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iPhone facts, fiction; Did Apple update have to break it? Unveiling Arab men; Dalai Lama's msg to Burma; Gutter art
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...
September 29, 2007 1:13 am
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Joni Mitchell East
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,...
September 28, 2007 12:13 am
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Review from a sneak preview of 'The Kingdom'
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....
September 28, 2007 12:00 am
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Street-painting festival this weekend, and a look at the world's best 3-D street artists
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...
September 27, 2007 7:48 am
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'Garden in Every School' pilot project kicks off at Martin Luther King school in Providence
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...
September 27, 2007 7:21 am
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Better colors for your digital photos
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...
September 27, 2007 1:04 am
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24 MacArthur awards -- Will edgier philanthropists make millionaires of obscure geniuses?
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,...
September 26, 2007 1:24 am
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Free: 38 September Songs, daily commercial games and programs
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...
September 24, 2007 10:54 pm
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How to make cupcake icing look like knitting
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...
September 24, 2007 2:18 pm
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Patriots: Lateral thinking
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...
September 24, 2007 11:44 am
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