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February 2007 Archives
11:31 AM Wed, Feb 28, 2007 | Permalink |
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At maps.google.com, it's another tab, to the left of Map, Satellite and Hybrid. (Enter your address, city and two-digit state abbreviation to focus the map on your location.) Google Maps Shows Real-Time Traffic Data at Google Operating System: To......
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6:00 AM Wed, Feb 28, 2007 | Permalink |
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2007 Perennial Plant of the Year, Nepeta 'Walker’s Low' The Garden Blogs List has been updated for the first time since fall. Spring is just 20 days away, and gardeners are waking up. These garden bloggers joining the big......
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11:22 AM Tue, Feb 27, 2007 | Permalink |
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Ten Protest Songs released since the Iraq war began in 2003. From Pearl Jam to Neil Young to Green Day to Bright Eyes, little YouTube videos. At ThrowAwayYourTV.com. Gerald McBoing-Boing, the 1951 cartoon, on YouTube. Gerald McBoingBoing won the Academy......
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7:22 AM Tue, Feb 27, 2007 | Permalink |
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Providence Geeks plan to gather Wednesday in the AS220 storefront at 115 Empire St., from 5:30 p.m. till at least 9 for their monthly get-together. It's a very relaxed atmosphere, with plenty of newcomers each time. (The future is already......
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10:54 AM Mon, Feb 26, 2007 | Permalink |
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Greater City: Providence is a new group that hopes to influence the "livability of the city." Their public launch meeting is tomorrow (Tuesday, Feb. 27), the first of what they hope will be monthly Greater City: Exchange meetings at different......
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9:52 PM Sun, Feb 25, 2007 | Permalink |
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Good, Clean Fun at Feb, 2007 Newspaper Guild Follies: Pollster Darrell West covers the Journal union's annual fundraiser that went down Friday night at the Venus de Milo. That's a switch. Sharpton, Thurmond linked by slavery. Seems Coleman Sharpton was......
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1:06 PM Sun, Feb 25, 2007 | Permalink |
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It was cold yesterday morning, a perfect Saturday to stay home and read with the homey aromas of pot roast cooking. Trouble was, the pot roast I'd bought on sale was a fat brick in the freezer, stashed for just......
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8:06 AM Fri, Feb 23, 2007 | Permalink |
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Akeba, Ghana Since 2000 (Meshach) has run his school from the back of his dad’s church, without a roof and without electricity. He has had to rent broken typewriters for his students to use and too often students are......
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2:52 PM Thu, Feb 22, 2007 | Permalink |
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Early weekend listening from BigO, Singapore, where it's already Friday. Doors, 1969, Five To One: This March 1, 1969 show was recorded from the audience. We offer you a riveting performance of Five To One. This is the same tape......
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6:00 AM Thu, Feb 22, 2007 | Permalink |
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Providence printmaker and sculptor Kenn Speiser is looking inside envelopes for unusual printed patterns, and hopes you will, too. Safety envelopes, sometimes called security envelopes, are envelopes tinted -- printed -- inside in a variety of patterns to foil prying......
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12:30 PM Wed, Feb 21, 2007 | Permalink |
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Bob Fabrizio1946-2007 In September 2005 I got a call from an old friend, Bob Fabrizio, a Providence native and longtime Pawtucket resident who hated winter, and had moved to New Orleans nearly 20 years ago. That night, he was......
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6:00 AM Tue, Feb 20, 2007 | Permalink |
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Just about out of words... Cajun Mardi Gras: Webcam at Houma Today; Mardi Gras activities in rural Acadiana; Eunice has been whooping it up for days. Bands start at 10 a.m., parade at 3. Recipes: Cajun Cook-off for the mildly......
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1:55 AM Mon, Feb 19, 2007 | Permalink |
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AP Lantern launches the Year of the Fire Boar, Golden Boar, Pig in Shanghai, China. Chinese New Year Horoscope Year of the Golden Pig 2007 - The Year of the Fire Boar, or Fire Pig, for all signs The......
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12:06 PM Sun, Feb 18, 2007 | Permalink |
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This is a detail of a larger image on a page, titled Nice artwork, that contains four of these drawings, all made with the names of the objects they depict. It's from the same source as the excellent Photoshopping......
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11:43 AM Fri, Feb 16, 2007 | Permalink |
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Sam's blog: Flotsam & Jetsam, by Sam Smith, editor, activist, social critic, author and... musician. Sam smartly slaps the left upside the head in an essay that currently leads this blog (MISSING IN ACTION: THE AMERICAN LEFT): Under Reagan and......
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11:44 AM Thu, Feb 15, 2007 | Permalink |
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Issue #30, December 1956 • The archive At RealTechNews, Every Cover of Mad Magazine Cover Scanned and Posted Online for FREE. My brother sent this link. He's five years older, and I've always credited him for enabling my broad......
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7:25 AM Thu, Feb 15, 2007 | Permalink |
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Eric von Schmidt, center, posed with Westport artist Howard Munce, left, and Mollie Donovan of the Westport Historical Society in September 2004 prior to the debut of an exhibit of his paintings from his “Giants of the Blues” series.......
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10:34 AM Wed, Feb 14, 2007 | Permalink |
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Valentine veggies: Over at BlogHer, Kalyn Denny points to this classic theme done in... spinach ravioli. At Vegalicious. It's part of Vegetables for Valentines - The Vegetable Love Round-Up at Fat Free Vegan Food Blogga -- Susan from Providence,......
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8:50 AM Tue, Feb 13, 2007 | Permalink |
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Last week, my daughter and I attended a meeting about rebuilding the closed Nathan Bishop Middle School on Providence's East Side. A group -- the East Side Public Education Coalition -- had formed to revive it and, in concert with......
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11:52 AM Mon, Feb 12, 2007 | Permalink |
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The Dixie Chicks swept their five Grammy categories last night -- best album, record and song, best country album and best country group performance. Crooks and Liars has the video of their performance of the song of they year, Not......
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12:30 PM Fri, Feb 09, 2007 | Permalink |
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This is last-minute, but if you're out and about this weekend you might want to check out the food paintings and notecards at Shawn Kenney's Open Studio sale, tonight and tomorrow at Studio 108, 560 Mineral Spring Ave. in......
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12:18 PM Thu, Feb 08, 2007 | Permalink |
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ESPEC, the East Side Public Education Coalition, drew more than 100 people last night to a meeting in the Martin Luther King elementary school cafeteria about reopening Nathan Bishop Middle School. On a frigid February weeknight, this was a near-miracle.......
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6:00 AM Wed, Feb 07, 2007 | Permalink |
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From Apple CEO Steve Jobs: Thoughts on Music With the stunning global success of Apple’s iPod music player and iTunes online music store, some have called for Apple to “open” the digital rights management (DRM) system that Apple uses to......
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8:43 AM Tue, Feb 06, 2007 | Permalink |
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-- "The end of an empire is messy at best..." (complete lyrics at randynewman.com) -- Newsweek interview with Newman......
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7:32 AM Mon, Feb 05, 2007 | Permalink |
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AP photos Friends of Molly Ivins clap along as Marcia Ball, below, sings Great Balls of Fire at her memorial service yesterday at the First United Methodist Church in Austin, Texas. The Melancholy Ramblers play at Scholz Garten, where......
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12:43 PM Fri, Feb 02, 2007 | Permalink |
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SONGS OF THE TIMES hosts more than 1,200 protest songs that made the cut at Neil Young's Living With War Today site. At the bottom of the links: Do you have a protest or topical song available on the web?......
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11:29 AM Fri, Feb 02, 2007 | Permalink |
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The offending character is called a "Mooninite." In the wake of that city's jump to the conclusion that “Aqua Teen Hunger Force” cartoon publicity devices were bombs, Many young Bostonians think city overreacted. Bruce Schneier, whose weblog covers security......
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6:00 AM Thu, Feb 01, 2007 | Permalink |
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In Loving Memory of Molly Ivins, 1944-2007 - The Texas Observer Molly, being practical, used many of her most prestigious awards as trivets while serving exquisite French dishes at her dinner parties. AP: Molly Ivins Dies of Cancer at 62:......
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