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What phrase do you hate?

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,...

April 11, 2009 4:32 am
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Vegetarian Easter recipes, corn bread and more lamb

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...

April 10, 2009 12:50 pm
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Easter chess peeps; Veggie race car guzzles chocolate; Book born

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...

April 9, 2009 8:09 pm
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Huge database of birthdates, bios, horoscopes of 30k notables now free and searchable

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...

April 8, 2009 10:17 pm
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Easter recipes from newspaper food sections 2009

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...

April 8, 2009 11:47 am
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Dallas journalists blog their own layoffs

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...

April 7, 2009 6:53 pm
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Jaundiced eyes on iPhone, Twitter, medical studies

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...

April 7, 2009 12:05 am
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Video: Meditators McCartney, Ringo, Seinfeld play Radio City

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...

April 6, 2009 12:12 pm
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U.S. publicly welcomes home a fallen soldier for the first time in 18 years

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...

April 6, 2009 11:26 am
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Live bunny cam is mesmerizing

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...

April 5, 2009 9:56 pm
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Death sentence made Michael Cox a novelist

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...

April 5, 2009 12:54 pm
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