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May 2006 Archives
6:17 PM Wed, May 31, 2006 | Permalink |
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Adventures in my Urban Garden: Another East Coast gardener at last. (Yes, we're coming alive again in New England, where the weather is just perfect now.) And, from the photo above, it looks as though this garden is a......
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12:15 PM Wed, May 31, 2006 | Permalink |
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Wednesday 12:15 p.m. I emailed Bill Griffith, the creator of Zippy the Pinhead to ask how he came upon the Sollitto's chicken featured in yesterday's strip. Here's his reply: Zippy visits "Real Places" almost every day---you can see where Zippy......
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10:45 AM Mon, May 29, 2006 | Permalink |
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Holiday weekend, minimal blog: Theme songs:"The Peace Jukebox plays hours of anti-war music for free. Songs written during the Bush Presidency can be heard as high-quality MP3s, with lyrics, on this ad-free independent website. The Peace Jukebox features anti-war songs......
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7:59 AM Sat, May 27, 2006 | Permalink |
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Desmond Dekker: Musical obits/tributes: -- Born Desmond Adolphus Dacres in Kingston, Jamaica, on July 16, 1942 - Passed May 25, 2006...Thank you to Desmond Dekker for some of the best Ska, Rocksteady and Reggae music. The set includes a......
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4:44 AM Thu, May 25, 2006 | Permalink |
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Teen Buzz is ringtone that takes advantage of a high-frequency sound that grownups can't hear. If adults can't hear your phone ring, text-messaging becomes possible anywhere, anytime. In a stunning reimagining of a weapon used against them, teens may have......
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3:38 PM Wed, May 24, 2006 | Permalink |
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Liz Petow By now nearly all of my graduating friends and I know exactly where we will be come September. But the questions about why we did or did not get into our first-choice colleges are still resting at......
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9:36 PM Tue, May 23, 2006 | Permalink |
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A great read that will make you smile. Humor columnist Art Buchwald: Heaven Can Wait at WaPo: ...In February I was warned that if I didn't take dialysis I wouldn't survive more than two or three weeks. Since I didn't......
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11:10 AM Tue, May 23, 2006 | Permalink |
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Want to buy a museum? Norman Rockwell's models reminisce is a lovely story in The Saratogian. Rockwell lived in Arlington, Vt., from 1939-53. The artist paid each model $5 -- "In the 1940s, a person could fill his car......
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9:47 AM Mon, May 22, 2006 | Permalink |
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Monday, 9:47 a.m. I'm still sick, not in the newsroom today, but want to pass this on for those who might be interested: From R.I.'s Future, a Democrats' blog: TODAY, MONDAY, MAY 22nd You are invited to join Markos Zuniga......
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3:39 AM Fri, May 19, 2006 | Permalink |
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Jefitoblog: Springsteen fans, if you haven’t already, you need to be heading over to ickmusic for an insane ****load of awesomeness. Pete’s been tossing up performances from the current Seeger Sessions Band tour right and left. As I write this,......
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2:31 PM Thu, May 18, 2006 | Permalink |
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65 on May 24: WICN in Worcester's annual Bob Dylan Birthday Bash is live tonight at 7:30: ...Two RI based bands will come together in WICN's performance studio to celebrate the life and the music of the man. Fred Wilkes,......
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7:47 AM Thu, May 18, 2006 | Permalink |
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Bloggers' tool: Google Notebook is a browser extension used to "add clippings of text, images and links from web pages." The Google Operating System blog reviews it: After you install the extension, go to a page, select a fragment from......
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5:19 PM Tue, May 16, 2006 | Permalink |
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Thanks to all these gardening bloggers who screwed up their courage to ask for a link. Be brave -- this is not a contest, and I'm happy to list your blog. Just have a real garden blog with recent posts.......
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2:59 AM Mon, May 15, 2006 | Permalink |
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Mother's Day: Brother and husband cook while we mothers lounge. Meanwhile... Elsewhere: Code Pink's Mother's Day Vigil in Washington D.C. Blogs, photos and media coverage. Al Gore on Saturday Night Live this weekend: Gore gave a mock address to......
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10:24 AM Fri, May 12, 2006 | Permalink |
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It must be spring. Three geese and 16 goslings cross the road this morning in Canandaigua, N.Y. (AP) Providence Geeks gets its own domain -- providencegeeks.com of course -- just in time to spread the word about the next......
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1:49 AM Fri, May 12, 2006 | Permalink |
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One of my earliest memories involves carrying a huge glass of orange juice upstairs to my mom on Mother's Day, trying very hard not to spill it. She waited patiently there for our sake, so we could say we had......
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11:50 AM Thu, May 11, 2006 | Permalink |
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My Way: AOL's Aim Pages (beta) challenges MySpace: What are AIM Pages, you ask? Good question. The truth is, that’s up to you. We’ve made a place for you to express yourself by choosing your own content and layout. You......
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12:18 PM Wed, May 10, 2006 | Permalink |
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AllThe Web Livesearch Beta has launched. As you type it kicks up results instantaneously. I'd heard it reads minds. I've been playing with GoogleMaps mashups, and was looking for info on how to code the sidebar links, so I started......
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10:46 AM Tue, May 09, 2006 | Permalink |
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Free mp3s: Branford Marsalis Quartet - Live At Ronnie Scott's Jazz Festival, London, England, November 8, 2001. They play John Coltrane's four-part suite, A Love Supreme. ROIO of the Week at BigO, Singapore. Reader Bill Marsland writes, Paul Simon is......
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6:55 AM Mon, May 08, 2006 | Permalink |
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Free for all: Comprehensive list of Web 2.0 services is daunting. Anybody speak German? via J.D. Lasica Top-100 essential downloads of free software & freeware for Windows XP Audiophile links: The audio toolbox for the audiophile: CD ripper - Exact......
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1:53 AM Mon, May 08, 2006 | Permalink |
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Nothing lasts: On Burningbird, Shelley Powers links to Bill Coppa's family saga, 'Ischia to 155 Ridge Street' that I blogged Friday, noting,"I’d love to hear of something comparable for Missouri–and Washington and Idaho and points beyond. I always imagined this......
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5:38 PM Thu, May 04, 2006 | Permalink |
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I had an attack of comment spam last weekend -- a barrage of comments from fairly vile fake email addresses that ended when Six Apart, the maker of this Movable Type software, sent an email that it had automatically banned......
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12:40 PM Thu, May 04, 2006 | Permalink |
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Because something is happening but you don't know what it is, do you, Mister Jones? Bob Dylan debuted on XM satellite pay radio today. Free 3-day pass to hear it requires any valid email address. If you don't know much......
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11:42 AM Wed, May 03, 2006 | Permalink |
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Hearing vowed on Bush's powers: Senator questions bypassing of laws. Charlie Savage's excellent work for the Globe is reverberating on Capitol Hill. WASHINGTON -- The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, accusing the White House of a ''very blatant encroachment"......
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11:44 AM Tue, May 02, 2006 | Permalink |
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The sun, via NASA. Click on it to see a big sun -- and if you save that one to your hard drive, you'll get an even larger sun -- 2100 pixels wide. 10 States, in Challenge to U.S.,......
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10:22 AM Mon, May 01, 2006 | Permalink |
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AP Valerie Plame Wilson, a former undercover CIA agent outed by the Bush administration, and her husband, Ambassador Joe Wilson, leave a party after Friday night's White House Correspondents Dinner. The Wilsons were guests of ABC News. Buzz: The......
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