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Links dump: Seymour Hersh, holi, cities selling stimulus funds, snopes.com, The Rainbow Vomiting Pandas Of Interestingness

10:00 PM Fri, Mar 13, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

MinnPost - Investigative reporter Seymour Hersh describes 'executive assassination ring' (UPI Photo/Mohammad Kheirkhah) Two Indian men, with their faces smeared with colored powder, pose for a photograph after celebrating the Hindu festival of Holi, or Festival of colors, in......

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 Tags  Facebook   holidays   Seymour Hersh  

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Jocko Holmes, co-owner of Amara's Restaurant, dies; memorial Sunday in Pawtucket

3:14 AM Fri, Mar 13, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

Photo by Elle Amara and her son Jocko (John W. III) Holmes at Amara's Restaurant, which they co-owned, sometime in the 1980s. Jocko Holmes, 49, son of the late Amara Holmes and co-owner with his mother of Amara's Restaurant......

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 Tags  Amara   Amara's Cookbook   Jocko Holmes   John W. Holmes III  

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Newseum shows 14 newspapers' front pages at once in your browser

9:37 PM Thu, Mar 12, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

What my browser framed of the NEWScan display of selected newspaper front pages. Newspapers the world over email a pdf of the front page as it goes to press each day to The Newseum, which today offers 757 front......

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 Tags  newspapers   Web 2.0  

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Good read: The Untold Story of the World's Biggest Diamond Heist

10:13 AM Thu, Mar 12, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

Quick link to a good story at Wired: The Untold Story of the World's Biggest Diamond Heist. It's the tale, which might be true, of mastermind Leonardo Notarbartolo as told to Joshua Davis, who visited Notarbartolo at a Belgian prison.......

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 Tags  diamonds  

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Cool tech: Project phone buttons on your hand and punch in your call

11:58 AM Wed, Mar 11, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

Pattie Maes, director of the MIT Media Lab's Fluid Interfaces Group, demonstrates the work of student Pranav Mistry at the TED conference last month in Long Beach, California. 08:42.. Its name is more catchy than accurate, but the technology......

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 Tags  cool tech   future tech   MIT Media Lab  

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Addicting Twitterfall filters Twitter for trends, keywords that matter to you

11:28 PM Tue, Mar 10, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

I am mesmerized by Twitterfall. This is what it must be like to be a government eavesdropper. Twitterfall is a way of viewing the latest 'tweets' of upcoming trends and custom searches on the micro-blogging site Twitter. Updates fall from......

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Hot or hype? Wolfram Alpha promises answers, not search results

10:59 AM Tue, Mar 10, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (2)
By Sheila Lennon    Email

Nova Spivack rattled the blogosphere Saturday with Wolfram Alpha is Coming -- and It Could be as Important as Google. He has been allowed to peek at Wolfram Alpha, a new way to find answers to factual questions -- a......

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 Tags  future tech   google   Shelley Powers   Wolfram Alpha  

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Public art to get excited about: Neon and flowers and bear

1:34 AM Mon, Mar 09, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

Breathtaking and Inspiring Pieces of Public Art at Web Urbanist is a good way to slide gently into Monday. These aren't statues of generals on horses. Puppy, the topiary dog made from live flowers, irrigated from within, is by Jeff......

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 Tags  Jeff Koons   Public art  

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Daylight Savings Time: How to tell your PC and gizmos; What time is it?

12:47 PM Sun, Mar 08, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

Daylight Savings Time went back into effect overnight. "Spring ahead" -- if your clock says 1, change it to 2. I'm seeing search requests land on this post at last year's, Daylight savings time starts Sunday: How to tell your......

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 Tags  Daylight Savings Time   set clocks  

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State of the offbeat arts: Rainbow cake, nothing in Paris, optical illusions

3:45 AM Sun, Mar 08, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

Rainbow cake The recipe and step by step photos are at Omnomicon. This showed up on the always-vibrant colour lovers blog.     White space: Paris hosts new exhibition of nothing: In nine empty rooms, 'most radical show ever seen'......

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 Tags  art   Paris   recipe  

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But can Gordon Lightfoot still sing?

1:19 AM Sun, Mar 08, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (2)
By Sheila Lennon    Email

After yesterday's post about Gordon Lightfoot coming to Lincoln in July, reader jk emailed, "Can he still sing?" He sounds pretty good to me in these clips from 2007. The 2008 review of an Ohio show (Singer's delivery adds to......

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 Tags  Gordon Lightfoot   music  

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