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10:39 PM Fri, Jul 31, 2009 | Permalink |
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Aug. 2: Carol's obit in the Providence Journal July 31: Photo courtesy of Donna McGarry Carol Montrond, Jan. 21, 1968 - July 31, 2009 Carol Montrond, Beloved Providence Journal Newsroom Employee, Dies. Former Journal reporter Scott McKay blogs an obit......
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12:00 AM Fri, Jul 31, 2009 | Permalink |
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IFCAR photo Eligible: Early '92-'96 Ford F-150 pickups are among many older, gas-hungry vehicles eligible for trade-in vouchers of up to $4,500 for newer, more efficient vehicles from the $1 billion Car Allowance Rebate System, or CARS. New applications......
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9:40 AM Thu, Jul 30, 2009 | Permalink |
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Steely Dan - Boston 2009: Live at the Wang Center, Boston, MA, July 22, 2009. Very good audience recording. Fans who have been following Steely Dan's current Rent Party tour were in for a treat during their Boston gig on......
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4:47 PM Wed, Jul 29, 2009 | Permalink |
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Guardian/ Asadour/Guzelian The buffet at Taybarns. The (Manchester, England) Guardian takes a look at an all-you-can-eat restaurant chain that's packed in these times: How Taybarns tasted success. Here's Taybarns' menu. The price -- $13, $9.80 before 5 p.m., $13.90......
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6:40 AM Tue, Jul 28, 2009 | Permalink |
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This is a music video for Tinariwen, members of the Touareg tribe of nomads of the southern Sahara desert. Their name in their native Tamashek language, written as ⵜⵏⵔⵓⵏ, means "empty places." Lulla is from their new album, Imidiwan:......
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7:20 AM Mon, Jul 27, 2009 | Permalink |
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Forgotten Bookmarks blog, via MeFi. I work at a used and rare bookstore, and I buy books from people everyday. These are the personal, funny, heartbreaking and weird things I find in those books. (Librarians would have such collections, too.......
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11:10 AM Sun, Jul 26, 2009 | Permalink |
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Priorities: Robin Givhan: Can Obama Elevate the Look of Presidential Downtime? We Can Only Hope. WaPo columnist whines about the fit of the presidential jeans. Me: I don't care what he wears if/when he rights our ship. Profit motive: Whistleblower......
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9:35 PM Sat, Jul 25, 2009 | Permalink |
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Maureen in Belfast takes on the challenge: Recipes must be condensed to 140 characters, such as, Spinach Nut Salad: top 5c torn spinach w dice apple/c mix nuts/3T parmesan; +whisked 3T nut oil/T wine vinegar/.5t soy sauce&Dijon&dill/s+p. http://twitter.com/cookbook Bonus: Why......
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1:46 PM Fri, Jul 24, 2009 | Permalink |
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On a road trip: Jeff Hodge, on top of the car, is the heroin-addicted Jeremy and Michael A. LoCicero is Derrick, who hijacks him, in Hugging the Shoulder. A projection screen in the background is an element in the......
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9:21 AM Fri, Jul 24, 2009 | Permalink |
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The Official Website of Billy Taylor - Jazz Pianist and Educator: 88 Years...88 Keys...88 Videos. The videos are neatly embedded in that page, saving you lots of clicking to YouTube. These could be nice background tracks for a rainy day......
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12:55 PM Thu, Jul 23, 2009 | Permalink |
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BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN - GLASTONBURY 2009 BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN AND THE E-STREET BAND Glastonbury Festival 2009 [no label, 2CD] Live at the Glastonbury Festival, Worthy Farm, Pilton, UK, June 27, 2009. Very good soundboard, composite of BBC 2 and BBC 4 DVB-T......
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11:56 PM Wed, Jul 22, 2009 | Permalink |
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Scanning social bookmarking sites Digg and Delicious tonight, I'm boggled. Why does it matter how many? 10 Free High Res Coffee Stains Textures 10 Of The Funniest Deceased Comedians Of All Time Top 10 DIY Projects that Harness the Power......
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11:59 AM Wed, Jul 22, 2009 | Permalink |
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Heinz Edelmann dies at 75; art director for the 1968 Beatles film 'Yellow Submarine'. "MGM Studios Heinz Edelmann, a graphic designer who went on to teach at a German art academy, conceived the bright, surrealistic aesthetic and two-dimensional characters......
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11:11 PM Tue, Jul 21, 2009 | Permalink |
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AP Photo/Xinhua, Huang Shengang The total solar eclipse as it appeared in in Anji, east China's Zhejiang Province, at 9:35 a.m. on Wednesday morning. Updated 11:04 p.m.: Of course the Web didn't scale, the streams sludged, then stopped. Flickr......
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12:26 PM Tue, Jul 21, 2009 | Permalink |
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I've been working for six hours on a code problem, and I'm still not winning. This was comic relief: The title promises pure science, reality is a beautifully photographed video of cats in a garden. YouTube - How catnip gets......
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10:16 AM Mon, Jul 20, 2009 | Permalink |
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I missed this when it ran earlier this month in the New York Daily News. Woodstock concert's undercover lovers, Nick and Bobbi Ercoline, 40 years after summer of love Forty years later, the couple in the photo - Nick......
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10:53 PM Sat, Jul 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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Proprietary reading: Amazon Erases Orwell Books From Kindle Devices. On Friday, Amazon.com remotely deleted purchased copies of George Orwell's Animal Farm and 1984 from customers' Kindle readers in the wake of a copyright dispute. The irony of Amazon as Big......
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11:38 AM Fri, Jul 17, 2009 | Permalink |
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"Bunni: how we first met: Can you rebuild the island, plant trees and flowers, collect a bustling village of adorable animals and marry your true love?" Bunni: how we first met will siphon your time and make you smile.......
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12:34 AM Fri, Jul 17, 2009 | Permalink |
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StarText was an online ASCII-based computer service officially launched May 3, 1982 by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and the Tandy Corporation. Its name was derived from Star (representing the newspaper which would provide the content) and Text (representing the computer......
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9:10 AM Thu, Jul 16, 2009 | Permalink |
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Mars Science Laboratory: Send Your Name to Mars. Sign up to put your name on the microchip. Let the Martians know who you are -- maybe they'll invite you to something. NASA's drumming up some interest in this mission:......
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5:16 PM Wed, Jul 15, 2009 | Permalink |
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BingTweets: "Fusing Twitter trends with Bing insights." The result is an odd couple. Click on "Mars" -- one of the trends -- and on the left you see tweets such as "hellooo people of earth and mars! i,m chomping on......
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11:29 PM Tue, Jul 14, 2009 | Permalink |
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Once upon a time, every song you'd want to hear was played on Boston "progressive rock" station WBCN 104.1, but that was a ways back. Globe: ...on August 12, WBCN, "the Rock of Boston," will cease to exist on the......
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10:20 AM Tue, Jul 14, 2009 | Permalink |
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Twitcaps - Real-Time Images From Twitter Twitcaps is most easily described as Real-Time Image Search Engine / Browser. Twitcaps allows you to search, browse and capture the latest images posted to Twitter via any of the popular Twitter image services......
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12:40 AM Tue, Jul 14, 2009 | Permalink |
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'Harry Potter' countdown: Michael Gambon sees 'no point' in reading Rowling's books: Los Angeles Times interviews Michael Gambon, who plays Dumbledore, headmaster of Hogwarts, in the Harry Potter movies. Michael Gambon has played Hogwarts headmaster Albus Dumbledore for five years......
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10:48 AM Mon, Jul 13, 2009 | Permalink |
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We Choose the Moon:: "The JFK Library and Museum has just launched this interactive web experience using archival audio, video, photos, and recorded transmissions to re-create, in real time, the July 16, 1969, Apollo 11 mission to the moon.......
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9:29 AM Mon, Jul 13, 2009 | Permalink |
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"...a 24-hour observation of all of the large aircraft flights in the world (recorded by the airplane flight transponders via Geo-stationary orbital satellites) patched together and condensed to about a minute. ...You can see it is summer in the......
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2:51 PM Sat, Jul 11, 2009 | Permalink |
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AP Photo/George Clark, Pool (Jonula) Mechelle McNair attends the funeral service for her late husband, Steve McNair, in Hattiesburg, Miss. today. Trenton, 5, the youngest of their four sons, rests on her lap. Pool photographer George Clark captured a......
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8:20 AM Sat, Jul 11, 2009 | Permalink |
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International Garden Festival - 10th Edition - 2009 with slideshow - index; Grand-Métis, Québec. It's interesting to note briefly that not one of the gardens are peddling in what Piet Oudolf, the avant-gardener of the High Line, would call "the......
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10:34 PM Fri, Jul 10, 2009 | Permalink |
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Just back from New Hampshire, still on vacation. Some restaurateurs there know how to please the whole family.......
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7:02 AM Thu, Jul 09, 2009 | Permalink |
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Crackerpacks is an art site for firecracker labels. Highly browsable, with colorful scenes of remarkably high quality, and some humor. It's a frames site, so use the links just below the Crackerjacks label to navigate to the collections. The......
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1:08 AM Wed, Jul 08, 2009 | Permalink |
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The original headline of this post was "New Firefox upgrade left Tab Mix Plus behind, so I downgraded," and that story is below. Since then, a reader, in comments, offers a link to a beta, a "dev-build," a work in......
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10:59 AM Tue, Jul 07, 2009 | Permalink |
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CompuServe Classic laid to rest. Tom Krazit, Digital Media blogger at CNET News, writes a classic obit, with pointers to the memories of those for whom CIS's "7xxxx,xxxx@cs.com" was their first email address. He begins, CompuServe Classic, the initial on-ramp......
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11:50 AM Mon, Jul 06, 2009 | Permalink |
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'Freebird' ultimately unforgettable. -- Chicago Tribune. "Man, do not write this," said Bruce Finkelman, owner of the Empty Bottle on Western Avenue. "Let that song die. It's almost dead! There's a generation out there for whom this song means nothing!......
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3:43 PM Sun, Jul 05, 2009 | Permalink |
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"If you have a story and you want to get paid then you call TMZ," says Kevin Smith, whose agency is a major supplier to TMZ. -- Guardian (UK) McNair and His 'Friend' -- Before the Shootings: TMZ has obtained......
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12:00 AM Sun, Jul 05, 2009 | Permalink |
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Anchorage Press > News > You Haiku 2009 - The winners About 300 poems were submitted for the 2009 You Haiku edition. Collectively they say a bit about Anchorage Press readers, maybe something about Alaskans as a whole. You love......
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8:54 AM Sat, Jul 04, 2009 | Permalink |
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America! America! God shed his grace on thee Till souls wax fair as earth and air And music-hearted sea! Willie Nelson, backed softly by a cast of dozens*, sings the entire ode to our wild ideals Sept. 21, 2001......
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7:54 AM Fri, Jul 03, 2009 | Permalink |
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Happy Brithday improvised by pianist Gabriela Montero, who (recorded and) performed with cellist Yo-Yo Ma, violinist Itzhak Perlman and clarinetist Anthony McGill at the inauguration of Barack Obama. (her wikipedia link) You may need to turn up the volume --......
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1:29 AM Fri, Jul 03, 2009 | Permalink |
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Stephen Brook on how gossip site TMZ.com has become a media giant. The Guardian (UK): TMZ.com is now the hottest Hollywood celebrity gossip website on the planet. So hot, in fact, that when it broke the news of Michael Jackson's......
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9:55 AM Thu, Jul 02, 2009 | Permalink |
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YouTube - Neil Young & Paul McCartney A Day In The Life, June 27, 2009, Hyde Park. Amazing. Neil Young turns this encore into a nearly 8 1/2-minute song on the last date of his two-year world tour. Paul......
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8:03 AM Thu, Jul 02, 2009 | Permalink |
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It's a dark and stormy night at 8 in the morning, torrents of rain, the power flickering, thunder rolling, headlights of the cars on 95 reflecting off the inky road. We're in the heart of the red zone:......
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9:58 AM Wed, Jul 01, 2009 | Permalink |
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The Greenville (S.C.) News reversed its Sunday editorial supporting Gov. Mark Sanford: Gov. Mark Sanford should resign: In an editorial Sunday, this newspaper argued that Sanford's resignation could hurt South Carolina and that given the extraordinary importance of the 2010......
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8:46 AM Wed, Jul 01, 2009 | Permalink |
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Twitter your Flickr photos, from the Flickr Blog: We've launched our Flickr2Twitter integration. Share your Flickr content either via "upload by email" or feature existing Flickr content in your Twitter stream. If you'd like to Twitter your Flickr then check......
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8:05 AM Wed, Jul 01, 2009 | Permalink |
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NCBI ROFL finds the fun studies, combing the scientific literature for "Real articles. Funny subjects." Booger-picking (rhinotillexomania), accidental condom inhalation, microbiological laboratory hazard of bearded men, art discrimination in pigeons, and, Optimizing the sensory characteristics and acceptance of canned cat......
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