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November 30, 2008 - December 6, 2008 Archives

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A weekend for winter veggies, art gifts

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Providence Journal / Sandor Bodo Yes, our broccoli finally toppled over and the last tomato has ripened on the windowsill, but local farmers, butchers and fisherman are still producing. This morning at 11 a.m. the Providence Wintertime Farmers' Market......

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 Tags  art sales   farmers market  

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Photos: Venice under water; Where should Obama go to speak to the Islamic world?

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Reuters / Michele Crosera Venice under water The Globe's Big Picture is all over Venice, where people wade to work and life goes on in flooded shops like the bakery above. There are 25 photos in all, mostly shot......

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Obama may tap 'Father of Net' for top tech post; Free Net access ahead?

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At Politico, The 5 best jobs Obama has yet to fill. Craig Gordon and Ben Smith save the best for last -- the newest cabinet-level post, the first ever... Chief Technology Officer The list: Vinton Cerf (at right), Google's "chief......

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 Tags  broadband   FCC   Google   net neutrality   Obama   wireless  

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Give or get a free robocall from Santa Claus

12:19 AM Thu, Dec 04, 2008 | | Comments (1)
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ChristmasDialer.com promises to make a free call "from the North Pole!" to one kid on your list. After inputting the phone number, you choose from these three messages: 1. I am holding a long list with all the names of......

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'70s photos: rock stars at their parents' homes

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70's photographs: Rock stars at their Parents Houses. Zappa, Clapton, Grace Slick, etc at | Noise Addicts music blog audio blog The photos were shot by John Olson of Life at the newly opened Google-Life Archives. The "etc." in......

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 Tags  1970s   David Crosby   Eric Clapton   Frank Zappa   Ginger Baker   Grace Slick   photos  

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Maureen Dowd interviews Tina Fey; Sky souvenirs

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Maureen Dowd interviews Tina Fey for Vanity Fair: What Tina Wants. Maureen is reporter here, not her NYT columnist self at all. Read... Folks all over photographed the moon with bright Jupiter and brighter Venus tonight. Flicker has thousands of......

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An early bird surveys Cyber Monday deals

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Cyber Monday" was invented in 2005 by Shop.org, part of the U.S. trade association National Retail Federation, which hosts CyberMonday.com. Cyber Monday is not actually the biggest online shopping day of the year; last year it was only ninth, with......

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Smart reads: Kurzweil on consciousness; Dean Kamen; Esquire's 7 greatest stories

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Kurzweil: "Technology is a double-edged sword" is a new interview with futurist Ray Kurzweil, by Natasha Lomas at silicon.com. Will super intelligent machines ever have souls? The soul is a synonym for consciousness... and if we were to consider where......

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 Tags  C.J. Chivers   consciousness   Dean Kamen   Ray Kurzweil   singularity  

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