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NORAD Santa-tracking site up today; Google Maps, YouTube to help
Great blog post at the official Google blog. The hard news: NORAD has partnered with Google to use technology including Google Maps, Google Earth, iGoogle and YouTube to track Santa... The countdown begins December 1st on NORAD's website (Norad Tracks...
December 1, 2007 11:06 am
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mp3s: Arcade Fire's 4 Christmas songs 5 years ago
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...
November 30, 2007 9:39 pm
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Facebook retreats, won't publish users' purchases and activities without their consent
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....
November 30, 2007 1:41 am
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Deal: Through Friday, more than 80 percent off gift certificates to 10 R.I. restaurants
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....
November 30, 2007 1:35 am
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Good gifts: Board games
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...
November 29, 2007 4:00 pm
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I'm avoiding sites that use Facebook Beacon -- how to block it with a Firefox extension
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...
November 29, 2007 7:20 am
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Shaolin monk photos; 13 indigenous grandmothers; On local newspaper ownership; Ben Bradlee today
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...
November 28, 2007 10:40 am
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Are Facebook users men or mice?
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...
November 27, 2007 10:54 am
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Links dump: Steve Outing's lessons from a failed site; Paris's guerilla monument restorers...
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:...
November 27, 2007 10:49 am
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Holiday TV listings; 2007 rollout of Christmas mp3s begins at music blogs
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...
November 25, 2007 4:10 am
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