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Native tomatoes $3.75 a lb.? Reaction to FCC
At the farmers' market at Hope High School this morning, native tomatoes were $3.50 and $3.75 a pound at little stands set up in the driveway. It's harvest time, and local food, and farmers' markets, are supposed to be cheaper...
August 2, 2008 10:28 pm
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Hipster's swan song? Posters
Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization by Douglas Haddow, the lead story in this month's magazine and online at Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters. The blurb for this anti-manifesto: We've reached a point in our civilization where counterculture has mutated into...
August 2, 2008 10:27 am
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Delicious redesigns; Stuffies, a quahogger's recipe
What's New on Delicious. Social bookmarking site Delicious -- it began Web life with the url http://del.icio.us, which still works -- redesigned its user interface, and offers that page explaining the changes and how to use them. Most considerate. For...
August 1, 2008 10:35 am
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Gilberto Gil: Brazil's Minister of Culture quits his day job; Video: Montreux jazz fest
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...
July 31, 2008 11:57 am
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R.I.P. Jeff Thomas, a Providence original
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...
July 31, 2008 9:08 am
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Survey seeks raw data about we who make Web sites
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...
July 30, 2008 9:49 pm
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Spokane paper names thousands of online buyers of phony degrees
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...
July 30, 2008 6:17 am
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Excerpt: Arthur C. Clarke's upcoming, and last, sci-fi novel
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...
July 29, 2008 10:29 am
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Which classic book are you ashamed to admit you have never read?
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...
July 29, 2008 1:21 am
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'12 Foods You Don't Have to Buy Organic' -- and one you might want to
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...
July 29, 2008 12:04 am
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Cuil launches: Ex-Googlers take a whack at idea-based search
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...
July 28, 2008 9:04 am
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Art: NYC streets, '30s show in Ottawa, Paris in the '50s
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...
July 27, 2008 4:34 pm
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