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August 2007 Archives
2:19 AM Fri, Aug 31, 2007 | Permalink |
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Providence Geeks reports (BIF-3 Conference to Feature Alpha Geeks; Five 50% off “Scholarships” available for Prov Geeks), October 10th – 11th in Downtown Providence, the Business Innovation Factory is holding its third annual conference – the BIF-3 Collaborative Innovation Summit.......
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7:26 AM Thu, Aug 30, 2007 | Permalink |
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The Times reporter searching for the perfect fried clam didn't make it to Evelyn's in Tiverton, but an Associated Press photographer did. In a ’64 T-Bird, Chasing a Date With a Clam Really nice NYT story -- a Swansea-born......
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2:04 AM Wed, Aug 29, 2007 | Permalink |
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Got a great photo with with an unfortunate element -- an old boyfriend, for instance? No problem. This technology will remove him and "fix" the background. It's called Seam Carving for Content-Aware Image Resizing. The video above shows how......
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1:54 AM Tue, Aug 28, 2007 | Permalink |
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Links-dump day: Emptying the notebook, all flotsam, no jetsam. (You'll see.) 8 year old guitar whiz Quinn Sullivan and Buddy Guy. YouTube. Moonk: Show photos, videos and MP3's on your blog, MySpace, Facebook, eBay, Web or whatever page... Technophilia: Where......
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5:43 PM Mon, Aug 27, 2007 | Permalink |
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Sunrise at 5:08 a.m. will end visibility of Tuesday morning's eclipse of the moon about a half-hour after it gets underway here on the East coast, but you can watch it all on the Web live here at the......
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6:00 AM Mon, Aug 27, 2007 | Permalink |
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I lost a long post just before saving it when my system crashed with 89 Firefox tabs open. I know better. But one page at The Daily Mail kept doing it again and again. I won't point you there. This......
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11:12 PM Sun, Aug 26, 2007 | Permalink |
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11:12 p.m. Not one of Keith's better Countdowns. There is no real news on Sundays, which removes the impact of the top stories. The Oddball stuff was a montage of reruns of YouTube-y funny moments from past shows. And the......
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7:08 PM Sat, Aug 25, 2007 | Permalink |
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Boris Kobe, c. 1945 Tarot Cards from Allach Concentration Camp, scanned and exhibited by the The Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies at the University of Minnesota, are the work of Boris Kobe (1905 - 1981), a Slovenian architect......
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11:24 AM Sat, Aug 25, 2007 | Permalink |
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This cheeseburger is made of yarn. Go ahead, click it to see it larger. It's from a Japanese book called Food knit that you can buy on Amazon (I think). Little text, no patterns, but if you know what......
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10:05 AM Fri, Aug 24, 2007 | Permalink |
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Photo by Sheila Lennon Gary Gramolini (partially hidden at far left), John Cafferty, far right, and saxophonist Michael Antunes join Ken Lyon (far left), Don "D.C." Culp, Josh Lyon, Ezra Lyon, Jon Samuels, and John Cafferty during "An Evening......
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10:22 AM Thu, Aug 23, 2007 | Permalink |
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Reuters An aerial view of wrecked buildings in the shopping mall of the Costa Maya port, Majahual, Mexico yesterday. Below, a photo of the same buildings before the storm. CruiseCritic.com Doc Searls has been to Costa Maya and Majahual,......
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7:57 AM Wed, Aug 22, 2007 | Permalink |
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After the storm... I used my pin all the time, but my brain suddenly deleted it. I'll probably forget how to chew food next. Funny column at the Guardian. Even funnier: In comments readers commiserate,mention that amnesia extends to computer......
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9:54 AM Tue, Aug 21, 2007 | Permalink |
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An offshore oil installation in the Gulf of Mexico near the coast of Campeche, Mexico. Pemex, Mexican's national oil company, evacuated all 14,354 offshore workers in the southern Gulf, which includes the giant Cantarell oil field, below. Here's a......
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1:35 AM Tue, Aug 21, 2007 | Permalink |
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carved booksBrian Dettmer1 2 3photo found hereMore Odds and Ends Giornale Nuovo After all the words, fears, wind and water links, this is simple. via wood s lot......
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11:00 PM Mon, Aug 20, 2007 | Permalink |
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AP Photo/Brennan Linsley Roberto Pott, 75, nails down the roof of his family's home in Belize City today as his grandson Zeine, 9, watches. Jamaica was grazed by Hurricane Dean, and things there seem alright for most. Links in......
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11:15 PM Sun, Aug 19, 2007 | Permalink |
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AP / Andres Leighton A photojournalist fights the wind as he approaches a waterfront boulevard in downtown Kingston, during the pass of Hurricane Dean over Jamaica. 11:15 p.m. Going to bed. Power is deliberately off now in most of......
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3:01 AM Fri, Aug 17, 2007 | Permalink |
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Jazz drummer Max Roach performs during the the Newport Jazz Festival in New York, June 26, 1978. Max Roach, a Founder of Modern Jazz, Dies at 83 is an informed musical obit at Drummerworld with five over-the-shoulder videos of......
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9:52 PM Thu, Aug 16, 2007 | Permalink |
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Co-editor Karen Smith sent me the table of contents for the book -- Time It Was: American Stories from the Sixties -- that I wrote about in the previous post, this morning. I haven't finished it -- it's best taken......
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8:04 AM Thu, Aug 16, 2007 | Permalink |
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On this 38th anniversary of Woodstock, my 1989 series, based on interviews with 50 Rhode Islanders who were at that '69 festival with me, is now part of a college textbook. It's one of 25 27 chapters in Time......
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4:31 AM Wed, Aug 15, 2007 | Permalink |
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Slippery Business: The trade in adulterated olive oil. The New Yorker: On August 10, 1991, a rusty tanker called the Mazal II docked at the industrial port of Ordu, in Turkey, and pumped twenty-two hundred tons of hazelnut oil into......
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3:54 AM Tue, Aug 14, 2007 | Permalink |
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Adding Al Jazeera: How the Qatar-based news channel made its way onto the airwaves of Burlington, Vermont, at American Journalism Review. Related: Al-Jazeera offers news diversity to US, recently at FT.com . Hobbit houses in Wales. Dug into a hillside......
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7:52 AM Mon, Aug 13, 2007 | Permalink |
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'Bush's brain' resigning: Karl Rove to quit Aug. 31. WaPo, citing this Wall Street Journal interview Saturday. Karl Rove to Resign At the End of August By a WALL STREET JOURNAL Staff Reporter August 13, 2007 6:46 a.m. Karl Rove,......
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11:41 AM Sun, Aug 12, 2007 | Permalink |
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at the end of the night, branford and his quartet came out and blew us all away with a great set....from rj3.cowboy's set of 10 newport jazz festival 2007 photos at Flickr. He's from Waltham, Mass. Some 'serious music'......
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11:36 AM Fri, Aug 10, 2007 | Permalink |
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Bob Marley & The Wailers: Wounded Lion Sessions 1979 Wounded Lion is an unreleased track that disses this system threatening a revolution but because of the reference to "a wounded lion in the jungle" is also about Marley's sense......
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9:13 PM Thu, Aug 09, 2007 | Permalink |
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Projo music writer Rick Massimo is live-blogging the Warped Tour at Tweeter (Great Woods, to you veterans) in Mansfield, Mass. at our new projo music blog. Rick already has a voice, so what's making this special is how to hear......
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1:57 PM Thu, Aug 09, 2007 | Permalink |
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Musician Rick Bellaire sends along this recipe, promising you'll like it. The Patriots play the Tampa Bay Buccaneers Friday night at 7:30 p.m. on Fox. RICK BELLAIRE'S GAZPACHO RECIPE My friend, the actor Paul DePasquale, broke the news to me......
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11:37 PM Wed, Aug 08, 2007 | Permalink |
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It was 82 degrees at 11 p.m. here in Providence. Who brought the cat? is about all I'm up to.......
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12:43 AM Wed, Aug 08, 2007 | Permalink |
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Q&A: William Gibson discusses Spook Country and Interactive Fiction. Wired. Spook Country published yesterday. Synopsis from Publisher's Weekly at that Amazon link: Set in the same high-tech present day as Pattern Recognition, Gibson's fine ninth novel offers startling insights into......
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7:15 AM Tue, Aug 07, 2007 | Permalink |
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Rolling Stones, Shanghai 2006 Jimi Hendrix, Randall's Island 1970 Falling countries: Statetris-Europe Tetris with European countries. How quickly we forget... 12. On a Rainy Day. A surreal game about controlling a tree. Art Games: Best Indy Titles A "top......
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8:53 AM Sun, Aug 05, 2007 | Permalink |
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AP The Yearly Kos Convention's Presidential Leadership Forum in Chicago yesterday. Seven of the eight declared Democratic presidential candidates showed up (Delaware Sen. Joe Biden skipped it) in Chicago for YearlyKos, the convention of liberal bloggers assembled by Markos......
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6:42 PM Sat, Aug 04, 2007 | Permalink |
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My husband greeted me with this Wall Street Journal story on Hare-Today, a small farm in Springboro, Pa., that's booming by selling raw rabbit meat as cat food: WSJ article - How do cats like rabbits? Very much and preferably......
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9:03 AM Sat, Aug 04, 2007 | Permalink |
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Mike Keefe/Denver Post Future historians may record a narrow window in the early years of electronic voting when people actually believed that a company that made both ATM and voting machines was unable to deliver a voting machine that......
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10:41 AM Fri, Aug 03, 2007 | Permalink |
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Dog days links blogging... Chill: Strawberry Watermelon Agua Fresca Recipe from Elise Bauer's Simply Recipes blog. Boomerang: It's not over for Coulter. Palm Beach Post. When it comes to GOP twig Ann Coulter and her Palm Beach voting snafu, the......
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11:08 AM Thu, Aug 02, 2007 | Permalink |
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I missed this in May: Just who in our colleagues isn’t using Web 2.0? And how do we move them along?. Englishman Michael Clarke: One of the biggest problem I have with evangelising the Live Web or Web 2.0 or......
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10:03 AM Wed, Aug 01, 2007 | Permalink |
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Beat back the reaper: Longevity Pill Tested in Humans, at Technology Review:: Because humans are so long-lived, SRT501 can't be easily tested for longevity in humans--nor does the Food and Drug Administration recognize "increased life span" as an allowable indication......
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9:20 AM Wed, Aug 01, 2007 | Permalink |
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Newsies Steve Outing (Looking for the anti Facebook) and Ryan Sholin (Find yourself a nice comfortable niche and sell it like blueberry pancakes) both seized on my lead on yesterday's Facebook post as an argument for niche networks. Somewhere, I......
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