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June 2007 Archives
3:13 AM Fri, Jun 29, 2007 | Permalink |
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Elvis Presley, Desert Storm [Fort Baxter/2CD] at BigO: The "desert" was the Las Vegas Hilton on the night of Sept 2, 1974. It was the close of his latest season in America's gambling capital. The "storm" referred to was an......
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6:17 AM Thu, Jun 28, 2007 | Permalink |
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MTV has a "first look" at the movie version of Maurice Sendak's classic children's book Where the Wild Things Are. Music video director Spike Jonze is making it, with a scheduled release date of Oct. 3 2008. More at......
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12:05 AM Wed, Jun 27, 2007 | Permalink |
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Apple's latest gee whiz will cost $499 plus AT&T (only) monthly plan ($60 to $220), available Friday. Testing Out the iPhone: We Spend Two Weeks Using Apple's Much-Anticipated Device To See if It Lives Up to the Hype; In......
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1:18 PM Tue, Jun 26, 2007 | Permalink |
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Josh Barber, who's opening tonight at Lupo's for the power lineup of Jimmie Vaughan, Roomful of Blues and Lou Ann Barton, made a page on our mp3 site last night and uploaded five tunes. If you're going tonight --......
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9:55 AM Tue, Jun 26, 2007 | Permalink |
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Hot day ahead: Beer Popsicles Causing Controversy. I do not yet have the recipe. Here's one for Margarita Popsicles, though, from Liquor Snob: Margarita Popsicles INGREDIENTS: 1/2 cup sugar 1 cup fresh limejuice 1/2 cup water 2 tablespoons fresh lemon......
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12:41 PM Sun, Jun 24, 2007 | Permalink |
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My friend Providence Phoenix news editor Ian Donnis, on his Not for Nothing blog (Hillary: Short on substance?): There's sometimes a sense of inevitability about Hillary Clinton's pursuit of the Democratic presidential nomination, given the nexus between her success in......
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10:05 AM Sun, Jun 24, 2007 | Permalink |
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I'm crossposting this from our Garden Blog. Most supermarket garlic is softneck garlic, bred for keeping. This is Rocambole, mild hardneck "serpent" garlic that forms a bulb on the end of its curving flower stalk. But I don't want it......
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7:10 AM Sat, Jun 23, 2007 | Permalink |
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Everyone listens to Walter Mossberg, by Ken Auletta. The New Yorker profiles West Warwick's own. Hitman scam: Seen the email? The FBI knows all about it. Even though he knows your last name, he's not really going to kill......
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12:24 AM Fri, Jun 22, 2007 | Permalink |
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Tara McPherson, Flatstock, 2002 Concert poster portal: This is just one poster I found via a link at Tons and Tons of Design Inspiration: Concert Posters. Lots to look at through that doorway. (Flatstock is July 14-15 in Chicago......
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12:05 AM Thu, Jun 21, 2007 | Permalink |
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Luck Of The Draw: The take of former West Virginia prosecutor Christy Hardin Smith at Firedoglake on the selection of three judges from the Court of Appeals to rule on former White House aide I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby's request to......
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3:04 AM Wed, Jun 20, 2007 | Permalink |
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When my Powerball ticket comes in, I'm going here. First you need to get to the Maldives (map), which are in the Indian Ocean southwest of Sri Lanka. It could easily take 24 hours or more to get here.......
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11:51 AM Tue, Jun 19, 2007 | Permalink |
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Spotty news: New owners cut back newspapers’ staffs: Providence Business News reports, As of today, The Times of Pawtucket has a total of two news reporters, three sportswriters and one photographer. Four of their colleagues – a photographer and three......
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8:54 PM Mon, Jun 18, 2007 | Permalink |
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Third update: Insane Films: Michael Moore’s Sicko, Part 1 of 2 | Part 2, posted "with permission." That might make it a permalink. The movie link is offered in comments at the end of Shelley Powers' Burningbird, where she discusses......
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10:14 AM Sun, Jun 17, 2007 | Permalink |
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Alt-Father's Day: Saying goodbye to the father he never knew is an adequate headline for Jonathan Comey's Father's Day piece at South Coast Today. It begins with a long unnecessary riff on a medical scare before the birth of his......
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11:24 AM Sat, Jun 16, 2007 | Permalink |
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Just found here: "lmnopuz only works in Firefox and maybe Safari. Only masochists support IE." 3:35 a.m. LMNOPUZ. Pick an existing session or start another. With chat, so you can discuss clues. Help link is on upper right, once you're......
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9:28 AM Fri, Jun 15, 2007 | Permalink |
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This Is Janis Joplin: The seven-tracks on this CD come from an audition Joplin did before she joined Big Brother & The Holding Company. The year of this recording is either 1964 or 1965. Where it was recorded remains a......
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9:11 PM Thu, Jun 14, 2007 | Permalink |
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Journal photos / Bob Thayer Willie Nelson leaves Providence after last night's concert at PPAC. Gonna Catch Tomorrow Now: No Depression is a nice 2004 piece by Joe Nick Patoski. I had come for my last sit-down with Willie......
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12:09 PM Thu, Jun 14, 2007 | Permalink |
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Analysis: Judge Walton Sends Libby to Jail by Marcy Wheeler at Firedog Lake. (That's I. Lewis Libby at right, arriving at the courthouse today.) Updated: Libby Loses Liberty: Judge Reggie Walton: He is not a flight risk or danger to......
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11:56 AM Wed, Jun 13, 2007 | Permalink |
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Apple has produced a version of its Mac browser Safari for Windows. I downloaded and tried it, and it looks nice -- the colors seem more intense, the leading on the fonts is smaller, so more lines appear on the......
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8:04 AM Wed, Jun 13, 2007 | Permalink |
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Don Herbert in 1951 Mr. Wizard has died at 89. Beginning in the '50s, live from Chicago, Don Herbert brought a boy or girl, sometimes several, into the studio to help him do science experiments that turned colors or......
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11:36 AM Tue, Jun 12, 2007 | Permalink |
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Map as metaphor: 131 U.S. States Renamed For Countries With Similar GDPs So Texas is Canada, California is France, New York is Brazil and Rhode Island is... Vietnam. Strange Maps is a wildly original blog: Check out the tattooed......
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10:23 AM Mon, Jun 11, 2007 | Permalink |
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I have the day off to work in the garden. Working up to it: Vienna Absolute Vienna - Hundertwasser architecture photos: Friedensreich Hundertwasser Master of unconventional architecture, architecture without straight lines or surfaces, completely assymetrical, with tortuous corridors, rounded-off corners,......
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10:48 AM Sun, Jun 10, 2007 | Permalink |
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You might be able to buy a Tilt-A-Whirl for $29,000. (The rides at Coney Island amusement park Astroland turned up for sale on the Web, available after Labor Day, but there may be a change of heart. The whole......
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1:35 PM Sat, Jun 09, 2007 | Permalink |
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It's that kind of day -- pouring rain, lots of outdoor fun scrubbed. Here's one of Kaboose's summer crafts projects for just this sort of day: Ice Cream in a Bag: What You Need * 1 tablespoon Sugar * 1/2......
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10:42 AM Fri, Jun 08, 2007 | Permalink |
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Crosby & Nash, Live in San Francisco, 1974 All the happy songs are here in superb hi-fidelity, suitable for entertaining. Play loud. Nothing has been officially released. 16 tracks follow -- 17, actually, but do you really want to give......
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1:29 AM Thu, Jun 07, 2007 | Permalink |
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Video: Salvadore Dali tries to stump a blindfolded celebrity panel as The Mystery Guest on quiz show What's My Line?, with host John Daly, on Jan. 20, 1952. Surreal to reel – Dali at the movies is the London......
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9:00 AM Wed, Jun 06, 2007 | Permalink |
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Bhutan: The Namgay family of Shingkhey Village Food expenditure for one week: 224.93 ngultrum or $5.03 Family recipe: Mushroom, cheese and pork What the World Eats is a lovely photo essay in Time, 16 photographs by Peter Menzel from......
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2:28 PM Tue, Jun 05, 2007 | Permalink |
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CatCam has a new host. Let's try this again, with new links. Mr. Lee, the photoblogging cat. You know you've always wanted to know where your outdoor cat goes, what she/he sees out there. With a keychain digital camera attached......
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11:56 AM Tue, Jun 05, 2007 | Permalink |
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AP Former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby walks towards his car outside federal court in Washington, today after he was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison for lying and obstructing the CIA leak investigation. Firedoglake live-blogging......
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7:07 PM Mon, Jun 04, 2007 | Permalink |
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Unfortunately, CatCam is down, probably for exceeding its allotted bandwidth. On the Web, the more people flock to your work, the more it costs. Here's a mirror of the cat's first trip outdoors with the camera. Click it to enlarge......
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4:39 AM Sun, Jun 03, 2007 | Permalink |
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Pat Feinstein's Providence "front lawn" is all flowers, except for the sculpture of four life-sized children carved out of a tall stump, the remains of three fused oaks that became a weed. The art yard on Eighth Street is a......
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10:15 AM Fri, Jun 01, 2007 | Permalink |
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15 Reasons Mister Rogers Was the Best Neighbor Ever, at Mental Floss. I goofed on Mr. Rogers until I had a kid of my own, and saw how enthralling he was for her, and how very kind. 4. He Saved......
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