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December 2006 Archives
2:58 PM Wed, Dec 27, 2006 | Permalink |
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Still on vacation... Fat Balls: Despite their name, the only fat in these cookie balls with dried fruit comes from two eggs -- and the oil they're fried in. Recipe: Oliebollen (fat balls) from The Grand Rapids (Mich.) Press. Dips:......
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1:05 PM Mon, Dec 25, 2006 | Permalink |
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APSara Nabil, 24, Sulaimaniyah, Iraq. Peace on earth, really, ferschizzle. The penguin arrived! Joy. Happy Christmas to you.........
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6:55 AM Sun, Dec 24, 2006 | Permalink |
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Sizing up the NFL's playoff races: Ashley Fox of The Philadelphia Inquirer did the grunt work so you don't have to. This is the time for giving and receiving, and - for many teams in the NFL - for pulling......
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10:49 AM Fri, Dec 22, 2006 | Permalink |
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NOLA.com: A musical Christmas miracle All of America is buzzing about Trombone Shorty's prime-time performance of 'O Holy Night' Download the mp3 YouTube video of the Studio 60 episode containing the tune (and an out-of-nowhere bit of TV drama). New......
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11:58 AM Thu, Dec 21, 2006 | Permalink |
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Tue, 19 Dec 2006 00:23:13 -0500 From: Sheila Lennon To: playfairtoys.com Amazon at 7:09 pm last night reported that my order (xxxxxxxxxx) had been shipped by you, with a tracking number and containing, 1 of Folkmanis Black and White Kitten......
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11:15 AM Tue, Dec 19, 2006 | Permalink |
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Scooped: From the BBC, iPhone surprises technology world: iPhone has been launched by Linksys just weeks before analysts were expecting Apple to release a similarly-named device. The wireless iPhone allows users to make free or low-cost internet phone calls using......
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6:00 AM Mon, Dec 18, 2006 | Permalink |
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New England Patriots linebacker Rosevelt Colvin sacks Houston Texans quarterback David Carr in the second half of a game the Patriots won yesterday, 40-7, in Foxboro, Mass. The Pats are back! We remember them, the confident, successful engine that......
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12:33 AM Sun, Dec 17, 2006 | Permalink |
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I've dropped by Chocolate and Zucchini often to marvel at the exotica of Clotilde's . But only tonight, as a result of a search, did I discover a section of her site devoted to documenting dining out: clotilde's moblog: Resto......
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4:45 AM Sat, Dec 16, 2006 | Permalink |
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Houston Chronicle: No rest for weary defense: After failing to corral Young, Texans must face Brady, Manning the next 2 Sundays The caption on a photo of one of Brady's forgettable moments last Sunday reads, The Texans hope to rattle......
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11:25 AM Fri, Dec 15, 2006 | Permalink |
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A little light news to use this morning before I head downtown. Wabbits at last! I thought yesterday was game day here, but this morning I learned that Dodge That Anvil, which I wrote about in February, has finally rolled......
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6:00 AM Thu, Dec 14, 2006 | Permalink |
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Busy time, racing around, how about some mindless fun? Mission in Snowdriftland is a platform game set up like an Advent calendar -- one new level opens every day in December. It's a tricky little jump-and-run game -- over slippery......
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11:28 PM Wed, Dec 13, 2006 | Permalink |
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Update: At Comedy Central, with commercials, the entire segment (3:50, 3:20): Part 1 / Part 2 7:08 a.m. Sen. Lincoln Chafee on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Monday night. Update: From Comedy Central, with commercials, the entire segment: Part......
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6:00 AM Tue, Dec 12, 2006 | Permalink |
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OurTunes: Reader Matt Ramos writes, I found mp3s of Handel's Messiah and Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Ballet at the Peabody Institute's web site. On the Morning News I followed the link to a video of the amazing Time Fountain, in which dripping......
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6:43 PM Sun, Dec 10, 2006 | Permalink |
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Living walls: Vertical Garden: The art of organic architecture: Amazing photos at the Japanese design site pingmag of my kind of wallpaper. The living wall at right is inside the home of French botanist and creator Patrick Blanc. (This all-Flash......
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6:00 AM Fri, Dec 08, 2006 | Permalink |
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AP / Kevin Wolf Sen. Lincoln Chafee (D-R.I.) takes a globe apart before packing it as he vacates his Senate office. There's a nice story today by John Mulligan of the Journal's Washington bureau about Sen. Lincoln Chafee wrapping......
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6:00 AM Thu, Dec 07, 2006 | Permalink |
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Inside Higher Ed reports on a hearing Tuesday before the Senate Finance Committee, Aiding Needy Students — By Ending Pell (Grants)? ...at a time when Congress is about to change hands and the Democrats are poised to take power are......
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8:08 PM Mon, Dec 04, 2006 | Permalink |
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I just wrote a long, semi-coherent post about the projo.com redesign, apologizing for the inconvenience etc., Good news: There's now a music video by a Rhode Island musician, Bea Barclay (who returned to her native Liberia after 20 years away......
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6:00 AM Mon, Dec 04, 2006 | Permalink |
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Providence Journal / Mary Murphy New England Patriots running back Corey Dillon hugs Detroit Lions quarterback Jon Kitna on the field after yesterday's game. Bad fans: Detroit Free Press: Patriots’ comeback gives Lions same old ending FOXBOROUGH, Mass. --......
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7:38 AM Sun, Dec 03, 2006 | Permalink |
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Benumbed by Joy is a book review at Wilson Quarterly of Artificial Happiness: The Dark Side of the New Happy Class by Ronald W. Dworkin. You can read the beginning of the book at this Amazon page. This key section......
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10:19 AM Sat, Dec 02, 2006 | Permalink |
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Sacred Sites photo by Martin Gray Aerial view of Stonehenge Stonehenge spring theory: Provocative piece by Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins elevates the idea that the ancient circle of bluestones is the remains of a healing place, a Druid's Lourdes.......
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6:00 AM Fri, Dec 01, 2006 | Permalink |
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Cassandre poster for Fortune 1937 The Visual Telling Of Stories: Click a letter of the alphabet there and browse the indexed images in hundreds of categories, or search its topics. Where was this last week when we were all......
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