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Video & recipes: Cheese balls, pumpkin pie, Indian pudding, dinner biscuits -- and what Thanksgiving costs this year
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...
November 8, 2008 8:36 am
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Celebrate guitarist Thom Enright at an 8-hour concert Sunday
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:...
November 7, 2008 11:39 pm
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Video & transcript: President-elect Obama's first press conference
Chicago, Nov. 7, 2008 | Transcript...
November 7, 2008 10:03 pm
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Change.gov goes live; Obama names tech guru to transition team
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...
November 7, 2008 2:53 am
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Man blog or woman blog? GenderAnalyzer reads, guesses
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...
November 6, 2008 7:33 pm
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Good reads, a $30-million watch, a Beatles chord decoded, a busted hologram
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...
November 6, 2008 11:14 am
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Day after: 'Wasilla hillbillies,' Obama tech, The Onion, AP 'uncalls' Minn. Senate race
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...
November 5, 2008 11:57 am
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Video: Obama's victory speech; Reax: Brits pleasantly surprised, Egyptians wary, Gaza hopeful, Israel sanguine
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...
November 5, 2008 3:22 am
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How CNN transported a reporter and a Black-Eyed Pea: The tech behind the holograms
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...
November 4, 2008 11:31 pm
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Mass. to keep income tax, decriminalize marijuana, ban dog racing
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,...
November 4, 2008 10:28 pm
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Some exit poll info, with warnings
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...
November 4, 2008 7:21 pm
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Election songs
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...
November 3, 2008 12:01 pm
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Links dump: Punk auction, wine words, infected emails, CueCat, Web as supermind, sad stories
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...
November 2, 2008 10:20 am
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