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Movies worth watching: 'A Simple Curve,' 'Mantis Parable'
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...
May 10, 2008 11:13 am
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YouTube tourist safari video gets an hour on National Geographic TV Sunday night
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,...
May 10, 2008 7:16 am
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These Mother's Day cards are just... wrong
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...
May 9, 2008 1:34 am
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Beach sand magnified; Raped reporter tells tale; RIP jazzman Jimmy Giuffre
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...
May 8, 2008 11:53 am
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Weekend gig: Ken Lyon & Tombstone unplugged Saturday
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...
May 7, 2008 7:35 pm
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$1,000 house for do-it-yourselfers: The Art of Natural Building
$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....
May 6, 2008 11:02 am
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How we became 'consumers'; Free mp3s: U2 '87; New groceries review site
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...
May 6, 2008 2:23 am
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Reviving a rainforest to give orangutans a home
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...
May 5, 2008 12:45 am
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