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January 27, 2008 - February 2, 2008 Archives

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The future tech I want is not what they'll try to sell me

5:02 AM Fri, Feb 01, 2008 | | Comments (1)
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Thinking About Tomorrow. "We look ahead 10 years, and imagine a whole different world." The free section of WSJ surveys experts about what's in the tech pipeline and heading at us. Problem is, there is absolutely nothing appealing to me......

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Super Bowl recipes from newspaper food sections (New England chili?)

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The funniest recipe in the run-up to the Super Bowl is New England Chili at New York Daily News, adapted from the "Anheuser-Busch Cookbook: Great Food Great Beer" (Sunset Books. $24.95 paperback.) The last two ingredients: 1 pound cooked pheasant,......

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10 antique cat books get new lives at the Internet Archive

2:48 PM Thu, Jan 31, 2008 | | Write a comment
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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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Recipes for homemade Girl Scout Cookies

11:05 AM Thu, Jan 31, 2008 | | Comments (1)
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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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eBay to ban sellers from negative comments about buyers

4:15 AM Thu, Jan 31, 2008 | | Comments (4)
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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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What the evicted leave behind; Google exhumes CueCat barcodes; Vivid 'shroom photos

7:37 AM Wed, Jan 30, 2008 | | Comments (2)
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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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Arlo Guthrie endorses Ron Paul

8:09 PM Tue, Jan 29, 2008 | | Comments (1)
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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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Trader Joe's: Can emails bring grocery chain to R.I.?

6:30 PM Mon, Jan 28, 2008 | | Comments (4)
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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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Sunday Web tools: R.I. blog aggregator, tweaks for music, mail, grandma

2:04 PM Sun, Jan 27, 2008 | | Comments (1)
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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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