
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Journal photo / Kris Craig Ruby Monegro,11, and Evelyn Aquino, 8, peek out from behind a runway curtain to see a dance exhibition that was part of a Youth Art Month fashion show March 29 at the Olneyville library,......
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5:20 AM Tue, Apr 11, 2006 | Permalink |
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Journal photo / Glenn Osmundson. (Clarence J.) "Clay" Osborne performs at a party for the National Governors Association at the R.I. State House, Sunday, August 5, 2001. The singer died Friday at 78. Music clips. Andy Smith: Clay Osborne......
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5:58 AM Mon, Apr 10, 2006 | Permalink |
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Timely toy: Porfolio :: My Special Easter Egg. Stamp or paint your brown egg. A little Flash toy, with no obvious way to save your creation. I grabbed this image -- and another, cropping it to just the egg......
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3:13 AM Sun, Apr 09, 2006 | Permalink |
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A Gnostic edition: National Geographic has put some pages of The Lost Gospel, aka Gospel of Judas, online, along with translations. There's a TV special tonight at 8 p.m. (EDT) on the find, on their own National Geographic cable channel.......
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3:01 AM Fri, Apr 07, 2006 | Permalink |
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National Geographic Housefly Gets Glasses Made With Lasers Towers fall: In comments yesterday, longtime radio guy Lou Josephs points to a video clip "of the demolition of the shortwave transmitter site of Radio Liberty and Radio Free Europe... That......
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8:56 AM Thu, Apr 06, 2006 | Permalink |
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Get the geeks to make commercials for you. How cool is that? "Viral marketing" -- get a buzz going on the Web -- is hot, so Chevrolet challenged online vidsters to make commercials for its giant Tahoe SUV. Slick......
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8:55 AM Thu, Apr 06, 2006 | Permalink |
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Detour works for me: Study: Maryland county's red light cameras net $2.85 million, increase accidents. At Autoblog: Anne Arundel County in Maryland has been running five red light cameras for five years, during which period they raised a fat $2.85......
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9:11 AM Wed, Apr 05, 2006 | Permalink |
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Gene Pitney during his induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, March 18, 2002, at New York's Waldorf Astoria Hotel. Town without Pitney: Gene Pitney found dead in British hotel today: LONDON (AP) - Gene Pitney, a......
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10:41 PM Tue, Apr 04, 2006 | Permalink |
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Too tired to tell you why I'm so busy. Just a few links before I crash... Imminent: 01:23 04-05-06. AP. At 1:02 a.m. and three seconds on Wednesday, April 5, 2006, it will be the first hour of the day,......
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12:23 AM Tue, Apr 04, 2006 | Permalink |
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These bloggers grow, photograph, get the rest of us going and still have time to write about it all. I'm in awe of them. They've all been added to the perennial Garden Blogs List, with my thanks for their taking......
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12:09 AM Mon, Apr 03, 2006 | Permalink |
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Rolling Stones:Live’R Than You’ll Ever Be"Live at Oakland Coliseum, Oakland, California, USA, Nov 9, 1969, SECOND SHOW. Remastered from the original 5 inch master reels." 16 tracks. Free downloads for a limited time. ROIO of the Week [Recordings of Indeterminate......
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11:41 AM Sat, Apr 01, 2006 | Permalink |
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Journal / Sandor Bodo Providence fools: A 2002 grand opening ceremony for the Fool's Ball Studio, incubator for costumes for the annual event at Providence art space AS220. That's a Big Nazo puppet in your face. "Pin all your......
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