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Google Wave, part 2: After gardening, I want more intuitive networking from 'social' technology

10:43 PM Sat, May 30, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

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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 Tags  Google Wave   Robert Henri   Web 2.0  

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Google Wave: The next big thing looks like too much information, and too little

1:53 PM Sat, May 30, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

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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 Tags  Google Wave   Web 2.0  

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The most excessive fast food out there

7:45 PM Fri, May 29, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

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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Handful of haikus tell a Babe Ruth story

6:49 AM Fri, May 29, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (2)
By Sheila Lennon    Email

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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 Tags  Babe Ruth   haiku  

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A mental escape: Pools in 7 beautiful places

9:25 PM Thu, May 28, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

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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Fun with Google's newest embeddables

2:59 AM Thu, May 28, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

"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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Navify launches, merging Wikipedia, Flickr and YouTube

6:24 PM Wed, May 27, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

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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Take the Trumpet at Dean Street, or get off the Whirlpool downtown

1:26 AM Wed, May 27, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

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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 Tags  design  

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Mencken speaks, cats blog, woman moves house brick by brick

11:25 AM Tue, May 26, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

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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 Tags  cat  

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Susan Boyle cruises through to 'Britain's Got Talent' final Sunday night

12:50 AM Mon, May 25, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

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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