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May 17, 2009 - May 23, 2009 Archives
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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