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11:36 PM Thu, Apr 30, 2009 | Permalink |
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Music to code by, plant by, chill with... Stravinsky - The Firebird Suite Conductor Pierre Boulez with Orchestre de Paris Live at the Salle Pleyel, Paris, France, Dec 1, 2008 afternoon concert. An FM recording broadcast Dec 11, 2008. Miles......
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11:52 PM Wed, Apr 29, 2009 | Permalink |
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Swine Flu gene as ambient music: Viral music, literally. Yup, Stephan Zielinsk is thinking outside the fear paradigm. Swine flu has been sequenced. More out of curiosity than anything else, I wrote code to translate a key gene into a......
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4:04 AM Wed, Apr 29, 2009 | Permalink |
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Pete Souza Barack and Michelle Obama and guests wear 3-D glasses while watching the Super Bowl on Feb. 1. (The glasses were to watch the Dreamworks commercial.) The Official White House Photostream as a Flickr slideshow: 293 photos by......
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11:46 AM Tue, Apr 28, 2009 | Permalink |
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Providence Journal / Steve Szydlowski An uncharacteristically uncrowded moment at the Hope High School Farmers' Market last July. When the Farm Fresh Farmers' Markets move outdoors June 6, the vendors who've edged the driveway at Providence's Hope High School......
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3:11 AM Tue, Apr 28, 2009 | Permalink |
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Update 3:44 p.m.: No surprise, really, but the bandwidth ran out immediately on the live presentation, the feed was cut to audio and then died here at least. Organizers promise (on the question-tool page) that the archived video will be......
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12:30 AM Tue, Apr 28, 2009 | Permalink |
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People's Voice Webby Awards. You have to register. The Webby People's Voice Awards sponsored by Microsoft Silverlight invites the public to participate in The Webby Awards by allowing them to shout out for their favorite nominees. Choose your favorite from......
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12:16 PM Mon, Apr 27, 2009 | Permalink |
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I'm Calling Out The Carpetbagging Mommybloggers. Erin Kotecki Vest, blogging as Queen of Spain names no names: You scream about your power and you yell about your influence and you position yourself in articles and demand attention, but there's no......
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12:36 AM Mon, Apr 27, 2009 | Permalink |
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Questions & Answers Swine Influenza and You U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) | The current U.S. case count. Later: The CDC has created a Swine Flu page. The CDC emergency Twitter account is issuing fact-based reports about......
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9:20 AM Sun, Apr 26, 2009 | Permalink |
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Karen Cunningham for The New York Times Michelle Rosen and David Zornitsky: "On April 5, the couple was escorted by their three boys down an aisle lined with lollipop trees at Dylan's Candy Bar in New York. The bride......
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11:15 AM Sat, Apr 25, 2009 | Permalink |
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The letter Q Melbourne, Australia, designer Rhett Dashwood: Over the course of several months beginning October 2008 to April 2009 I've spent some of my spare time between commercial projects searching Google Maps hoping to discover land formations or......
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6:50 AM Sat, Apr 25, 2009 | Permalink |
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Espresso Book Machine There is one at The Library of Alexandria, in Alexandria, Egypt, that prints books in Arabic; one at the Internet Archive in San Francisco, and one launched yesterday in London's Blackwell's bookstore. Guardian (Revolutionary Espresso Book......
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5:20 PM Fri, Apr 24, 2009 | Permalink |
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You can treat goat like stew meat and cook it with carrots and onions, but I prefer it African-style, with pumpkin. African Goat Stew Recipe from Library of Congress American Memory project. A note about goat: We refused to buy......
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11:18 AM Fri, Apr 24, 2009 | Permalink |
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Nail in coffin: Yahoo! announced at GeoCities Help, GeoCities will close later this year. Yahoo! GeoCities: Get a free web site with easy-to-use site building tools contradicts itself. GeoCities Help: GeoCities will close later this year....we encourage anyone interested in......
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7:38 PM Thu, Apr 23, 2009 | Permalink |
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InDenverTimes backers, staff part ways. The Denver Post: Financial backers of InDenver Times and many of its unpaid employees -- former staff members of the Rocky Mountain News -- are parting ways after a meeting Wednesday night. Handoff time. I......
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2:23 AM Thu, Apr 23, 2009 | Permalink |
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My computer is back, but dying. The trouble started when I heard a loud "ping" inside the case, as though something metallic had hit the side of it. Turns out, it was a capacitor shooting off the motherboard. I've ordered......
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8:01 PM Tue, Apr 21, 2009 | Permalink |
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Official Google Blog: Search for "me" on Google To give you greater control over what people find when they search for your name, we've begun to show Google profile results at the bottom of U.S. name-query search pages. These results......
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6:02 PM Mon, Apr 20, 2009 | Permalink |
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The 2009 Pulitzer Prizewinners and Nominated Finalists Breaking News award went to "The New York Times Staff for its swift and sweeping coverage of a sex scandal that resulted in the resignation of Gov. Eliot Spitzer, breaking the story on......
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11:26 PM Sun, Apr 19, 2009 | Permalink |
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Tony Ramos, Miles Davis, acrylic on canvas, 60" x 120", 2005. Native Sons is a joint exhibit at the Providence Art Club of two Rhode Island natives, painter Tony Ramos and furniture maker Timothy Philbrick, friends since 1968. Tony......
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9:33 AM Sun, Apr 19, 2009 | Permalink |
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After tech publisher Tim O'Reilly blogged about Obama's selection of Virginia's Secretary of Technology for the cabinet post of Chief Technology Officer yesterday ("Why Aneesh Chopra is a Great Choice for Federal CTO)," he Tweeted to his posse, ""Hey,......
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10:24 AM Sat, Apr 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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The White House, previewing today's Presidential radio address: Aneesh Paul Chopra Chopra serves as Virginia's Secretary of Technology. He leads the Commonwealth's strategy to effectively leverage technology in government reform, to promote Virginia's innovation agenda, and to foster technology-related economic......
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3:44 AM Fri, Apr 17, 2009 | Permalink |
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Friday running out of words. Parfum de livre: Smell of Books. Like the spray cans of "new car smell." You may choose from * New Book Smell * Scent of Sensibility * Eau You Have Cats * Crunchy Bacon Scent......
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10:17 AM Thu, Apr 16, 2009 | Permalink |
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BOB DYLAN Earls Court 1978 [MIG UK-2-A/B, 1CD] Live at Earls Court, London, England, June 20, 1978. Final night of UK tour. An excellent audience stereo recording. There must be a million Dylan bootlegs by now, the man's been on......
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12:12 PM Wed, Apr 15, 2009 | Permalink |
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This is everywhere today because it's an extraordinary experience on a TV show usually steeped in snark. Greeted by eye-rolling and titters, 47-year-old Susan Boyle auditioned Saturday night for American Idol judge Simon Cowell, Piers Morgan and Amanda Holden on......
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7:53 AM Wed, Apr 15, 2009 | Permalink |
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Stimulus Times is the tiny, fledgling indy magazine launched today by Scott Kingsley, who was until February the Journal's assistant managing editor for visuals. When I dropped him a note after the axe fell, he replied with thanks, adding, "I'm......
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9:56 PM Tue, Apr 14, 2009 | Permalink |
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Neil Young's1959 Lincoln Continental Mark IV used to get 10mpg; now it's over 100 mpg. Values We want to build a zero emissions automobile that eliminates roadside re-fueling entirely, a safe powerful automobile that is comfortable and economic on......
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12:46 PM Tue, Apr 14, 2009 | Permalink |
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Going Down The Rabbit Hole: The future of transportation may mean not moving at all. GOOD interviews futurist Ray Kurzweil: GOOD: How will technological advances change transportation in the 21st century? Ray Kurzweil: For starters, we will replace a lot......
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9:32 AM Tue, Apr 14, 2009 | Permalink |
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AP Photo/Craig Lassig Accompanied by his wife Franni, Al Franken talks with reporters outside his home in Minneapolis after a court confirmed that Democrat Franken won the most votes in his 2008 Senate race against Republican Norm Coleman. Panel:......
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10:13 PM Mon, Apr 13, 2009 | Permalink |
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In the Event That You Have Accidentally Swallowed the Higgs Boson by Michael Rottman at The Morning News. If you've ever wondered what would have happened if you'd said no that night, you understand. 9. If all else fails, the......
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1:40 AM Mon, Apr 13, 2009 | Permalink |
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Meet Bo, the First Dog, from The White House Blog. Remember the Barbara Walters interview with Barack and Michelle Obama November 26? BARACK OBAMA: What is a Havanese? WALTERS: Oh, it's like a little...it's like a little terrier. And......
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8:07 PM Sun, Apr 12, 2009 | Permalink |
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White Bean and Ham Hock Soup with Arugula at our house today. After reading the reviews, we were careful not to add the fresh tomatoes until the beans were cooked, lest their acidity interfere with their softening. They went......
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11:06 AM Sun, Apr 12, 2009 | Permalink |
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10:56 a.m. People mill. It's 39 degrees, a balloon measures the wind. Underwhelming views, too far away, so far. A streaming cam at EarthCam, on Fifth Avenue one block south of St. Patrick's Cathedral, is to offer a live......
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4:32 AM Sat, Apr 11, 2009 | Permalink |
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What phrase do you hate?. Chris of Cambridge's http://www.cynical-c.com/ asked that question a month ago, and by now more than 100 people have chimed in. He led off, and updated: I have two candidates. It was meant to be. No,......
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12:50 PM Fri, Apr 10, 2009 | Permalink |
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I'm still undecided, still foraging. Leaning strongly toward White Bean and Ham Hock Soup with Arugula and Corn Bread Croutons with corn bread instead of croutons. I've narrowed down the corn bread choices to those without sugar -- I don't......
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8:09 PM Thu, Apr 09, 2009 | Permalink |
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Chessplaying peeps: Eat what you capture. From The Picassos of Chess Boards: 10 of The Best at MyChessBlog. Perhaps, for international appeal, these are called "pokemon style"; but they're Easter. New Race Car Made of Potatoes, Carrots and Powered......
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10:17 PM Wed, Apr 08, 2009 | Permalink |
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Astrodienst -- Astro.com, the large astrology site in Zurich available in several languages, has acquired the late Lois M. Rodden's lifework, Astro-Databank: Astrology data and horoscope of 20,000 celebrities, horoscopes for astrological research and put it into wiki form. The......
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11:47 AM Wed, Apr 08, 2009 | Permalink |
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I'm not in the mood for a big deal this Easter, so you'll find some lighter recipes here that caught my eye as well as ham and lamb hunks. If your family that expects a new take, one of these......
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6:53 PM Tue, Apr 07, 2009 | Permalink |
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DMNcuts is a blog for journalists at the Dallas Morning News blogging their layoffs today. Belo also owns The Providence Journal, which underwent this round of layoffs last month. The live reports are in comments. Please be kind if you......
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12:05 AM Tue, Apr 07, 2009 | Permalink |
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I'm off today, and will be out of blogging range. What better time to lay out some small cranky links? What some folks are not happy about... I Hate My iPhone Twitter in Real Life: Curse of the Robot Followers......
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12:12 PM Mon, Apr 06, 2009 | Permalink |
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A transcendentally high time seemed to be had by all Saturday night at Radio City Music Hall on behalf of the David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness-Based Education and World Peace. Jon Pareles at the Times' ArtsBeat blog: Paul McCartney......
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11:26 AM Mon, Apr 06, 2009 | Permalink |
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AP Photo/Evan Vucci The casket of Air Force Staff Sgt. Phillip Myers, 30, of Hopewell, Va., who was killed in Afghanistan April 4, is carried off a plane by an honor guard Sunday at Dover Air Force Base, in......
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9:56 PM Sun, Apr 05, 2009 | Permalink |
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I keep going back to see what the long-ears are doing. Call the kids. Maybe they have rich inner lives. The camera is at Found Animals in San Pedro, Calif.. At that link a live chat accompanies the video, and......
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12:54 PM Sun, Apr 05, 2009 | Permalink |
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Michael Cox, 1948-2009 points to the Telegraph's obit of the English novelist, who died March 31. (He pictured at right in a jacket photo by Jerry Bauer.) Subhed: Michael Cox, who died of cancer on March 31 aged 60, was......
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6:36 PM Sat, Apr 04, 2009 | Permalink |
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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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3:02 AM Sat, Apr 04, 2009 | Permalink |
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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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2:18 AM Sat, Apr 04, 2009 | Permalink |
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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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11:08 PM Thu, Apr 02, 2009 | Permalink |
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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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9:40 AM Thu, Apr 02, 2009 | Permalink |
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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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9:52 PM Wed, Apr 01, 2009 | Permalink |
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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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6:13 PM Wed, Apr 01, 2009 | Permalink |
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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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