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A weekend for winter veggies, art gifts
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...
December 6, 2008 9:16 am
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Photos: Venice under water; Where should Obama go to speak to the Islamic world?
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...
December 5, 2008 10:24 am
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Obama may tap 'Father of Net' for top tech post; Free Net access ahead?
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...
December 5, 2008 12:13 am
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Give or get a free robocall from Santa Claus
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...
December 4, 2008 12:19 am
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'70s photos: rock stars at their parents' homes
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...
December 2, 2008 11:50 pm
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Maureen Dowd interviews Tina Fey; Sky souvenirs
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...
December 1, 2008 10:59 pm
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An early bird surveys Cyber Monday deals
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...
December 1, 2008 4:12 am
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Smart reads: Kurzweil on consciousness; Dean Kamen; Esquire's 7 greatest stories
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...
November 30, 2008 3:04 pm
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