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November 2007 Archives
9:39 PM Fri, Nov 30, 2007 | Permalink |
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Arcade Fire: A Very Arcade Xmas, Arcade Fire [no label, 1CD] At BigOWorldwide. The holiday season is upon us and to help readers get into the mood, here are the Arcade Fire spreading that holiday cheer. These four tracks were......
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1:41 AM Fri, Nov 30, 2007 | Permalink |
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Facebook and advertisers will still collect data on what users are doing and what they buy, but the latest version of the retreat the giant social networking site floated tonight lets the user decide whether to make that information public.......
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1:35 AM Fri, Nov 30, 2007 | Permalink |
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Updated Saturday: With a new month, all restaurants are again available, and there's a new coupon code to get 50 percent off; enter the word "NEW" in the coupon code field on your shopping cart to see the discount reflected.......
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4:00 PM Thu, Nov 29, 2007 | Permalink |
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Ticket to Ride Tops: "It's familiar (much of the play is based on rummy), appealing (who doesn't love trains?), easy to learn (figure five minutes for explaining the rules, tops) and competitive without being confrontational. Read my full review......
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7:20 AM Thu, Nov 29, 2007 | Permalink |
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The law of unintended consequences: I find myself avoiding Overstock.com (advertisers take note) because of the Facebook Beacon ads, even though I'm entirely passive at Facebook, just watching it, never inviting anyone. (Added later: I accept invitations from people I......
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10:40 AM Wed, Nov 28, 2007 | Permalink |
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Justin Guariglia Grasshopper: Photographer Justin Guariglia spent eight years documenting the secretive warrior monks of the Shaolin Temple in China. Exhibitions. More on Guariglia and his wife, Zoe Chen, at their site, Guariglia-Chen. via Jason Kottke Grandmothers and Ambassadors......
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10:54 AM Tue, Nov 27, 2007 | Permalink |
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Facebook "friend": Find out what I'm doing! Me: I don't care what you're doing, I'm trying to find/learn/write something. As I blogged a few weeks ago, Facebook is using your own browser's "cookies," acquired when you buy something online at......
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10:49 AM Tue, Nov 27, 2007 | Permalink |
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Raw links: New media columnist Steve Outing quit his day job at Poynter Institute 18 months ago to start a citizen journalism site focused initially on mountain biking, the Enthusiast Group. Yesterday, at Editor & Publisher, he published its obituary:......
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4:10 AM Sun, Nov 25, 2007 | Permalink |
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Now that the turkey has gone off to the soup, music blogs are posting the holiday tunes they've been collection all year. Santas Working Overtime is trying to keep track of who has what and what's where, as well as......
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11:49 PM Fri, Nov 23, 2007 | Permalink |
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"Buy Nothing Day" sounds too eat-your-peas for such a lazy Friday. How about Pie for Breakfast Day? Coconut custard is a better quiche. The Spiral Data Tato -- A Curiously Complex Origami CD Case. Instructions for making this origami CD......
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10:00 PM Thu, Nov 22, 2007 | Permalink |
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Buy Nothing Day Coat Exchange, from Mary Grady's excellent Natural News Network blog. 10th Annual BUY NOTHING DAY WINTER COAT EXCHANGE FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23 10AM-2PM STATE HOUSE LAWN Rain/snow site: St. Patrick’s School, 244 Smith St. Pawtucket Location: 175 Main......
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10:47 AM Thu, Nov 22, 2007 | Permalink |
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I'm the family's matriarch now. Everybody comes to my house for holidays. After decades of dutiful daughterhood, I rule. These are my rules: -- Wear what's most comfortable. -- Come when you want to. Football starts at 1, turkey sometime......
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3:59 AM Thu, Nov 22, 2007 | Permalink |
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Funky Farm Thanksgiving Edition is today's Game Giveaway of the Day: -- Fill your Funky Farm with all kinds of animals such as delicious turkeys, fluffy sheep, evil wolves, and a really cute dog! -- Upgrade your tools at......
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4:23 AM Wed, Nov 21, 2007 | Permalink |
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If you're looking for them, here is the big list of Thanksgiving recipes from newspaper food sections. At the Google LatLong blog, Google Maps software engineer Seth LaForge writes, Think globally, mark locally: The last time I threw a party,......
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9:05 AM Tue, Nov 20, 2007 | Permalink |
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If you're going to somebody else's house or restaurant for Thanksgiving dinner, tomorrow's Providence Geek Dinner may be just what you need to entertain yourself while the rest of America rassles with raw turkey and rolls pie crust. Providence Geeks......
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10:44 AM Mon, Nov 19, 2007 | Permalink |
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San Francisco Chronicle photo / Brant Ward 75-year-old tap-dancer shimmies his way across Golden Gate Bridge Michael Grbich enjoyed his 1.7-mile dance across the Golden Gate Bridge, even bringing his own music and jump rope. The Oakland resident celebrated......
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10:03 AM Sun, Nov 18, 2007 | Permalink |
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The Providence Journal / Glenn Osmundson New England Patriots rookie Kyle Eckel. Sunday wait: Once upon a time, fall Sundays began with the family arriving shortly after noon in a festive mood. I miss those lovely days NBC took......
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8:16 AM Fri, Nov 16, 2007 | Permalink |
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Weekend mp3s: Led Zeppelin, He Must Be Dazed And Confused [Empress Valley, 4CD set] Live at Earl's Court Arena, London, UK, May 24, 1975. One CD today, more Saturday and Sunday. Listening now, sound quality is extremely good. Satire: Thanksgiving......
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11:51 PM Thu, Nov 15, 2007 | Permalink |
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Best lines in the coverage of Ricky Williams' return to the Miami Dolphins after four months of rehab and a reinstatement by the NFL: AP: Ricky Williams to Rejoin Dolphins: "...it's difficult to imagine how Williams could sabotage a team......
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11:42 AM Thu, Nov 15, 2007 | Permalink |
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Updated Nov. 15: I've added many more recipes from these newspapers: The Charlotte (N.C.) Observer Tacoma (Wash.) News Tribune Los Angeles Times Helena (Mont.) Independent Record Cleveland Plain Dealer Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch The Modesto Bee Orange County (Calif.) Register Santa......
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11:22 AM Tue, Nov 13, 2007 | Permalink |
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Bob Dylan, Sheridan Square Park, Greenwich Village, January 22, 1965 photo by Fred W. McDarrah, who died in his sleep at home in Greenwich Village last week at 81. Gallery: Remembering Fred W. McDarrah (1926-2007): The Village Voice work......
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1:11 AM Tue, Nov 13, 2007 | Permalink |
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I'm late with this, but videos of all the presentations and the interviews conducted by WSJ columnist Walter Mossberg at last month's Business Innovation Factory third annual summit (called BIF-3) at Trinity Rep have been posted at the BIF Innovation......
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9:29 AM Sun, Nov 11, 2007 | Permalink |
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William Gibson: The Rolling Stone 40th Anniversary Interview What are the major challenges we face? Let's go for global warming, peak oil and ubiquitous computing. Ubiquitous computing? Totally ubiquitous computing. One of the things our grandchildren will find quaintest about......
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9:06 AM Sat, Nov 10, 2007 | Permalink |
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Songza. "The music search engine & internet jukebox. Listen. Now." The jukebox in the sky has long been at the top of many of our Web wishlists. Simple, elegant, Songza scrapes YouTube for songs. Quality varies. You search, you listen.......
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10:05 AM Fri, Nov 09, 2007 | Permalink |
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The Rolling Stones. Acetates [Midnight Beat, 1CD]. At BigO. As fans delve deeper and deeper into the music of their favourite acts, it's not that infrequent that one comes across unofficial releases that sound way better than the official ones.......
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12:12 PM Thu, Nov 08, 2007 | Permalink |
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Later: Saul Hansell at the Times' Bits Blog asks, Are Facebook’s Social Ads Illegal? It may be illegal under a 100-year-old New York privacy law. The statute says that “any person whose name, portrait, picture, or voice is used within......
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3:49 AM Thu, Nov 08, 2007 | Permalink |
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R.I. Dept. of Health, Office of Food Protection photo In 2002 the Journal published photos of common violations, such as the one above illustrating "cross contamination -- raw food above ready to eat product." Photos are taken during inspections,......
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10:35 AM Wed, Nov 07, 2007 | Permalink |
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Being Overweight Isn't All Bad, Study Says. The Washington Post reports on "a detailed analysis of decades of government data about more than 39,000 Americans" led by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published today in the Journal of......
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4:25 AM Wed, Nov 07, 2007 | Permalink |
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Catching up on a couple of stories that changed: Last week I noted (Corey Dillon hopes for a callback from the Patriots) reports that Corey Dillon was getting in shape in case the Patriots called him back to replace Sammy......
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11:58 AM Tue, Nov 06, 2007 | Permalink |
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Boston.com has redesigned its homepage -- wider, cleaner and with many more links. (Compare it to the sports section, which retains the old look for now.) News sites traditionally have trouble showing all their news and information. UFO Hotspots Map......
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9:01 AM Tue, Nov 06, 2007 | Permalink |
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With the Writer's Guild strike of film and TV writers under way -- the sticking point was compensation of writers for new-media content.-- here's the Western report: companies they're striking, where they're picketing Blogging it (thanks to Cory Bergman's Lost......
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7:48 AM Tue, Nov 06, 2007 | Permalink |
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NPR relaunched NPR Music yesterday, a collaboration of 12 local NPR stations, with a new, Flash-based media player. Here's their intro to the new features. Read/Write Web raves, In testing the site I was able to quickly assemble a playlist......
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9:33 PM Sun, Nov 04, 2007 | Permalink |
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Providence Journal photo / Bob Breidenbach Ty Warren and Junior Seau sack Indy quarterback Peyton Manning in the 4th quarter which forced a fumble and a 4th down. The Colts punted and the Patriots scored on the next drive......
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10:12 AM Sun, Nov 04, 2007 | Permalink |
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Providence Journal photo / Bob Breidenbach Patriots running back (28) Corey Dillon making yardage against the Detroit Lions last Dec. 3 at Gillette Stadium. Paris Lenon (53) and Alex Lewis (59) make the stop. Corey Dillon scored three touchdowns......
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12:46 PM Sat, Nov 03, 2007 | Permalink |
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With the remnants of Hurricane Noel upon us and forecasts of heavy rain and wind, this is going to be a lazy day with a novel and the jazz mp3s below. I was at the grocery store as it opened,......
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2:57 PM Fri, Nov 02, 2007 | Permalink |
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Social networks boomed when kids -- who have always called the friends they've just left at school as soon as they got home -- moved to Web networks such as MySpace to stay in constant contact with all their friends......
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12:17 AM Fri, Nov 02, 2007 | Permalink |
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AP Photo/Winslow Townson AP moved this photo with this caption: New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady (12) congratulates Indianapolis Colts quarterback Peyton Manning (18) after Manning and the Colts defeated the Patriots 27-20 in their football game in this......
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