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May 2007 Archives
3:22 AM Wed, May 30, 2007 | Permalink |
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100 Words Every High School Graduate Should Know Large vocabularies grow and sprawl. The more words you know, the more specific concepts emerge. The tricky part is the concepts that emerge before there are words for them. They're like the......
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6:00 AM Tue, May 29, 2007 | Permalink |
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APOD: 2007 May 28 - A Hole in Mars From NASA: Explanation: Black spots have been discovered on Mars that are so dark that nothing inside can be seen. Quite possibly, the spots are entrances to deep underground caves......
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12:00 PM Mon, May 28, 2007 | Permalink |
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A few holiday links. Enjoy your grilling... Neatorama: A Bicycle Eaten by a Tree: A kid's bike was left in the fork of a tree on Vashon Island, Wash., which grew to engulf it. Since this photo, it has lost......
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12:33 AM Sun, May 27, 2007 | Permalink |
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My favorite Firefox extension, used dozens of times a day, is Zoom Image. Want to see a photo on a Web page larger? Put your cursor on it, hold down the right mouse button and use the scroll wheel to......
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1:07 AM Sat, May 26, 2007 | Permalink |
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"16 Words" by Margo Guryan. The British government has learned that Sadam Hussein recently sold significant quantities of uranium from Africa. -- George W. Bush, 2003 State Of The Union address (mp3 audio, embedded video, realaudio stream, and transcript......
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4:08 AM Fri, May 25, 2007 | Permalink |
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Journal photo / Bob Thayer A "shore dinner" with locally harvested lobster, steamers, mussels, corn and chirico at Champlin's, overlooking the rocks at Galilee. I led projo.com's annual Summer Guide with this photo. There's an elegant Tall Ships photo......
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10:12 AM Thu, May 24, 2007 | Permalink |
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How to win a photography contest A first-time contest judge found himself wondering, "What can you, as a photographer, do to maximise your chances in the battle of shutter times and lighting, against the rest of the pack?" He......
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8:18 AM Wed, May 23, 2007 | Permalink |
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(At the new Garden Blog, Pressure-treated wood and gardening: newer solutions) Want to see a photo of a Newport Light Infantry Miter Cap, circa 1775? Public.resource.org has liberated all 6,288 Smithsonian images and uploaded them to Flickr. Among them are......
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11:40 PM Mon, May 21, 2007 | Permalink |
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Over at our new Garden Blog, I've just added Chelsea flower show: Photos, feng shui flap, gnomelessness At electric-car maker Tesla Motors, you'll find a sleek Roadster on the homepage. Inside, on the blog, is a pair of bumper cars......
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1:22 PM Sun, May 20, 2007 | Permalink |
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Botanical garden in Slovenia Damjan Voglar Ljubljana, Slovenia Smithsonian 4th Annual Photo Contest includes the thorny photo above in its finalists. Many thanks to everyone who entered our 4th Annual Photo Contest. Our editors spent many hours carefully reviewing......
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11:52 AM Fri, May 18, 2007 | Permalink |
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Ron who? After a now-famous spat in the last Republican debate with Rudy Giuliani over the causes of 9/11 -- "They don't come here to attack us because we're rich and we're free. They come and they attack us because......
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12:27 PM Thu, May 17, 2007 | Permalink |
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Nick DiBiasio started the tradition in 1997 on NPR radio at WICN in Worcester, bringing musicians into the studio to celebrate the release of Bob Dylan's Time Out of Mind. It was so much fun, they've gathered every year since......
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4:09 AM Wed, May 16, 2007 | Permalink |
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Quick links: Polar Clock. You could get used to telling time this way. 15 Coolest Firefox Tricks Ever. Over-the-top headline, but you might find some of the keyboard shortcuts handy: * Spacebar (page down) * Shift-Spacebar (page up) * Ctrl+F......
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3:18 PM Tue, May 15, 2007 | Permalink |
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RI Citizens for the Arts hosts an Arts Advocacy Day at the State House Thursday. The schedule: 11 am – 12:30 pm: Learn about the issues and advocacy process in a workshop with special guest Dan Hunter - Massachusetts Advocates......
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9:58 AM Tue, May 15, 2007 | Permalink |
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Angry Wolfowitz in four-letter tirade. Guardian U.K.: An angry and bitter Paul Wolfowitz poured abuse and threatened retaliations on senior World Bank staff if his orders for pay rises and promotions for his partner were revealed, according to new details......
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8:52 AM Tue, May 15, 2007 | Permalink |
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Amazon.com acquires dpreview.com: Shelley Powers notices that Amazon has bought Digital Photography Review, the place to turn when you're trying to figure out which camera to buy. Not only are its reviews thorough, a lively and knowledgeable group of camera......
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2:40 AM Mon, May 14, 2007 | Permalink |
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Photo: Sheila Lennon In the dooryard fronting an old farm-house near the white-wash'd palings, Stands the lilac-bush tall-growing with heart-shaped leaves of rich green, With many a pointed blossom rising delicate, with the perfume strong I love, With every......
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2:53 AM Sun, May 13, 2007 | Permalink |
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Fix your mom's computer for mother's day: NYC software developer Joel Spolsky (Joel on Software) is offering up to three free day passes to his Fog Creek Copilot program, today only: Why not fix your mom's computer? You know: remove......
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4:38 PM Fri, May 11, 2007 | Permalink |
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Updated: A Mother's Day Gift That Keeps on Giving: At Blog Critics, Ann Hagman Cardinal writes, I have an unusual family; I admit it. I was touched, therefore, when last year, for Mother's Day, my sister Ellen, and her youngest......
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12:06 PM Fri, May 11, 2007 | Permalink |
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Two quick items of note: Why he must go now. Sheldon Whitehouse, Rhode Island's junior senator and junior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, a former U.S. attorney, writes about Atty. Gen. Alberto Gonzales under that headline in the current......
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10:29 AM Thu, May 10, 2007 | Permalink |
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Bobbie Gentry, Donovan, James Taylor, BBC 1968 & '69 "This does not exist in the archives. It was wiped by the BBC sometime in the '70s. This and the reel [off-air master, 1 7/8 ips] from which it came could......
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12:58 AM Wed, May 09, 2007 | Permalink |
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Photo of the Year The 2007 Photobloggies. If I had a whole day, I would browse every one of these dozens of blogs, winners all. This one, Daily Walks by Diane Varner, I will sink into. The photo above,......
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1:04 AM Tue, May 08, 2007 | Permalink |
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AP / Evan Vucci President Bush and Queen Elizabeth II, followed by first lady Laura Bush and Prince Philip, walk past a portrait of former President Bush before a State Dinner at the White House last night. The Washington......
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9:31 AM Mon, May 07, 2007 | Permalink |
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Time Magazine opens its searchable archives: You can now search back to 1923, and see the oldest results first, if you like. Here's an original, brief review of The Great Gatsby, May. 11, 1925: Incorruptible Yegg. Monday, Nov. 04, 1929......
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12:48 PM Sun, May 06, 2007 | Permalink |
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I'm gardening today -- pruning and mulching, feeding compost to perennials. I was weeding my irises when a trying-to-be-helpful cat took a flying leap into the middle of them. Ouch. If you're not outdoors, you might want to watch some......
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11:57 AM Fri, May 04, 2007 | Permalink |
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Steely Dan, Live at the Rainbow, London, England, May 20, 1974. It’s unknown why this show in London was recorded. This source is from a tape of the soundboard recording. It shows its age, the drums are poorly miked, but......
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10:44 AM Thu, May 03, 2007 | Permalink |
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Last August, I wrote about a funky film's debut at the R.I. International Film Festival. Screenshot from Jukebox Vanishing America. Jukebox Vanishing America is a screenwriter's love letter to jukeboxes, and to a Providence bar with a great one.......
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9:31 AM Thu, May 03, 2007 | Permalink |
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From the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Calif., MSNBC's Chris Matthews will moderate the Library’s 2008 GOP candidates debate from 8-9:30 p.m. on MSNBC in partnership with Washington news site politico.com. The announced candidates who'll participate: Sam Brownback,......
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12:14 PM Wed, May 02, 2007 | Permalink |
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The Hippies Were Right! Brilliant and slightly mad Mark Morford at SF Chron, the land of the love child: All this hot enthusiasm for healing the planet and eating whole foods and avoiding chemicals and working with nature and developing......
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10:31 AM Tue, May 01, 2007 | Permalink |
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Here's the place to track the endgame on the Wolfowitz matter: World Bank President. Alex Wilks, coordinator of the European Network on Debt and Development (Eurodad) and headquartered in Brussels, writes in the "About" statement on the site, ...This blog......
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