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October 2007 Archives
9:30 PM Wed, Oct 31, 2007 | Permalink |
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Back from Amherst -- great trip -- then we segued right into Trick-or-Treat night. I'm handing off to my commenters while I regroup and get some sleep: Three topics, all from comments that arrived during my absence: Name that bellringer:......
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1:06 AM Tue, Oct 30, 2007 | Permalink |
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I'll be on the road today. I'm looking forward to the trip to this event. Free at last: BBC 's Alan Johnston: My kidnap ordeal. "As he neared the end of a posting in Gaza, the BBC's Alan Johnston was......
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2:32 PM Mon, Oct 29, 2007 | Permalink |
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When my life is ended, my time has run out My trials and my loved ones, I'll leave them no doubt But one thing's for certain, when it comes my time I'll leave this old world with a satisfied......
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12:22 PM Mon, Oct 29, 2007 | Permalink |
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Weather Map for Providence, RI 02902 Hi-res weather map with animation and adjustable transparency for cloud and radar layers. Replace "02902" in the url with your own zip code. Adapted by Chirag Mehta from a weather.com implementation. On a clear......
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2:36 AM Sun, Oct 28, 2007 | Permalink |
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10 Geeky Wedding Photos Free online games "with a spooky edge. We've got ghosties, beasties, sleepy vampir-ies, tentacle monsters and, naturally, Garfield!" At Jay is Games. * And, in a decidedly unspooky note, we have Free Rice, a vocabulary......
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4:02 AM Sat, Oct 27, 2007 | Permalink |
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Mike Tirico, left, Ron Jaworski and Tony Kornheiser of Monday Night Football. A cranky afterthought I tucked onto the end of yesterday's post, mentioned that we watched much of Monday Night Football with the sound off to shut off......
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11:35 AM Fri, Oct 26, 2007 | Permalink |
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Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac, Fillmore West, Jan 4, 1970: ...After leaving John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers in 1967, guitarist Peter Green had decided to form a new band with drummer Mick Fleetwood. The two wanted bassist John McVie in the......
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2:10 AM Fri, Oct 26, 2007 | Permalink |
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Red Sox outfielder Jacoby Ellsbury stole second base in the bottom of the fourth inning, of last night's second Sox World Series game at Fenway, so you get a free "crunchy seasoned beef taco" Tuesday between 2 and 5 p.m........
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1:22 AM Thu, Oct 25, 2007 | Permalink |
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Later: In comments at the bottom of this post, Jorn Barger of Robot Wisdom points to nine more versions he's found. The standout among them is by Pollo Del Mar and it's on their site as an mp3. You might......
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3:36 PM Wed, Oct 24, 2007 | Permalink |
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I stayed up late last night watching dozens of versions of Jack Norworth's 1908 classic, Take Me Out to the Ball Game, and these made the cut. This first edition has some Red Sox versions, some neutral versions. A second......
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2:07 AM Wed, Oct 24, 2007 | Permalink |
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Keith Bedford Citizen photojournalism: At The Stumping Grounds, six freelance photographers cover the presidential campaigns in Iowa with a daily photo. They're good -- sometimes a candidate, sometimes a crowd, sometimes a fragment -- and the photos load quickly.......
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4:09 PM Tue, Oct 23, 2007 | Permalink |
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Network World does an email interview with retired tech editor (InfoWord, PCWeek, MacWeek, Demo) Jim Forbes, from a shelter "in Escondido, Calif., about three miles from the San Diego Zoo's Wild Animal Park right at the edge of the Witch......
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12:30 PM Tue, Oct 23, 2007 | Permalink |
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Guardian America, the American version of the liberal British news site, has launched. Quick impressions: -- They get a lot on their homepage without a sense of clutter. -- They can probably sell a lot of American ads while......
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11:51 AM Tue, Oct 23, 2007 | Permalink |
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Riverbend, the Iraqi girl blogger of Baghdad Burning, last posted Sept. 6 as her family prepared to leave Iraq for Syria. Now she has posted from Damascus. ...A refugee is someone who isn’t really welcome in any country -- including......
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1:05 AM Tue, Oct 23, 2007 | Permalink |
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Joni Mitchell: The Seeding Of Summer Lawns [no label, 1CD] In 1975, Joni Mitchell signalled a switch in direction when she released The Hissing Of Summer Lawns. It was a rich album with textures unseen on a folk album. It......
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12:05 AM Tue, Oct 23, 2007 | Permalink |
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Germany wins the 2007 Solar Decathlon!. The blog Inhabitat has been covering the event: It has just been announced that the German University, Technische Universität Darmstadt is the winner of this years Solar Decathlon competition! In order to win......
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12:28 PM Mon, Oct 22, 2007 | Permalink |
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Think, wring hands, repeat: Doc Searls blogs today (Stop and listen) about Hal Crowther's eminently readable The future of the newspaper — without the paper. Crowther references former L.A. Times editor John Carroll's April 2006 speech to the American Society......
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3:47 PM Sun, Oct 21, 2007 | Permalink |
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Gianni Falcone, diarioacido The bilingual blog Lanna Action for Burma spearheads the women's panty-protest movement against the government of Burma: · Post Your Panties for Peace! Global action Beginning 16th October The Burma military regime is not only brutal......
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12:16 PM Sun, Oct 21, 2007 | Permalink |
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If you're not up for a sports day -- the Patriots at Miami at 1 on CBS or the do-or-die Red Sox finale against Cleveland tonight at 8 on Fox -- and the 70- degree weather of the new Southern......
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7:17 PM Sat, Oct 20, 2007 | Permalink |
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The Right-Wing Facebook is a parody that looks like a Facebook page, full of updates on your "friends," the GOP presidential candidates. The disclaimer: Right-Wing Facebook is a satirical take on right-wing presidential candidates and is a project of People......
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7:14 AM Sat, Oct 20, 2007 | Permalink |
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Los Angeles Times photos / Michael Robinson Chavez West Wendover, Nevada, lies along Interstate 80 on the edge of the Great Salt Desert. The hotels and casinos have created a mini-boom in the isolated town. (There are better photos,......
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11:22 AM Fri, Oct 19, 2007 | Permalink |
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Clinton, Schumer lose Woodstock museum may show up as a Jay Leno headline chuckle. Award goes to Bran Tumulty's posting on the Politics on the Hudson blog at the The Journal News/LoHud.com, out of White Plains, N.Y. It's just an......
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9:39 PM Thu, Oct 18, 2007 | Permalink |
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Viacom to offer all clips of 'Daily Show' online "...every minute of the show since its 1999 inception." "The site (www.thedailyshow.com) is meant to pull in advertising money from Day One, but it also will be something of a test......
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4:44 PM Thu, Oct 18, 2007 | Permalink |
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You've probably done this, too. Buy something at an online site, and find its paper catalog in your mailbox every couple of months thereafter. Now there's a way to opt out -- a "Do Not Mail" list, essentially. "Catalog Choice......
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12:39 PM Thu, Oct 18, 2007 | Permalink |
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Jacek Yerka, The Walking Lesson Surreal and prolific: Fascinating Worlds of Jacek Yerka at Dark Roasted Blend. More at Yerka's site. Locally surreal: Today's Lifebeat section is full of Halloween -- things to do in the real world, especially......
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11:25 AM Wed, Oct 17, 2007 | Permalink |
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Some days it seems there's nothing new on the Web but operating-system chatter, young men's fantasies and life hacking ("How to wash your hands"), and political outrage. It's wearying, and the tilt toward geek dudes' concerns betrays the promise of......
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2:23 AM Tue, Oct 16, 2007 | Permalink |
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Geeks need women: Providence Geeks' monthly meet is set for 7 p.m. Wednesday. At AS220 as always, but starting later than usual. Details at that Geeks link. Maya 1: Are We Trapped in God's Video Game? Probably not. And no,......
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3:30 AM Mon, Oct 15, 2007 | Permalink |
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No sour grapes from retired Bledsoe. David Moore of the Dallas Morning News caught up with Drew Bledsoe, the quarterback with the dubious distinction of having lost his starting quarterback position to both Tom Brady and Tony Romo. Life......
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8:05 PM Sun, Oct 14, 2007 | Permalink |
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Later: The Dallas News Cowboys blog. After the 48-27 Patriots win. The comments tell all. Choreography? Click photo to enlarge it. Flamingos form a flamingo, in an aerial photo in this month's National Geographic. How did they get them to......
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12:32 PM Fri, Oct 12, 2007 | Permalink |
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I missed the morning's storytellers on the second day of the Business Innovation Factory’s BIF-3 Collaborative Innovation Summit at Trinity Rep yesterday. You can read about them at the excellent conference blog. Here's the Day 1 post: Bloggers swarm the......
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7:54 AM Fri, Oct 12, 2007 | Permalink |
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Nobel Peace Prize 2007 to Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr., USA, and the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Switzerland, "for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations......
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7:24 AM Fri, Oct 12, 2007 | Permalink |
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Journal photos / Sheila Lennon Mark Cuban prepares to leave Providence after an appearance at the Business Innovation Factory’s BIF-3 Collaborative Innovation Summit at Trinity Rep this afternoon. PROVIDENCE -- First, Mark Cuban wants you to call 1-800-VOTE-411 to......
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10:33 AM Thu, Oct 11, 2007 | Permalink |
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Feminist voice: British author Doris Lessing has been awarded this year's Nobel Prize for Literature. I first read Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook in high school. It wasn't easy to get into, but once in, I loved it. Database of......
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3:31 AM Thu, Oct 11, 2007 | Permalink |
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The scene in Providence yesterday at Trinity Rep's downstairs theater as Brown graduate and author Steven Johnson speaks. After the first day of the third Business Innovation Factory's BIF-3 Collaborative Innovation Summit at Trinity Rep, brains were buzzing. I......
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11:48 AM Wed, Oct 10, 2007 | Permalink |
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Surrounded by people blogging at the Business Innovation Factory conference blog -- there's also a social network Profiles of speakers are here. I'm live blogging it at the projo newsblog, will backfill here later.......
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7:47 PM Tue, Oct 09, 2007 | Permalink |
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Original Colors: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Craig Conley at ColourLovers Though it has been depicted countless times on stage and screen, the marvelous land of Oz has an original and quite inventive color palette. The genuine colors of......
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2:44 AM Mon, Oct 08, 2007 | Permalink |
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Using one holiday to prepare for the next? Me too... Nathan Wesling carves nice toothy pumpkins. Credible Halloween party recipes from Britta, Webmistress of the Dark, including one for Hogwarts' butterbeer. (Alcoholic butterbeer is here.) More traditional: Eerie Eyeballs, Creepy......
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11:33 AM Sun, Oct 07, 2007 | Permalink |
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John Edward Thomas Moynahan and his mom, Bridget, appear on OK Magazine's cover. TMZ.com has Tom Brady's tyke's birth certificate -- Aug. 22, 2007 at 11:46 a.m. -- which confirms he bears his mama's last name and contains one......
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12:07 AM Fri, Oct 05, 2007 | Permalink |
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Long weekend after a long slog, thanks to Columbus. Nothing heavy here, on the surface anyway. I gave my husband the T-shirt. Discoveries: Lucinda Williams Strawberry Music Festival 2007 Live at Camp Mather, CA, September 1, 2007. Eric Clapton The......
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4:17 PM Thu, Oct 04, 2007 | Permalink |
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The day after: Popkey: Is worst over for Craig? Maybe, if ethics hearings aren't public. By Dan Popkey, is the Idaho Statesman's investigative reporter. Updated 4:17 p.m. Craig issued the following statement in reaction to Thursday's ruling allowing the guilty......
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2:51 AM Thu, Oct 04, 2007 | Permalink |
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Kirk Samuels bills 365 Cheeses as a "yearlong course in cheese." He was educating himself, one day at a time. The results of his research -- each with a photo -- are sorted here all sorts of ways -- alphabetically,......
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4:31 PM Wed, Oct 03, 2007 | Permalink |
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Factory Balls. is a fresh visual logic puzzle -- you're masking and striping balls, figuring out the precise order in which to dip the ball into colors to make the right patterns. It's an entry in Jay is Games'......
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9:47 AM Wed, Oct 03, 2007 | Permalink |
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Among the top winners of the 2007 Visualization Challenge Winners, the fifth annual, sponsored by the journal Science and the National Science Foundation, are a group of scientists from Brown, for turning the flight of a bat into elegant graphics.......
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9:01 AM Wed, Oct 03, 2007 | Permalink |
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Chris Matthews of NBC and MSNBC went on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart to plug his new book, Life's a Campaign: What Politics Has Taught Me About Friendship, Rivalry, Reputation, and Success. Stewart hates the book. He calls it......
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5:53 PM Tue, Oct 02, 2007 | Permalink |
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Michael Townsend photo James Mercer and Colin Bliss sit on a sofa in a room they built and furnished with performance artist Michael Townsend in the bowels of Providence Place mall. They also built the concrete block wall at......
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11:10 AM Tue, Oct 02, 2007 | Permalink |
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I'm still traveling... American Ruins Photo Gallery by Chuck Hutchison "This is a gallery of houses, barns, automobiles and businesses that have become the ruins on the landscape of America."......
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4:13 AM Mon, Oct 01, 2007 | Permalink |
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I'm on the road today, so just a few links. Try this at home: Pumpkin Faces, inspiration from last year. At Planck's Constant. Wedding song: MYSTIC NIGHTS The Making of (Dylan's) Blonde on Blonde in Nashville. At Oxford American, long......
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