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January 2007 Archives
12:58 PM Wed, Jan 31, 2007 | Permalink |
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Journal photo / Andy Dickerman Landscape architect Mary Ellen Flanagan, Providence Mayor David Cicilline and city Parks Superintendent Alix Ogden welcome members of the media during a tour of the new Roger Williams Park Botanical Center today. With plants......
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6:55 AM Wed, Jan 31, 2007 | Permalink |
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Doc Searls turns the announcement of the rescue of talk-left Air America radio into a riff on the Live Web. Like most broadcasters, the AAR folks "get" the Net about as well as a fetus gets a fastball. While everybody......
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11:18 AM Tue, Jan 30, 2007 | Permalink |
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The Loneliest President: What’s going on in George Bush’s mind? A psychopolitical survey. at New York Magazine is the introductory essay, by John Heilemann, to 16 shorter essays (Bush on the Couch) by psychologists, politicians and editors -- including JFK......
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5:53 PM Mon, Jan 29, 2007 | Permalink |
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Quick, interesting. Don't miss the comments. Shia and Sunni, A Ludicrously Short Primer. At 3 Quarks Daily, by its primary editor, S. Abbas Raza: .Even now, many people who hear these terms daily on the news are confused about what......
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12:38 PM Fri, Jan 26, 2007 | Permalink |
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The World Economic Summit is going on in Davos, Switzerland, and I've been browsing the Times's Davos Diary blog. Yes, there's some stuff about celebrities non grata this year, Iraq as a "war against civilians" and this (From Davos, NYSE......
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11:19 AM Thu, Jan 25, 2007 | Permalink |
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I had a great time last night at the monthly Providence Geeks gathering at AS220 on Empire Street. It was also the one-year anniversary of the event. I spent some time talking about neighborhood networking with Alan Tear, who's deep......
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11:29 AM Wed, Jan 24, 2007 | Permalink |
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Providence Geeks is a loose group -- whoever shows up -- that meets monthly at AS220, 115 Empire St., and tonight's the night. There is usually a short presentation by one of them, and tonight's is by Investment Instruments President......
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11:17 AM Tue, Jan 23, 2007 | Permalink |
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Just a quick heads-up: If you're interested, FireDogLake is live-blogging prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald's opening statement at the trial of Scooter Libby now in federal court in Washington: Libby Liveblog: Fitzgerald’s Opening Statement In case you've forgotten, "I. Lewis Libby, a......
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10:39 AM Mon, Jan 22, 2007 | Permalink |
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On the Patriots, two words: Deion Branch. Unlike Reche Caldwell, he'd have caught those critical passes. Bob Kraft lost yesterday's game when he traded Branch to Seattle rather than pay him what he was worth as the reliable go-to guy,......
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12:04 PM Sun, Jan 21, 2007 | Permalink |
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I'm cooking a turkey today. Gotta do something while we wait all day for The Game at 6:30 on CBS; we'll watch the Bears-Saints on Fox at 3, and the bird will be in the oven by then. No more......
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12:56 PM Sat, Jan 20, 2007 | Permalink |
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Driving to Providence on Route 95 North, my daughter and I both did a double take as we whizzed past a dark, moody billboard with the image at right. "Was that Tom Brady???" TOMBRADYONLINE.NET posted a huge -- 400-dpi, 2.3-meg,......
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9:16 AM Fri, Jan 19, 2007 | Permalink |
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What do they know? The wags at Sports Illustrated are largely picking the Colts over the Patriots, including Nunyo Demasio, who is also picking the Bears over the Patriots. (Double whammy?) Go figger... At the Indy Star, Bob Kravitz sounds......
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8:55 AM Thu, Jan 18, 2007 | Permalink |
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Breakthrough: Cheap, safe drug kills most cancers. At New Scientist: It sounds almost too good to be true: a cheap and simple drug that kills almost all cancers by switching off their “immortality”. The drug, dichloroacetate (DCA), has already been......
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10:41 AM Wed, Jan 17, 2007 | Permalink |
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After a death in the family, I've been on the road a lot, attending funeral events at different ends of the state and listening to sports radio as a distraction from sad emotions. The hype over who has a right......
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3:29 PM Mon, Jan 15, 2007 | Permalink |
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Bob Kravitz, IndyStar: Opportunities don't come bigger than this Here they come again. The vaunted Patriots. The hated Patriots. The incredible Patriots. The Patriots who just keep showing up every January, standing in the doorway, refusing to allow the Indianapolis......
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11:51 AM Mon, Jan 15, 2007 | Permalink |
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Providence Journal / John Freidah Troy Brown strips Marlon McCree of the ball as McCree tries to return an interception in the fourth quarter. At the San Diego Union Tribune, it's a litany of misery and woe: Pats make......
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2:29 PM Sat, Jan 13, 2007 | Permalink |
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Building up slowly to the weekend's final game, Pats vs. Chargers, Sunday, 4:30, CBS. Battle of the bands: In the Chargers section of the San Diego Union Tribune today, Bolts' disco-fueled theme hot as ever. Listen to an mp3 of......
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4:51 AM Sat, Jan 13, 2007 | Permalink |
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Iran today: Discovering Iran (photos). Stunning photos of Tehran and environs -- buildings, people, public art, nature, people napping in a traffic jam -- fresh. Here are a few, but the set is more than these, and well worth a......
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11:46 AM Thu, Jan 11, 2007 | Permalink |
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HinesSight, by Oregon writer Brian Hines Richard Hines, bills itself as the "Anti-Drudge" (not to be confused with Rogers Cadenhead's original Drudge Retort at drudge.com). (My apologies to Richard Hines for misattributing his site.) Today -- when reactions to, and......
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11:47 AM Wed, Jan 10, 2007 | Permalink |
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iPhone: $499 (4 gig)/$599 (8 gig) Steve Jobs' Macworld 2007 Keynote, the video. MacWorld covers it. Dueling photos at Gizmodo and at Engadget. OSNews: An Initial Analysis on the Apple iPhone More my speed: From the BBC, Public can......
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10:04 AM Tue, Jan 09, 2007 | Permalink |
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Grim folk art: Rugs of War is a blog devoted to war motifs in rug weaving. There's a book coming, whose cover is pictured at right. War Rug Motifs is a page of thumbnails at warrug.com, which sells them. Afghan......
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7:54 AM Sat, Jan 06, 2007 | Permalink |
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With the telltale handoff of A World of Friday Links, Shelley Powers goes offline for two weeks, leaving her readers with links to a passel of other bloggers. ...spending more time offline has become my highest priority. As Seth would......
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8:52 AM Fri, Jan 05, 2007 | Permalink |
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Nancy Pelosi becomes Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. Faye Fiore covered the sea change for the Los Angeles Times: WASHINGTON — From on high, up in the visitor's gallery, the event playing out on the House floor......
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6:54 AM Thu, Jan 04, 2007 | Permalink |
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Where does the greenback go farthest? I joke that, barring a winning PowerBall number, I'll never be able to retire in America. Years ago, while editing a travel section, I came across a story about American retirees in Puerta Vallarta,......
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6:00 AM Wed, Jan 03, 2007 | Permalink |
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Unseen hand: You can watch this Picasso painting emerge in a two-minute time lapse video. According to art blog Tinselman (The Mystery of Picasso), In 1955, French director, Henri-Georges Clouzot had the most amazing idea. He would film Pablo......
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10:43 AM Tue, Jan 02, 2007 | Permalink |
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What I did on my vacation: My computer fan had been getting loud. If I opened a couple of dozen Firefox tabs, it sounded like a noisy air conditioner. Occasionally, it crashed. But it still generally worked --even if it......
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