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April 19, 2009 - April 25, 2009 Archives

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The alphabet found on Google Maps

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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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The neighborhood printer? Book Machine prints books on demand

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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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Recipe: African goat stew

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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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Yahoo closing free Web host GeoCities, where pre-commercial homepages still live

11:18 AM Fri, Apr 24, 2009 | | Write a comment
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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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Former Rocky Mountain News staffers part ways with first backers

7:38 PM Thu, Apr 23, 2009 | | Write a comment
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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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 Tags  Alt-news   citizen journalism   news business   Rocky Mountain News  

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Inhalable chocolate might appeal to sylphs and wraiths

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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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Google Profile lets you affect what comes up when you're Googled

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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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Pulitzer Prizes announced Monday

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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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At the Art Club, an expat and an old friend share a show

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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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Opinion waves, opinion wars: Obama's CTO appointment brings on both

9:33 AM Sun, Apr 19, 2009 | | Write a comment
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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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