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July 2008 Archives
11:57 AM Thu, Jul 31, 2008 | Permalink |
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AP Gilberto Gil, until yesterday Brazil's Minister of Culture, at the Montreux, Switzerland, Jazz Festival earlier this month. When Gilberto Gil became his country's Minister of Culture in 2003, the gig must have been more than sweet to the......
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9:08 AM Thu, Jul 31, 2008 | Permalink |
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Pajama man: His death was announced on Buddy Cianci's radio show -- of natural causes, in his sleep, a quiet, conventional end which no one would have predicted. Jeff Thomas always wore pajama bottoms, and usually kid's pajamas on his......
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9:49 PM Wed, Jul 30, 2008 | Permalink |
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The Survey for People Who Make Websites, 2008 at A List Apart: ...nobody bothered to conduct a serious inquiry into the working conditions of people who make websites until A List Apart launched its first survey in 2007. Last year......
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6:17 AM Wed, Jul 30, 2008 | Permalink |
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Buyers of bogus degrees named: The Spokane (Wash.) Spokesman-Review outs the customers of who bought degrees from one of these nonexistent online universities and high schools such as Saint Regis University, or fake degrees from real schools. Here's the searchable......
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10:29 AM Tue, Jul 29, 2008 | Permalink |
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The Last Theorem by Arthur C Clarke and Frederik Pohl. The Telegraph publishes an excerpt from Arthur C Clarke's final book of science fiction, written with Frederik Pohl, available August 5. Its topic: the first Lunar Olympics -- the one-sixth......
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1:21 AM Tue, Jul 29, 2008 | Permalink |
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Great Unread Books: Which classic are you ashamed to admit you have never read? The Telegraph (UK) asked the question with a camera running. Respectable authors made shameful confessions at England's Ways With Words festival; watch them below. Now it's......
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12:04 AM Tue, Jul 29, 2008 | Permalink |
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12 Foods You Don't Have to Buy Organic Dr. Andrew Weil says, "Of the 43 different fruit and vegetable categories tested, the following twelve foods do not have to be organic. These had the lowest pesticide load, and consequently are......
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9:04 AM Mon, Jul 28, 2008 | Permalink |
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Later: I just noticed that Cuil's result for "cuil" are all about Ireland. New search engine Cuil (pronounced "cool") launched last night, the brainchild of ex-Google employees. From the info page, Rather than rely on superficial popularity metrics, Cuil searches......
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4:34 PM Sun, Jul 27, 2008 | Permalink |
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Sometimes I'm out of words, just want to look at good pictures. From right now, from back when. Here are today's... A detail from a mural near the docks in Red Hook (Brooklyn) by Jake Dobkin (blog: Bluejake). His Flickr......
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8:28 AM Sat, Jul 26, 2008 | Permalink |
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Guinea pig festival in Peru The Telegraph (UK) offers eight photos of guinea pigs -- three in a fashion show (held by women in the colorful costumes of the Andes), one of them eating corn on the cob, and......
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7:24 AM Sat, Jul 26, 2008 | Permalink |
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I'm late with this, but it's still worth putting out there. Naked habits: From FCC hearing: disagreement over the "broadband of tomorrow" at Ars Technica July 21: Apart from AT&T's contention that building out network capacity to meet ongoing demand......
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12:27 PM Fri, Jul 25, 2008 | Permalink |
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Randy Pausch, noted CMU prof, succumbs to cancer. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Randy Pausch, the Carnegie Mellon University computer science professor whose final lecture inspired millions, died early today in Virginia of pancreatic cancer. Dr. Pausch, 47, who turned the lecture into......
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11:45 AM Fri, Jul 25, 2008 | Permalink |
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Led Zeppelin: The Conspiracy Of Silence, Live at Sports Arena, San Diego, March 14, 1975. For decades after the breakup of Led Zeppelin, fans were led to believe there was nothing left in the vaults worthy of release. Then in......
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4:33 PM Thu, Jul 24, 2008 | Permalink |
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Providence, Rhode Island is partly responsible for the food problem in World.. So writes blogger "Raag," of Blacksburg, Va., after a trip to Providence for a conference. Here's a bit of it: ...Any restaurant I went to served huge amount......
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9:00 AM Thu, Jul 24, 2008 | Permalink |
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Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band: Mr. Bright Eyes is set to release an eponymously titled (i.e., just his name) album. It's all streaming at that link. Or you can preorder it on CD for $13, or on......
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10:08 PM Wed, Jul 23, 2008 | Permalink |
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More storms, tropical rain on the porch's canvas roof. The view from the deck, with morning glories.......
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11:15 AM Wed, Jul 23, 2008 | Permalink |
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Medpedia, a medical version of wikipedia where only medical professionals may create and edit pages, launched in preview (1,000 pages) today. Full launch is planned for year's end. L.A. Times: Medpedia Project aims to create an online encyclopedia of health......
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11:58 PM Tue, Jul 22, 2008 | Permalink |
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Loyd Case's Sunnyvale, Calif., house with new solar panels. Going Solar: At ExtremeTech, Loyd Case, back in January, decided to replace much of his $4,400 annual electric bill -- he has lots of computers -- with solar panels. By......
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9:30 AM Tue, Jul 22, 2008 | Permalink |
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Food stylists are folks who make food look wonderful for photography. (It may not all really be food -- shaving cream won't deflate like whipped cream, and glycerin or varnish can make fruit sparkle,) At international recipe-sharing site Open......
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1:48 AM Mon, Jul 21, 2008 | Permalink |
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Friday night: Close call. The view from the porch was a horizontal treetop with 9-foot-tall branches. Sunday: What's left where it landed is less than half as long as the Scotch pine branch that fell. After Friday night's lightning......
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3:30 PM Sat, Jul 19, 2008 | Permalink |
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The James Brown Collection was auctioned Thursday at Christie's in New York, fetching $857,688 (or $857,562, depending on where you see it on that site). (London) Times Online: Godfather of Sold: James Brown auction raises $850,000. "His estate has been......
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10:19 AM Sat, Jul 19, 2008 | Permalink |
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I was on our back screen porch when the storm came, sudden, strong and hard, shortly after 9 p.m. Friday night. I heard a way-too-loud crack and bolted, instinctively retreating back to the kitchen without stopping to think. Our......
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12:03 AM Fri, Jul 18, 2008 | Permalink |
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Hot and humid today, highs in the mid-90s. It may be too hot to type later, and it's already too hot to think. Let's drink icy coolers and listen to tunes. Tutti Frutti Punch at Ohio.com (Sipping just got a......
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6:14 AM Thu, Jul 17, 2008 | Permalink |
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I mentioned last week that my vacation reading included a translated-from-Swedish mystery, Detective Inspector Huss. Irene Huss has two teenage daughters, a chef husband and a band of colorful colleagues. It's well written, with lots of good dialogue moving the......
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9:20 AM Wed, Jul 16, 2008 | Permalink |
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JibJab's It's Time for Some Campaignin' has a catchy tune -- Dylan's The Times They Are A'Changin'. There is no other resemblance.......
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11:52 AM Tue, Jul 15, 2008 | Permalink |
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WFMU, best known for its Beware of the Blog blog, has announced that it will be launching a Free Music Archive funded by a grant from the New York State Music Fund: Coming soon: an online digital library of music......
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10:10 AM Mon, Jul 14, 2008 | Permalink |
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We're finally finished converting the active projo blogs to Movable Type 4.12, a labor that began months ago and finally bore fruit this morning when the flagship Projo 7 to 7 News Blog started publishing in the new templates. The......
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8:17 AM Sun, Jul 13, 2008 | Permalink |
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Journal photo / Ruben W. Perez Providence storyteller Len Cabral and his wife Judy dance last night to the music of the Cape Verdean Allstars at WaterPlace park, part of the Black Rep's Providence SoundSession '08. The fifth annual......
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3:07 AM Fri, Jul 11, 2008 | Permalink |
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Photo / Sheila Lennon Click photo for larger image The waterfall at the Old Grist Mill Tavern in Seekonk, Mass., is often a torrent coming off the pond, with white water roiling below. Yesterday, it was just a couple......
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11:25 AM Thu, Jul 10, 2008 | Permalink |
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Watermelon Salad with Feta or Cotija Recipe at Simply Recipes. I'm with Elise here: Call me unadventurous, but I had never even heard of a watermelon feta salad before versions of it started popping up on food blogs everywhere.......
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12:40 PM Wed, Jul 09, 2008 | Permalink |
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Live blogging the Senate FISA vote today (Update: final vote 69 aye -28 nay. Passed. Barack Obama (and Sheldon Whitehouse) voted for it, Hillary Clinton (and Jack Reed) voted against it -- the netroots seem to have picked the wrong......
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12:46 AM Wed, Jul 09, 2008 | Permalink |
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Interactive 3-D chat room created using Google's new Lively site by tech writer Mike Elgan. Google's new Lively offers virtual chatrooms on the Web, launched yesterday as a teenspace but perhaps born to host virtual meetings and small press......
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2:30 AM Tue, Jul 08, 2008 | Permalink |
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Summer Books Season. Back in May, the lovely Worth Reading blog began compiling links to summer reading lists, and it's grown quite large. Now that I'm on vacation, I'm interested. You can check the R.I. libraries catalogue online to see......
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1:11 AM Mon, Jul 07, 2008 | Permalink |
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I'm on vacation, living the timeless life. These caught my eye: TV picture is bad: What happens after TV's mainframe era ends next February? Linux Journal Senior Editor Doc Searls calls the reassuring government messages about the switch to digital......
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5:30 AM Sat, Jul 05, 2008 | Permalink |
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AP Protesting members of the internation relief group Oxfam portraying Group of Eight leaders belt out karaoke tunes at Sapporo, northern Japan, on Saturday, July 5, 2008. The G8 leaders, representing the U.S., Japan, Britain, France, Germany, Russia, Italy......
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1:55 AM Fri, Jul 04, 2008 | Permalink |
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AP Last night in Addison, Texas. Email from a longtime reader: Sheila, Happy Birthday!! And many more!! As I've mentioned before, my birthday is the 4th. That makes you 1 day older... and wiser (we won't worry about years).......
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9:13 AM Thu, Jul 03, 2008 | Permalink |
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Me today, America tomorrow. Some of my earliest memories involve sparklers, and fireworks in the sky as everybody celebrated with me. We're starting the party with three generations heading for a South County beach. We'll figure out which one......
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1:12 AM Wed, Jul 02, 2008 | Permalink |
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Ron Mueck: Hyper-Realist Sculptor at paintalicious. Startling is good, gets you off center. More photos and comments at the link.......
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9:35 AM Tue, Jul 01, 2008 | Permalink |
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However you got here, this is not my current blog. That's here, at shenews.projo.com. Let me know how you ended up here, please, with the email link on any blog entry there. See you on on the new site. The......
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