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April 26, 2009 - May 2, 2009 Archives


Tattoed man is a walking garden; WH Twitters; Kindle grabs geezers

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By Sheila Lennon    Email

As I head out to plant on a perfectly overcast Saturday... Tattooed Geoff Ostling donating his body to art. The Daily Telegraph. What's lovely here is that instead of flames and doom this leprechaun's tats are a garden. His girth......

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Weekend mp3s: '71 Miles at Newport Jazz, Belgrade; Stravinsky, 'Firebird'; Stones '72

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By Sheila Lennon    Email

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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Mp3: swine flu gene as ambient music

11:52 PM Wed, Apr 29, 2009 | | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

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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Links: White House Flickr slideshow, Pete Seeger's 90th, strangers, bagels and brains

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By Sheila Lennon    Email

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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Hope High School farmers' market is moving to Pawtucket line

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By Sheila Lennon    Email

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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Sneak preview today of Wolfram Alpha search wizard at 3 p.m.

3:11 AM Tue, Apr 28, 2009 | | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

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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Webby Awards: Funky no more

12:30 AM Tue, Apr 28, 2009 | | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

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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The mommyblogger racket

12:16 PM Mon, Apr 27, 2009 | | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

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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Fact-based info about swine flu

12:36 AM Mon, Apr 27, 2009 | | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

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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Big Sunday links dump

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By Sheila Lennon    Email

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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