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March 2008 Archives
2:23 PM Sun, Mar 30, 2008 | Permalink |
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Links for a lazy day. Unattributed illusion, without context on a site in Italian. The White House losers : The Guardian (U.K.) talks to Presidential election losers: George McGovern, Walter Mondale, Geraldine Ferraro, Bob Dole, Michael Dukakis. It's a tiny,......
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9:43 AM Sat, Mar 29, 2008 | Permalink |
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APDemocratic presidential candidates former Sen. John Edwards, Sen. Hillary Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama before the presidential debate at St. Anselm's College in Manchester, N.H., June 3, 2007. I've been curious about why John Edwards hasn't endorsed anyone yet,......
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9:46 AM Fri, Mar 28, 2008 | Permalink |
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At the Artists' Exchange in Cranston, a day-long festival tomorrow celebrates Rhode Island women artists, artisans, musicians and filmmakers. Part of a first annual worldwide observation called SWAN Day -- an acronym for Support Women Artists Now -- performances......
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12:22 AM Thu, Mar 27, 2008 | Permalink |
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Adobe Photoshop Express launched at midnight. About it: First Look: Adobe Launches Photoshop Express, Competition Beware has screenshots of the tools and interface. But you'll probably have to join and play with it to see whether it's useful to you.......
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2:26 AM Wed, Mar 26, 2008 | Permalink |
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The chute found near Amboy, Wash. (map) FBI: Found parachute may be D.B. Cooper's* , from KOMO TV, Seattle, with video and a surprisingly long text story (for TV site). Here's how it happened: the parachute, which was recently......
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10:46 PM Mon, Mar 24, 2008 | Permalink |
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Greg and Denise Bass, Rui Ishido and Journal photographer Bob Breidenbach, whom they ran into at the Tokyo Dome. Greg and Denise met Rui at a Yankees game at Fenway last summer, and he got them tickets for this......
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8:39 AM Sun, Mar 23, 2008 | Permalink |
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Right time, right place: "Oyvind Tangen, 62, was on board the research ship G O Sars when he photographed the unusual ice formation, floating a few miles off the coast of the frozen continent." The Telegraph (U.K.) has the......
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11:11 PM Fri, Mar 21, 2008 | Permalink |
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How To Make Golden Chocolate Easter Eggs Way too much work for a fumble-fingers like me -- you actually have to prick both ends, break the yolks with a needle and blow out the liquids, then refill them with......
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5:23 PM Fri, Mar 21, 2008 | Permalink |
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Mother Earth News magazine has launched a handy tool, a Seed and Plant Finder It's a Google-based specialized search of more than 150 garden catalogs, with an emphasis on vegetables, to start, although flowers and herbs turn up, too. It's......
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12:52 PM Fri, Mar 21, 2008 | Permalink |
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We're not hungry this year. Other years, we made butterflied lamb and feasted, but this year, we're looking at deviled eggs, salad, fruit... But spring brings lots of new choices. Here are some that showed up this week on the......
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4:39 AM Thu, Mar 20, 2008 | Permalink |
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Photo / Sheila Lennon Keyboards and strings often find their way into pianist Mark Taber's humorous creations. Happy spring. If you're up for a celebration, here's the press release. Art Show: Featuring Mark Taber! @ Above Providence Optical Thursday,......
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8:00 AM Tue, Mar 18, 2008 | Permalink |
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Updated throughout, with a new ending. Saturday -- when I couldn't do a thing about it -- the mailman brought a dreaded letter from City Hall, the one marked on the back in huge type, Important! Tax bill enclosed Open......
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6:52 AM Tue, Mar 18, 2008 | Permalink |
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Mary Cassatt, Lady at the Tea Table, 1883–85 My corned beef and cabbage recipe attracted attention all weekend, but the classic meal was never served in my mother's lace-curtain Irish household. "Cabbage smells up the house," Mom would say,......
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3:16 PM Sat, Mar 15, 2008 | Permalink |
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N.Y. Times The way we were: But it's not us. It's former Brooklynite Benjamin Shute and Miriam Latzer, who run Hearty Roots farm in Tivoli, N.Y., and sell food grown on the 25-acre organic farm. Leaving Behind the Trucker......
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3:44 PM Thu, Mar 13, 2008 | Permalink |
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Consider this a public service announcement. We know there are folks tackling their first "Irish Day" in the kitchen, wondering how to do it. Last Sunday, I made this recipe for the family. It was terrific. And easy. Can't go......
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2:48 AM Wed, Mar 12, 2008 | Permalink |
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Beauty and the Blogs, a too-short item at the Utne Reader Science and Technology blog, begins, Tech-savvy men often bathe in the media limelight, from Rolling Stone and New Yorker profiles to the reality TV show Beauty and the Geek,......
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11:37 AM Sun, Mar 09, 2008 | Permalink |
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Gridiron dinner: The tribune's Swamp blog gets the good stuff the annual press shindig: Bush's Texan farewell: Brown, brown grass of home. by Mark Silva This is the first of all press reports, and a full Swamp there's-got-to-be-a-morning-after account from......
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4:19 PM Sat, Mar 08, 2008 | Permalink |
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The exchange between MSNBC's Tucker Carlson and The Scotsman's Gerri Peev, preserved on YouTube. It's also on MSNBC after you watch a 30-second commercial. At Salon, Glenn Greenwald hits hard on MSNBC's Tucker Carlson, and extends it to NBC's......
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12:42 PM Sat, Mar 08, 2008 | Permalink |
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PDN's 30 2008 is Photo District News magazine's choice of 30 new and emerging photographers to watch. There are some fashion shots, which seem stylized, but the more interesting ones are of ordinary people. From two 26-year-old photographers, vastly different......
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11:03 AM Fri, Mar 07, 2008 | Permalink |
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I'm still in the code bubble. New posthumous listens: Miles Davis Quintet: New Brunswick 1969 Peter Tosh: Equal Rights Demos......
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2:52 PM Thu, Mar 06, 2008 | Permalink |
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Along the way this week, I saved these links for today. I'm off in an undisclosed location now, coding the new blogs. Hello from the bubble. Show your goodness: Online photo giant Flickr giving away 10K pro memberships (to nonprofits).......
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10:48 AM Wed, Mar 05, 2008 | Permalink |
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Tales for the grandkids: Over at the blog on his MySpace site, longtime R.I. musician Mark Cutler (Schemers, Raindogs, Dino Club) writes about playing at RIC Sunday with Dino Club bandmates Mike Tanaka and Bob Giusti before Sen. Barack Obama's......
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12:19 AM Wed, Mar 05, 2008 | Permalink |
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Alan De Smet photo Gary Gygax at at the gaming convention Gen Con Indy 2007 last Aug. 16. Dungeons & Dragons co-creator dies at 69: MILWAUKEE (AP) -- Gary Gygax, who co-created the fantasy game Dungeons & Dragons and......
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4:00 AM Tue, Mar 04, 2008 | Permalink |
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Grow2, "solar leaves" developed for residential use; click on the image to see what the leaves look like fluttering in the wind. Brilliant: Solar leaves, inspired by ivy, flutter in the wind and harvest power from both wind and......
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2:54 PM Sun, Mar 02, 2008 | Permalink |
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Saturday, Hillary Clinton left the press corps in Dallas boarding a flight to Ohio while she secretly flew to New York to appear on Saturday Night Live; Monday night, on the eve of Tuesday's primaries in Rhode Island, Ohio, Texas......
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10:04 AM Sat, Mar 01, 2008 | Permalink |
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White House photo by Eric Draper George W. Bush and Bob Geldof aboard Air Force One en route to Ghana, Africa, Feb. 19, 2008 Geldof and Bush: Diary From the Road, by Bob Geldof in Time. Former Boomtown Rat......
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