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March 2007 Archives
7:32 PM Thu, Mar 29, 2007 | Permalink |
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What We Call the News The two-minute video was made to show at Wednesday night's annual TV and Radio Correspondence dinner in Washington DC. There's video of presidential aide Karl Rove rapping at the same event. The whole shebang......
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12:51 AM Thu, Mar 29, 2007 | Permalink |
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Tom Phillips: "Portraits: Samuel Beckett" Samuel Beckett at Riverside Studios Lithograph, 70.8 x 42.8 cm, 1984 National Portrait Gallery, London Samuel Beckett watching Waiting for Godot. Marlene Dietrich: 'No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.' National Portrait......
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11:34 AM Tue, Mar 27, 2007 | Permalink |
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Scène de Rue, Pablo Picasso, 1900. This painting hides a nightclub scene beneath. A Hidden Picasso: The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art offers a do-it-yourself reenactment of the discovery of a hidden painting beneath Picasso's Street Scene, which......
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12:24 PM Mon, Mar 26, 2007 | Permalink |
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Exclusive: John And Elizabeth Edwards, a transcript of last night's 60 Minutes interview by Katie Couric. Katie Couric: Here you're staring at possible death... Elizabeth Edwards: Aren't we all though. Harleys for mangoes: That headline -- which would be an......
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12:22 PM Mon, Mar 26, 2007 | Permalink |
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Kathy Gill, author of the U.S. Politics: Current Events blog at NYT-owned About.com, takes on a story that may be too geeky for for both print media and the soundbite culture: GWB43.com, AttorneyGate and Federal Records Requirements. Here's how it......
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10:21 AM Sun, Mar 25, 2007 | Permalink |
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APE. Howard Hunt speaks during the Senate Watergate Committee hearings, Sept. 24, 1973. Hunt served nearly three years in prison for his involvement in the Watergate scandal. Rolling Stone: The Last Confessions of E. Howard Hunt. Who killed JFK?......
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9:52 AM Sat, Mar 24, 2007 | Permalink |
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Words in skin: A Tattoo for the Educated Man at quixoticals: a gallery of unusual things. (Yes, you can enlarge it there so it's readable by clicking on it.) Here's a detail -- the very bottom section -- blown up.......
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11:11 PM Thu, Mar 22, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
Not bad at writing rules, either: Kurt Vonnegut, Eight rules for writing fiction. Readers will especially appreciate the first: 1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time......
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9:12 AM Thu, Mar 22, 2007 | Permalink |
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This is my desktop photo right now -- from Leopolis, the Ukrainian city of L'viv. Via wood s lot. Busy day ahead, blogging will happen later.......
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10:38 AM Wed, Mar 21, 2007 | Permalink |
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Why I Was Fired by David C. Iglesias, former United States attorney for the District of New Mexico. Josh Marshall reports there's an 18-day gap in the released White House emails on the firings, discovered by one of his army......
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8:27 PM Tue, Mar 20, 2007 | Permalink |
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It's Spring. Spring is also the title of the photo set by St. Louis blogger Shelley Powers that includes this wonderful moment, from a human perspective. And it's the day that's as long as the night, except in Guam:......
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9:53 AM Tue, Mar 20, 2007 | Permalink |
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Primary sources: The White House emails about the firing of U.S. attorneys released by the House Judiciary Committee.(pdfs) Talking Points Memo, the New York City megablog of Brown PhD Josh Marshall that drove this story for months, dispatched hordes of......
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3:01 PM Mon, Mar 19, 2007 | Permalink |
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Providence Geeks meet about once a month in the storefront at AS220, 115 Empire Street, to mill, drink beer, dine, and watch a presentation by a geek. The next meet is this Wednesday, from 5:30 p.m. to 9 or so.......
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2:15 PM Sun, Mar 18, 2007 | Permalink |
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Later: I wrote this overnight and added a bit more when I woke up. 6:06 a.m. Dijon-Glazed Corned Beef with Cabbage & Potatoes looked like this last night at our house. Tender, moist, but not waterlogged, since it steamed under......
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9:49 PM Fri, Mar 16, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
Full transcript from Raw Story. Somebody out there had to have an old-fashioned stenographer. 12:15 p.m. AP Former CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson testifying under oath before the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform this morning. Partial transcript, from Think......
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10:38 AM Fri, Mar 16, 2007 | Permalink |
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10.38 a.m. AP Valerie Plame Wilson arrives to to testify before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. In her opening statement she emphasizes her covert status, and that her employment was not "common knowledge on the Georgetown cocktail circuit."......
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2:00 AM Thu, Mar 15, 2007 | Permalink |
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Later: Here's how it came out at my house This is the version I'm making this weekend. (I may fiddle with it, but I'm starting here.) It's from the Cattlemen’s Beef Board and National Cattlemen’s Beef Association. Dijon-Glazed Corned......
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11:14 AM Wed, Mar 14, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
Late-breaking words: Double-Tongued Dictionary ("Slang, jargon, and new words from the fringes of English") comes with a fine pedigree and is eminently browsable. Some recent entries: shoulder tap hot dog system gray rape whining partsumer newpeat swath white prosciutto tinkie......
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6:00 AM Tue, Mar 13, 2007 | Permalink |
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Malaysia Star Chief monk Venerable Boon Keng standing near the Bodhi tree at the Hong Hock See temple in Penang. Fire ants with painful stings keep dropping on visitors who meditate beneath the tree. From the Malaysia Star, Deadly......
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4:03 PM Mon, Mar 12, 2007 | Permalink |
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'NYT' Opening TimesSelect to Students and Teachers for Free. At Editor & Publisher, The New York Times is opening up access permanently to TimesSelect to all students and faculty who have .edu e-mail addresses beginning on March 13. ...The move......
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7:15 AM Sun, Mar 11, 2007 | Permalink |
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Young Composer Finds His Fuel in Restlessness, in today's N.Y. Times, notices 25-year-old Nico Muhly, who was born in Vermont, where his parents have a second home, but grew up largely in Providence. THERE is no easy label to hang......
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6:00 AM Fri, Mar 09, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
Free mp3s at BigO: · Nina Simone Live at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London, England, December 1977. · Nanci Griffith Live at the Mermaid Theatre, London, March 2, 2007. Desktop Tower Defense: "A live action puzzle game written for fun......
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10:29 PM Thu, Mar 08, 2007 | Permalink |
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Happy (?) International Women's Day: Feminist writer Katha Pollitt at Talking Points Memo, March 8, International Women's Day, brings a slew of news on women's lives and struggles around the world, most of it bad, and this year is no......
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12:49 PM Thu, Mar 08, 2007 | Permalink |
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AP Women applaud during the International Women's Day celebration at La Moneda government palace in Santiago, Chile, today. Michelle Bachelet, Chile's first female president, celebrated Women's Day by assuring that politics has changed for good as she nears the......
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6:00 AM Thu, Mar 08, 2007 | Permalink |
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Do you work from home, browse the Web for fun, have groceries delivered by Peapod, movies by Netflix, everything else from Amazon, eBay and the like, so you seldom have to leave your house? If your answer is something like,......
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11:31 AM Wed, Mar 07, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
Linking around... Video: Patrick Fitzgerald on the Irving 'Scooter' Libby verdict. Part 1 | Part 2. (It's in two parts because YouTube limits video clips to 10 minutes. These are 08:10 and 07:47.) Related: For Cheney, Political Toll May Follow......
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10:19 AM Tue, Mar 06, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
Yesterday, 1,991 people clicked on a blog item I wrote nearly two years ago, on May 25, 2005, on the handmade blog page I used before blog software: Nude X-ray photos at airport security? Nearly 500 more have come by......
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11:55 AM Mon, Mar 05, 2007 | Permalink |
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The Energy Policy Act of 2005 changed the dates of daylight savings time, but some of the electronic devices in our homes don't know this yet. "Spring ahead" moved from the first Sunday in April to the second sunday in......
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9:51 AM Sun, Mar 04, 2007 | Permalink |
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The creation of a public culture staggers again. The latest blow came down Friday. Kurt Hanson's Radio and Internet Newsletter (RAIN) has tracked this for years, and now leads with Daniel McSwain writing, The Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) has announced......
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11:43 AM Fri, Mar 02, 2007 | Permalink |
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Parody or the man having fun, this is wonderful. Out of the mists of the anonymous Internets, just in time for The Cat in the Hat's 50th birthday, comes Dylan Hears A Who (where the songs automatically start streaming......
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11:39 AM Thu, Mar 01, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
AP/Jeff Chiu AsianWeek's editor-at-large Ted Fang, foreground, and Rev. Amos Brown, president of the San Francisco chapter of the NAACP, listen to a speaker at a joint news conference in San Francisco yesterday. Hate Blacks' writer dismissed by AsianWeek:......
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6:00 AM Thu, Mar 01, 2007 | Permalink |
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Dorothy Parker Audio Clips The Dorothy Parker Society offers 30 clips recorded by the witty author. Dorothy Parker made two full-length LP recordings of her work in 1964. A record company, Verve, asked her to read her poems and stories......
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