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June 7, 2009 - June 13, 2009 Archives

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At 12:01 a.m. Saturday, you can claim a name for life at Facebook

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www.facebook.com/username is the place to be at 12:01 a.m. Saturday morning if you want to grab a Facebook domain name that's your own name. Facebook Vanity URLs: 10 Things You Need to Know. Nuts and bolts from InfoWorld about......

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AS220 Labs is building a fabulous machine all weekend -- come to help, watch, learn

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A Cupcake CNC rapid prototyping machine like this one is to be built from a kit at AS220 this weekend. I'm copying this post from AS220 Labs in its entirety -- if you're interested in watching or helping to......

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Contest: Raise your own BLT (vegan versions welcome)

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MCT A BLT with heirloom tomatoes. BLT From Scratch--Summertime Challenge! from food writer Michael Ruhlman. A collective challenge for all of you who really love to cook: Make a BLT from scratch. From scratch means: You grow your tomato,......

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A truthy art form emerges from a passionate '80s song

11:58 PM Tue, Jun 09, 2009 | | Comments (1)
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Total Eclipse of the Heart: Literal Video Version This has been around for a week or so, underbilled by the Wall Street Journal as "Bonnie Tyler + Snark = Friday Viewing Pleasure," elsewhere as, "What if music video lyrics......

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Art or not? JFK to LaGuardia, by air

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JFK airport in New York is 12.3 miles from LaGuardia airport in New York. The New York Airport Service bus costs $11. Charles Joplin chose to fly, for $493.47, and has a ticket to prove it. Joplin is a member......

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Boston Globe's Newspaper Guild rejects contract proposal, 277-265

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AP A customer buys a Boston Globe from a street newsstand in Boston today as the newspaper's largest union, the Newspaper Guild, which represents editorial, advertising and financial workers, was voting to reject the company's latest offer. The Globe......

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SETI: 'If we discover intelligent life beyond Earth, should we reply, and if so, what should we say?'

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SETI, which searches for alien radio signals, is seeking your ideas of whether we should answer, and what to say, if we find them. L.A. Times (How do you greet an extraterrestrial? ): Now, the private Bay Area organization has......

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