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July 19, 2009 - July 25, 2009 Archives

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The art of the terse: A Twitter cookbook

9:35 PM Sat, Jul 25, 2009 | | Write a comment
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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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Drive-in theater: Watch a play from your car in Pawtucket

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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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Jazz for a rainy Friday: Pianist Billy Taylor turns 88

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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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Free mp3s: Springsteen at Glastonbury '09; Female cats right-pawed; Fast-food excess

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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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The Web's obsession with numbering

11:56 PM Wed, Jul 22, 2009 | | Write a comment
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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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'Yellow Submarine' art director dies at 75

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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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Update: The longest solar eclipse of the 21st century via Flickr, AP

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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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Cats in a garden of catnip: video

12:26 PM Tue, Jul 21, 2009 | | Write a comment
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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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Couple on the cover of the Woodstock album now 60, still together

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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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