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January 18, 2009 - January 24, 2009 Archives
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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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