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Let Obama keep his BlackBerry
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...
November 15, 2008 11:02 pm
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Obama's first YouTube radio address is up; Web advocate leading FCC-review transition team
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...
November 15, 2008 9:22 am
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One+ jazz painting, 50 strange buildings, 14 slick photographers
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...
November 14, 2008 4:07 am
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Free mp3s: Joni Mitchell in Paris '72
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...
November 13, 2008 7:11 pm
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RepRap machine can copy anything, including itself; in the future, we'll all have one
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...
November 13, 2008 11:50 am
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Fake N.Y. Times of July 4, 2009: War is over, future is bright
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....
November 13, 2008 11:21 am
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Journalist-blogger's research gets spam mill shut down
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...
November 12, 2008 10:52 pm
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Surprising news, and a few links
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...
November 12, 2008 6:29 pm
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The making of the sewer tunnel 300 feet below Providence: Photo exhibit opens today
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...
November 12, 2008 7:59 am
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Free mp3s: Lou Reed '73; Food-fantasy art
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,...
November 10, 2008 8:45 pm
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Capacity crowd turns out for Thom Enright tribute
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...
November 9, 2008 11:43 pm
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An Irish journalist sees redemption in the election; The New Yorker's campaign analysis
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...
November 9, 2008 11:33 am
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