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March 29, 2009 - April 4, 2009 Archives

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Yahoo's new Image Search interface is a better gateway

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Searching for tulips and clicking from a thumbnail took me to Deililly's photostream on Flickr. The black top with search tools and more results also includes the interesting "Others who searched for tulips also searched for:" (much more fun......

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 Tags  flickr   photos   Yahoo   Yahoo Images  

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Homemade Easter basket treats to start making now

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Early enough to do something about, recipes for Easter baskets treats and a bunny cake, for those whose kids are still young enough to play the game. If you're looking for healthy, not here. Homemade Marshmallow Peeps!, from the......

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 Tags  chocolate chips   chocolate eggs   Easter basket   recipes  

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Living color

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AP A Disney horticulture worker tends to the pansies in one of the flower fields, a part of the 30-million colorful blooms at Walt Disney World's Epcot Center in Lake Buena Vista, Fla.......

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Video: 100 Hours of Astronomy

11:08 PM Thu, Apr 02, 2009 | | Write a comment
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"LIVE International Web Streaming Featuring Galileo's Telescope!" Around the World in 80 Telescopes:Live 24-hour webcast from astronomical observatories "Around the World in 80 Telescopes" FAQ. "Galileo, the Medici and the Age of Astronomy was created in partnership with the......

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Life Magazine, Getty Images offer 7 million photos

9:40 AM Thu, Apr 02, 2009 | | Write a comment
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Back in November, the Google-Life Magazine archive launched at Google Images (Google publishes millions of Life Magazine photos -- and they're searchable). Now, from the "About us" at LIFE - Your World in Pictures, LIFE and Getty Images, the two......

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April Fool's Day: Car and Driver, Providence streetcars, Internet to reboot, YouTube upside down, Guardian going Twitter-only

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April Fools' Day On The Web : 2009 is compiling the pranks. Such as, YouTube upside down, with Tips for viewing the new layout. And Internet Reboot Today at 11.59UTC As you may have heard in the news, the Internet......

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And today, the joke's on me

6:13 PM Wed, Apr 01, 2009 | | Write a comment
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I spoke to a journalism class about 18 months ago, and one of the students wrote his final paper on me. Persistent Stuart Kurtz called and wrote, asking me to publish his story. I jokingly said, last year, that it......

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 Tags  April Fool's Day   Woodstock  

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Inauguration prints from Gigapan panorama photographer

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David Bergman President Bush looking over at President-Elect Obama before the transfer of power. This entry about David Bergman's zoomable Gigapan photo of the inauguration has consistently been one of the most popular search results on this blog, and......

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Bob Dylan offers free mp3 from new album

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Bob Dylan.com -- the homepage -- offers a free mp3 download of Beyond Here Lies Nothin' from his new album, Together Through Life. Monday and Tuesday only, says MeFi and others. Less, say a few more. It's there now. May......

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NYT's new 'Global Edition' site merges IHT, Times foreign reporting

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Iht.com is no more. The New York Times Global Edition uses the design of the U.S. home page but folds together reporting from its foreign bureaus and the International Herald Tribune, based in Paris. Meanwhile, at ValleyWag, Ryan Tate files......

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Easily remove dupes from your Thunderbird mail, and perhaps from Outlook

10:25 AM Sun, Mar 29, 2009 | | Write a comment
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I use Thunderbird, Mozilla's Firefox companion, as a mail client. I've been having some hardware issues lately -- the kind that have the fan coming on loudly and usually end in a power-supply replacement -- and late last night I......

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