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November 2008 Archives
3:04 PM Sun, Nov 30, 2008 | Permalink |
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Kurzweil: "Technology is a double-edged sword" is a new interview with futurist Ray Kurzweil, by Natasha Lomas at silicon.com. Will super intelligent machines ever have souls? The soul is a synonym for consciousness... and if we were to consider where......
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12:45 PM Sat, Nov 29, 2008 | Permalink |
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Remembering Jazz Pianist Dave McKenna. Terry Gross on NPR's Fresh Air on Thanksgiving Day. You can stream the 47-minute show at that link, as well as two "unreleased 1965 demo tracks featuring Dave McKenna on piano, with his sister Jean......
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5:59 PM Fri, Nov 28, 2008 | Permalink |
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I got a note from downtown saying, "Lots of people were buying (Blu-ray) in the stores today...But we don't really know what it IS." Blu-ray video discs play high-quality movies (1080p) on high-definition TVs. Compared to regular DVDs, a Blu-ray......
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12:33 PM Fri, Nov 28, 2008 | Permalink |
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Kale and Butternut Squash Gratin I sniffed at kale: ...Kale and Butternut Squash Gratin, at right, from the Washington Post, looks intriguing, but kale can be tough, so I may use fresh spinach instead. After a family discussion, we......
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2:16 AM Thu, Nov 27, 2008 | Permalink |
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To make this full screen, click the box to the left of the triangle, under the "ou T" in YouTube. The audio is quiet crackling. It should loop indefinitely. Source Happy Thanksgiving, let's hope it's a good one. Thanks......
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10:47 PM Tue, Nov 25, 2008 | Permalink |
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Chocolate Mousse. For Andrea, from Toriello-Nicosia Thanksgiving Traditions at Midwest Living. "Jen's Grandmother has been making this recipe at the Toriello's Thanksgiving since Jen was a little girl. This mousse came to be known as "the fort" because of the......
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2:15 AM Tue, Nov 25, 2008 | Permalink |
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Later, 7:58 p.m.: She told me there's a great one about a quarterback. I can't find it... My daughter sent this link, to "the final projects of a number of computer animation students at Ringling College of Art & Design."......
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11:36 AM Mon, Nov 24, 2008 | Permalink |
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The First Thanksgiving, Jean Louis Gerome Ferris (1863-1930) Organic Thanksgiving: What You'll Really Pay at SmartMoney.com. SmartMoney went shopping in Manhattan, and all the prices seem really high -- but their organic bill -- which includes $70 in wine......
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11:18 AM Sun, Nov 23, 2008 | Permalink |
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Sunday, 11.23.08 11:18 a.m. It's more than provocative -- it's historically shocking -- that New York Times columnist and former editorial-page editor Gail Collins would suggest (Time for Him to Go) that George W. Bush and Dick Cheney quit now......
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6:40 PM Sat, Nov 22, 2008 | Permalink |
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So I've cruised newspapers' Thanksgiving Food sections online for a week now, seen hundreds of recipes, and blogged a lot of them. With all that new input, what am I cooking? Slight variations on the tried and true. And my......
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6:31 PM Fri, Nov 21, 2008 | Permalink |
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Out of words again... Taking inspiration more directly from Nature (and thumbing its nose at the myth of the manifest Coriolis effect) is the Ammonite Sink, named after the extinct marine animals that have left such bewitching fossils for us......
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10:14 AM Fri, Nov 21, 2008 | Permalink |
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Part 1 and Part 2 and Part 3, earlier this week. Finally, what I plan to make for my family. Los Angeles Times / Kirk McKoy Creamy mushroom ragout over sweet potato cakes, above, from the L.A. Times, comes with......
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10:41 AM Thu, Nov 20, 2008 | Permalink |
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Life Sens. John F. Kennedy (D-Mass.) and Theodore Francis Green (D-RI) conferring in 1959. I've been browsing, fascinated, through decades of photos from Life Magazine that have just been archived and made searchable. Humphrey Bogart photographed in Newport, six......
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5:02 AM Thu, Nov 20, 2008 | Permalink |
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JIMI HENDRIX Hendrix For Everyone The Complete Four-Hour KPFA Radio Special BigO: KPFA Radio in California had in the past broadcast a four-hour radio special on Jimi Hendrix. With the passing of Mitch Mitchell (November 12, 2008), which marks the......
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4:14 PM Wed, Nov 19, 2008 | Permalink |
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Part 1 and Part 2, earlier this week. And later, Part 4. Finally, what I plan to make for my family. Francesco Tonelli for The New York Times Fingerling potatoes with dried figs and garlic at The New York Times.......
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10:51 AM Wed, Nov 19, 2008 | Permalink |
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AP Nintendo game designer Shigeru Miyamoto, creator of Wii Fit, as he does a yoga pose as he demonstrates the game in New York. The hot toy this year isn't a toy, it's an interactive exercise video for the......
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12:33 AM Wed, Nov 19, 2008 | Permalink |
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SixApart, maker of the now open-source Movable Type software behind this blog, is launching a Journalist Bailout Program, offering no-longer-employed journalists free TypePad Pro blogs, ad revenue, promotion and assistance. News organizations have bought out or laid off more than......
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10:27 AM Tue, Nov 18, 2008 | Permalink |
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Part 1, earlier this week. And later, Part 3 and Part 4. Finally, what I plan to make for my family. Scrambling ahead of the great wave of recipes tomorrow... here are side-dish recipes scraped from newspaper food sections that......
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10:52 AM Mon, Nov 17, 2008 | Permalink |
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AP Photo / Idaho Statesman, Darin Oswald Eager shoppers push through the front doors of the Boise Townsquare mall as it opened for business at 1 a.m. Friday, Nov. 23, 2007, in Boise, Idaho. Black Friday, the day after......
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1:05 PM Sun, Nov 16, 2008 | Permalink |
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This is part 1 of a series that grew to include Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4. Finally, what I plan to make for my family. Great waves of Thanksgiving recipes will publish this Wednesday in many newspapers, with......
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11:02 PM Sat, Nov 15, 2008 | Permalink |
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New York Times / Ozier Muhammad Sen. Barack Obama on his arrival at the Rochester Opera House in Rochester, N.H., in January 2008, BlackBerry in hand and chief strategist David Axelrod at his elbow. Say Goodbye to BlackBerry? If......
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9:22 AM Sat, Nov 15, 2008 | Permalink |
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The President-elect's first YouTube radio address. The topic is the economy. The video and a transcript are both at that link at change.gov. The Web has long been an intellectual infrastructure, and some of its well-placed advocates seem now......
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4:07 AM Fri, Nov 14, 2008 | Permalink |
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I'm getting low on words. Moving to the right brain... Benny Andrews (Nov. 13, 1930 - Nov. 10, 2006) Walking the Dog Blues (Musical Interlude) from the Music Series 1998, oil and collage on canvas More: Benny Andrews - Works......
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7:11 PM Thu, Nov 13, 2008 | Permalink |
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True Confession - Joni Mitchell Paris 1972 Live at the L'Olympia Theatre, Paris, June 15, 1972. Very good audience recording. While Mitchell might still be pushing her Blue album at this Paris 1972 concert, she treated her audience by previewing......
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11:50 AM Thu, Nov 13, 2008 | Permalink |
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Mr. Bowyer's Fantastic Machine is a rambly story by Giles Turnbull in The Morning News about a fantastic device that recalls Star Trek, but is real, now. Give it a pattern, and it can manufacture nearly anything, including itself. And......
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11:21 AM Thu, Nov 13, 2008 | Permalink |
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The Yes Men culturejammers yesterday printed over a million copies of a fake New York Times, an imaginary issue dated July 4, 2009. Here it is, downloadable as a readable pdf; this links takes you to the fake Website version.......
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10:52 PM Wed, Nov 12, 2008 | Permalink |
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Major Source of Online Scams and Spams Knocked Offline Last night, Brian Krebs of the Washington Post's Security Fix blog reported this story, in which he figures mightily: A U.S. based Web hosting firm that security experts say was responsible......
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6:29 PM Wed, Nov 12, 2008 | Permalink |
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Emptying the notebook again... Headline award nominee: Woman killed by husband's coffin. BBC. Draw your own conclusions, and intuitions. Less for same: On store shelves, stealthy shrinking of containers keeps prices from rising. Los Angeles Times Irregardless, Oxford Researchers List......
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7:59 AM Wed, Nov 12, 2008 | Permalink |
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It's not often you get an invitation to an art opening from the sewer commission. Today is one of those rare days. Peter Goldberg began photographing the Narragansett Bay Commission's Combined Sewer Overflow project in 2004. An exhibit of his......
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8:45 PM Mon, Nov 10, 2008 | Permalink |
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LOU REED, New York 1973 Live at Alice Tully Hall, New York, January 27, 1973. Ex(cellent) SBD stereo, very clean sound. It was official. Hell had frozen over, pigs were flying, and Lou Reed was on the edge of superstardom,......
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11:43 PM Sun, Nov 09, 2008 | Permalink |
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Photo by Joe Landry Guitarist Thom Enright, left, and neon artist George Kaprielian at the Hi Hat in Providence today. Nearly everyone I've known outside the Journal since 1970 showed up last night for the toast to musician Thom......
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11:33 AM Sun, Nov 09, 2008 | Permalink |
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A high school history class kindled my interest in primary sources. For an assigned paper, I read Alexis de Toqueville's (A lot of other people read it in school as well -- search Alexis de Toqueville in Google News and......
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8:36 AM Sat, Nov 08, 2008 | Permalink |
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The recipes and step-by-step video illustrations are all from AP. Videos Compare the Cost of Thanksgiving Around the U.S. Cheese Balls Pumpkin Pie How to Carve a Turkey Indian Pudding Dinner Biscuits Traditional Indian Pudding This dense, satisfying Indian pudding......
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11:39 PM Fri, Nov 07, 2008 | Permalink |
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The Providence Journal / Bob Thayer Thom Enright, at his home in Warwick. The cream of Rhode Island's rock and blues musicians are throwing a celebration Sunday at the Hi-Hat in Davol Square to benefit one of their own:......
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10:03 PM Fri, Nov 07, 2008 | Permalink |
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Chicago, Nov. 7, 2008 | Transcript......
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2:53 AM Fri, Nov 07, 2008 | Permalink |
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Change.gov, the new administration's transition Website, launched yesterday. PCMagazine's AppScout blog has the story -- Obama Launches Change.gov to Provide Transition Details -- but go kick the tires for yourself. There you may Apply for a Job in the new......
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7:33 PM Thu, Nov 06, 2008 | Permalink |
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GenderAnalyzer Determine if a homepage is written by a man or woman Man or woman - who is writing that blog? Enter a web site Address: http://shenews.projo.com/ Results We think http://shenews.projo.com/ is written by a man. Follow-up question: Did GenderAnalyzer......
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11:14 AM Thu, Nov 06, 2008 | Permalink |
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From LeMonde, Paris, Sorry we can't, par Robert Solé Sorry. No column today. The keyboard is not responding. History is a page being turned. Three words on the screen: "Yes we can." While it is impossible to joke with genocide......
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11:57 AM Wed, Nov 05, 2008 | Permalink |
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Newsweek.com is still writing its special project, Secrets of the 2008 Campaign, but these highlights, Hackers and Spending Sprees, are up. It opens with the news that both campaigns' computers were hacked. "Officials at the FBI and the White House......
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3:22 AM Wed, Nov 05, 2008 | Permalink |
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Embedded video from CNN Video Later this morning, you'll be able to see Today's Front Pages at the Newseum -- how the newspapers are portraying the election of Barack Obama. The world hasn't had much time to react, but these......
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11:31 PM Tue, Nov 04, 2008 | Permalink |
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It's almost the Star Trek transporter, it's the astronauts in Houston and in Darmstadt, Germany, training together to repair the Hubble Telescope. CNN brought in from Chicago holograms of correspondent Jessica Yellin and, later, of Wil.I.Am from the Black......
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10:28 PM Tue, Nov 04, 2008 | Permalink |
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The Boston Globe is reporting that ballot measures which would keep the current state income tax and decriminalize the possession of less than an ounce of marijuana will pass. Current tallies show margins of 69-31 percent and 65-35 percent, respectively,......
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7:21 PM Tue, Nov 04, 2008 | Permalink |
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Huffington Post has published Exit Polls 2008: See The Full Results, citing a Democratic source. (More exit polls coming soon. We explain why you shouldn't trust them below.) The head to head exit polls just were sent to the Huffington......
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12:01 PM Mon, Nov 03, 2008 | Permalink |
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Atlantic Magazine blogger Andrew Sullivan (a former Republlican who today posts a long endorsement of Barack Obama) chooses a live version of Leonard Cohen's Democracy, above. JamsBio magazine offers a Pre-Election Playlist: 13 Songs to Pump You Up for......
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10:20 AM Sun, Nov 02, 2008 | Permalink |
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I'm gonna get more emails for doing this from Very Important Bloggers telling me I really ought to blog one item per entry, they can't link when I empty the notebook like this. Sometimes I just have to blog it......
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10:59 AM Sat, Nov 01, 2008 | Permalink |
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1:09 a.m. Providence Journal / Bob Breidenbach A new Trader Joe's market opened yesterday on Route 2 in Warwick (1000 Bald Hill Rd.). The California-based chain's private label promises "NO artificial flavors, colors or preservatives; NO MSG; and NO added......
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