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March 22, 2009 - March 28, 2009 Archives


Visual fields: Imagedump, design blogs, search GImages by color, Fibonacci architecture

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By Sheila Lennon    Email

Shouldn't the words fall after they're read? Imagedump: "a small collection of the best, funniest or coolest images" of each month. From March, above and at right. MeFi credits "a 19-year-old Dutch kid named Marco Kuiper" and commenters add......

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Boggle your rite brain: Video of Joffrey dancing Nijinsky's 1913 'Rites of Spring' in 1987

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By Sheila Lennon    Email

The Rite of Spring Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3. Chicago's Joffrey Ballet in 1987 recreated Nijinsky's original 1913 choreography of Stravinsky's Le Sacre du printemps, which occasioned a riot at its Paris premiere. (Yes, there used......

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Gmail now lets you 'undo send' if you realize your mistake in 5 seconds

12:53 PM Thu, Mar 26, 2009 | | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

Google's Gmail now lets you pull back emails sent in error -- but you only get five second to do it. Is that long enough for remorse to set it? Probably not, but it might help if you sent a......

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Obama's Online Town Hall is streaming live now

11:41 AM Thu, Mar 26, 2009 | | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

Open For Questions. Obama's Online Town Hall is streaming live now at that link. 12:53 p.m. It just ended.......

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Woman who preserved 1966 photos of Earth, moon gets to see them shine

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By Sheila Lennon    Email

NASA image of the first photo of earh from the moon in 1966. Click to see it about double this size. NASA's early lunar images, in a new light - Pictures from the mid-1960s Lunar Orbiter program lay forgotten......

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Bainbridge, Ga. celebrated R.I. -- now a Cranston man remembers Bainbridge in the '40s

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By Sheila Lennon    Email

Photo by Frankie Elliott Hodges Willis Park, Bainbridge, Ga. My colleague Donita Naylor wrote recently about Bainbridge, Ga., which was about to launch its annual Riverside Artsfest: Each year, the festival celebrates a different state. Last year it was......

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Who gave a home to elephant Sheila?

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By Sheila Lennon    Email

The Belfast Zoo captions this photo, "Women looking after elephants during World War II." They had me at the headline, but the story's not bad, if true. BBC: Who gave a home to elephant Sheila? The search is on......

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Raw links: Madoff employee speaks, Galbraith writes, high-rez eyes, paid content

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By Sheila Lennon    Email

Madoff Employee Breaks Silence. By Lucinda Franks at The Daily Beast. No Return to Normal: Why the economic crisis, and its solution, are bigger than you think. By James K. Galbraith at Washington Monthly. via Ft. Boise Making Sense of......

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Photo: At Foxy Lady's job fair, strippers were rare, most applicants were men

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By Sheila Lennon    Email

The Providence Journal / Glenn Osmundson Applicants wait to be interviewed for jobs at The Foxy Lady "gentlemen's club" in Providence yesterday. Scores check out Foxy Lady jobs by John Hill of The Providence Journal: ...The Chalkstone Avenue strip......

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