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Let Obama keep his BlackBerry

11:02 PM Sat, Nov 15, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (1)
By Sheila Lennon    Email

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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 Tags  BlackBerry   connectivity   Obama  

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Obama's first YouTube radio address is up; Web advocate leading FCC-review transition team

9:22 AM Sat, Nov 15, 2008 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

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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 Tags  FCC   future tech   net neutrality  

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One+ jazz painting, 50 strange buildings, 14 slick photographers

4:07 AM Fri, Nov 14, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (1)
By Sheila Lennon    Email

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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 Tags  architecture   Benny Andrews   buildings   photos  

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Free mp3s: Joni Mitchell in Paris '72

7:11 PM Thu, Nov 13, 2008 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

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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RepRap machine can copy anything, including itself; in the future, we'll all have one

11:50 AM Thu, Nov 13, 2008 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

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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 Tags  alternative energy   disruptive technology   fabricator   future tech   replicator   RepRap  

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Fake N.Y. Times of July 4, 2009: War is over, future is bright

11:21 AM Thu, Nov 13, 2008 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

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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 Tags  Yes Men  

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Journalist-blogger's research gets spam mill shut down

10:52 PM Wed, Nov 12, 2008 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

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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 Tags  journalism  

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Surprising news, and a few links

6:29 PM Wed, Nov 12, 2008 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

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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The making of the sewer tunnel 300 feet below Providence: Photo exhibit opens today

7:59 AM Wed, Nov 12, 2008 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

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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 Tags  photos  

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Free mp3s: Lou Reed '73; Food-fantasy art

8:45 PM Mon, Nov 10, 2008 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

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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 Tags  art   music   photos  

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Capacity crowd turns out for Thom Enright tribute

11:43 PM Sun, Nov 09, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (4)
By Sheila Lennon    Email

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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 Tags  Duke Robillard   Roomful of Blues   Sheila's photos   Thom Enright  

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An Irish journalist sees redemption in the election; The New Yorker's campaign analysis

11:33 AM Sun, Nov 09, 2008 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

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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 Tags  election   Obama  

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