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February 2009 Archives
3:07 PM Sat, Feb 28, 2009 | Permalink |
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Balkan Insight reports that Serbs Again Try For Record-Breaking Sausage: The small village of Turija, some 30 km north of Vojvodina's capital Novi Sad, lives for their international sausage festival in the last week of February, when each year......
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11:34 PM Fri, Feb 27, 2009 | Permalink |
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Final Edition from Matthew Roberts on Vimeo.After 149 years and 311 days, the Rocky Mountain News published its final edition on February 27, 2009. Multimedia producer Matthew Roberts documents its final days -- the Scripps executives announcing first that the......
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6:32 AM Fri, Feb 27, 2009 | Permalink |
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I'm just getting to bed after a night of writing other things, so here's the short version: BOB DYLAN - NEW JERSEY 1988 ERIC CLAPTON - TOKYO 2009 THE BEATLES - Revolution Take... Your Knickers Off! (His Master's Choice 006,......
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5:14 PM Thu, Feb 26, 2009 | Permalink |
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Update: You can see last night's performance tonight at 8 p.m. on PBS. PBS via AP "Please give it up for Mr. Stevie Wonder," said the President, after awarding the Gershwin Prize to the blind musician. There's18 seconds of Stevie......
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3:38 PM Wed, Feb 25, 2009 | Permalink |
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Mardi Gras seemed irrelevant this year, maybe because life already feels a lot like Lent. We're all giving up all sorts of pleasures now, in the name of prudence or necessity. When I was a kid, everybody I knew......
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11:49 PM Tue, Feb 24, 2009 | Permalink |
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02.27.09 - Update: After an interview with Journal publisher Howard Sutton, Journal reporter Neil Downing reports today (Journal Co. laying off 74 to cut expenses) that At the Journal, about 100 positions will have been eliminated after the reduction in......
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7:17 AM Tue, Feb 24, 2009 | Permalink |
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Portrait of Leonardo da Vinci discovered in Basilicata. Credit: Ordre Souverain et Militaire du Temple de Jérusalem (Italian Knights Templar)This newly discovered 17-inch by 24-inch painting of Leonardo da Vinci may be a self-portrait.What may be a hitherto unknown portrait......
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8:23 PM Sun, Feb 22, 2009 | Permalink |
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Potholes are sneaky and dangerous; the worst offer the motorist a choice that isn't a choice: Crash down into it or swerve into traffic in an adjacent lane. If we know where they are, we can avoid them; if we......
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2:39 PM Sat, Feb 21, 2009 | Permalink |
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The Times U.K. links 50 of the world's best food blogs. No, not just those trying to overcome the scourge of English food. (Artichoke: Best of British Food is #47.) The blogs hail from everywhere bloggers write in English --......
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12:25 PM Fri, Feb 20, 2009 | Permalink |
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We put together a new Web tool this week that lets us update the projo.com homepage 24/7 to alert you to news. It's a dedicated blog that's usually empty. But if we post news to it, the published entry triggers......
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1:31 AM Fri, Feb 20, 2009 | Permalink |
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It's Friday -- something to smile about ""ZooBorns brings you the newest and cutest exotic animal babies from zoos and aquariums around the world." Lots of "Awww..." potential here. The photo at right is from, Feb. 9:Smithsonian National Zoo: It's......
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8:14 AM Thu, Feb 19, 2009 | Permalink |
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Journal files Newspaper honor boxes outside the Providence train station in 1997. The Freakonomics Blog at NYTimes.com solicits answers from people who have given a lot of thought to this question What Would Micropayments Do for Journalism? Clay Shirky,......
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11:36 AM Wed, Feb 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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Providence Journal / Mary Murphy An aerial photo of the Rocky Point Shore Dinner Hall, center, and other buildings at the former Warwick amusement park just before it was purchased last year by the city and state. My colleague......
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9:47 AM Wed, Feb 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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Fermilab The Tevatron at Fermilab in Batavia, Ill. Race for 'God particle' heats up: The contenders: The Large Hadron Collider in Bern, Switzerland, and the Tevatron at FermiLab in Batavia, Ill., 40 miles west of Chicago. BBC: Europe's particle......
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5:29 PM Tue, Feb 17, 2009 | Permalink |
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A cellphone charger that will work for almost all your phones is coming. But not for Apple products, and not until 2012. Here's how the the press release (Mobile Industry Unites to Drive Universal Charging Solution for Mobile Phones) from......
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12:34 PM Tue, Feb 17, 2009 | Permalink |
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If I won the lottery... Molly's Cabin is a Canadian house on a waterfront rock ledge, full of exposed beams and wood and glass. More photos, plans, etc. at the link. It's at Contemporist, which is full of lovely......
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1:00 PM Mon, Feb 16, 2009 | Permalink |
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Smithsonian Folkways - The Folkways Collection This series of 24 one-hour programs explores the remarkable collection of music, spoken word, and sound recordings that make up Folkways Records (now at the Smithsonian as Smithsonian Folkways Recordings). The music of modern......
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2:39 PM Sun, Feb 15, 2009 | Permalink |
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My colleague Tim Barmann passes on this find from Lifehacker: Downloads: VideoCacheView Finds Flash Videos in Your Browser Cache. Browser cache locating utility VideoCacheView searches through your browser cache for already-watched videos--so you can copy them to your videos folder.......
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6:31 PM Sat, Feb 14, 2009 | Permalink |
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Great. Cool number. Congratulations. What time was that? Unix time, or POSIX time, is a system for describing points in time, defined as the number of seconds elapsed since midnight Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) of January 1, 1970, not......
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5:51 AM Sat, Feb 14, 2009 | Permalink |
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Click on the photo above to bring up the 2024-x-1618-pixel hi-rez version, which you can save to print as a card or use as a desktop image or screensaver. The photo is from AP. The camera sees better than......
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3:26 PM Fri, Feb 13, 2009 | Permalink |
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By now you probably know whether you're facing gifts of champagne, chocolate and flowers tomorrow, or just another tricky day. Be My Anti-Valentine at meish.org has not forgotten your needs.......
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5:36 AM Fri, Feb 13, 2009 | Permalink |
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I've been fighting a Trojan with a French name: Virtumonde. I was just surfing along, not downloading anything, just looking at sites, and my resident Spyware Search & Destroy popped up its "Infected! Virtumonde" screen. Virtumonde Removal Tools and Guide......
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10:56 AM Thu, Feb 12, 2009 | Permalink |
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Like everybody else, I'm swinging between fear and hope about the future, which has me looking at alternatives. The three segments below are loosely related. The New York-based publisher of Trader Monthly, Dealmaker, Private Air, Corporate Leader and the Cigar......
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8:43 AM Wed, Feb 11, 2009 | Permalink |
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The site was originally called Obamicon.Me, since it let you upload a photo of yourself, then use sliders to apply the blocky color of Shepard Fairey's Obama poster. AP and Fairey are engaged in a legal situation over the use......
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10:36 PM Tue, Feb 10, 2009 | Permalink |
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I'm having some computer problems, but I've found enough daylight to poke up here for a few minutes. While I'm headbanging, I recommend to you Kindle: The Philosophy of the Turtle, in which Shelley Powers answers "What is a frugal......
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11:11 PM Mon, Feb 09, 2009 | Permalink |
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Update: It's not exactly a hoax, and the Dalai Lama's Twitter fan site is back:"Welcome to the UNOFFICIAL Twitter page of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Check back for news and travel itinerary." Twitter microblogging-site employee Caroline tweeted, bummed to......
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7:50 AM Sun, Feb 08, 2009 | Permalink |
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Hoax: Dalai Lama NOT on Twitter corrects this: Welcome to the official Twitter page of His Holiness the Dalai Lama - administered by The Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. "His Holiness thought it was prudent to make his......
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12:49 AM Sun, Feb 08, 2009 | Permalink |
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Improved Custom Message Hearts at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories Candy message hearts are a great idea that doesn't taste so great, these are "highly edible custom cookie message hearts." Start with a shortbread recipe such as this one from......
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12:55 AM Sat, Feb 07, 2009 | Permalink |
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Dinner With a Stranger. Another way to tell a story and maybe start a meme in some circles. A visual essay by Franke James. Don't cap me, dude: Please Raise My Taxes. Reed Hastings, CEO of Netflix, offers some alt-logic:......
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2:06 AM Fri, Feb 06, 2009 | Permalink |
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Extraordinary Uses for 16 Ordinary Household Items at Woman's Day. They're fun to read, frugal, easy, and some even lead to "Why didn't I think of that?" moments: Line a flowerpot with a coffee filter to keep soil from leaching......
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12:13 PM Thu, Feb 05, 2009 | Permalink |
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The Federal Aviation Administration today released mp3s of the air-traffic communications with and about USAirways Flight 1549, whose engines were disabled by a flock of birds, necessitating an emergency landing on the Hudson River in Manhattan on January 15. Here's......
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5:35 PM Wed, Feb 04, 2009 | Permalink |
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Doodle 4 Google Welcome to Doodle 4 Google, a competition where we invite K-12 students to play around with our homepage logo and see what new designs they come up with. This year we're inviting U.S. kids to join in......
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6:02 AM Wed, Feb 04, 2009 | Permalink |
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Kurt Vonnegut Motivational Posters, at Sloshspot, good with coffee on a cold winter morning.......
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8:51 AM Tue, Feb 03, 2009 | Permalink |
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IBM Offers To Move Laid Off Workers To India. InformationWeek says IBM, which has laid off more than 4,000 American workers in the last month, is offering them a way to stay employed. The climate is warm, there's no shortage......
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12:42 PM Mon, Feb 02, 2009 | Permalink |
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Bruce Springsteen @ SUPER BOWL XLIII Half-Time Part1 (stereo) Bruce Springsteen @ Super Bowl XLIII- Half Time Show - Part2 (stereo) The Boss looked like he was aiming to own the "hardest working man in show business" title, packing a......
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3:55 AM Mon, Feb 02, 2009 | Permalink |
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A Super Bowl report from the buffet table: Obama's chili is thin, more like a New York System wiener sauce than what's served as chili in Rhode Island. (He serves it over rice, and the thin liquid probably penetrates it......
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3:20 AM Mon, Feb 02, 2009 | Permalink |
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David Segal comes through in Our Love Affair With Shopping Malls Is on the Rocks in the Times. Here, ladies and gentlemen, is the crux of the problem: We are reliably informed that whatever part of the economic crisis can't......
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1:15 AM Sun, Feb 01, 2009 | Permalink |
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Given the giant post of Super Bowl recipes this week, Wordle -- the toy that generated this "word cloud" from text on my blog right now -- took one look and made a Foodle.......
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