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November 16, 2008 - November 22, 2008 Archives


My plan for Thanksgiving dinner, after blogging all those recipes

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By Sheila Lennon    Email

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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Design candy: Beautiful sinks, concept cellphones

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By Sheila Lennon    Email

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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2008 Thanksgiving recipes from newspaper food sections, Part 4

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By Sheila Lennon    Email

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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Google publishes millions of Life Magazine photos -- and they're searchable

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By Sheila Lennon    Email

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 I've been browsing, fascinated, through decades of photos from Life Magazine that have just been archived and made searchable.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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Mp3s: 75 Jimi Hendrix tracks from a 4-hour radio special

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By Sheila Lennon    Email

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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2008 Thanksgiving recipes from newspaper food sections, Part 3

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By Sheila Lennon    Email

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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Looking for Nintendo Wii Fit? eBay 'Power Sellers' cornered the market

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By Sheila Lennon    Email

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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TypePad Journalist Bailout Program offers free blogs, ad revenue to laid-off journalists

12:33 AM Wed, Nov 19, 2008 | | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

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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2008 Thanksgiving recipes from newspaper food sections, Part 2: Veggie sides

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By Sheila Lennon    Email

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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Black Friday shopping deals 'leak': netbooks are hot

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By Sheila Lennon    Email

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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2008 Thanksgiving recipes from newspaper food sections, Part 1

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By Sheila Lennon    Email

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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