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June 2008 Archives
6:20 AM Mon, Jun 30, 2008 | Permalink |
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One by one, projo blogs will take on a new look and new functions as we upgrade to Movable Type 4 today. We expect there'll be some cleanup, and that some new features won't be useful immediately. Blogs will remain......
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10:33 AM Sun, Jun 29, 2008 | Permalink |
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AP Vanilla Bean Lemonade Top ades: Lemonade recipes to freshen up your summer Looking good to me, The Rocky Mountain News's Sparkling Ginger Lemonade Serves 5 2 cups water 1 cup honey 2 tablespoons minced fresh ginger 2 cups......
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10:15 AM Sun, Jun 29, 2008 | Permalink |
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Five years ago today, Captain Joe Dempsey -- whom I've known since St. Augustine's School -- ferried Joe Landry and I down the river in his Water Taxi to the Hot Club, where we were married by Superior Court Justice......
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2:24 PM Sat, Jun 28, 2008 | Permalink |
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Our blogs upgrade, slated for this morning, will probably be postponed. A server glitch at the Texas internet provider that hosts the blogs hasn't been resolved yet. I've spent a few months building the upgraded templates and functions and want......
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7:30 AM Fri, Jun 27, 2008 | Permalink |
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Jimmy Cliff & Joe Higgs, Live in Ann Arbor, Mich., Nov 11, 1975, from BigO, Singapore. Jimmy Cliff calls Joe Higgs, the "Father of Reggae." According to Higgs' website (www.joehiggs.com), Higgs was hugely influential in the birth of ska,......
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7:00 AM Fri, Jun 27, 2008 | Permalink |
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Saturday morning we plan to upgrade the active projo blogs to a new version of the Movable Type software. All blogs will remain available during this process. Afterwards you’ll see a new look and some new features, and we’ll welcome......
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2:43 AM Thu, Jun 26, 2008 | Permalink |
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Strange and Beautiful Tattoos. Except for a couple that build the navel into the design, most are on the broad canvas of backs. Related: The Skins They Carried: Military tattoos in the age of Iraq. Texas Observer. To Ink......
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11:24 PM Wed, Jun 25, 2008 | Permalink |
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Full text: An epic Bill Gates e-mail rant Todd Bishop, who writes the Seattle P-I's Microsoft blog, went back through internal e-mails turned over in antitrust suits against Microsoft to find the record of this day in 2003 when founder......
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10:40 AM Wed, Jun 25, 2008 | Permalink |
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George Carlin, from his final special for HBO, It's Bad for Ya, which aired in March, and will be shown again Friday. MC at his own wake: Late comic George Carlin made 14 HBO specials over the years. The......
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12:26 PM Tue, Jun 24, 2008 | Permalink |
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Eric Clapton - Laidback Live at Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, New York, June 30 and September 29, 1974. 30 tracks. ...The tapes for the 1974 concerts remained in storage for a very long ti me. Only over the past 10......
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8:37 PM Mon, Jun 23, 2008 | Permalink |
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The (London) Times -- founded in 1785 as The Daily Universal Register, renamed The Times in 1788 and now owned by Rupert Murdoch -- has digitized its newspaper archives: * Every issue of The Times published between 1785-1985, digitally scanned......
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8:53 AM Mon, Jun 23, 2008 | Permalink |
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Farewell to George Carlin, Saturday Night Live's very first host, to whom no cow was too sacred: Religion has convinced people that there’s an invisible man…living in the sky, who watches everything you do every minute of every day. And......
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12:20 AM Sun, Jun 22, 2008 | Permalink |
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I loved snowglobes as a kid, although there wasn't usually much going on in them. The Chinese knockoffs in the discount stores in recent years are less magical. In these globes by artists Walter Martin and Paloma Munoz there's......
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11:39 AM Fri, Jun 20, 2008 | Permalink |
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Summer begins at 7:59 p.m., just about the time we'll be dining on our back porch. The skunks who live under our shed -- five babies this year -- will be just beginning their nightly foraging lessons, trailing mom along......
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12:18 AM Fri, Jun 20, 2008 | Permalink |
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Twitter / MarsPhoenix: Whoohoo! Was keeping my eye on some chunks of bright stuff & they disappeared! Sublimated! So it can't be salt, it's ice: http://is.gd/lFa about 3 hours ago from web Are you ready to celebrate? Well, get ready:......
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3:03 PM Thu, Jun 19, 2008 | Permalink |
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You may recall that in February 2007 we followed Shawn Rubin, a teacher at Providence's CVS Highlander School and cofounder of Providence nonprofit Longitude, when he went to Akeba, Ghana during school-vacation week. (Providence teacher bringing school aid to Ghana......
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9:55 AM Thu, Jun 19, 2008 | Permalink |
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South American-born sculptor Bruno Torfs has spent 25 years stocking Bruno's Art & Sculpture Garden in Marysville, Victoria in Southeastern Australia. Well over 100 of his works are on display in the rain forest. There's a Flash slideshow there,......
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10:39 AM Wed, Jun 18, 2008 | Permalink |
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Bob Dylan, Unravelled Tales [Hollow Horn, 2CD] Live at Carnegie Hall, New York, October 26, 1963. Nine tracks that didn't make the official Live at Carnegie Hall album. ...earlier in June 2008, Hollow Horn released Unravelled Tales, a two-CD set......
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5:37 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008 | Permalink |
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My colleague Beth Heaney, a projo.com designer, saw Boz Scaggs at the Newport Yachting Center last weekend, and sent me this note: I wasn't planning to go to see Boz Scaggs Saturday night, but my husband acquired a couple of......
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5:11 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008 | Permalink |
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Update: Mozilla.com is reachable again for Firefox 3 downloads. The Mozilla servers are unreachable due to the crush wanting to download Firefox 3, the first new version in three years. I stumbled quite accidentally on a working download link (for......
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4:11 PM Mon, Jun 16, 2008 | Permalink |
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Council bans 'anti-teen' gadget. BBC: A 2006 item about the device with the tone audible only to young people (Teens share ringtone grownups can't hear) was one of the most-read posts on this blog, ever. Now comes news that "Kent......
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1:28 AM Mon, Jun 16, 2008 | Permalink |
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I mentioned last month that the "pledge to download Firefox 3" campaign strikes me as silly. Even if their marketing geniuses have decided to try to set a record for most downloads in 24 hours tomorrow when Firefox 3 is......
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12:11 AM Sun, Jun 15, 2008 | Permalink |
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Photo / Sheila Lennon (Click it to see it larger.) Providence-born jazz saxophonist Scott Hamilton returned from his home in Europe for a reunion of the Hamilton-Bates Blue Flames Saturday night at Local 121. Original bassist Preston Hubbard was......
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2:15 AM Sat, Jun 14, 2008 | Permalink |
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Coming Tuesday, June 17th: Firefox 3. Mozilla Developer News: After more than 34 months of active development, and with the contributions of thousands, we’re proud to announce that we’re ready. It is our expectation to ship Firefox 3 this upcoming......
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12:14 AM Sat, Jun 14, 2008 | Permalink |
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I wonder if Tim Russert is sitting around tonight with John Cameron Swayze, Lawrence E. Spivak, Chet Huntley, Pauline Frederick, David Brinkley, John Chancellor and David Bloom, getting a briefing on his next assignment. He's probably trying to report on......
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6:18 AM Fri, Jun 13, 2008 | Permalink |
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Video from the nest: "The Internet Bird Collection (IBC) is a non-profit endeavour with the ultimate goal of disseminating knowledge about the world's avifauna. It is an on-line audiovisual library of footage of the world's birds that is available to......
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10:24 PM Wed, Jun 11, 2008 | Permalink |
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Jacques Donnez Ovulation moment caught on camera by a bystander, really. BBC: A human egg has been filmed in close-up emerging from the ovary for the first time, captured by chance during a routine operation.... Gynaecologist Dr Jacques Donnez......
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10:13 AM Wed, Jun 11, 2008 | Permalink |
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Getty Images, the huge stock photo agency, has made a toy that uses its vast archive of footage, photos and music clips to create an environment you can modify. Its called Moodstream: “Any mood can take you places,” says......
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11:05 AM Mon, Jun 09, 2008 | Permalink |
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Talk of closing school because of the 97-degree heat had a gaggle of us remembering June days decades ago when we trudged off to school in similar heat wearing knee socks, gabardine jumpers and dress pants. We had fans in......
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10:37 AM Sun, Jun 08, 2008 | Permalink |
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It was hot at Wellesley yesterday everywhere except in the living room of my old dorm. Putting my husband -- whom I hadn't yet met when I lived here -- into that scene is probably the closest I came......
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1:52 AM Fri, Jun 06, 2008 | Permalink |
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Obit: Poster artists Alton Kelley, left, and Stanley (Miller) Mouse, right, in this 1967 photo provided to AP by Evolutionary Media Group. Kelley died June 1 at 67 from complications of osteoporosis. Among Kelley's work, the iconic skull and roses......
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1:34 AM Wed, Jun 04, 2008 | Permalink |
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Bob Dylan: Child's Balloon [no label, 2CD] Live at the Saenger Performing Arts Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, November 10, 1981. "This is a re-release of the 1992 KTS CD entitled Stadiums of the Damned. A great release from the start,......
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11:26 AM Tue, Jun 03, 2008 | Permalink |
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Last Saturday I was sitting on the porch sipping a cool one, listening to the birds, watching my seedlings grow -- the perfect lazy almost-summer afternoon. Then Mad Max arrived, throbbing and noisier than standing next to the stack at......
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12:54 AM Tue, Jun 03, 2008 | Permalink |
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Young Bo 1958 1959 1960 boogie woogie flu and Sailor Jerry are providing the tunes for the R&B wake of Ellas McDaniel 1928-2008, Bo Diddley. The mother of all fan sites is David Blakey's Tripod pages, Bo Diddley - The......
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1:03 AM Mon, Jun 02, 2008 | Permalink |
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Hear: Can you hear shapes? Skilled at visual learning? Measure your musical-visual intelligence online! Fascinating and different right-brain test. If listening to a music clip and selecting the geometric shapes that represent it sounds beyond you, give it a shot.......
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8:22 AM Sun, Jun 01, 2008 | Permalink |
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Garden bully: Here lies a transplanted chocolate pepper seedling, chewed off and discarded by a curious and careless critter. It was our only pepper plant. Software bullies: The 10 most annoying programs on the Internet by Jody Gilbert at Tech......
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