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Live video, Tweets from the streets of Tehran

12:28 PM Sat, Jun 20, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

Ongoing, since 10:50 a.m. Statement from the President of the United States on Iran YouTube: FREE IRAN channel, updating frequently. Live Video from Tehran Iran Twitter Videos : RT Iran Videos being shared on Twitter right now. @TehranBureau: Terse, chilling.......

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Firefox unveils a slightly new official icon

2:24 AM Fri, Jun 19, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

  The old one is on the left, the new one on the right. Yes, subtle. The fox has been toned down, given more feathers in the fur, and the world has changed. Mozilla User Experience Designer Alex Faaborg explained......

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Microsoft contest flogs new IE8 without grace

6:13 AM Thu, Jun 18, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

It looks as though Microsoft has come a cropper again. It's not on the scale of Microsoft Bob, but Microsoft Australia's promotion of the new IE 8 manages to be both way too cute and rude: Ten Grand is......

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It's pea-picking time in the White House vegetable garden

12:13 AM Wed, Jun 17, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

Politico offers a glimpse of some healthy-looking snap peas in the new White House veggie garden as Michelle Obama and helpers from Bancroft Elementary School in Washington harvest lettuce and eat peas off the vines. The occasion was the......

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Hypnotic Brass Ensemble: So in tune

1:20 AM Tue, Jun 16, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

After Sasha Frere-Jones wrote about the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble in the New Yorker (Serendipity: Hypnotic Brass Ensemble's sturdy family business), filmmaker Reuben Atlas sent along a clip from the documentary he's been making about them for three years, along......

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Authors and poets replace Israeli reporters for a day

11:09 PM Sun, Jun 14, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (3)
By Sheila Lennon    Email

Literary Lesson: Authors, Poets Write the News. New York's Jewish Daily Forward reports, It was on an average Wednesday that a very serious Israeli newspaper conducted a very wild experiment. For one day, Haaretz editor-in-chief Dov Alfon sent most of......

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Upscale driveway gates as art

5:18 AM Sun, Jun 14, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

These are unfamiliar sights to a New Englander: The gates of Malibu -- 23 photos at the Los Angeles Times. Here's to the creative residents of Malibu and the architects, woodworkers, glass artisans and metal sculptors they employ to......

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