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January 2009 Archives
6:54 PM Sat, Jan 31, 2009 | Permalink |
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The Inauguration. At Last. may be the most interesting feature story I've seen on a news site. It's by Maira Kalman, and on her Opinion section blog, And the Pursuit of Happiness at the New York Times. New, because it......
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4:31 AM Fri, Jan 30, 2009 | Permalink |
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Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band are to play for 12 minutes at halftime during Sunday's Super Bowl XLIII. So yesterday was meet the press day -- according to the NFL emcee, his first press conference since one for......
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3:17 AM Fri, Jan 30, 2009 | Permalink |
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Long (5:33) segment of Obama's press conference with the Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner yesterday includes the President calling bonuses to Wall Street bankers while they ask for bailouts "shameful." My friend Robert, who is well-bred, conservative, and livid says,......
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2:24 AM Thu, Jan 29, 2009 | Permalink |
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Field of Guacamole from the Hass Avocado Board. Beer and pizza will get you by; a bag of wings doused in BBQ sauce and baked will, too. But why stop there... The L. A. Daily Breeze: Super Bowl snacks......
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11:19 AM Wed, Jan 28, 2009 | Permalink |
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AP photo A honeybee tells two from three. Science News: In the tests, a bee zoomed along a meter of tunnel and then through a hole marked with a reference pattern, such as two blue dots. Once through the......
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10:01 AM Wed, Jan 28, 2009 | Permalink |
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SF Zoo Welcomes Four Foot Baby. NBC. The San Francisco Zoo announced the birth of a reticulated giraffe calf on Monday morning. Bititi (pronounced Bah-Tē-Tē), the proud mom, gave birth between 5 and 7:00 a.m. and is showing strong......
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12:04 PM Tue, Jan 27, 2009 | Permalink |
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TV interview with President Obama on Al-Arabiya bears Arabic subtitles. Transcript of President Obama's interview last night in Washington with Hisham Melhem of the Al-Arabiya cable network (based in Dubai, UAE) on Monday is below the story: Story: Obama......
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10:05 AM Tue, Jan 27, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
Stevie Wonder, Funkyfied Rainbow [Big Fro Records, 2CD] Live at the Rainbow Theatre, Finsbury Park, London, January 31, 1974. A very good stereo soundboard. Back at the Rainbow in 1974, Wonder was just hammering away at the songs from Innervisions.......
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11:14 AM Mon, Jan 26, 2009 | Permalink |
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You're a star, Barack Obama, Like Renoir or Whistler's Mama... (The rest of the lyrics) With grace and lots of humor, Garrison Keillor rewrites the lyrics to Cole Porter's classic You're the Top for Obama, and sings it: Listen: /*
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12:15 AM Mon, Jan 26, 2009 | Permalink |
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Aretha's Hat Is Everywhere. Citizens grab a meme. You're invited to grab the hat and open your photo-editing program too... Art toy: Play Fly Guy - Fly Guy Description A mesmerizing flight through space and time as a daydreaming......
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11:23 AM Sun, Jan 25, 2009 | Permalink |
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From Ghosts of the Faithful Departed by David Creedon Photographer David Creedon, of County Cork, Ireland, opened a photo exhibit in London Friday of his now-famous photos of houses abandoned there during the 1950s emigration. The images suggest why......
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5:59 PM Sat, Jan 24, 2009 | Permalink |
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A reader named Matt emailed with a tech question this morning, and the back-and-forth ended this way: > btw - lovely day in S Florida - 75ish, soft breeze It's bright white and quiet here in Providence, around 30.......
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7:02 AM Sat, Jan 24, 2009 | Permalink |
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How I Made a 1,474-Megapixel Photo During President Obama's Inaugural Address by NYC photographer David Bergman. I made a panoramic image showing the nearly two million people who watched President Obama's inaugural address. To do so, I clamped a......
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8:10 PM Fri, Jan 23, 2009 | Permalink |
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Weather Report, Vienna 1971 [no label, 1CD] Live in Vienna, Austria. November 1971. Very good soundboard or radio broadcast? ...The group had only released their self-titled debut album in May 1971 and this Vienna gig looked like an impressive showcase......
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11:54 AM Fri, Jan 23, 2009 | Permalink |
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Fallout from the Inauguration: The New York Times reports today that the stunning Inauguration performance of Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman, Anthony McGill and Gabriela Montero was actually a recording made two days before, with the musicians bowing and blowing along......
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11:12 PM Thu, Jan 22, 2009 | Permalink |
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Scrabble keyboard. Natural. Obvious. Coming, eventually? Movie lode: National Film Board of Canada puts its archives online, free. BoingBoing points to a wonderful new resource. Back when I was very young, I taught film at Brown as a grad......
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12:51 PM Thu, Jan 22, 2009 | Permalink |
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If you're intending to frame your souvenir copy of Tuesday's Inaugural newspaper, this tip may seem counterintuitive: Have a high-quality copy made at a copy shop and frame that. Newsprint is a sawdust composite which isn't meant to last millenia.......
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11:37 AM Wed, Jan 21, 2009 | Permalink |
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Bob Dylan - Empire Burlesque Outtakes Empire Burlesque sessions, New York, NY and Hollywood, CA, July 1984-April 1985. Very good soundboard, speed-corrected version. In 1992, Sick Cat released Clean Cuts, a collection of Empire Burlesque outtakes. As bobsboots.com pointed out:......
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11:03 AM Wed, Jan 21, 2009 | Permalink |
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India's Itv News, apparently looking for a fresh angle on America's new President, decided to alter a photo of Obama to produce this bit of high-concept art as part of its Obama Fever : World Cheers Change blog post. Obama......
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2:08 PM Tue, Jan 20, 2009 | Permalink |
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Aretha Franklin sings "My Country Tis of Thee" Aretha! Jazz.........
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1:30 PM Tue, Jan 20, 2009 | Permalink |
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Yo-Yo Ma & Itzhak Perlman perform at the Obama inauguration. Chicago-born Anthony McGill, principal clarinetist in the Metropolitan Opera orchestra, and Venezuelan pianist Gabriela Montero complete the classical quarter. John Williams conducted his new piece, Air and Simple Gifts,......
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12:35 PM Tue, Jan 20, 2009 | Permalink |
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whitehouse.gov changed over at 12:01 p.m. The first post on the White House Blog, Change has come to WhiteHouse.gov, Welcome to the new WhiteHouse.gov. I'm Macon Phillips, the Director of New Media for the White House and one of......
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3:33 AM Tue, Jan 20, 2009 | Permalink |
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Maybe you're recording the Inauguration and President Obama's address, to watch at home after work, but you want to catch some of it live -- the actual swearing-in at 11:30 a.m, for instance. If your work involves a computer screen,......
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1:23 AM Mon, Jan 19, 2009 | Permalink |
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In 2003, during the early stages of the war in Iraq, the blogosphere discovered an anonymous young Iraqi architect blogging in English at Dear Raed, emails from Baghdad to a friend in Jordan. A mention of his blog first appeared......
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1:23 PM Sun, Jan 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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New York Times photo The wreckage of US Airways Flight 1549 sits on a barge after being lifted out of the Hudson River at the southern tip of Manhattan Saturday. This is the tail end of this story for......
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2:53 PM Sat, Jan 17, 2009 | Permalink |
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Wyeth, dead at 91. His 1948 Christina's World, above, hung on my freshman dormroom wall in college. 60 years later, beyond all that, he painted the watercolor Stop, below, which leads his official site: Andrew Wyeth at Google Images......
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3:02 AM Fri, Jan 16, 2009 | Permalink |
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Saturday update, with U.S. Coast Guard video, from the Guardian (U.K.) Salvage teams move in on wreckage of US Airways plane as New York rejoices: More than 100 of the passengers, apparently unfazed by what had happened to them, boarded......
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10:57 PM Thu, Jan 15, 2009 | Permalink |
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Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic writes Tuesdays as music and politics blogger at Seattle Weekly: This one came shortly after Christmas: Old Songs on a New Screen. ...while walking through a one-stop shopping center, I encountered the Rock Band 2......
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2:30 AM Thu, Jan 15, 2009 | Permalink |
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Rob Crossan The only level land onTristan Da Cunha is the northwestern edge of the otherwise mountainous and rocky island. With the forecast here for snow and temps of 9 degrees for morning, The Most Remote Place on Earth......
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2:44 AM Wed, Jan 14, 2009 | Permalink |
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Obamicon.Me, at Paste Magazine, lets you turn a photo of yourself into a stylized Shepard Fairey-style poster, like the iconic Obama image above. I gave it a shot, and as I was balancing the red and blue I realized......
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2:53 AM Tue, Jan 13, 2009 | Permalink |
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AP photo Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., checks his BlackBerry in St. Louis during his presidential campaign in July. Exactly what would a Presidential mobile look like? by Devin Coldewey at CrunchGear imagines safeguards and features a mobile device for......
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11:32 PM Mon, Jan 12, 2009 | Permalink |
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Return Of The Lost Albums - Jerry Lee Lewis. Caribou [no label, 1CD] Unreleased tracks from the Caribou sessions 1980. Very good soundboard. Memorable moments include the raved-up Tennesee Waltz and when Lewis turned into a dapper crooner with Autumn......
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8:01 AM Mon, Jan 12, 2009 | Permalink |
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Eat the View: The White House Organic Garden Campaign approaches turning the White House lawn -- and your lawn -- into a vegetable garden with a sense of humor. "Eat the View!" is a campaign to urge the Obamas......
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5:43 AM Mon, Jan 12, 2009 | Permalink |
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I woke up in the middle of the night and fixed the RSS template of our MultiBlog / River of News blog. It lists and links the latest posts in all projo blogs as they publish, so you can see......
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12:27 AM Sun, Jan 11, 2009 | Permalink |
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Playmobil Security Check Point: Toys & Games, above, a $55 toy at Amazon recommended for the 4 to 7 set, draws creative reviews from parents. The $49.95 Playmobil Police Checkpoint has fewer fans, but they're of a similar ilk.......
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7:54 AM Sat, Jan 10, 2009 | Permalink |
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The Whole Earth Catalog has been on my mind lately. Access to Tools opened my life -- growing, cooking, camping, traveling, wood stoves were driven by instructions, design, and fundamental ideas of how to live creatively and authentically. Now, Kevin......
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9:52 PM Fri, Jan 09, 2009 | Permalink |
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Arthur Alexander, You Better Move On Better (maybe): Autoplay at his MySpace page. Arthur is one of The 25 Most Deserving Non-Inductees Of The Rock N' Roll Hall Of Fame. A seminal figure, imho. Here's the inductee list. Who......
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12:43 AM Fri, Jan 09, 2009 | Permalink |
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I don't remember how I first stumbled on David Welch's 38Lemon site sometime last spring, but I put him on my route. At 38, this Fairfax, Va., mellophone player, elite drum corps alum and co-founder of a software company was......
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10:03 AM Thu, Jan 08, 2009 | Permalink |
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Sooner or later, every kid who hears The Christmas Song wants to try "Chestnuts roasting on an open fire..." I had bought a handful before Christmas, but only last night did we get around to roasting them in the......
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9:37 AM Wed, Jan 07, 2009 | Permalink |
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This paper grows flowers: A lovely idea: handmade paper that's been embedded with plantable wildflower seeds that will grow in potting soil. Blank printable seeded papers -- the color of the paper reflects the eventual bloom color of the......
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3:05 AM Tue, Jan 06, 2009 | Permalink |
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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service photo Pink coral on the Palmyra Atoll in the Pacific, one of three remote and uninhabited Pacific island chains are being set aside as national monuments to protect them from oil and gas extraction......
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10:32 AM Mon, Jan 05, 2009 | Permalink |
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Wired blogger Jose Fermoso collects Our 12 (Or So) Favorite Techie Cartoons of 2008. This one, from Joy of Tech, cracked me up. Vacation's over. Back to work today.......
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10:51 AM Sun, Jan 04, 2009 | Permalink |
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Low-tech Magazine "Oven stoves are greener, more efficient, healthier, safer and cosier than all modern heating systems. Why are they gone and how do we get them back?" Low-tech Magazine makes lovely leaps. Even as they publish Sunbathing in......
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1:35 PM Sat, Jan 03, 2009 | Permalink |
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Big Bopper - Chantilly Lace. Dick Clark introduces him early in 1959. "On Feb. 3, 1959, (J.P. "The Big Bopper") Richardson died at age 28 in the crash of a small plane in a field near Clear Lake, Iowa,......
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12:49 AM Sat, Jan 03, 2009 | Permalink |
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Rev. Adelir Antonio de Carli The Balloon Priest, who launched himself via 1,000 helium party balloons, attempting to break a 19-hour flight record "to raise money for a spiritual rest-stop for truckers in the Brazilian port of Paranagua" has won......
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8:48 AM Fri, Jan 02, 2009 | Permalink |
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This recipe turned out so well we're adding it to our regulars. I chose it in part because we had hardening French bread and a bag of fresh spinach to use up, and 8 oz. of mushrooms, and these......
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6:58 AM Fri, Jan 02, 2009 | Permalink |
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NASA photo by Tom Tschida A mockup of the Orion crew module, part of NASA's Constellation program, which uses the NASA-designed Ares I rocket. Below, Michael and Rebecca Griffin at his 2005 swearing-in ceremony at the White House. NASA......
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1:44 PM Thu, Jan 01, 2009 | Permalink |
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WSJ: As if Things Weren't Bad Enough, Russian Professor Predicts End of U.S.. "In Moscow, Igor Panarin's Forecasts Are All the Rage; America 'Disintegrates' in 2010." A former KGB analyst, he is dean of the Russian Foreign Ministry's academy......
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11:35 AM Thu, Jan 01, 2009 | Permalink |
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In ...With Fairy Tales For All at the timeless Cabinet of Wonders, a collector of fairy tales blogs about the best: First of all, let me plug Andrew Lang's Coloured Fairy Books. There are twelve of them, from green to......
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