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State of the Birds 2009: Lovely video accompanies a sobering govt. report

12:45 PM Sat, Mar 21, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (1)
By Sheila Lennon    Email

Secretary Salazar Releases U.S. State of the Birds Report March 20, 2009 Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar released the first ever comprehensive report on bird populations in the United States, showing that nearly a third of the nation's......

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 Tags  bird video   birds  

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White House garden: the little dig, the plan, and joy in the gardensphere

4:36 AM Sat, Mar 21, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

Garden plan released by the White House. The unlabeled box at right is to be raised beds. There's joy in the gardensphere over Michelle Obama's groundbreaking of the White House Garden: Foodies Celebrate White House Veggie Garden. The dream......

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This blog turns 7 today

3:40 AM Fri, Mar 20, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (5)
By Sheila Lennon    Email

Photo by Joe Landry I'd like to thank my big fuzzy sweater for allowing me to blog at 3 a.m. in winter. The very first Subterranean Homepage News blog entry, on a handmade html page, published March 20, 2002.......

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 Tags  blog   blog birthday   blogiversary   Movable Type   shenews  

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'Twouble With Twitters': Animation makes smart fun of tweets

8:52 PM Thu, Mar 19, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (2)
By Sheila Lennon    Email

Twouble With Twitters "Fantastic twitter parody," Ernesto Burden wrotes of this cartoon from current.tv. It's a promo for their animated SuperNews!, whose season premiere is Friday at 10. Current is not easy to find here, though.......

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 Tags  current tv   SuperNews  

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Video: Pavarotti sings 'Ave Maria,' for St. Joseph's Day

6:00 AM Thu, Mar 19, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

The late Luciano Pavarotti, Ave Maria by Schubert, Nov. 23, 2006. Excellent sound quality for YouTube.......

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 Tags  Ave Maria  

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Tested Zeppole recipe for a sweet St. Joseph's Day, updated to skip the overnight wait

4:29 PM Wed, Mar 18, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

Updated: 4:29 p.m.I just spoke with Gail Ciampa, whose recipe below originally called for draining the ricotta overnight, asking, "What if I just find this recipe the day I want to make them?" She said that fresh ricotta, bought in......

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 Tags  desserts   recipe   zeppole  

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First hardcover book of Twitter posts published, privately

12:45 AM Wed, Mar 18, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

First Twitter Hardcover Published James Bridle of London has collected two years worth of Twitter posts in a hardcover book via the print-on-demand service, Lulu. "My life in Tweets" is a sleek hardback which permanently preserves a ephemeral set......

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A tale for Irish day: 'The Fairy Doctress' by Lady Wilde

3:08 AM Tue, Mar 17, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

In previous years, this blog has tackled St. Patrick's day with Timely recipe: Corned beef and cabbage and Truly Irish 'cooking': Toast and tea, both from 2008; Being Irish: feasting, music and one fiery female (2007); 'A Danny Boy for......

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 Tags  corned beef  

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Coast Guard report on the rescue of 1, loss of 3 football players off Fla. earlier this month

2:47 AM Tue, Mar 17, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (1)
By Sheila Lennon    Email

I've updated the original post about the March 2 rescue of Nick Schuyler with the full Coast Guard report provided to The Associated Press Monday under a Freedom of Information Act request. (pdf) The survivor statement is on Page 21.......

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 Tags  Will Bleakley  

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Video: 'Tonight we'll be putting the paper to bed for the last time' -- Seattle P-I publisher

5:17 PM Mon, Mar 16, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

Dylan Thomas wrote, "After the first death, there is no other." That's not true. Watching these announcements at paper after paper doesn't get easier. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer will become a "standalone digital news and information business" tomorrow, writes Executive......

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Classical piano by an Ethiopian nun; 'Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable'

9:07 AM Sun, Mar 15, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

Soundfix: Ethiopiques 21: Ethiopian Song Label: Buda Musique Here it is. This is it. The most achingly beautiful record of 2006. And what a story! Born in 1923 into a learned Ethiopian family, Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou was educated in Switzerland......

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 Tags  Clay Shirky   music   newspapers  

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