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August 2008 Archives
9:38 AM Sun, Aug 31, 2008 | Permalink |
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Sparring and snarking, online and off. Exit heroine, enter ingenue. Hot new player. Change.......
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11:56 AM Fri, Aug 29, 2008 | Permalink |
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"On Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2006, former small-town Wasilla, Alaska mayor Sarah Palin bucked the national trend of "Black Tuesday" for Republicans to successfully be elected to be the next governor of the AK. This is one of the commercials......
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1:52 AM Fri, Aug 29, 2008 | Permalink |
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Barack Obama accepts the Democratic Presidential nomination in Denver. Transcript at NYT.......
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10:27 PM Wed, Aug 27, 2008 | Permalink |
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Transcript of former President Bill's Clinton's speech, from the New York Times.......
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10:15 PM Wed, Aug 27, 2008 | Permalink |
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I 1) am on vacation and 2) minored in American history, so I love primary sources. Here's the text of Sen. Reed's speech.......
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9:45 AM Wed, Aug 27, 2008 | Permalink |
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C-Span video. Transcript at the New York Times.......
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10:36 AM Tue, Aug 26, 2008 | Permalink |
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Ted Kennedy: Run for the White House 1980. PBS' The American Experience, November 1980. Open convention: 1980 Democratic National Convention. From Wikipedia, The 1980 National Convention of the U.S. Democratic Party nominated President Jimmy Carter for President and Vice......
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10:51 AM Mon, Aug 25, 2008 | Permalink |
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From NBC's Today Show, here's the video of Meredith's segment on her roots in the Azores: Friday's post: This Providence Journal photo, dated Feb. 25, 1985, accompanied a story headlined "Portuguese honor Meredith Vieira" that began, Nearly 700 people gathered......
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9:52 AM Mon, Aug 25, 2008 | Permalink |
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Howlin' Wolf & The Wolf Gang, Live at Ebbets Field, Denver, Colo., August 23, 1973. Excellent pre-FM stereo. ...fans got the whole works - from swinging blues to low-down dirty blues, albeit within a span of 10 songs. And......
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10:12 AM Thu, Aug 21, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
Made you look: Food Porn Daily: click, drool, repeat. Taking food photography to a new level of detail. Thumbnail gallery. The authors are Amanda & Tyler from What We're Eating and Nicole from Pinch My Salt -- more conventional......
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8:27 AM Wed, Aug 20, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
Prime blues: Buddy Guy & Stevie Ray Vaughan: Live at the Lone Star Cafe, New York, NYC, April 14, 1986. 18 tracks. ...this is probably the first time a first generation soundboard (recording) of the show has surfaced. Also:......
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11:25 AM Tue, Aug 19, 2008 | Permalink |
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Feeding the fish, a street painting by Belgian "pavement artist" Julian Beever. The Providence Street Painting Festival is Sept. 27. The "street" is the outdoor Bank of America Skating Center downtown. Applications are available now. I've been seeing lots......
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2:00 AM Tue, Aug 19, 2008 | Permalink |
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Jimi Hendrix, Voodo Chile, live at Woodstock, Aug. 18, 1969. 10:31 Top 10 Songs Over 10 Minutes Long . Jazz and live versions (and classical, as well) not included. At JamsBio Biolog. Dylan's Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands (11:23)......
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8:53 AM Mon, Aug 18, 2008 | Permalink |
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I can't be the only one shocked by the prices at the farmer's market at Hope High School Saturday morning. Fortunately, there are bargains to be had on the edges. Kathryn Fanning, selling produce from Cook's Valley Farm in......
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11:36 PM Fri, Aug 15, 2008 | Permalink |
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Talkin' about food tonight: Fish minefield: Top Ten Sustainable Fish Choices and Ten Fish You Should Avoid Eating. The former are prolific and/or farmed, the latter mostly disappearing or badly mercurial. Commenters liven it up, quibble, carp. This is from......
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11:51 AM Fri, Aug 15, 2008 | Permalink |
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"Cloud computing" is all the buzz. It helps to know that the "cloud" is the Internet as opposed, I guess, to the "ground" of your personal hard drive. Demystifying this stuff: Using your Web browser to get to software that......
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9:42 AM Fri, Aug 15, 2008 | Permalink |
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Isaac Hayes, Live at the Indianapolis Jazz Fest, June 19, 1999. Excellent soundboard recording, 9 tracks. Just quickly noting this, in the wake of the man's death last weekend, because "By 1999, Hayes would have been better known as......
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8:24 AM Thu, Aug 14, 2008 | Permalink |
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AP reports today (Newly released files detail early US spy network), Before Julia Child became known to the world as a leading chef, she admitted at least one failing when applying for a job as a spy: impulsiveness. Details about......
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7:28 PM Tue, Aug 12, 2008 | Permalink |
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Nigel Kennedy Quintet with guest star Jeff Beck. Live at the Royal Albert Hall, July 19, 2008. Nigel Kennedy might be known for Vivaldi's Four Seasons but the violinist has his rock side and is no stranger to either......
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1:24 AM Tue, Aug 12, 2008 | Permalink |
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Next lives: Job hunting for newspaper copy editors. Given the buyouts on the table throughout the newspaper industry, longtime blogger and copy editor Tom Mangan of the San Jose Mercury News offers some suggestions for non-newspaper jobs "working for somebody......
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11:40 AM Mon, Aug 11, 2008 | Permalink |
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Providence Journal files The original caption: "Jubilant Rhode Islanders on Aug.14, 1945 - - Mothers' pie pans came in for a beating as the small fry congregated in front of City Hall shortly after the first announcement." It's a......
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11:58 PM Sun, Aug 10, 2008 | Permalink |
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Isaac Hayes with Soul II Soul - Papa Was A Rolling Stone Isaac Hayes, Memphis soul legend, dead at 65. Memphis Commercial Appeal. Legendary soul music performer Isaac Hayes died this afternoon after he was found unconscious in his......
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1:35 AM Sat, Aug 09, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
Styrofoam dome homes at Pink Tentacle. Made by Japan Dome House, "kits start at around 3 million yen (under $30,000), which does not include the cost of transport, assembly, interior construction, etc." Dwellings larger than the basic 25-foot igloo......
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8:08 AM Fri, Aug 08, 2008 | Permalink |
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In 2005, Provflux staged a fashion show runway across the Providence River. Tomorrow there's a "Ferry Fashion Show :: time TBA :: top deck of the Block Island Ferry" from Point Judith. Provflux V -- billed as "urban adventures......
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12:13 PM Thu, Aug 07, 2008 | Permalink |
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Summer Soups: A Cool Quartet: Recipes at NPR (text, not radio). These are actually all on the same page; the links take you to their positions on the page: Cold Velvet Corn Soup, Cool Mixed Berry Soup, Chilled Roasted......
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11:24 AM Thu, Aug 07, 2008 | Permalink |
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I've been clicking on the "Not now" button for the latest Firefox 3.0.1 security upgrade because I would lose the essential, to me, functions of Tab Mix Plus, which the upgrade disables. -- I use "duplicate tab" all the time......
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12:29 AM Thu, Aug 07, 2008 | Permalink |
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Tesla Founder Martin Eberhard's first impressions in the Roadster. On Twitter, "We Need A Fake Follow." Michael Arrington of TechCrunch finds it rude to not follow a Twitter who follows him, but he's got too many "friends." He'd like to......
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9:00 AM Wed, Aug 06, 2008 | Permalink |
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Fan videos of Newport Folk Festival 2008 are arriving at YouTube, clips of perfomances and the scene at Fort Adams last weekend. (This link should stay good, catching new footage as they're uploaded.) Samples of the 47 clips there so......
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3:37 PM Tue, Aug 05, 2008 | Permalink |
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The Right Brain vs Left Brain test at PerthNow. A dancer twirls. I see her moving in a clockwise circle. This means, says the page, that I'm right-brained. "Most of us would see the dancer turning anti-clockwise though you can......
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12:06 AM Tue, Aug 05, 2008 | Permalink |
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facesaerch: "Find people with this one-click face search." You can find out what your high school sweetheart might look like now. Facesaerch -- yup, that æ is a ligature, not a misspelling -- filters everything but faces out of Google......
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12:25 PM Mon, Aug 04, 2008 | Permalink |
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The New York Times travel section swoops in and brings back a bulleted list: 36 Hours in Providence, R.I. It begins with an unfortunate and baffling lead: "An Ivy League college, a cutting-edge art school and top-flight chefs have helped......
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2:15 AM Mon, Aug 04, 2008 | Permalink |
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Invisible Streetlight by Jongoh Lee: Solar-powered streetlights with flexible bodies attach to trees. Click to enlarge. And at night, you see fireflies: Techpin reports that it's "made of double injection of silicon and aluminum materials, contain a photocapacitor and......
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10:28 PM Sat, Aug 02, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
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......
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10:27 AM Sat, Aug 02, 2008 | Permalink |
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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......
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10:35 AM Fri, Aug 01, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
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......
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