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URI's garden timeline: plant corn now to start the Three Sisters trio

5:10 PM Sat, May 09, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (1)
By Sheila Lennon    Email

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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 Tags  gardening   planting guide  

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Times reporter called it in December: Egypt to host Obama's address to the Muslim world

4:35 AM Sat, May 09, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (1)
By Sheila Lennon    Email

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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 Tags  Egypt   Obama  

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Weather scrubs east-coast rocket launch again; rescheduled for next week

3:33 AM Sat, May 09, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (1)
By Sheila Lennon    Email

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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 Tags  Minotaur   rocket launch  

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Homemade Jamz Blues Band didn't win a Blues Music Award last night, but their stars are rising

9:25 AM Fri, May 08, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (2)
By Sheila Lennon    Email

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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 Tags  Blues Foundation   Blues Music Awards  

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Larger Kindle for newspapers, magazines, textbooks to cost $489

10:50 AM Thu, May 07, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

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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Update: Despite email alert, FDA did not ban e-cigarettes Tuesday

10:18 PM Wed, May 06, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (3)
By Sheila Lennon    Email

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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 Tags  electronic cigarettes  

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2-minute game to rattle your brain

12:47 AM Wed, May 06, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (2)
By Sheila Lennon    Email

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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 Tags  game  

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Update: NASA postpones East-coast rocket launch until Thursday

8:41 PM Tue, May 05, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

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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 Tags  Minotaur   rocket launch  

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Webby Awards just announced: New links to browse

4:03 PM Tue, May 05, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

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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Video: 13,500 sing 'Hey Jude' in Trafalgar Square last Thursday

10:23 AM Tue, May 05, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

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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 Tags  music  

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Va. rocket launch could be visible in R.I. on the first clear night between Tuesday and Saturday

10:57 PM Mon, May 04, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

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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 Tags  Minotaur   rocket launch  

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Plausible art

3:43 PM Mon, May 04, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

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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FDA may ban electronic cigarettes

12:03 AM Sun, May 03, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (23)
By Sheila Lennon    Email

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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