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September 2007 Archives
1:10 AM Sun, Sep 30, 2007 | Permalink |
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An Epicurious editor's recipe for Homemade Candy Corn looked like a lot of work, and the photo looked like it had been a brave messy effort, but the candies look a little off. Fussy kids might sniff, or just shovel......
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1:13 AM Sat, Sep 29, 2007 | Permalink |
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iPhone update: facts and fiction at Engadget. If you haven't already bitten the bullet and taken your unlocked iPhone down that scariest of paths, the 1.1.1 update, we're here to sort out a bit of the hearsay from the actual......
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12:13 AM Fri, Sep 28, 2007 | Permalink |
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At New York Magazine's entertainment and culture blog, aptly named Vulture, Joni Mitchell Gets Angry... ...And with the album… I confronted a lot of it and worked it out to a point. I read the Koran, I started Genesis, Augustine,......
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12:00 AM Fri, Sep 28, 2007 | Permalink |
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I saw this two weeks ago. Really good movie, not what you might expect. Here's what I wrote afterwards: 'The Kingdom': Smart political action thriller may make you think.......
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7:48 AM Thu, Sep 27, 2007 | Permalink |
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The first-place People's Choice award in last year's street painting festival went to a team from LaSalle Academy. Pavement perspectives: Don't miss the 8th annual Providence Street Painting Festival Saturday at the Band of America Skating Plaza in Kennedy......
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7:21 AM Thu, Sep 27, 2007 | Permalink |
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This is a crosspost from the Projo Garden Blog. Photo by Sheila Lennon. Click it for a larger version. Student gardeners pose with "golden" shovels at a groundbreaking ceremony for the Martin Luther King elementary school's new garden. The Providence......
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1:04 AM Thu, Sep 27, 2007 | Permalink |
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I've never properly learned Photoshop. I can resize, convert formats, change the levels and sharpen, but that's about it. I don't know how to dodge and burn or change a palette or all the things that make light look......
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1:24 AM Wed, Sep 26, 2007 | Permalink |
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2007 MacArthur Foundation grant winners Criteria: "creativity, originality and potential to make important contributions in the future. Latest in the line of 756 since 1981, most (all?) of the newest Fellows seem accomplished and significant already. They're professors and scientists,......
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10:54 PM Mon, Sep 24, 2007 | Permalink |
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At WFMU's Beware of the Blog: "There are only a few days of September left, so here are 38 versions of Kurt Weill's beautiful (and misleading) September Song." They're mp3s, by James Brown | Lee Hazelwood | Santo and......
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2:18 PM Mon, Sep 24, 2007 | Permalink |
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At Knit Night Cupcakes, with more photos. I've blogged Knitted food, such as the cheeseburger made of yarn, but this is the opposite -- it's real food that looks like yarn. The "knitting" is store-bought marzipan (almond and sugar......
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11:44 AM Mon, Sep 24, 2007 | Permalink |
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Globe Staff Photo / Jim Davis Wes Welker flips a lateral to Randy Moss. Everybody loved Randy Moss's over-the shoulder touchdown catch from Tom Brady, but my favorite play of yesterday's 38-7 Patriots-Bills game was the lateral pass Wes......
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6:12 AM Sat, Sep 22, 2007 | Permalink |
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Okay, so Bob sold out. But he sold out for me. All is forgiven. techlightenment created this as a Facebook application for SonyBMG. It's brilliant. You also can make one of your own to send to friends or embed......
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10:44 AM Fri, Sep 21, 2007 | Permalink |
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Spiral time via Dark Roasted Blend Perennials: The long-running, gigantic Garden Blogs list I started many years ago has gotten yet another update, with a dozen new garden blogs added. These bloggers are in it for the long haul.......
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9:26 PM Thu, Sep 20, 2007 | Permalink |
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RomanianNewsy: Internet Slang Big List WYSIWYG......
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11:43 AM Thu, Sep 20, 2007 | Permalink |
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Growing up Gonzo: Excerpts From the Oral History of Hunter S. Thompson, at Rolling Stone, is eight photos spanning the writer's life. It's a new Hunter season. I got an email earlier in the week with word of something that......
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9:36 AM Thu, Sep 20, 2007 | Permalink |
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Highrises, warehouse condos and malls aren't all there is. Proposed waterfront plan for Middlehaven, England. Video, photo gallery and more at this BBC site. More links at Coolhunter's Will Alsop’s Master Plan For Middlehaven City of Arts and Sciences in......
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12:23 PM Wed, Sep 19, 2007 | Permalink |
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Joni Mitchell and her interpreters come roaring back together. Joni Mitchell Talks About Each Track On New CD, 'Shine'; Listen To Two Tracks. Starpulse News Blog offers If -- the Kipling poem set to music -- and Night of The......
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2:47 AM Wed, Sep 19, 2007 | Permalink |
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I've been browsing the New York Times archives of old since the paywall fell down at midnight. The search form is just above the lead story on the Times homepage. The resulting stories are pdfs of the news pages, and......
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10:30 AM Tue, Sep 18, 2007 | Permalink |
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Brian Jepson photo Standing room at the back during a presentation at the June Providence Geek dinner at AS220. Co founder Jack Templin writes (Geek Dinner Returns this Wed. Sept. 19th 5:30-9pm Featuring Presentations by Traction & the RIEDC/me),......
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10:50 PM Mon, Sep 17, 2007 | Permalink |
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Ding, dong... The New York Times just released a story for tomorrow's paper (Times to End Charges on Web site) announcing that Times Select, the paywall that has sequestered the work of 23 columnists -- including Nicholas Kristof, Maureen Dowd,......
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9:20 PM Mon, Sep 17, 2007 | Permalink |
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Just one more Patriots post. This is too good. Providence Journal / Bob Breidenbach A Patriots fan holds up a homemade sign during Sunday night's New England Patriots game. Pats beat the San Diego chargers 38-17. Win One for the......
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10:46 AM Mon, Sep 17, 2007 | Permalink |
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K.C. ALFRED / Union-Tribune San Diego Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers sits on the Gillette Stadium turf after a pass was intercepted by Adalius Thomas for a 65-yard Patriots touchdown. The Patriots won, 38-14. Before we go to the land......
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1:22 AM Sun, Sep 16, 2007 | Permalink |
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Ashraf Barhom as Saudi Col. Al-Ghazi and Jamie Foxx as FBI agent Ronald Fluery in The Kingdom. Jamie Foxx, Jennifer Garner and the remarkable Palestinian actor Ashraf Barhom star in The Kingdom, a political thriller we saw tonight. It's......
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5:14 PM Sat, Sep 15, 2007 | Permalink |
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Blog for a lazy Saturday: Curious Expeditions, "devoted to unearthing and documenting the wondrous, the macabre, and the obscure from around the globe... We are D and M, a gentleman and gentle lady who were living normal lives, decided to......
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12:34 PM Fri, Sep 14, 2007 | Permalink |
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The Wichita Eagle I have seen what's touted as the future of news, and I hope my bosses don't follow it over the cliff. User-news sites offer diverse stories, some questionable sources headlines a San Francisco Chronicle story about......
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5:03 PM Thu, Sep 13, 2007 | Permalink |
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Wanted: Gullible Lawyers, the cover story in last week's Washington City Paper, is subtitled, "I was hired over e-mail. A boss I never met promised me $14,000 a month. How could I fall for that?" With a humility perhaps seldom......
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10:08 PM Wed, Sep 12, 2007 | Permalink |
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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel In 1999, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel scoffed (Sculptor wants to turn old ammo plant into work of art), (Tom) Every, 61, who calls himself Dr. Evermor, claims he constructed the 400-ton sculpture - best described as......
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3:47 AM Wed, Sep 12, 2007 | Permalink |
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The new Web Urbanist continues to be edgy and interesting Pillow-fighting Santas This is the sort of thing you'd expect to see in an arts-friendly city like Providence: Spontaneous Urban Gatherings: From Subway Parties to Pillow Fights. A popular article......
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12:44 PM Tue, Sep 11, 2007 | Permalink |
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Email from Larry D: Have you seen this? Do you think your readers might find it interesting? "This" is distributed search of realtime satellite images for signs of a downed plane by volunteers with computers using Amazon Mechanical Turk. (links......
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10:23 AM Tue, Sep 11, 2007 | Permalink |
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In GQ, Walter Isaacson -- President and CEO of the Aspen Institute, former chairman and CEO of CNN and former managing editor of TIME -- interviews Colin Powell on his race, gays in the military, Iraq, China and more. Money......
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11:37 PM Mon, Sep 10, 2007 | Permalink |
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AP: Techies Ponder Computers Smarter Than Us. The Singularity Summit is under way at Stanford. If yesterday's human hybrids involved cows, these involve machines. What's a Singularity? The Institute's current definition is dense. I prefer the definition they offered in......
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11:35 AM Mon, Sep 10, 2007 | Permalink |
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To err is human: BBC: 'Human-animal' embryo green light: Regulators have agreed in principle to allow human-animal embryos to be created and used for research. "It's not our intention to create any bizarre cow-human hybrid, we want to use those......
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10:35 AM Sun, Sep 09, 2007 | Permalink |
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UPI photo / Stan Stearns Photographer Joe O'Donnell claimed credit for this famous photo of John F. Kennedy Jr. saluting his father's coffin at JFK's funeral, Nov. 25, 1963. Blogger Shelley Powers, who's gone quiet as she writes yet......
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5:18 PM Sat, Sep 08, 2007 | Permalink |
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The New England Patriots open the season playing the New York Jets at Giants Stadium at 1 p.m. Sunday. TV: CBS (Ch. 12 in Providence.) Radio: WSKO Providence, 790 AM. 99.7 FM; WBCN Boston, 104.1 FM. Our new Projo Football......
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7:29 PM Fri, Sep 07, 2007 | Permalink |
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Led Zeppelin, Southampton 1973, 2 CDs. Nine tracks today, six tomorrow, whenever that is in Singapore. Led Zep may be reuniting for a charity gig later this year, according to NME.com, a U.K. music magazine. Billboard:: Led Zeppelin Announcement Expected......
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3:09 AM Fri, Sep 07, 2007 | Permalink |
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Audioblog Home of the Groove, which features "rare, hard to find vintage New Orleans-related R&B and funk tracks," has been modestly streaming for about a month: HOTG Internet Radio - Streams Up. Read that, then go to Home of the......
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3:31 AM Thu, Sep 06, 2007 | Permalink |
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Los Angeles photo-agency site X17 Online has photos of Bridget Moynahan pushing a stroller there Monday. No photos of young John Edward Thomas Brady himself, though -- the baby buggy has a hood, and the unnamed photographer kept his or......
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10:45 AM Wed, Sep 05, 2007 | Permalink |
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Just when it couldn't get weirder, it did. The Senator who pled guilty after soliciting a cop in a mensroom left a voicemail message (mp3) Saturday for his lawyer, Billy Martin, indicating his resignation announcement would turn into "intent to......
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7:05 PM Mon, Sep 03, 2007 | Permalink |
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Journal photo / John Freidah Rhode Island House majority leader Gordon Fox, left, and Providence mayor David Cicilline, both openly gay Democrats who came out while serving as state reps, on the floor of House at the Rhode Island......
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1:02 PM Mon, Sep 03, 2007 | Permalink |
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From Oscar Martinez, managing editor at Dallas News' neighborsgo, comes an eruption of community journalism on the dog beat: Cricket the Chihuahua, the pride of Rowlett, Texas, was for the second time, America's second-fastest Chihuahua Sunday at the Petco National......
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9:08 PM Sun, Sep 02, 2007 | Permalink |
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Labor Day weekend, no heavy lifting... John Lennon's Jukebox. A 48-minute documentary about the songs on a jukebox owned by John. The 100 Most Powerful Women Forbe's list. Google Maps Nighttime! An 8 Hour Trip With Only FM For Company......
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12:17 PM Sun, Sep 02, 2007 | Permalink |
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Salem, Mass., Witch Dungeon Museum For Sen. Larry Craig (R-Idaho), it's the day after the day in the stocks How's that going? AP Suzanne and Larry Craig leave the Boise Depot train station in Boise, Idaho yesterday after Craig......
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