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February 2008 Archives
8:48 PM Thu, Feb 28, 2008 | Permalink |
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not martha Brilliant. Bacon bowls. Drape bacon over foil-covered forms (muffin tins, bowls), bake and carefully unmold. Fill with scrambled eggs is my first thought, but not martha chose a breadless BLT. Due to bacon shrinkage, it's bacon overload......
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12:03 PM Thu, Feb 28, 2008 | Permalink |
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Quick smile: Cats are Democrats, Dogs are Republicans. The panel at right is a fragment of a larger cartoon by Kirk Anderson. Click on the image to see all the panels.......
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12:30 AM Wed, Feb 27, 2008 | Permalink |
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A few distractions from Serious Issues: Shaman Drum looks to become nonprofit by Stefanie Murray of The Ann Arbor News is an interesting story about a bookstore in Ann Arbor that is on the way to becoming a nonprofit. It's......
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4:38 AM Mon, Feb 25, 2008 | Permalink |
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Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update -- the original "fake news" -- came back from the writer's strike with a roar Saturday night. Former head writers Tina Fey hosted, leading with B*itch is the New Black! Just a bit: ...back......
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12:09 AM Sat, Feb 23, 2008 | Permalink |
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Miles checks out the snow Friday afternoon. Heavy sleet has compressed the snow to a hard four inches now in my Providence yard. (I've been deep in code, upgrading our blogs to Movable Type 4 on a staging server.......
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10:56 PM Thu, Feb 21, 2008 | Permalink |
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From WebUrbanist, WebUrbanist 17 Extreme Houseboats and Houseboat Designs: From Luxury Habitats to Humble Floating Homes Feel like escaping? Nothing too cozy here -- mostly renderings of unlived-in high-tech houseboats, futuristic spaceships for sea or stream, and a travel trailer......
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2:31 AM Wed, Feb 20, 2008 | Permalink |
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It's not often you get to write a headline like that. Reproduction of Blossoming Chestnut Branches painted by Vincent Van Gogh in 1890. This and Claude Monet's Poppies near Vetheuil (1879) were found abandoned Monday night in the parking lot......
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1:05 PM Tue, Feb 19, 2008 | Permalink |
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Santana Live in Seattle 1972 From the few recordings that survived from this tour, Santana bravely dropped Black Magic Woman, Gypsy Queen, Evil Ways and Oye Como Va from the setlist as if to say the band was bigger than......
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6:24 AM Mon, Feb 18, 2008 | Permalink |
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Illustration at NASA by Larry Johnson of Shadow and Substance, where the animations foreshadowing Wednesday's eclipse tell the whole story. From NASA, Total Lunar Eclipse, On Wednesday evening, February 20th, the full Moon over the Americas will turn a......
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5:21 AM Sun, Feb 17, 2008 | Permalink |
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Back when they were kids, sax and harp player Scott Hamilton and guitarist Fred Bates started a blues band called Hamilton-Bates Blue Flames, with Preston Hubbard on bass and Chuck Riggs on drums. Scott went on to become a world-famous......
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4:25 AM Fri, Feb 15, 2008 | Permalink |
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My daughter wants to live here. It looks to be in Western Massachusetts. The page is Deer in the Yard at Pelorian Digital. Our house was built in the deer's natural habitat in a remote rural area. Well worn......
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3:29 PM Wed, Feb 13, 2008 | Permalink |
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APRoses for export in Naivasha, Kenya last Thursday. From Kenya, Flowers in Kenya is a narrated slideshow of stunning contrasts by AP. The story:Kenya violence threatens flower exports Tech note: At the bottom of the slideshow are links to......
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3:38 AM Tue, Feb 12, 2008 | Permalink |
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'50s Valentines - A Flickr set of 58 (historical?) images by valart2008 that beg to be passed out in class. This link goes to a page of thumbnails. Click on one to see it, click "All sizes" above get a......
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4:24 AM Mon, Feb 11, 2008 | Permalink |
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Here's AP's List of Grammy winners Woody Guthrie's rediscovered and reclaimed 1949 wire recording, which I blogged Saturday in depth, with audio links (Woody Guthrie live -- in 1949 -- is up for a Grammy), won Best Historical Album. Woody......
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1:10 AM Sun, Feb 10, 2008 | Permalink |
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Tiny beings: Marine Miniatures National Geographic Magazine publishes photos shot through a microscope: A dipperful of seawater reveals an amazing hodgepodge of microfauna, from gelatinous shape-shifters to a baby octopus. This photo, by David Liittschwager, is of a larval flounder.......
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12:51 PM Sat, Feb 09, 2008 | Permalink |
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Yahoo Board to Reject Microsoft Bid, posted at the Wall Street Journal site today. Yahoo Inc.'s board plans to reject Microsoft Corp.'s unsolicited $44.6 billion offer to acquire the Web giant, a person familiar with the situation says. After a......
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11:29 AM Sat, Feb 09, 2008 | Permalink |
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Woody Guthrie in a 1944 publicity photo. A newly discovered and restored live 1949 wire recording of Woody Guthrie has been nominated for a Grammy award for Best Historical Album. For the first time hear Woody Guthrie perform live!......
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9:07 AM Thu, Feb 07, 2008 | Permalink |
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Tunes for yet another gray day. Wrecking Ball Demos & Outtakes Outtakes from the 1995 album Wrecking Ball recorded at Woodland Studio, East Nashville, January 1995. ... Supposedly from a source close to producer Daniel Lanois. The album that both......
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2:35 AM Wed, Feb 06, 2008 | Permalink |
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Madly relevant: Mad Magazine's Presidential Lampoons. The New York Times publishes this slideshow of six drawings from a rare venture into reality for Mad Magazine: For a two-page "exposé" in its upcoming issue, Mad magazine enlisted the talents of 10......
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2:09 AM Tue, Feb 05, 2008 | Permalink |
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Reuters photo Sure, Carnival in Brazil is scantily clad Samba dancers, but it's also kids, men wearing watermelon helmets, mud dancers, fabulous floats and some like this one, which depicts The Inquisition. It's one of dozens of interesting shots......
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11:31 PM Sun, Feb 03, 2008 | Permalink |
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Cyber-savvy town gets rich on eBay frauds - Times Online HUNDREDS of people in the poor Romanian town of Dragasani have grown rich by conning eBay online auction customers with deals that seem too good to be true - and......
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2:23 PM Sun, Feb 03, 2008 | Permalink |
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Photo by Sheila Lennon Change your ways: You've just bought a big new HDTV to watch the Super Bowl, had high-definition service installed, and now you're staring at an unfamiliar remote control. Sunday night, you tune to FOX at......
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5:02 AM Fri, Feb 01, 2008 | Permalink |
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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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3:00 AM Fri, Feb 01, 2008 | Permalink |
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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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