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December 2008 Archives
3:52 PM Wed, Dec 31, 2008 | Permalink |
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Whether you're snowed in and crestfallen, or always avoid amateur night at the bars, you can watch other people party online and on tV. Online Beginning at 4 p.m., TimesSquare.com will offer a link to link to a live stream......
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12:38 AM Tue, Dec 30, 2008 | Permalink |
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Vogue Paris used 18-year-old Hungarian-born model Eniko Mihalik for a high-concept spread titled Age 10 to 60 - through Make-up & Photography . Gems Sty posts the photos from that November 2008 issue at the link above. (I can't find......
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10:33 PM Sun, Dec 28, 2008 | Permalink |
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roio » Blog Archive » DEXTER GORDON AND FRIENDS - NEW YEAR'S EVE SPECIAL 1980 With Dexter Gordon and Friends Jazz Alive New Year's Eve Special 1980 [no label, 3CD] Live at the Keystone Korner, San Francisco, December 31, 1980.......
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12:40 AM Sun, Dec 28, 2008 | Permalink |
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Fishing Girl is a free online game with no time limits. Your goal is to rescue someone from an island. The waters hold two sharks, so he can't swim. Drop your line, and see what happens. There are two......
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10:55 PM Fri, Dec 26, 2008 | Permalink |
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Reuters; Imagine: Lennon in TV ad 28 years after his death: Through the use of digital technology, the former Beatle urges people across the United States to support a campaign by "One Laptop per Child" to deliver tough, solar-powered......
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3:07 PM Fri, Dec 26, 2008 | Permalink |
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On the first real day of vacation, I'm curled up with a novel by the fire, wearing my new cat socks. The fridge is full of leftovers, no need to go out into the cold.......
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10:27 PM Thu, Dec 25, 2008 | Permalink |
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Got some new tech stuff for Christmas? Stuck already on some aspect of it? Does it do something you wish it wouldn't, or not do something you wish it would? Azadeh Ensha of the New York Times wants to help,......
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8:33 AM Thu, Dec 25, 2008 | Permalink |
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Yet another Christmas in this old house, its 173rd. I'm waiting for the rest of the family to wake -- they're strewn around on couches, and on an air mattress next to the Christmas tree. Last night, eating a......
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2:04 AM Wed, Dec 24, 2008 | Permalink |
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John and Yoko, Happy Xmas (War is Over) We have each other, and we're stronger than we know. Happy Christmas to you, and to those you love.......
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10:57 AM Tue, Dec 23, 2008 | Permalink |
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Two a capella choruses, two holiday tunes. But... Straight No Chaser, hailing from Indiana, had a YouTube hit that took them to yesterday's Today Show, a polished yet new rendition of a familiar tune. Straight No Chaser - 12 Days......
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4:01 AM Mon, Dec 22, 2008 | Permalink |
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Providence Journal / Kris Craig I ran around newspaper food sections last night, looking for what's new for Christmas dinner this year. If alien anthropologists are studying earthlings through these recipes, they think we're feasting on towering plates of......
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12:05 PM Sun, Dec 21, 2008 | Permalink |
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Say It In Song: Researcher Deciphers Meaning Within Bird Communication at Science Daily. "...to Sandra Vehrencamp, Cornell professor of neurobiology and behavior, bird song is a code." My old house is surrounded by big old trees that are home to......
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11:47 AM Sun, Dec 21, 2008 | Permalink |
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Slashdot | CSIS Cybersecurity Commission Chairman Jim Langevin Answers Your Questions Last week, I blogged an invitation to readers at programmers' news site Slashdot to ask questions of the Rhode Island congressman. His answers are at the link above. Here's......
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10:56 AM Sun, Dec 21, 2008 | Permalink |
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ISPs, not lawsuits: Music Industry to Abandon Mass Suits. While we were buying boots ahead of the snowstorm, the Wall Street Journal quietly reported that RIAA is ending its mass lawsuits against individuals over music file sharing. Instead, they'll have......
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3:27 PM Sat, Dec 20, 2008 | Permalink |
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Many sites offer free printable tags, although not a lot are drop-dead gorgeous and many are kitschy or worse. The Santas above are simple and well-formatted, freeprintablegifttags.net doesn't want your email address and only makes you promise you won't......
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9:39 AM Sat, Dec 20, 2008 | Permalink |
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Democrat Al Franken leads by 251 votes over Republican Sen. Norm Coleman on this leg of the Senate race recount, says the Minnesota Star-Tribune. Political statistician (math geek) Nate Silver at fivethirtyeight Franken is Winning, and Coleman Knows It 3.......
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8:07 PM Fri, Dec 19, 2008 | Permalink |
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11:15 AM Fri, Dec 19, 2008 | Permalink |
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StarTrek.com Majel and Gene Roddenberry. Star Trek Universe Loses Majel Barrett Roddenberry. The actress, widow of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, played Nurse Christine Chapel in the original "Star Trek," and Lwaxana Troi (free-spirited mother of Counselor Deanna Troi)......
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12:56 AM Thu, Dec 18, 2008 | Permalink |
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The Baltimore Sun originally published the story (Revisiting our favorite holiday cookie recipes), but the Orlando Sentinel published the photos, and that's what sold me. It's a soft sugar cookie iced with melted chocolate chips. Suzanne Laubheimer's Version of the......
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1:18 AM Wed, Dec 17, 2008 | Permalink |
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Download 33 1/3: Bob Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited (Free Version) (Unabridged) by Mark Polizzotti; free audio book at Audible.com You can download and burn it to CD for the Dylan freak in the family, perhaps wrapping it along with a......
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11:07 AM Tue, Dec 16, 2008 | Permalink |
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At tech news site and programmers' haven Slashdot, Robin Miller, Editor in Chief of SourceForge, which owns Slashdot, passed on an invitation from Congressman Jim Langevin's office: Slashdot | Ask Cybersecurity Commission Chairman Jim Langevin About US Cybersecurity Plans US......
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9:03 PM Mon, Dec 15, 2008 | Permalink |
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Updated Wednesday, 3:12 a.m. Handel's Messiah - Boston 2008. Handel and Haydn Society, Boston 2008 [no label, 3CD]. Live at the Symphony Hall, Boston, Mass., December 7, 2008. Very good FM broadcast. As blogger Shelley Powers noted in comments below,......
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10:43 AM Mon, Dec 15, 2008 | Permalink |
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Holiday Gift Guide: Electronics edition, at the Atlantic, begins, Well, it's hard to find cheap steals in electronics, so I'll just go ahead and recommend them, and you can view it as a nostalgic symbol of better times I think......
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8:20 AM Sun, Dec 14, 2008 | Permalink |
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Saying, "I released VOCP 10 years ago and each year as we get closer to the Christmas holidays I get overwhelmed with requests for it. The disc is out of print and I have no copies left so I've......
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10:27 AM Sat, Dec 13, 2008 | Permalink |
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Tiptoeing gingerly through the wilds of music blogs... Distinctly Jamaican Sounds' Yes, Virginia, There Is A Reggae Santa Claus! blesses you with a Christmas mix, thoroughly annotated and ending with, I want to thank everyone ahead of time for your......
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11:32 AM Fri, Dec 12, 2008 | Permalink |
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Liz Donovan's Facebook profile photo; tributes are building there. Miami Herald obit: Liz Donovan, researcher on Watergate, dies. She was 63. When we first met online, this blog was a handmade html page, and Liz was writing WeBlog at......
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3:43 AM Thu, Dec 11, 2008 | Permalink |
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NYT illustration NBC's The Office on a laptop. The New York Times: "At ABC, 8 percent of viewers they track -- or about one out of every 12 people -- watch network shows solely online." Ditching cable for free......
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12:43 AM Thu, Dec 11, 2008 | Permalink |
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Daily Routines is a blog about "How writers, artists, and other interesting people organize their days." Hemingway, Toni Morrison, George W. Bush, Thomas Friedman, Emily Post, Jacques Barzun -- they're all a bunch of early birds, rising at dawn. Only......
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2:38 AM Wed, Dec 10, 2008 | Permalink |
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M45: The Pleiades Star Cluster Credit & Copyright: Phillip L. Jones VisualUniverse.org Yesterday's Astronomy Picture of the Day (NASA) Explanation: Perhaps the most famous star cluster on the sky, the Pleiades can be seen without binoculars from even the......
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9:17 AM Tue, Dec 09, 2008 | Permalink |
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Dave McKenna Memorial - Woonsocket R.I. Part 1 "Make Someone Happy," Dec. 7, 2008. Woonsocket-born jazz pianist Dave McKenna died Oct. 18. Friends, fans and fellow musicians gathered Sunday at St. Ann Arts and Cultural Center in his hometown......
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12:37 PM Mon, Dec 08, 2008 | Permalink |
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Update: Since I posted this late last night, I've been seeing lots of hits from Michelle Obama Watch, a site I was unaware of. It's a smart, newsy and lively blog, and deserves a look if you're interested in tracking......
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10:32 AM Mon, Dec 08, 2008 | Permalink |
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How they shot The Godfather, Daily Mail (UK). The headline doesn't really seem to go with the story, which is Mario Puzo's account of writing The Godfather and of others trying to cast the movie, excerpted from 1972's The Godfather......
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3:04 AM Sun, Dec 07, 2008 | Permalink |
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The children were nestled all snug in their beds, While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads; --Clement Clarke Moore, A Visit from Saint Nicholas, 1823aka 'Twas the Night Before Christmas, after the poem's first line Sugarplums aren't made......
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9:16 AM Sat, Dec 06, 2008 | Permalink |
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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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10:24 AM Fri, Dec 05, 2008 | Permalink |
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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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12:13 AM Fri, Dec 05, 2008 | Permalink |
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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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12:19 AM Thu, Dec 04, 2008 | Permalink |
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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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11:50 PM Tue, Dec 02, 2008 | Permalink |
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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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10:59 PM Mon, Dec 01, 2008 | Permalink |
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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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4:12 AM Mon, Dec 01, 2008 | Permalink |
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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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