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January 11, 2009 - January 17, 2009 Archives


Weekend reads: Wyeth; Virtual us; Oxford over NFL; LOL cat tale; Bush, Brits, loos

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By Sheila Lennon    Email

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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Twitter spreads tourist's iPhone photo of USAir passengers in Hudson River

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By Sheila Lennon    Email

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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Nirvana bassist tries to play his tune on Rock Band 2 store demo

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By Sheila Lennon    Email

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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Escapes: Tristan Da Cunha; Stonehenge in Lake Michigan? Prado on Google Earth

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By Sheila Lennon    Email

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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Turn a photo of yourself into an Obama-style poster

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By Sheila Lennon    Email

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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Designing a BlackBerry that Obama could keep

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By Sheila Lennon    Email

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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Free mp3s: Jerry Lee Lewis, '80

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By Sheila Lennon    Email

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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Campaign hopes to turn White House lawn into veggie garden

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By Sheila Lennon    Email

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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The RSS feed of our River of News is now working

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By Sheila Lennon    Email

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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Security checkpoint toys for tots inspire Amazon reviewers

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By Sheila Lennon    Email

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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