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May 2008 Archives
4:35 PM Fri, May 30, 2008 | Permalink |
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Real thrillseeking: Angola, it's not like they said. Posted last September by one of them, the story of five middle-aged Americans' motorcycle trip to Angola; at ADVrider, with many photos. Starve the good: Private Donor Gives Fermilab $5 Million.......
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9:42 PM Thu, May 29, 2008 | Permalink |
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All over the lot: AP There you are: The Telectroscope, London's window on New York at the Telegraph: It looks like something from the Victorian era, and its name sounds like a device from 1950s science fiction. The Telectroscope is......
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3:41 PM Wed, May 28, 2008 | Permalink |
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235 mpg: VW 1L My first car was a college graduation gift from my parents, a VW Beetle. They were cheap to run, and, except for trouble starting in the rain, great transportation. Their air-cooled engines didn't overheat in......
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1:14 AM Wed, May 28, 2008 | Permalink |
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Blame it on the book: Baseball Haiku: American and Japanese Haiku and Senryu on Baseball, edited with translations by Cor van den Heuvel and Nanae Tamura. Samples: Intentional walk -- Each fan winding up his own boo A blimp......
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8:26 AM Tue, May 27, 2008 | Permalink |
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Photo by Sheila Lennon Linux Journal editor and California proto-blogger Doc Searls and I met in comments on a blog almost six years ago, and since then we've emailed and blogged each other's posts but had never met. Until......
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8:48 AM Mon, May 26, 2008 | Permalink |
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The 10 best beer names ever In honor of the three-day weekend --made for sleeping, planting and barbecuing -- a column in the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times touting McQuire's I'll Have What The Gentleman On The Floor Is Having......
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10:35 AM Sun, May 25, 2008 | Permalink |
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The video is of Utah singing, telling stories and cracking political jokes at California's Strawberry Music Festival in 2007. More video here. Utah Phillips died in his sleep Friday night at 73. Mp3s: Hearing Voices from NPR offers these......
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7:27 AM Thu, May 22, 2008 | Permalink |
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Just as the weight of passing facts and information (glioma, Celona, Madonna) threatens to dry us up, the holiday weekend that kicks off summer is just ahead. Barbecue! Plant tomatoes! Parade! Drink beer! Beaches! Oldies! Visit graves! Geraniums! Indiana Jones...!......
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11:04 AM Wed, May 21, 2008 | Permalink |
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I've been really busy, up much of the night coding, and I'm identifying with the lady in this photo. Have a cow... Chilli the bull | Friesian is 6ft 6ins tall | Weighs 1.25 tonnes | Britain's biggest bull.......
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1:07 AM Tue, May 20, 2008 | Permalink |
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Strawberry Frozen Yogurt Recipe at Elise Bauer's lovely Simply Recipes. Strawberries are next up in the markets, and I want some of this. There's a grown-up version, too: Best to eat it on the same day as you make......
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11:18 AM Mon, May 19, 2008 | Permalink |
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The big blue marble is looking a little odd these days. If ETs were looking for planets with signs of life, how could they miss us now? ESA Multimedia Gallery From the European Space Agency, what the whole earth looks......
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1:09 PM Sun, May 18, 2008 | Permalink |
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When I was in college, a new boyfriend sent flowers by telegram, and I thanked him by telegram. He replied, and a flurry of telegrams went back and forth over a couple of hours, each witty message delivered voice by......
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7:17 PM Sat, May 17, 2008 | Permalink |
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The Psychotronic Guide to Archive.org (Archive.org collects moving images, recordings, live music and texts; its Wayback Machine preserves old Web pages from long-gone sites as well.) Wikipedia defines Psychotronic: Psychotronic is a film genre made up of horror films, spaghetti......
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2:00 PM Sat, May 17, 2008 | Permalink |
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There was some scrambling about video, but it amounted to nothing more than you can see now by turning on your TV. Steve Heaslip of the Cape Cod Times photographed Sen. Ted Kennedy as he was "transported on a stretcher......
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2:45 PM Fri, May 16, 2008 | Permalink |
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Photo / Sheila Lennon Phil Edmonds and fellow musician Joyce Katzberg last night at the Irish wake for Phil's mom. Providence musician Phil Edmonds' mom died Monday. From Maura Edmonds obituary, EDMONDS, MAURA M. (LARKIN), 88, passed away Monday......
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8:13 PM Thu, May 15, 2008 | Permalink |
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Ask a Working Woman Survey 2008: Once upon a time,not very long ago, our mothers (sisters, aunts, cousins and ourselves) brought forth on this continent, a new notion, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that when it comes......
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8:25 AM Thu, May 15, 2008 | Permalink |
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Between 10 a.m. and 10 p.m. today only, Dunkin' Donuts stores nationwide are giving away free 16-oz iced coffees. I live on iced coffee year-round, so this is a public service announcement.......
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10:54 AM Wed, May 14, 2008 | Permalink |
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Monogram, 1959. Robert Rauschenberg. Part of Our Picasso? at ArtNet . Robert Rauschenberg: Man at work. A goat story -- a stuffed angora goat story. The artist discusses his 1959 work Monogram as video of its installation rolls: ......
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7:45 AM Tue, May 13, 2008 | Permalink |
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Journal / Kris Craig The ultimate ethical meal: a grey squirrel The Guardian (U.K.) coos, It tastes sweet, like a cross between lamb and duck. And it's selling as fast as butchers can get it. That's in England, where......
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12:50 AM Mon, May 12, 2008 | Permalink |
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A few links noted along the way: An exhibition of Bob Dylan's artwork, first seen in November. in Germany at the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz (museum), is to open at the Halcyon Gallery in London's Mayfair June 14. "The Drawn Blank Series"......
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11:13 AM Sat, May 10, 2008 | Permalink |
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Friday night we watched a couple of good movies on the Cox Free Zone. A Simple Curve A Simple Curve has gorgeous scenery of the Kootenay Mountains of British Columbia and a good story. An American woodworker who went to......
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7:16 AM Sat, May 10, 2008 | Permalink |
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On safari in South Africa's Kruger National Park in 2004, tourist David Budzinski captures eight minutes of lions and an alligator attacking a baby cape buffalo, and its rescue by its tribe. A fellow traveler asks for a copy,......
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1:34 AM Fri, May 09, 2008 | Permalink |
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Mother's Day e-cards at WrongCards, a free, noncommercial site with the best shopping link on the Web. Not for traditionalists. But there's a card for the Mom who shows up at 2 a.m. at Twin River or Newport Grand this......
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11:53 AM Thu, May 08, 2008 | Permalink |
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Gary Greenberg. Each Grain of Sand a Tiny Work of Art: A photo gallery at Discover Magazine of beach sand from various parts of the world. Artist/scientist Gary Greenberg examined sand under a microscope. The images are from his......
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7:35 PM Wed, May 07, 2008 | Permalink |
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Tombstone today: From left, Justin Lyon, Joshua Lyon, Mark Taber, Adrienne West, Ken Lyon, Rick Bellaire, Gary "Guitar" Gramolini, Brenda Mosher Bennett, Don "D.C." Culp, Michael "Tunes" Antunes, Lori Lacaille Martin. At the Blackstone River Theatre in Cumberland Saturday......
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11:02 AM Tue, May 06, 2008 | Permalink |
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$1000 house. How to build yourself one. Lots more photos at that link, as well as the budget: $175 Home made tools (compass, stands, pounders, etc.) $150 Plywood arch forms (reusable) $120 Chicken wire $150 Professional backhoe excavation (2ft.......
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2:23 AM Tue, May 06, 2008 | Permalink |
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The Gospel of Consumption: And the better future we left behind A readable, smart essay at Orion Magazine about how we came to have so much stuff, and so little time. Worth a read. In a 1927 interview with the......
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12:45 AM Mon, May 05, 2008 | Permalink |
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Rainforest seeds revive lost paradise. A nice easy bit of good news for a Monday from the Guardian (U.K.) Six years ago the area around Samboja in Borneo was like much of the world's tropical rainforest: denuded. The trees......
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2:39 AM Sat, May 03, 2008 | Permalink |
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Superspud. Eccentric Roadside is my colleague Gunnar Johnson's roadtrips blog: One thing you notice after a lot of cross-country driving is how much there is out there that's mundane. We've grown to love the mundane in America — the......
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9:00 AM Fri, May 02, 2008 | Permalink |
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On April 18, Journal reporter Tom Morgan wrote about the cemetery vandalism in Smithfield in which 50 stones were toppled at Greenville Cemetery on Smith Avenue. (Volunteers sought to restore Smithfield headstones). Greenville photo blogger Linda Hawkins has posted some......
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7:22 AM Fri, May 02, 2008 | Permalink |
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Journal photo / Sandor Bodo Recalled heart drug Digitek is a generic form of digoxin, derived from the foxglove plant. International pharmaceutical firm Avatis, based in Iceland, recalled Digitek, its generic form of heart drug digoxin, April 25 "due......
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4:23 AM Thu, May 01, 2008 | Permalink |
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May Day: May breakfasts seem to be the last fossilized vestige of a bawdy spring tradition. Maypoles and Mayhem - The Traditions of Mayday at Dark Dorset, "The Official Blog to Dorset's premier website devoted to local folklore,customs, mysteries and......
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