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December 2007 Archives
1:56 PM Sun, Dec 30, 2007 | Permalink |
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Radio vet Lou Josephs tracks New Year's Eve on the Web, beginning in Wallis Island in the the South Pacific at 5 a.m. EST: Medianetwork: Start here for New Years Eve listening. Update: Lou took this and ran with it......
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3:08 PM Sat, Dec 29, 2007 | Permalink |
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Continuing the lazy vacation blogging (12 hours sleep last night!), a list at Computerworld: Opinion: The 25 most innovative products of the year. Many might also appear on your "never heard of it" list. Idle question: Is it hubris to......
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10:30 AM Fri, Dec 28, 2007 | Permalink |
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Through the Give One Get One program, which runs through Dec. 31 at Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop per Child (Laptop.org), you can get a XO laptop for a child you know and send one to a child in in......
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3:49 PM Wed, Dec 26, 2007 | Permalink |
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If you're on vacation, how about reading short stories? At Perpetual Folly, Clifford Garstang is blogging his choices of the New Yorker's best stories of 2007, and links to each story at the end of his own thoughts on each......
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6:02 AM Wed, Dec 26, 2007 | Permalink |
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AP / Alvaro Barrientos Palestinian Christians gather around a large Christmas tree during a festival in the village of Beit Sahour near the biblical West Bank town of Bethlehem last Friday. Great tree.The full moon and clouds did their......
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3:56 AM Wed, Dec 26, 2007 | Permalink |
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Christmas 2007 Toyland at our house. It's been a great, long day. I hope you had a good one, too. (The brother and husband depicted above asked me to photograph them and twice gave permission to blog this photo.)......
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1:29 AM Wed, Dec 26, 2007 | Permalink |
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Mp3 blog CubikMusik offers a download of the great, now late, pianist Oscar Peterson playing The Christmas Waltz. The Montreal native died late Sunday at his home in Mississauga, near Toronto, of kidney failure. He was 82. At Spinning in......
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6:41 PM Mon, Dec 24, 2007 | Permalink |
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Updated Christmas Eve: NORAD Tracks Santa Operations Center Track Santa as he makes his deliveries all over the world! Google Maps will refresh Santa's position every 5 minutes. As I type this, at 6:41 p.m. he's nearing the west coast......
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9:57 AM Fri, Dec 21, 2007 | Permalink |
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Christmas-Cards from Sweden One of a series of four related images. Way beyond gumdrop houses: Photos of scenes made entirely of food. Is that a peapod boat on an ocean of smoked salmon and a potato and parsley......
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11:16 AM Thu, Dec 20, 2007 | Permalink |
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Blogs were down as they moved to larger servers, and the new DNS took a while to get around. I couldn't get in to blog, so here's just a quick link list. Descendants of Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse break away......
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10:52 PM Tue, Dec 18, 2007 | Permalink |
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The Only Thing I Want For Christmas (Is Just To Keep The Things That I've Got) is a 1939 recording by Jimmy Durante at the Internet Archive. If Santa passes by my stocking, I promise not to mind a lot......
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4:52 AM Mon, Dec 17, 2007 | Permalink |
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Providence Journal / Bob Breidenbach New York Jets coach Eric Mangini, left, and New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick shake hands after the Patriots 20-10 win at Gillette Stadium. At our house, we're ready for the radio version of......
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11:10 AM Sun, Dec 16, 2007 | Permalink |
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Weather Bug has a Webcam facing north into the stadium. Here's the current image: The field looks clear, seats too, although the aisles are still white. With temperatures expected to be around 37 degrees at gametime, slow melt, occasional rain......
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2:04 PM Fri, Dec 14, 2007 | Permalink |
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To you Rhode Islanders whose homes are already aglow: We'll be out looking for a tree tomorrow. We want one already cut, fragrant, that won't shed lots of needles. And as far under $50 as possible without being a Charlie......
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8:24 AM Thu, Dec 13, 2007 | Permalink |
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In a comment on my Dec. 1 post about tracking Santa (NORAD Santa-tracking site up today; Google Maps, YouTube to help), reader Jennifer writes, I am a mom and first grade teacher and would love to go on NORAD 2007......
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3:36 AM Wed, Dec 12, 2007 | Permalink |
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Merriam Webster: Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year 2007 Reuters: "w00t" crowned word of year by U.S. dictionary Ars Technica: not amused. Merriam-Webster asked the Internet, and the Internet chose "w00t," complete with two zeros. Welcome to the wisdom of crowds..........
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11:49 AM Tue, Dec 11, 2007 | Permalink |
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Doris Lessing's acceptance speech of the Nobel Prize for Literature (transcript at A hunger for books at The Guardian) has set off a Web flap, largely because of this: ...we never thought to ask, "How will our lives, our......
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5:47 PM Mon, Dec 10, 2007 | Permalink |
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Fast Foods: Ads vs Reality at Frostfire Zoo. Few drivethroughs are spared. Lacking buns in which to hide, Taco Bell Nachos Bell Grande and KFC Famous Bowl suffer most by comparison to their pro photos. By law, the photograph......
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10:22 AM Sun, Dec 09, 2007 | Permalink |
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Providence Journal Photo/Mary Murphy New England Patriots receiver Jabar Gaffney hauls in a 56-yard pass from Tom Brady for a TD in the 3rd quarter as Pittsburgh Steelers safety Anthony Smith tries to stop him at Gillette Stadium today.......
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4:15 AM Sun, Dec 09, 2007 | Permalink |
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Interesting read: Game 13 Matchup: Steelers vs. Patriots by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette sportswriter Gerry Dulac. Friday, in his NFL Forecast: Week 14, he made his prediction: Patriots, 23-13, saying Do not fret about a loss to the Patriots, at least not......
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12:08 PM Fri, Dec 07, 2007 | Permalink |
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New tunes up at BigO, Singapore... Mountain New York 1974, Live at the Felt Forum, December 31, 1974> ...Leslie West and Mountain Theme For An Imaginary Sleighride Chicago, Christmas Show 1998, Live at the House Of Blues, Los Angeles, CA,......
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9:59 AM Thu, Dec 06, 2007 | Permalink |
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At ABC News' Political Radar blog, 'You and I' No More?: ABC News' Eloise Harper Reports: Less than 30 days before the critical Iowa caucuses, there's a shake-up in the Clinton presidential campaign. Hillary Clinton and Celine Dion appear to......
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2:33 AM Wed, Dec 05, 2007 | Permalink |
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"Won't you blog about this song?" Here Comes Another Bubble, created by Matt Hempey of the a capella Richter Scales (of San Francisco, of course), and sung by them, is a viral musical satire (cf. Jib-Jab) to the tune......
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4:58 AM Tue, Dec 04, 2007 | Permalink |
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Providence Journal / Bob Breidenbach New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady slides down after running 12 yeards for a first down late in the 4th quarter. Pats beat Baltimore 27-24 in the last minute of the game. The top......
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2:54 AM Mon, Dec 03, 2007 | Permalink |
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Looking for mysteries? You might try the Mystery Writers of America site, where you'll find the 2008 Edgar Award Submissions and as well as their list of the Top 100 Mystery Novels of All Time. Poor helping poor: Tom Matrullo......
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5:36 AM Sun, Dec 02, 2007 | Permalink |
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Thanks to sitting next to a Christmas-lover (Yuleophile?) in the newsroom, I've actually finished the practical part of my shopping this year -- it's my duty to keep the family warm and in underwear, a task best crossed off early.......
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11:06 AM Sat, Dec 01, 2007 | Permalink |
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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......
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