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October 2008 Archives
8:58 AM Fri, Oct 31, 2008 | Permalink |
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The Chicago Tribune steps up with masks of the 2008 candidates: The San Francisco Chronicle offers this collection. I could do the scary Mayan pumpkin. You'll need heavy card stock, glue, an X-Acto-type knife, scissors and two rubber bands. Tiny......
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5:12 PM Thu, Oct 30, 2008 | Permalink |
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If you'd rather drink jack than a Candy Apple Martini, you're a kindred spirit to Eric Felten His Halloween Cocktails Needn't Be Frightful at WSJ.com is for grownups who share the horror: Not only is there the Gummy Worm Martini,......
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9:36 AM Thu, Oct 30, 2008 | Permalink |
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Developed with state and local election officials and the Voting Information Project. In conjunction with the League of Women Voters. Watching the long lines of early voters on TV in some states, I'm wondering how Rhode Island's 700,000 registered......
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12:25 PM Wed, Oct 29, 2008 | Permalink |
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Halloween in the Time of Cholera is a set of old Halloween photos -- many from nearly a century ago -- that vintage photo collector Steven Martin is uploading to Flickr, one each day throughout October. Halloween was very......
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8:48 AM Tue, Oct 28, 2008 | Permalink |
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How to Live in Your Car at WikiHow deals with the gritty possible of long-term camping. Living in a car isn't something that anyone would recommend. However, when you get laid off, your emergency fund runs out, your home is......
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10:30 AM Mon, Oct 27, 2008 | Permalink |
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Upgrading our RSS feed. The Guardian (UK) is now offering full rss feeds: Second, advertising will soon appear within each full content feed item. Ads won't appear in the items which we display only as summaries. That was not so......
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9:54 PM Fri, Oct 24, 2008 | Permalink |
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We have no idea how much chaos may ensue when we move our blogs to bigger, faster servers tomorrow. You'll still be able to read blogs, but comments will be disabled during the move. I expect a window of chaos......
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3:48 AM Fri, Oct 24, 2008 | Permalink |
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I published a story in the very first issue of the alt-weekly NewPaper in 1978, a review of the Jimmy Cliff movie The Harder They Come. (No, it's not online.) We were among the guests invited by the Providence Phoenix......
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10:00 PM Thu, Oct 23, 2008 | Permalink |
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Wednesday: Longtime Mall Santa Out in the Cold by Fredrick Kunkle Tysons Corner Favorite Being Replaced This Year Michael Graham has been Santa at Tysons Corner Center for so long that many who visited him when they were young have......
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11:44 AM Thu, Oct 23, 2008 | Permalink |
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At The Digital Journalist two photographers traveling with John McCain and Barack Obama post behind-the-scenes photos -- more than two dozen apiece. To see all the photos, keep clicking the "Show More Images" link below the bottom photos -- it's......
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11:06 PM Wed, Oct 22, 2008 | Permalink |
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This crockpot chicken was so good I want to blog the recipe before I forget how I made it. We had it Monday night for the family Patriots game gathering, and some of my relatives went back for thirds. Classic......
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7:37 AM Wed, Oct 22, 2008 | Permalink |
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Vancouver Sun / Ian Smith, Bleeding Finger Lemon Cookies made by Culinary Capers. The nails are almonds and the blood is raspberry jam. An overnight survey of Halloween recipes from newspaper food sections turns up some scary recipes with......
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8:57 AM Tue, Oct 21, 2008 | Permalink |
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What am I doing? Blogging plant posts daily news on its mood-. Telegraph (UK) reports, Midori-san, which lives on the counter of a Japanese café, writes regular updates with the help of sensors attached to its leaves. The detectors pick......
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10:42 AM Mon, Oct 20, 2008 | Permalink |
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Dave McKenna: Nobody Else But Me & I'm Old Fashioned. More McKenna videos at YouTube. Jazz piano master and Woonsocket native Dave McKenna died Saturday morning in State College, Pa. (near his son Steve) of lung cancer. He was......
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3:17 AM Sun, Oct 19, 2008 | Permalink |
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The opening: Tina Fey, Lorne Michaels, Sarah Palin, Alex Baldwin. This second video, during the Weekend Update segment, is an instant classic -- a surreal scene for the campaign-history archives: Weekend Update: Palin Rap......
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3:01 PM Sat, Oct 18, 2008 | Permalink |
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I have six half-written blog posts and 87 Firefox tabs open, but I have to, must, gotta get summer clothes washed and put away today to make room for the winter ones still upstairs in storage boxes. Nevertheless, I've been......
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9:09 AM Fri, Oct 17, 2008 | Permalink |
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Google Android The phone is called HTC G1, the Google mobile operating system is Android. But it all ends up being called Google Android. Lifehacker does a software review (A Hands-on First Look at Google Android), Gizmodo the hardware......
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1:45 AM Thu, Oct 16, 2008 | Permalink |
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Not everybody wants a political pumpkin. Brent Evans at GeekTonic has done the deep digging and compiled a list of more than 40 sites with Free Halloween Jack O Lantern Templates of all sorts. Stencils live in unlikely places --......
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10:29 AM Wed, Oct 15, 2008 | Permalink |
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Ringo Starr Fan Mail After Oct. 20, former Beatle Ringo Starr will no longer accept your fan mail nor "objects to be signed. Nothing. Uh. Anyway, peace and love, peace and love." He has too much to do.......
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9:56 PM Tue, Oct 14, 2008 | Permalink |
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The eyeballing game. Think you know plumb?......
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12:26 PM Tue, Oct 14, 2008 | Permalink |
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It's called The Manual, drawn by a team of volunteers - mostly illustrators, and it was put together by hand Sunday night. This is most of the teamworking last night on producing the first hand-made newspaper in the UK.......
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11:53 AM Mon, Oct 13, 2008 | Permalink |
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Paul Krugman Wins Economics Nobel Paul Krugman, a professor at Princeton University and an Op-Ed columnist for The New York Times, was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences on Monday. NYT reports, "It's been an extremely weird day,......
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2:35 AM Sun, Oct 12, 2008 | Permalink |
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The Boston Typewriter Orchestra video. NPR has the story: Boston Orchestra Makes Typewriters Sing Dressed in starchy white shirts and cheap polyester ties, the group creates a 1950s-style atmosphere, casually chatting about their weekends as if they are really......
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11:42 AM Fri, Oct 10, 2008 | Permalink |
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Providence Journal / Bob Thayer A portion of the newsroom of The Providence Journal in 2004. Providence Journal lays off 31. In today's Journal, Neil Downing makes public what we've known for two weeks: PROVIDENCE -- The Providence Journal......
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2:30 AM Fri, Oct 10, 2008 | Permalink |
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AP Photos A lion rides a horse in a circus show in Xiamen in southeast China's Fujian province Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2008. The circus shows were held during a golden week holiday to mark China's National Day, the 59th......
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1:30 AM Thu, Oct 09, 2008 | Permalink |
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More fine political pumpkin patterns, these from AP: Campaign-o-lanterns. Fine specimens, with printable patterns to download. Earlier fine ppps: Free pumpkin-carving patterns: Obama, McCain, Palin, Biden. Yet more: Better Homes & Gardens has way-strange stencils. The celebrity pumpkins aren't......
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8:59 AM Wed, Oct 08, 2008 | Permalink |
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In last night's presidential debate, the CNN reaction meter at the bottom of the screen was more interesting than the debate itself, but that's not saying much. These lines were pretty flat for long stretches for both candidates, longer......
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12:27 AM Wed, Oct 08, 2008 | Permalink |
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Vladimir Horowitz - Chopin Polonaise in A-flat major, Op. 53 in Musikverein, Vienna, Austria on May 31, 1987. I spent an entire summer when I was 15 teaching myself to play this piece from sheet music I found in......
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3:38 PM Tue, Oct 07, 2008 | Permalink |
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Well, they don't put it quite that way on the Official Gmail Blog, but that's what they mean: Stop sending mail you later regret. When you enable Mail Goggles, it will check that you're really sure you want to send......
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10:55 AM Tue, Oct 07, 2008 | Permalink |
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The Pixilerations Festival continues in Providence through Sunday, part of the FirstWorks Providence Festival: TheBox by Lyn Goeringer Lyn Goeringer, who performs Friday night, appears in the video above to be playing a wooden box. (She later informed me it......
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2:27 AM Tue, Oct 07, 2008 | Permalink |
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My husband picked up a pot roast for Sunday's Patriots game and, wanting to do something new, we made this Gordon's Pot Roast recipe from Epicurious.com. It's extraordinary, with a rich, flavorful stock. I skipped the cornstarch and water part,......
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11:21 AM Mon, Oct 06, 2008 | Permalink |
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Tech Tips for the Basic Computer User. David Pogue's NYT tech column offers tips you may not know about, such as double-clicking a word to define it before copying. Readers add more in comments. I would add Keyboard shortcuts in......
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12:43 PM Sun, Oct 05, 2008 | Permalink |
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--> Faking it: Gail Collins, NYT Editorial Board (Talking in Points) on the real vice-presidential debate Thursday: This entire election season has been a long-running saga about the rise of women in American politics. On Thursday, it all went sour.......
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10:29 AM Sat, Oct 04, 2008 | Permalink |
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Daevid Allen's Invisible Opera Company of Tibet. Live at Alzano Lombardo, Italy, November 2, 1988. A soundboard recording. Irresistibly catchy band name. "The music is a mix of Gong tunes and chants in both acoustic and electronic settings. While not......
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9:22 AM Fri, Oct 03, 2008 | Permalink |
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ARETHA FRANKLIN - Jamaica World Music Festival 1982. Live at Bob Marley Performing Arts Center, Freeport Zone, Montego Bay, Jamaica, Nov 26, 1982. Ex(cellent) soundboard recording. Providence Journal / Kris Craig A work in progress during 2005's Providence Street......
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1:36 AM Thu, Oct 02, 2008 | Permalink |
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Of the political patterns I see online so far, I like these best. FabulousLiving: Free Political Pumpkin Carving Patterns Pumpkin Wizard: Presidential Hopefuls......
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7:04 AM Wed, Oct 01, 2008 | Permalink |
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Exclusive Preview: Bob Dylan's 'Tell Tale Signs' : NPR Music Robot Wisdom calls it "Two hours of new streaming Dylan." For the legions of fans who still can't get enough, Dylan's longtime label (Columbia Records) has been releasing a series......
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