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Dinner with a stranger; Netflix CEO begs for higher taxes; Highbrow lit; 'Namesake' worth HBOing

12:55 AM Sat, Feb 07, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

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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 Tags  Kal Penn  

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Frugal and handy uses for ordinary household objects

2:06 AM Fri, Feb 06, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

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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 Tags  frugal   household tips  

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FAA releases air-traffic tapes (mp3s) of plane that landed in Hudson; Game lets you try to land it

12:13 PM Thu, Feb 05, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

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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 Tags  audio   game  

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Doodle 4 Google: 'What I Wish for the World'

5:35 PM Wed, Feb 04, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (6)
By Sheila Lennon    Email

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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 Tags  contest   google  

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Kurt Vonnegut Motivational Posters

6:02 AM Wed, Feb 04, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

Kurt Vonnegut Motivational Posters, at Sloshspot, good with coffee on a cold winter morning.......

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IBM offers jobs in India to Americans it lays off

8:51 AM Tue, Feb 03, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (7)
By Sheila Lennon    Email

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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 Tags  economy  

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Bruce Springsteen's Super Bowl halftime-show and slide videos

12:42 PM Mon, Feb 02, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

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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 Tags  Bruce Springsteen   music  

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Review: Obama's chili, and a veggie dip that stole the show

3:55 AM Mon, Feb 02, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

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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 Tags  chili   dips   Obama   recipes  

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Nicely written Mall story

3:20 AM Mon, Feb 02, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

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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 Tags  economy   shopping   writing  

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This Web toy sees a Super Bowl party here

1:15 AM Sun, Feb 01, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

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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 Tags  shenews   Wordle   words   zeitgeist  

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