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12:23 PM Tue, Sep 30, 2008 | Permalink |
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"I voted against the bill because it gave the Secretary of the Treasury -- a political appointee -- unfettered control over the execution of the bailout program. If the bill had passed, the Secretary of the Treasury would have had......
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12:44 AM Tue, Sep 30, 2008 | Permalink |
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WILLIE NELSON, THE PRETENDERS, JERRY LEE LEWIS Farm Aid 2008. Live at the Comcast Center, Mansfield, Massachusetts, September 20, 2008. TV HD broadcast. JOHN MELLENCAMP Farm Aid 2008 [no label, 1CD] Massachusetts, September 20, 2008. Ex(cellent) digital broadcast stereo. BigO......
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12:22 AM Mon, Sep 29, 2008 | Permalink |
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Photo by Sheila Lennon. Click the image to enlarge it. The Wood River at Bradford, R.I., off Rt. 216, last Wednesday. The river is primeval along much of the looping stretch upstream from here. The colors are just beginning......
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11:16 AM Fri, Sep 26, 2008 | Permalink |
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Still on vacation, back from the woods, rained in with a book... Recommended Mystery Novels. Cosma Shalizi's big list: Hundreds of them, with some annotation. Take this one to the library with you. When Books Could Change Your Life: Why......
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8:53 AM Tue, Sep 23, 2008 | Permalink |
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If you want to sniff around the economics blogs about the bailout plan, Aaron Schiff's 26econ.com makes it easy. This Economics Blog Directory & Ranking lists 279 economics blogs in order of their Technorati rank. (This is just a place......
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11:33 AM Mon, Sep 22, 2008 | Permalink |
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This financial mess started as Save Wall Street, but may end up as Save Everybody. Dealing the cards again isn't a bad idea. Get Hillary somewhere in the thick of it. With that, I'm on vacation, time to pull back......
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8:50 PM Sat, Sep 20, 2008 | Permalink |
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I don't have much money, but I have a bank account, a 401k and a frozen pension, a job and a house with a mortgage. I don't know how many I'll still have when forces I don't understand announce "We're......
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12:52 PM Fri, Sep 19, 2008 | Permalink |
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AP Photo Engineer Stewart Huxley views The Corpus Clock, a new installation at Corpus Christi College at the University of Cambridge unveiled today by Stephen Hawking. It's nearly four feet in diameter. YouTube link: The Corpus Clock & Chronophage.......
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7:21 PM Thu, Sep 18, 2008 | Permalink |
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It's a free Blogger blog (owned by Google) called too. Sergei Brin, co-founder and President of Technology at Google, explains the name in an inaugural post : While Google is a play on googol, too is a play on the......
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12:12 AM Thu, Sep 18, 2008 | Permalink |
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My Family's No-Buy Experiment at Reader's Digest. Timely story about a family that took saving money to the max and grew to like it: The rules were that we would buy nothing for 30 days except absolute essentials, like fresh......
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7:32 PM Wed, Sep 17, 2008 | Permalink |
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The FarmAid concert -- in nearby Mansfield, Mass., this year -- is sold out, but you can still watch it. "FarmAid.org will also feature a free live webcast of the entire concert starting at 4pm." It's also on DirecTV. Organizers......
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10:49 AM Wed, Sep 17, 2008 | Permalink |
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Social bookmarking -- users submitting links for others to check out and comment on -- is one way to find new sites; tagging allows readers to find all the submitted links on one topic. But while megasites Digg and Reddit......
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5:03 PM Tue, Sep 16, 2008 | Permalink |
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The Internet Movie Database (IMDb). which turns 18 on Oct. 17, finally offers video -- full-length movies and TV shows. From TechCrunch, ...The site -- acquired in 1998 by Amazon -- will now offer 6,000 movies and TV shows free......
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11:28 AM Tue, Sep 16, 2008 | Permalink |
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Sometimes, when I'm gathering links for a blog or projo topic, I wish I could save all the tabs in one window as html links, with page titles, already formatted as a list. It would save a lot of copying......
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1:01 AM Tue, Sep 16, 2008 | Permalink |
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A few interesting tech links. The Energy Ball V100 installed at Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam. Energy Ball - A Cheap And Efficient Wind Turbine. Device Daily writes, Home Energy is a Swedish company which has designed a new wind turbine that......
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6:16 AM Mon, Sep 15, 2008 | Permalink |
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It's time to tear away from the fascinating cultural pole positions of the four candidates campaigning for president and vice president and notice that the economy is tanking. We're auditioning McCain and Obama, Biden and Palin to act on headlines......
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9:10 AM Sun, Sep 14, 2008 | Permalink |
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Tina Fey As Sarah Palin On SNL- 09/13/08, with Amy Poehler as Hillary. The caricatures take both over the top.......
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7:23 AM Sun, Sep 14, 2008 | Permalink |
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Links dump on a Sunday morning. I cooked a turkey to bring to my daughter's housewarming yesterday. My house smells tantalizingly like roast turkey, but there's not a bite to be had. Truth in logos: NFL logos remade to reflect......
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11:41 PM Fri, Sep 12, 2008 | Permalink |
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The Allman Brothers Band, Live at A&R Studios, New York, August 26, 1971 and broadcast on WPLJ-FM. A stereo FM broadcast. From the long blurb at BigO: "It's a killer show from the Allmans, at the peak of their career."......
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10:00 AM Fri, Sep 12, 2008 | Permalink |
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"...I realized that no one has placed a name or face or emotion on these traumatic events in our industry. I think that voice needs to be heard. What echoed in my mind was that the trauma could have been......
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10:51 PM Thu, Sep 11, 2008 | Permalink |
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Night of the Living Dead, 1968. Directed by George A. Romero; starring Judith O'Dea & Duane Jones. I've enlarged this 175 percent from the original, which you can watch (320x260) at PublicDomainFlicks.com. The site offers free mpeg downloads and......
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12:39 AM Thu, Sep 11, 2008 | Permalink |
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My brain can only take so much particle physics. Oct. 21 is the earliest date for particles to collide and unknowns to emerge. Till then... Eavesdropping: Frank Zappa - The Weasel Music Acetate 1969 "But then... In an envelope addressed......
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11:17 AM Wed, Sep 10, 2008 | Permalink |
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Update: It worked. AP photo In Switzerland, a CERN scientist controls a computer screen showing traces of the first protons injected in the Large Hadron Collider as they begin a 5 1/2-hour journey around a 17-mile tunnel housing the world's......
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12:06 AM Mon, Sep 08, 2008 | Permalink |
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Jimi Hendrix, This Flyer Said to be recorded at Jimi's house at Traver Hollow Road near Shokan, NY in 1969 (from Jimi's original home recording tapes). In his book, Crosstown Traffic, Charles Shaar Murray makes a case for Hendrix and......
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10:46 AM Sun, Sep 07, 2008 | Permalink |
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(PSA: The New England Patriots play the Kansas City Chiefs today at 1 p.m. on CBS, the first game since they tanked in the Super Bowl. We'll watch, but I'm not sure I'll care.) Illustration: 50 Incredible Film Posters From......
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11:48 PM Sat, Sep 06, 2008 | Permalink |
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Play With Spider - Flash 3D - OneMotion.com Creepy? Play with the tarantula... feed him flies, drag him around by one leg, make him hop or glide over a map of Europe, or get slow and small. It entertained the......
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8:17 AM Sat, Sep 06, 2008 | Permalink |
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Baltimore Has Poe; Philadelphia Wants Him. NYT. "Philadelphia can keep its broken bell and its cheese steak, but Poe's body isn't going anywhere," said Jeff Jerome, the curator of the Poe House in Baltimore and Mr. Pettit's opponent in the......
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6:32 AM Sat, Sep 06, 2008 | Permalink |
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Google Chrome Tips at the Google Operating System blog. ("An unofficial blog that watches Google's latest attempts to move your operating system online.") Here are some not-so-obvious things you can do in Google Chrome, the minimalistic browser launched on Tuesday.......
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7:35 AM Fri, Sep 05, 2008 | Permalink |
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Bob Dylan, Tales Of Thunder 1976 . Various live dates between April and May 1976. Very good soundboard. These are previously unreleased recordings from eight dates on the Rolling Thunder Revue tour. In his book, Behind The Shades, Clinton Heylin......
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11:14 PM Wed, Sep 03, 2008 | Permalink |
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Firefox: Enable Chrome's Best Features in Firefox. At Lifehacker. Competition spurring innovation? Or just instructions at last?......
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12:24 PM Wed, Sep 03, 2008 | Permalink |
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Homegrown tomatoes. Mine. This will be my computer's wallpaper when snow flies in January More: 50 Colorful Wallpapers: Full Spectrum Love at Colour Lovers. This one finds its spectrum in on Earth: By thetangyzip Magenta Ain't A Colour......
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5:43 AM Wed, Sep 03, 2008 | Permalink |
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This Popular Mechanics page about Google Chrome took Google Chrome more than a minute to load. It did offer to release me before eventually bringing in the page. First reactions: Google's new browser, Chrome, is often fast (but sometimes......
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11:17 AM Tue, Sep 02, 2008 | Permalink |
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Google is to launch has launched a free open-source browser today in more than 100 countries. Download link. (It's for XP and Vista only, for now; users of other operating systems won't see the "Download" option.) (CNet Webware: "The company......
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11:18 PM Mon, Sep 01, 2008 | Permalink |
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Back To School: HackCollege's Back-to-School Essential Student Know-How. Lifehacker writes, Editor's note: It's been awhile since anyone on staff here has been a fresh-faced undergrad bustling off to school, so we asked the savvy students at the HackCollege blog what......
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