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July 5, 2009 - July 11, 2009 Archives

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Funeral photo of Steve McNair's widow, son an instant classic

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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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Sculpted gardens, nary a flower; crack gardens

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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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Family restaurant signs in N.H.

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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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There's art in vintage firecracker labels

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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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Update: New Firefox upgrade left Tab Mix Plus behind, but there's a working beta

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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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An obit for CompuServ Classic, the dialup before AOL

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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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People have almost stopped yelling 'Freebird!' at concerts

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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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Nashville paper is all over Steve McNair's murder; TMZ has backstory photos

3:43 PM Sun, Jul 05, 2009 | | Comments (9)
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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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Bears loom large for some Alaska haiku contest winners

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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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