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October 2006 Archives
10:57 AM Tue, Oct 31, 2006 | Permalink |
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AP Minnesota Vikings fans watch the game during the fourth quarter of their 31-7 loss to the New England Patriots. Updated 10:57 a.m. Vikings' fearful symmetry: Coming off last weekend's 31-13 rout of the Seattle Seahawks, the Vikings bit......
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10:42 AM Mon, Oct 30, 2006 | Permalink |
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I'm deep into coding a new events calendar using blog software -- including a 40-hour no-sleep marathon this weekend that caused my husband to ask if he'd lost his wife. I have lots of links for later. For now, two......
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9:17 AM Fri, Oct 27, 2006 | Permalink |
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Enlarge / Story Quixotry? How a Mass. carpenter got the highest Scrabble score ever by Stefan Fatsis at Slate. (Quixotry n. Quixotism; visionary schemes.) On Oct. 12, in the basement of a Unitarian church on the town green in......
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10:55 AM Thu, Oct 26, 2006 | Permalink |
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Journal photos / Bob Thayer Walt Disney Pictures rented Seven Stars Bakery at 820 Hope St. in Providence for 24 hours yesterday and transformed it: Bakery worker Ian Cappelano came by to see the fictional Yumm's coffee house, which......
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9:13 AM Wed, Oct 25, 2006 | Permalink |
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The Dissatisfied Voter Blues: Watching the debaters who would succeed Jeb Bush in Fla., Tom Matrullo grumbles about the boring middle. Nobody does it better. snake eyes Apparently the Gubernatorial challenge for the chad-averse Die-bold crowd here in Florida is......
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5:30 PM Tue, Oct 24, 2006 | Permalink |
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Updated 5:30 p.m. Firefox 2.0 live: Download it here. If you want to join the hordes having a party to celebrate this browser (?!) this weekend, the Firefox folks will give you schwag for it, they say. 6:00 a.m. Local......
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10:56 AM Mon, Oct 23, 2006 | Permalink |
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I'm taking a day off to finish planting for next spring, and to do marathon loads of laundry as the last of the summer clothes are put away. A few links... Firefox upgrade: Firefox 2.0 debuts Tuesday. Seattle PI previews......
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4:47 PM Sun, Oct 22, 2006 | Permalink |
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Originally posted at 5:20 a.m., updated later: Pats, 28-6. Sloppy, but the Bills were sloppier. Pats always play for the W. Pats vs. Buffalo Bills: 1 p.m. on CBS. Pats are a tough team, just like always. I switched from......
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12:10 PM Sat, Oct 21, 2006 | Permalink |
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Sneakernet journalism: A mysterious and bizarre internal systems glitch yesterday caused the projo.com staff to be unable to see our homepage or reach our blog server. They could not access the 7 to 7 News Blog from the newsroom, couldn't......
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10:32 AM Fri, Oct 20, 2006 | Permalink |
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Almost-the-weekend links: ROIOs of the Week: BigO Singapore offers Eric Clapton Live at Roosevelt Stadium, Jersey City, New Jersey, July 7, 1974 Eric Clapton Orchestra Night [Mid-Valley, 2CD], Live at The Royal Albert Hall, London, UK; Feb 10, 1990. Blondie,......
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10:20 AM Thu, Oct 19, 2006 | Permalink |
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The five U.S. Senate hopefuls in Connecticut take part in a 5-way debate in Hartford, Conn., Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2006. From left are : Concerned Citizens Party candidate Timothy Knibbs; Green Party Candidate Ralph Ferrucci; Incumbent Democratic U.S. Sen.......
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8:21 AM Wed, Oct 18, 2006 | Permalink |
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Wired Travel Guide: Second Life: The virtual world into which many former bloggers have slipped gets the travel-writer treatment: Getting There Make your way to Secondlife.com and download the required software for free. No passport necessary, but you do need......
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9:28 AM Tue, Oct 17, 2006 | Permalink |
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Halloween radio: Stream it online, play tracks at 13thtrack.com. Forbidden Crypts Of Haunted Music! Albums from the past -- including the Addams Family and Munsters. Reggae Halloween? Distinctly Jamaican Sounds is doing Halloween mixes. Yesterday's, Number 12, is Yellowman Versus......
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9:30 AM Mon, Oct 16, 2006 | Permalink |
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Updated 9:30 a.m. with some links to Hawaii bloggers' reports. Smaller Big Island KonaBoy posted three four photos at Flickr (He added last night's cinematic sunset"over the new and improved Kealakekua Bay.") : This was taken this morning a few......
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7:53 AM Sun, Oct 15, 2006 | Permalink |
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Freddy Fender - Wasted Days and Wasted Nights Freddy Fender died yesterday at 69 in Corpus Christi, Texas. The McAllen (Texas) Monitor has a special section to honor the passing of the man whose 1960 Wasted Days and Wasted Nights......
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9:06 AM Sat, Oct 14, 2006 | Permalink |
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A Soldier's Tale. Tara McKelvey, a senior editor at The American Prospect, interviews Abu Ghraib poster child Lynndie England in prison, accompanied by England's mother, sister, 2-year-old son and attorney. England's words are guarded, on her attorney's advice, so there's......
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6:00 AM Fri, Oct 13, 2006 | Permalink |
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Sweden plans to put little red cottage on the moon: Not content with having them dotted all over the countryside, Sweden is now considering putting a little red cottage on the moon. The idea, first conjured up by the artist......
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10:25 AM Wed, Oct 11, 2006 | Permalink |
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A Twisted Christmas is Twisted Sister's metal versions of holiday classics -- "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" and all that. Due Oct. 17, you can preview some of the tunes at the MySpace site of the band that officially......
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6:00 AM Tue, Oct 10, 2006 | Permalink |
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Grudge Report: Imagine Matt Drudge's layout, with every link about John Lennon (who would have turned 66 yesterday were he still alive). The site was built for a documentary about the government's surveillance of Lennon, The U.S. vs. John......
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2:10 AM Mon, Oct 09, 2006 | Permalink |
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Monday update: Patriots 20, Miami 10, Saban 0: Nick Saban, Miami's coach, gets chewed up and spit out in a column by Greg Cote of the Miami Herald. ''I feel like we're a lot better football team today than we......
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7:11 AM Fri, Oct 06, 2006 | Permalink |
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Almost the (long) weekend... Video reruns: It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown: The 25-minute 1966 special, online at YouTube, any time you want to smile. Or you can watch it by appointment, on ABC, Friday, Aug. 27 at 8 p.m.......
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6:00 AM Thu, Oct 05, 2006 | Permalink |
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Maxon Crumb: Still in the shadows, an artist in his own right. We visit with cartoonist R. (Robert) Crumb's stranger brother. With podcast (an mp3 audio interview). Occupied humor: Satirical Iraqi TV show provides insight into Baghdad's mood. A refreshing......
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6:00 AM Wed, Oct 04, 2006 | Permalink |
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While the big national papers look at the political impact of former Rep. Mark Foley's (R-Fla.) resignation and ongoing revelations about his inappropriate behavior with teenage pages, the Palm Beach Post is maintaining a special section about the former chairman......
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11:20 AM Tue, Oct 03, 2006 | Permalink |
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At Square America -- "A gallery of vintage snapshots & vernacular photography" -- don't miss the section on Love. Context art: Bagvertising. Snopes.com, usually a debunker of urban myths, stretches its format to put the title of this photoessay......
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4:38 AM Mon, Oct 02, 2006 | Permalink |
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Random links for a Monday morning... 700 Hoboes Project at E-Hobo.com: This site is inspired by the writings of author John Hodgman and his book Areas of My Expertise. It is meant as an homage to the wandering men and......
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10:48 AM Sun, Oct 01, 2006 | Permalink |
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Respect from Bengals Zone: If you put a gun to my head and made me choose an active quarterback to play a game that would decide whether I lived or died, I would probably take Brady. I would take him......
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