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10:10 AM Mon, Apr 30, 2007 | Permalink |
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Photo by Sheila Lennon An "avatar" in Second Life -- a computer-generated figure represents the user in the virtual world. Photo by Sheila Lennon The Providence Biltmore Hotel in Eyegloo's Virtual Providence in Second Life. (Click it to enlarge......
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10:55 AM Sat, Apr 28, 2007 | Permalink |
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Later: Shelley Powers suggests two stories from the link below (in Links for the Senses), and offers an illustration. Short reads: Classic Short Stories is a superb collection of complete short stories online -- 155 tales by authors such as......
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11:53 AM Fri, Apr 27, 2007 | Permalink |
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J. Scott Applewhite, AP Look at it quick and they're dancing, with Obama on the mike. Joe Biden and Hillary appear to be doing the Frug before the debate. J. Scott Applewhite, AP MSNBC analyst Chris Matthews hugs Elizabeth......
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12:30 AM Fri, Apr 27, 2007 | Permalink |
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In a post titled The Great Wall of Segregation, Riverbend of Baghdad Burning ("Girl Blog from Iraq") wrote today that her family is leaving Iraq: I remember Baghdad before the war- one could live anywhere. We didn't know what our......
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1:23 PM Thu, Apr 26, 2007 | Permalink |
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Update: You can still watch the entire debate online here at msnbc. AP The positions of the candidates in tonight's kickoff debate of the 2008 campaign season, drawn at random: New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd, former......
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5:41 AM Thu, Apr 26, 2007 | Permalink |
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Emptying the vacation notebook: Charles Badland, BioOne Plaster cast of a subterranean ant nest in northern Florida. What an ants' nest looks like: All we see is the little hole on the surface. Here are the tunnels below. The nest......
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3:20 AM Wed, Apr 25, 2007 | Permalink |
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Old hippies, earth day, and Iraq: Liz Donovan at Infomaniac puts a crop of interesting links under that headline, leading with, This month's Vanity Fair -- which is full of Earth Day-related stories -- has a feature on The Farm.......
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10:17 AM Tue, Apr 24, 2007 | Permalink |
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New England Journal of Medicine online: EARLY RELEASE Published April 23, 2007 PERSPECTIVE Partial Death of Abortion Rights PERSPECTIVE The Intimidation of American Physicians — Banning Partial-Birth Abortion EDITORIAL Government in Medicine From the last, Government in Medicine, by pulmonary specialist Jeffrey M.......
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10:31 AM Mon, Apr 23, 2007 | Permalink |
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The monthly Providence Geeks meet Wednesday promises a unique presentation: Arnell Milhouse -- Providence Geek, President of the Downtown Merchants Association, and Founder of interactive media services company Eyegloo -- will give the first (and an extremely early) public sneak......
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9:15 AM Sun, Apr 22, 2007 | Permalink |
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I'm on vacation, but it won't feel real till tomorrow. Friday was a deadline scramble all day. It was my brother's birthday, and I baked him a cake before work. My plan to frost it and be done tanked when......
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10:13 AM Fri, Apr 20, 2007 | Permalink |
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R.I. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, a former U.S. Attorney who defeated Republican Lincoln Chafee in November, was among those on the Senate Judiciary Committee questioning Atty. Gen. Alberto Gonzales yesterday, and he brought a chart. Here's how senior editor Dahlia Lithwick......
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5:36 PM Thu, Apr 19, 2007 | Permalink |
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Joe Trippi, campaign manager in the last Democratic presidental primary season for Gov. Howard Dean, will work for former N.C. Sen. John Edwards this time. The veteran campaign consultant made the announcement this afternoon in simultaneous posts (I'm signing on,......
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11:33 AM Thu, Apr 19, 2007 | Permalink |
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Taking a break from disaster... Predictions of the Year 2000 from The Ladies Home Journal of December 1900 at The Yorktown Historical Society. "There will be No C, X or Q in our every-day alphabet." Huh? They did foresee TV:......
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5:45 AM Wed, Apr 18, 2007 | Permalink |
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Thumbnail: At PC World Monday, Internet Radio on Life Support Again: The Copyright Review Board dealt a serious blow to Internet Radio today, when it denied a request to reconsider its March ruling that would greatly increase fees broadcasters pay......
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1:34 AM Tue, Apr 17, 2007 | Permalink |
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Update: The Pulitzer Prize 2007 site does all of what's below and more, including links to the editorial cartoons Walt Handelsman actually won for, but no Ornette Coleman mp3s. Oh, well... Yet later: NPR has some cuts from Coleman's winning......
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12:44 PM Sun, Apr 15, 2007 | Permalink |
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Originally posted 3:30 a.m. Updated throughout, 11:49 a.m. Popups fixed, 12:44 p.m. Ken Lyon Retrospective, Stadium Theatre, Woonsocket last night. I shot these with a little digital camera ( a Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX01, for the photo geeks) at full telephoto......
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4:47 AM Fri, Apr 13, 2007 | Permalink |
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Kurt Vonnegut 1922-2007 Photo by his wife, Jill Krementz The wonderful WikiQuote serves up sentences Kurt Vonnegut left behind for us, from "A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around......
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5:06 AM Thu, Apr 12, 2007 | Permalink |
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Ken Lyon, undated photo, at kenlyon.com The gig: An Evening with Ken Lyon: A Musical Retrospective with the Rev. Don Lyon, D.C. Culp, Rick Bellaire, John Cafferty, Michael "Tunes" Antunes, Gary "Guitar" Gramolini, Mark Taber, Pendragon, The Shoe Fly......
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11:55 AM Wed, Apr 11, 2007 | Permalink |
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The Pet Food List: Pet foods NOT on the recall list. Pet Food Tracker: Pet foods that have been recalled. Pet Connection, source of a weekly column syndicated by Universal Press Syndicate, and staffed by media savvy pet pros, leads......
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3:37 PM Tue, Apr 10, 2007 | Permalink |
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My colleague Paula Constantine, The Journal's Home, Garden and Cars editor, just dropped a chart in my hand that's pure gold for a gardener: The R.I. Vegetable Planting Chart at the URI Master Gardeners site The site leads with a......
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1:57 PM Mon, Apr 09, 2007 | Permalink |
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Quick links on a Monday. Obstructed View "Extreme danger and sky-high security costs have diminished the press corps in Iraq and severely limited access to a deepening morass. The result is a clouded picture of perhaps today’s most important news......
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1:29 AM Sat, Apr 07, 2007 | Permalink |
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An old-fashioned links dump, after a week of practical links for those who make holidays memorable. Invisible light: Secret Garden by Bjørn Rørslett Digital Ultraviolet photography Here's the site of this Norwegian nature photographer, and the Flowers in Ultraviolet Arranged......
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11:37 PM Thu, Apr 05, 2007 | Permalink |
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2007 State Easter Eggs at Whitehouse.gov. The 2007 Easter Egg Collection continues the tradition that began in 1994 where each state sends a decorated egg to the White House for display. Artists from across the United States created the decorated......
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7:12 PM Wed, Apr 04, 2007 | Permalink |
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I've just updated the long-running Garden Blogs list with new blogs from gardens in Yorkshire and Scotland, Saskatchewan, Chicago, northern Minnesota, southern Maine and Montana. They're all in the dreaming and seedling stage. Maybe gardeners in warmer places are too......
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6:57 PM Tue, Apr 03, 2007 | Permalink |
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Projo.com's food section -- as well as every other news org's -- tosses up new recipes every Easter. For old time's sake, here are a few others from 2001: Easter feasts Italian style and Easter eggs, ham, and spuds --......
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12:58 PM Tue, Apr 03, 2007 | Permalink |
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Look for the Yellow Cap and the OU-P Symbol to ID Passover Coke. Coca-Cola is made with high-fructose corn syrup, but for Passover they make a special batch with the real thing -- plain sugar. Roasted Turnips with Balsamic Vinegar.......
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9:17 AM Tue, Apr 03, 2007 | Permalink |
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With the confusion surrounding recent pet food recalls, what's safe to feed the family animals? If you're looking for a way to ride out this storm until all the facts are in, here are some recipe sources if you're willing......
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8:02 AM Mon, Apr 02, 2007 | Permalink |
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I made a birthday cake for my daughter, and her son decorated it. Fooling around: Some of the silliest April Fool tricks at The Guardian (U.K.). Blown away: Letters at 3AM: Red State Blues in the Austin (Texas) Chronicle:......
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