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Saturday browsing: 50 food blogs

2:39 PM Sat, Feb 21, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

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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 Tags  food blogs   recipes  

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Our new News Alerts tool enables 24/7 reporting

12:25 PM Fri, Feb 20, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (2)
By Sheila Lennon    Email

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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Zoo babies; Household tech hints; Subway jazz; Ireland's generic Polish scofflaw

1:31 AM Fri, Feb 20, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (1)
By Sheila Lennon    Email

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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 Tags  animals   frugal   jazz   zoo  

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Micropayments: Nickel-and-diming the news

8:14 AM Thu, Feb 19, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

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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 Tags  news business  

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Let's reinvent Rocky Point with a new amusement park

11:36 AM Wed, Feb 18, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (5)
By Sheila Lennon    Email

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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 Tags  Rocky Point  

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Physics face-off: Hadron Collider vs. Tevatron

9:47 AM Wed, Feb 18, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

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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 Tags  CERN   Fermilab   Higgs boson   Large Hadron Collider   string theory  

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'Universal' cellphone charger coming by 2012, but not for Apples

5:29 PM Tue, Feb 17, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

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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 Tags  cellphones   geeky  

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Escapist fantasy: House on a waterfront ledge

12:34 PM Tue, Feb 17, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

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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 Tags  cool house   design   design blogs   dwellings  

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Free mp3s: 24 hours of podcasts explore Smithsonian Folkways music, poetry

1:00 PM Mon, Feb 16, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

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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 Tags  music  

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Find videos you've already watched on your hard drive

2:39 PM Sun, Feb 15, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

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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 Tags  Flash  

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