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January 2008 Archives
2:48 PM Thu, Jan 31, 2008 | Permalink |
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Kittens and Cats; A Book of Tales (1911), above, by Eulalie Osgood Grover, may have been the lolcats of its time. The Art of the Cat. The Collections Team at the Internet Archive has a What's New blog, and......
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11:05 AM Thu, Jan 31, 2008 | Permalink |
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Homemade Girl Scout Cookies: Do-si-dos. Nicole Weston at Baking Bites blog is making her own, which may sound heretical. Here's how she begins her recipe for Do-Si-Dos aka Peanut Butter Sandwich Cookies: The other day, I expressed some concern over......
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4:15 AM Thu, Jan 31, 2008 | Permalink |
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Upcoming Changes to Feedback. eBay "sellers will no longer be able to leave negative or neutral Feedback for buyers. Why can't sellers leave negative and neutral Feedback for buyers? Since buyers take the primary risk in a transaction (sending money......
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7:37 AM Wed, Jan 30, 2008 | Permalink |
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It's a tale of misery and cruelty, broken lives, trashed pasts and compassionate recycling. Cleanup crews often can tell why eviction happened. Rick Armon of The Akron Beacon Journal finds the lives folks leave behind after the sheriff comes. And......
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8:09 PM Tue, Jan 29, 2008 | Permalink |
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AP / Jason DeCrow Arlo Guthrie performing a free outdoor concert at New York City's Damrosch Park at Lincoln Center, Aug. 2, 2007. Here's the press release. I added the links. (PressMediaWire) ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA – Republican presidential candidate and......
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6:30 PM Mon, Jan 28, 2008 | Permalink |
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MCT Trader Joe's grocery store in Albuquerque, N.M. This email is spreading around Rhode Island like those jokes that circulate among friends: This is the address for the Trader Joe's location request form. My mother and her friends did......
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2:04 PM Sun, Jan 27, 2008 | Permalink |
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BlogNetNews Rhode Island launched this week -- it aggregates RSS feeds and displays headlines and the beginning of the latest posts, with links, for each blog. It started with a group of largely political blogs, but that About page says,......
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11:09 AM Sat, Jan 26, 2008 | Permalink |
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The Fab Faux: New York musicians Jack Petruzzelli, Rich Pagano, Frank Agnello, Will Lee, Jimmy Vivino. 'It's about the music': They don't look like the Beatles, but the The Fab Faux are attempting to replicate the studio sound of......
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8:42 AM Sat, Jan 26, 2008 | Permalink |
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Colin Clive as Dr. Frankenstein, 1931 Weird science: A step closer to creating life out of chemical soup. Los Angeles Times: Using off-the-shelf chemical compounds, scientists for the first time have constructed the entire genome of a bacterium, a......
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12:20 PM Fri, Jan 25, 2008 | Permalink |
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American Band: Grand Funk Railroad Live at The Forum Los Angeles, June 2, 1974. Excellent soundboard stereo. Curiosity: East Of Eden, BBC In Concert 1970. Violin-driven jazz -- from jig to snake-charmer vibe. Worth a listen, although I wouldn't......
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10:41 AM Fri, Jan 25, 2008 | Permalink |
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EveryBlock: A news feed for your block. has launched, created under a Knight Foundation grant by new-media journalist-programmer Adrian Holavaty. EveryBlock is a three-city demo of microlocal news -- Chicago, New York and San Francisco. Here's an example of one......
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7:55 AM Thu, Jan 24, 2008 | Permalink |
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AP British musician Bono, left, watches as former United States Vice-President Al Gore gestures while addresses a conference at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, today. The World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland -- an annual gathering of......
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2:11 AM Wed, Jan 23, 2008 | Permalink |
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Bob Dylan & The Band, Isle Of Wight 1969. At BigO, Singapore: ...Bob Dylan and The Band fired off Music From Big Pink and signalled a return to the "invisible republic" of the past when everything was simpler. This album......
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11:15 AM Mon, Jan 21, 2008 | Permalink |
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Underwater Bubble Sculpture: A physicist would marvel at some of the play behavior observed in young dolphins at the Project Delphis laboratory. They blow underwater bubble rings by injecting air into water vortices, about the thickness of a straw and......
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12:37 AM Mon, Jan 21, 2008 | Permalink |
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Photo by Stephen Knudde Gillette Stadium Sunday evening. Click the photo to see a huge version (293k). Stephen Knudde of Providence worked the gate at Gillette Stadium today. He emailed this photo, taken after the Patriots beat the San......
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11:37 AM Sat, Jan 19, 2008 | Permalink |
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I just posted a great gameday recipe for Spinach & Cheese Squares over on the Football Food & Spirits blog -- here's my photo of one step of it. (Hey, it's the most exciting photo of parboiling I've ever......
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10:00 AM Fri, Jan 18, 2008 | Permalink |
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AP Then-15-year-old chess star Bobby Fischer, left, and Russian grand master Tigran Petrosian play a practice game at Moscow's Central Chess Club, June 30, 1958. BBC: Chess legend Fischer dies at 64. From the BBC's obituary, "The reclusive player......
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11:50 AM Thu, Jan 17, 2008 | Permalink |
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Social Bookmarking in Plain English from Common Craft, which hosts several similarly useful intros. Top 10 Telephone Tricks may be useful. Studio Visit visits (New York-area) artists' studios and museums, and brings back photos. Thumbnail page gets you started.......
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5:22 PM Wed, Jan 16, 2008 | Permalink |
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Reuters Tom Brady lookalike on the runway? At left, a model displays part of Alexander McQueen's Fall/Winter 2008/09 men's collection during Fashion Week in Milan, Italy. At right, a dress by Indonesian designer Ika, shown as part of Fashion......
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9:39 AM Wed, Jan 16, 2008 | Permalink |
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Peyton Manning's loss along the way to the Super Bowl has pumped up the wags. Jeff Tydeman at Bleacher Report deadpans (Manning Coup: Eli Snags Peyton's Endorsements), In a bloodless coup, Eli Manning seized his older brother Peyton's TV and......
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9:08 AM Tue, Jan 15, 2008 | Permalink |
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Geeks tomorrow: . Providence Geeks meet monthly at AS220, 115 Empire St., from 5:30-9 p.m. and Wednesday's the day. Nametags, beer and startuppers. Details at the link. Eat me! MediaCart. AP: Video Ads Are Planned for Grocery Carts. As you......
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1:03 AM Mon, Jan 14, 2008 | Permalink |
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Darren Garnick New Mexico governor Bill Richardson holds writer/filmmaker Darren Garnick's 5-month-old daughter Dahlia. Richardson ended his bid for president after the New Hampshire primary. Wonderful: The Baby Primary: Can I get my 5-month-old daughter photographed with every presidential......
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11:33 AM Sun, Jan 13, 2008 | Permalink |
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Providence Journal /Glenn Osmundson Flying Elvis: New England Patriot Donte Stallworth goes airborne for a first down on a fourth-down play in the fourth quarter as Jacksonville's Rashean Mathis does a swan dive. Pats clinched the AFC East title,......
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12:17 PM Fri, Jan 11, 2008 | Permalink |
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Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young: Tribute To Neil Young . Live at Lakehurst, New Jersey, June 30, 1970. A two-disc set, the second to be posted tomorrow. Lists: What $1 Million Buys in Homes Worldwide. At Forbes. 172 jazz......
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10:13 PM Thu, Jan 10, 2008 | Permalink |
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Why Hillary Won by Karl Rove at WSJ.com. (Yes, we're all down the rabbit hole now.)......
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4:11 AM Thu, Jan 10, 2008 | Permalink |
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Idiomatic tribute: Jewels And Binoculars: The Music Of Bob Dylan. Live in Antwerp, 2005. Michael Moore, Lindsey Horner, Michael Vatcher. At BigO, Singapore: More like a chamber trio for late night listening, for those who think they know their Dylan,......
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11:37 PM Tue, Jan 08, 2008 | Permalink |
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I just wanted to see that headline in my lifetime. As a kid, I would never have imagined I would write it. Squirming pundits and pollsters wonder how they got this one so wrong. Here's how Jonathan Alter of Newsweek......
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5:54 PM Tue, Jan 08, 2008 | Permalink |
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I'm home with a bug, but feeling better now; had I been downtown, I wouldn't have found this ad hoc interactive New Hampshire primary news coverage: Caucus with Brave New Films & The Young Turks. Brave New Films* is the......
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4:26 AM Tue, Jan 08, 2008 | Permalink |
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Talking with a group of 16 undecided voters at a coffee shop in Portsmouth, N.H., Hillary Clinton showed another side. Hillary Clinton Tears Up During Campaign Stop If you haven't seen the primary source, there it is. "It's the economy,......
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11:51 AM Sun, Jan 06, 2008 | Permalink |
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ABC News/Facebook/WMUR debate: It's the Facebook part that stops me here. Google News was full of wire reports about the debates themselves, but I was looking for background on Facebook's entry into the branding bonanza that leads to college football......
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12:32 AM Sun, Jan 06, 2008 | Permalink |
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Can You Count on Voting Machines: What matters here is that the New York Times is finally writing about this. Computers have always been controllable by those with the (hardware or software) keys. Reporters didn't understand this in earlier elections......
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11:48 AM Fri, Jan 04, 2008 | Permalink |
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Deirdre Ashe at the Nashua (N.H.) Telegraph asked the presidential hopefuls of both parties for their favorite family recipes, and published the results in three parts: Ballot Box to Recipe Box - U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn.: Clam Chowder. -......
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10:28 AM Thu, Jan 03, 2008 | Permalink |
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Offensive lineman Ross Tucker out of Princeton was once a New England Patriot, playing in two games in 2005. In Sports Illustrated, he writes How the Patriots do it: An inside look at keys to New England's dominance: During......
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12:21 PM Wed, Jan 02, 2008 | Permalink |
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Wildcard weekend: Let it snow... Saturday, Jan. 5 Washington Redskins (9-7) at Seattle Seahawks (10-6) Qwest Field, 4:30 p.m. ET (NBC) Jacksonville Jaguars (11-5) at Pittsburgh Steelers (10-6) Heinz Field, 8 p.m. ET (NBC) Sunday, Jan. 6 New York Giants......
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12:26 PM Tue, Jan 01, 2008 | Permalink |
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Weepin' Willie Robinson, 81, fell asleep early Sunday morning while smoking in bed after a taxi had brought him back to his Boston nursing home from a Saturday night out. He died in the fire. The Globe's Noah Bierman......
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1:57 AM Tue, Jan 01, 2008 | Permalink |
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A few that caught my eye from the AP feed of photos of 2008 breaking across the globe: AP / Anil Dayal People write the digit 2008 with lighted candles as they celebrate on New Year's Eve in Shimla, India.......
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