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10:43 PM Sat, May 30, 2009 | Permalink |
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My first reactions to Google Wave are in this post, written earlier today, Google Wave: The next big thing looks like too much information, and too little, and this will make more sense if you read that first. While gardening......
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1:53 PM Sat, May 30, 2009 | Permalink |
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Google Wave unveiled at Google I/O conference. The newborn Google Wave is a unified Web application: Imagine email, Twitter, Facebook, instant messaging and Flickr mashed together on your email screen in realtime -- no reloading, it will all change......
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7:45 PM Fri, May 29, 2009 | Permalink |
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The Pattie LaBurger: A triple bacon cheeseburger with deep fried burgers serving as buns. This is why you're fat is a culinary trainwreck, photos of actual food, much of it fast, all junk by virtue of overkill. No lectures,......
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6:49 AM Fri, May 29, 2009 | Permalink |
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Just a year ago, some of you took me up on the invitation to Try your hand at baseball haiku. Jack Zerby found the post last month, and asked if multi-stanza haiku -- a few innings of it -- would......
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9:25 PM Thu, May 28, 2009 | Permalink |
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Photo: Bulgari Hotels & Resorts The Bulgari Resort in Bali. The headline got me to click. Genuine awe is hard to come by. 8 Awe-Inspiring Swimming Pools at Woman's Day. The pool in the photo above overlooks the Indian......
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2:59 AM Thu, May 28, 2009 | Permalink |
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"Embedding is the new black," writes tech-book publisher Tim O'Reilly in a post that demonstrates the easily embedded Google Web Elements. The post (Google Web Elements and Google's Iceberg Strategy (Google I/O)) begins, At Google I/O (Wednesday) morning, DeWitt......
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6:24 PM Wed, May 27, 2009 | Permalink |
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Navify, which brings Wikipedia together with images and videos, launched today with a mention on TechCrunch and typically, its servers faltered. It's up at the moment, and worth a look. String theory is enhanced by the images and videos; but......
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1:26 AM Wed, May 27, 2009 | Permalink |
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The loop on the left, at Dean Street, is a perfect Trumpet. As for the knot at right (the eastern outlet runs between Providence Place Mall to the north and the Westin Hotel to the south), I think it......
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11:25 AM Tue, May 26, 2009 | Permalink |
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Moving house: How a little old lady spent 23 years single-handedly dismantling her cottage brick by brick and rebuilding it 100 miles away. Great story in the Telegraph about May Savidge of Hertfordshire, England. ...In 1969, when she was 58,......
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12:50 AM Mon, May 25, 2009 | Permalink |
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Susan Boyle - Semi Final 1 - Britains Got Talent 2009 (HQ) Wearing a bronze lace dress and a serious demeanor, eyebrows shaped and the gray gone from her styled hair, Susan Boyle was still recognizable, but seemed tamed......
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12:02 AM Sat, May 23, 2009 | Permalink |
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Journal file photo A shore dinner on Block Island. Recipes for a Rhode Island Summer comes from earlier days of projo.com, before I got lost in code. Culled from decades of archives of the Providence Journal Food section, it's......
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7:54 AM Fri, May 22, 2009 | Permalink |
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Ruth Fremson / NYT Every May 24 since 1972, Lou Majaw, 62, one of India's original rock 'n' roll bards, has held a homespun celebration of Bob Dylan's birth, called Bob Dylan Jayanthi, in Shillong, India. Stories: NYT: Town......
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7:39 AM Fri, May 22, 2009 | Permalink |
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Just before the opening of her summerlong exhibit Wicked Plants at Brooklyn Botanic Garden, author and garden blogger (Dirt, Garden Rant), Amy Stewart will be stopping by the Barrington Public Library Saturday at 3 p.m. Wicked Plants: A Book......
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11:21 PM Thu, May 21, 2009 | Permalink |
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Looking at, but too tired to write about: Winners of the 2009 Utne Independent Press Awards Webware 100 Winners at CNet. "Webware" says no to boxed software.......
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8:30 AM Thu, May 21, 2009 | Permalink |
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In this London Times review of the Honda Insight 1.3 IMA SE Hybrid, Jeremy Clarkson manages to be both scathing and hilarious. ...And the sound is worse. The Honda's petrol engine is a much-shaved, built-for-economy, low-friction 1.3 that, at full......
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2:57 PM Wed, May 20, 2009 | Permalink |
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How to cook brown rice in a crockpot - Wolfram|Alpha Back in March, when news of the imminent launch of the Wolfram Alpha "computational knowledge engine" first broke, I blogged, Hot or hype? Wolfram Alpha promises answers, not search results.......
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11:11 AM Wed, May 20, 2009 | Permalink |
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Distributed Proofreaders have now posted 15,000 unique titles to Project Gutenberg. Remember that there is no commitment expected on this site beyond the understanding that you do your best. Proofread as often or as seldom as you like, and as......
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2:32 AM Wed, May 20, 2009 | Permalink |
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7:55 p.m. May 19: Minotaur 1(TacSat 3) blasts off from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at NASA Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, Va.The launch is at 1:48 into the video. The Virginia Pilot: The tweets from NASA_Wallops became monosyllabic during......
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10:46 AM Tue, May 19, 2009 | Permalink |
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AP A Minotaur rocket on the launch pad at Wallops Island, Va. Launch of a similar rocket was postponed last week when it rained every night in its 5-day launch window. All systems are go for a rescheduled launch......
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1:18 AM Tue, May 19, 2009 | Permalink |
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Top 10 disappointing technologies by Iain Thomson and Shaun Nichols at PC Authority includes two honorable mentions, so the story actually details a dozen onetime game-changers. If you ever wondered what happened to FireWire, Bluetooth, virtual reality and voice recognition,......
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9:47 AM Mon, May 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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My Personal Credit Crisis. Sunday's best read comes from New York Times economics reporter Edmund L. Andrews, who's facing foreclosure of his house and financial ruin. His riveting account of how it all came to this -- the Federal Reserve......
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6:55 AM Mon, May 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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Thierry Legault NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day for May 16: "On Wednesday, May 13, two, tiny, fast moving spots crossed an otherwise featureless solar disk. Not sunspots though, the dark blemishes were silhouettes of the shuttle orbiter Atlantis......
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5:43 AM Mon, May 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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GRANVILLE AUTOMATIC Mossberg & Granville Manufacturing Co., Providence, R.I., 1896, Serial #5033 Alas, "The Granville Automatic, despite its innovative design, failed in the market place and today is rare," according to Antique Typewriters - The Martin Howard Collection, which......
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11:11 AM Sat, May 16, 2009 | Permalink |
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Storm Drain Art from Brazil at design site Toxel.com It's Bilderberger time again: As The Times (U.K)., put it (Shadowy Bilderberg group meet in Greece -- and here's their address), Don't tell anyone, don't breathe a word, but the......
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10:36 AM Fri, May 15, 2009 | Permalink |
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The New York Observer reports (New York Times Considers Two Plans to Charge for Content on the Web), By the end of June, The New York Times will come to a decision on how to charge for some of......
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3:54 AM Fri, May 15, 2009 | Permalink |
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Notable, and happening this weekend: Garden fodder: Southside Community Land Trust holds its 17th Rare & Unusual Plant Sale Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at City Farm, at the corner of Dudley & West Clifford Streets......
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12:45 PM Thu, May 14, 2009 | Permalink |
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Scott Kingsley, formerly the assistant manager editor for visuals at The Providence Journal until the layoff of 18 newsroom staffers in February, has folded the print and online Stimulus Times he and a handful of other former staffers launched......
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9:44 AM Thu, May 14, 2009 | Permalink |
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Locking up the news: Steve Outing notes that he's quoted in this Wednesday Denver Post story headlined Plan will charge for news online: The Post's owner wants to "bundle" services and reach younger readers., "but it's a tiny clip and......
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4:10 PM Wed, May 13, 2009 | Permalink |
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AP A Minotaur rocket on the launch pad at Wallops Island, Va. Launch of a similar rocket was postponed last week when it rained every night in its 5-day launch window. The launch of the Minotaur rocket from Wallops......
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11:18 PM Tue, May 12, 2009 | Permalink |
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Oh great. Serious domestic violence, man vs. woman in what might be a fight to the death, ending in a passionate kiss, Scorpio falling, Plutonic sex and death, emotional release. Dylan's song, the first track on his new album Together......
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2:40 AM Tue, May 12, 2009 | Permalink |
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I'm off for a few days to plant and to set up a new computer, with the old one gasping alongside. A home network makes this easier than it used to be. But I'm in keyboard confusion, two of everything......
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8:57 AM Mon, May 11, 2009 | Permalink |
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Monday morning. Your body may be at work, but your mind can stay in art. Magazine Cover Ephemera, one of several ephemeral sets at Flickr by Suzee Que. My First Dictionary is not for tots. It's more for fans......
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3:50 PM Sun, May 10, 2009 | Permalink |
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{Part 1} President Jokes @ White House Correspondents Dinner {Part 2} President Jokes @ White House Correspondents Dinner......
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5:10 PM Sat, May 09, 2009 | Permalink |
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Time to spread this link again: Rhode Island Planting Calendar for Fruits and Vegetables by URI Master Gardeners. Tom Paine's Ghost / Corn, beans and squash cooperate synergistically.This is a 2002 version. I think we're warmer sooner now. But we're......
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4:35 AM Sat, May 09, 2009 | Permalink |
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Where would Obama make his long-promised speech to the Muslim world? After ditching one capital or another as too whatever ("Tehran? Too soon for that."), Helene Cooper of the Times called it back on December 4 (Looking for the Ideal......
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3:33 AM Sat, May 09, 2009 | Permalink |
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After scrubbing the launch of the Minotaur rocket last night at T minus four minutes, NASA Twittered: "We will not attempt a launch on May 9. A new date is expected to be set sometime next week." The forecast for......
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9:25 AM Fri, May 08, 2009 | Permalink |
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Blues Music Awards return to Memphis, celebrate 3-decade run. This was local news for the Memphis Commercial Appeal, again reporting on the renamed W.C. Handy awards night: Soulful diva Janiva Magness, guitar great Buddy Guy and the legendary B.B. King......
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10:50 AM Thu, May 07, 2009 | Permalink |
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Amazon Kindle DX announced: $489, ships this summer. Engadget: ...the big changes are a larger 9.7-inch screen that rotates to landscape display, a PDF reader, and more storage space at 3.3GB. The big news is actually the flat $489 price......
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10:18 PM Wed, May 06, 2009 | Permalink |
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Hit & Run's Jacob Sullum at Reason Magazine, who earlier this week went out on a limb to say the FDA would ban cigarettes Tuesday, offers the rest of the story today in 'We're About Harm Reduction...Except I Can't Say......
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12:47 AM Wed, May 06, 2009 | Permalink |
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Frog Leap Test: Switch the frogs to the opposite side within 2 minutes. (This is labeled "a second-grade computer test in China," but that may just be a mind game, too.) Thanks to Doc Sheldon for the pointer.......
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8:41 PM Tue, May 05, 2009 | Permalink |
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NASA_Wallops Twitter feed: 9:30 p.m: We will not try a launch attempt on May 6. The next attempt will be Thursday, May 7. Launch window 8 - 11 p.m. 8:03 p.m: We have canceled the launch tonight because of the......
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4:03 PM Tue, May 05, 2009 | Permalink |
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2009 Webby Awards are up, just posted. Hype aside, here are links to lots of sites you may never heard of that probably deserve a look. New York Times won "BEST COPY/WRITING" with the People's Voice Award going to Wired.......
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10:23 AM Tue, May 05, 2009 | Permalink |
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13,500 people gathered in London's Trafalgar Square at 6 p.m. Thursday night to sing Hey Jude together. More than 2,000 wireless microphones were passed out and the lyrics projected on a large screen. 24 cameras and recorded the singalong.......
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10:57 PM Mon, May 04, 2009 | Permalink |
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Update during Tues-Sat launch window: This NASA Twitter feed has clean and frequent countdown updates. A dawn launch of a Minotaur rocket at Wallops Flight Facility, Accomack, Va., Dec. 16, 2006. There's to be another Minotaur launch from Virginia's eastern......
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3:43 PM Mon, May 04, 2009 | Permalink |
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They had me at the blue one. From 23 Stunning Examples Of Digital Art & Manipulation. It's my desktop wallpaper at home this week, fighting the clouds and rain.......
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12:03 AM Sun, May 03, 2009 | Permalink |
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Providence Journal / Frieda Squires An electronic cigarette is a plastic tube that creates flavored "smoke" (water vapor), and glows at the tip like an "analog" cigarette . It may contain nicotine (or can be used with "blanks") but......
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12:10 PM Sat, May 02, 2009 | Permalink |
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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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