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My plan for Thanksgiving dinner, after blogging all those recipes
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...
November 22, 2008 6:40 pm
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Design candy: Beautiful sinks, concept cellphones
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...
November 21, 2008 6:31 pm
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2008 Thanksgiving recipes from newspaper food sections, Part 4
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...
November 21, 2008 10:14 am
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Google publishes millions of Life Magazine photos -- and they're searchable
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 I've been browsing, fascinated, through decades of photos from Life Magazine that have just been archived and made searchable.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...
November 20, 2008 10:41 am
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Mp3s: 75 Jimi Hendrix tracks from a 4-hour radio special
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...
November 20, 2008 5:02 am
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2008 Thanksgiving recipes from newspaper food sections, Part 3
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....
November 19, 2008 4:14 pm
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Looking for Nintendo Wii Fit? eBay 'Power Sellers' cornered the market
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...
November 19, 2008 10:51 am
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TypePad Journalist Bailout Program offers free blogs, ad revenue to laid-off journalists
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...
November 19, 2008 12:33 am
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2008 Thanksgiving recipes from newspaper food sections, Part 2: Veggie sides
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...
November 18, 2008 10:27 am
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Black Friday shopping deals 'leak': netbooks are hot
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...
November 17, 2008 10:52 am
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2008 Thanksgiving recipes from newspaper food sections, Part 1
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...
November 16, 2008 1:05 pm
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