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August 2009 Archives
11:07 PM Mon, Aug 31, 2009 | Permalink |
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The Onion: Facebook, Twitter Revolutionizing How Parents Stalk Their College-Aged Kids. Those lovable satirists at The Onion do a video parody of a TV morning show, Today Now. The cheery hosts interview E-Mom, who tells parents of college kids......
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4:04 PM Mon, Aug 31, 2009 | Permalink |
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YouTube - Primordial Soup With Julia Child Julia Child cooks up a batch of primordial soup and explains how these simple ingredients produce amino acids - the building blocks of life. This video played in the Smithsonian National Air......
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11:09 AM Sun, Aug 30, 2009 | Permalink |
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Ellie Greenwich, whose songs fueled '60s girl groups and the girls who identified with them, died last Wednesday of a heart attack in Manhattan, her passing largely unnoticed in the shadow of the death of a far more public......
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3:54 PM Sat, Aug 29, 2009 | Permalink |
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YouTube - Edward Kennedy Funeral Mass - "Ave Maria" Mezzo-soprano Susan Graham, accompanied by organist James David Christie, sings the hymn "Ave Maria" at the funeral mass today for Sen. Edward Kennedy at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Basilica......
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7:55 PM Fri, Aug 28, 2009 | Permalink |
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Stand By Me | Playing For Change | Song Around the World on YouTube has been viewed more than 13 million times. This could be the soundtrack of the weekend. Play it loud. Sweet. Musicians around the world put......
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9:04 AM Fri, Aug 28, 2009 | Permalink |
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Woofer: "When 140 characters is not nearly enough." Woofer requires at least 1,400 characters or it won't post your Woofs. (Lincoln's Gettysburg Address is 1,475.) Although you're invited to use your Twitter name, it's not a login -- any name......
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10:43 AM Thu, Aug 27, 2009 | Permalink |
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Stormpulse certainly is a handsome way to track storms, with radio buttons in the upper right that toggle clouds, radar and forecast tracks. I've toggled the forecasts on in the screenshot above. One possible track -- the most western......
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11:13 PM Wed, Aug 26, 2009 | Permalink |
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Robert Clark, photographed at Mütter Museum. National Geographic, wallpaper image | More photos Story at National Georgaphic, 2007: Mending Broken Hearts.......
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9:59 AM Wed, Aug 26, 2009 | Permalink |
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41 years ago, June 8, 1968, Robert Kennedy's Funeral -- Eulogy delivered by Senator Edward Kennedy. (Transcript and audio of the entire speech at St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York.) A blurry, moving two minutes: "Some men see things as......
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8:44 AM Wed, Aug 26, 2009 | Permalink |
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Sony to link Readers with libraries, allow e-book borrowing. Ars Technica: At a press event at the New York Public Library, Sony announced that its Reader hardware will soon be able to read digital books "borrowed" from local libraries, with......
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10:15 AM Tue, Aug 25, 2009 | Permalink |
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Dylan could be new sat-nav voice. BBC News: Music legend Bob Dylan is "talking to a couple of car companies" about becoming the voice of their GPS system. The singer-songwriter discussed the possibility on his BBC Radio 6 Music Sunday......
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8:59 AM Tue, Aug 25, 2009 | Permalink |
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Thursday we passed on the news that eBay bids on crypt above Marilyn Monroe top $4.5 million, end Monday. It isn't over yet. Bids pour in, and out, for crypt above Marilyn Monroe's. L.A. Times: A bidder from Japan appeared......
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12:16 AM Tue, Aug 25, 2009 | Permalink |
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LEG OF LAMB PT 1 GENESIS Providence, Rhode Island 1974 [Hogweed 014, 2CD] Live at Palace Theater, Providence, R.I. U.S.A. December 8, 1974. An excellent stereo audience recording. Do you remember? Here's a show with the entire Lamb Lies......
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8:40 AM Mon, Aug 24, 2009 | Permalink |
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Comparing Carriers: Mobile Phone Usage and Costs is the headline on the chart at right from the Billshrink economy blog. Cell phone connection bills in the Boston area average $104 a month. Here it is at a readable size. Meanwhile,......
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5:00 AM Sun, Aug 23, 2009 | Permalink |
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Unseen for 60 years, the Mail proudly present Agatha Christie's lost masterpiece, The Capture of Cerberus ...Why is this such a genuinely exciting find? Partly because the story is so unusual for her. It is one of her rare excursions......
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11:10 AM Sat, Aug 22, 2009 | Permalink |
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Welcome to the Vacuum Magic website! - Vacuum Magic Vacuum Magic is a fast-paced action game. The point of the game is using your magical vacuum field to collect food and defend against monsters. Food and certain monsters can......
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2:24 PM Fri, Aug 21, 2009 | Permalink |
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The National Hurricane Center's 5-day Track Forecast for Hurricane Bill foresees the weakened storm's effects striking Ireland and Scotland by Wednesday. I don't recall ever seeing a hurricane head for Europe before.......
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12:48 AM Fri, Aug 21, 2009 | Permalink |
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A mystery man awakes in Discovery Park. Seattle Times reported yesterday at 12:14 a.m., A man in his 50s says he woke up in Discovery Park three weeks ago with no memory of who he is or how he got......
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7:37 AM Thu, Aug 20, 2009 | Permalink |
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Podbrix photo Plush Jobs, a handmade Steve Jobs doll. Steve Jobs: The Man Who Polished Apple, by Bryan Appleyard in the London Times, is a rarity these days: A long, profile that blends anecdote, history and psychological speculation.This is......
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5:44 AM Thu, Aug 20, 2009 | Permalink |
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Mel Melcon/Los Angeles TimesElsie Poncher looks up toward the crypt of her husband, Richard, which is directly above that of Marilyn Monroe. Crypt Above Marilyn Monroe For Sale, reads the eBay ad: Here is a once in a lifetime and......
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1:53 AM Wed, Aug 19, 2009 | Permalink |
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California teachers Christopher Greenslate and Kerri Leonard decided to live for a month on food that cost a total of $1 a day or less; by their own rules, they could forage but only if the food they found was......
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12:58 AM Tue, Aug 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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(link) This isn't really a video -- it's an audio track of an energetic reggae version of The Lovin' Spoonful's Summer in the City, which surprisingly lacks good cover versions. (Sorry, Joe Cocker.) Yes, I've watched them all on......
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12:23 PM Mon, Aug 17, 2009 | Permalink |
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As retro as it gets without going antique. Frank Sinatra - Studio Outtakes Capitol Outtakes [no label, 1CD] Rehearsal takes, alternatives and outtakes between 1955 and 1960. Sinatra was no slacker in the studio - while stopping after a few......
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10:13 AM Mon, Aug 17, 2009 | Permalink |
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IHOP (once known as the International House of Pancakes) is offering a free meal for kids 12 and under with each purchase of an adult entree between 4 p.m. and 10 p.m. through Sept. 13. Drinks and takeout not included,......
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12:47 AM Sun, Aug 16, 2009 | Permalink |
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Woodstock 1969: The music went for 24 hours A special section - Woodstock Nation. Third of a three-part series. Part 1 | Part 2 I find most of these commentaries, frankly, unbearably square-- crazy chau NBC photo 08/14/1989 BY SHEILA......
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12:00 AM Sat, Aug 15, 2009 | Permalink |
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Woodstock 1969: The music went for 24 hours A special section - Woodstock Nation. Second of a three-part series. Part 1 | Part 3 I find most of these commentaries, frankly, unbearably square-- crazy chau NBC photo 08/14/1989 BY SHEILA......
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10:32 PM Fri, Aug 14, 2009 | Permalink |
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Like a complete unknown: Bob Dylan frogmarched to collect ID after rookie policewoman fails to recognise scruffy music legend. (U.K. Mail Online) Police were called in a quiet seaside town (Long Branch, N. J.) after he was spotted freewheelin' down......
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11:41 AM Fri, Aug 14, 2009 | Permalink |
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I find most of these commentaries, frankly, unbearably square-- crazy chau NBC photo The Woodstock Music & Art Fair began 40 years ago this Friday afternoon at Max Yasgur's dairy farm in Bethel, N.Y. I had seen an advertisement in......
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7:17 PM Thu, Aug 13, 2009 | Permalink |
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Today's APOD (Astronomy Picture of the Day) from NASA is the Block Island Meteorite on Mars: The rock was discovered by the robotic Opportunity rover rolling across Mars late last month. Pictured, Opportunity prepares to inspect the unusual rock. After......
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4:34 PM Thu, Aug 13, 2009 | Permalink |
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Les Paul. - Telegraph (UK): Les Paul, the jazz guitarist who died on August 13 aged 94, invented the solid body electric guitar and revolutionised the sound of pop music recordings. Known as "the Thomas Edison of the music industry",......
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9:51 AM Thu, Aug 13, 2009 | Permalink |
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During the 2008 Patriots season, we gathered recipes that are good to serve people who are watching TV in comfortable chairs, snacks for the nervous and pumped. Tonight, the Pats play their first preseason game on TV against the Philadelphia......
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11:25 PM Wed, Aug 12, 2009 | Permalink |
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Projection on buildings - Live performance from NuFormer Digital Media on Vimeo. I especially like the player-piano keys on the entablature of the classical building. My colleague Tim Barmann passes this along with a note: "This would be so cool......
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10:18 PM Wed, Aug 12, 2009 | Permalink |
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I meant to publish this in the Projo Food Blog, where I'm subbing for vacationing Food Editor Gail Ciampa., but it's late and it ended up here. Now it's a crosspost. Photo / The (S.C.) State / Kim Kim Foster-Tobin......
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7:48 AM Wed, Aug 12, 2009 | Permalink |
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More like this: There's a new recommendation tool on the Web that starts with a clue from you: The Book Seer: "Sir! I've just finished reading __________ by __________. What should I read next?" Longtime blogger Rebecca Blood compiles weekly......
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12:44 PM Tue, Aug 11, 2009 | Permalink |
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Photo / Keith May Free-range dogs at a little-known, nameless beach in Newport, Calif. Watch your step: Dog Beach: OC Weekly has 5 pages of photos of dogs cavorting at a secret California beach. Got a plan? Slacker Offering......
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10:23 AM Tue, Aug 11, 2009 | Permalink |
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Google's next version is up for testing. It doesn't look different, but the results may vary from what you get at old Google. From Google today: Help test some next-generation infrastructure ...Right now, we only want feedback on the differences......
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7:31 AM Mon, Aug 10, 2009 | Permalink |
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John Markoff of the Times looks at the "Holy Grail" come to market in the eyeglass world: One pair of glasses that the wearer can easily adjust to bring near or far objects into focus. Making Eyeglasses With a Mechanically......
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11:55 PM Sat, Aug 08, 2009 | Permalink |
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This Is The Only Level But, as you can see from the screenshot above, after 10 minutes my elephant has "died" 132 times.......
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7:51 AM Sat, Aug 08, 2009 | Permalink |
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Georgian blogger Cyxymu blames Russia for cyber attack. Guardian: The Georgian blogger known as Cyxymu, who was yesterday the victim of a cyber assault that affected hundreds of millions of web users around the world, has blamed the attack on......
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6:05 AM Sat, Aug 08, 2009 | Permalink |
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BOB DYLAN 02 Arena 2009 [Silent Sea, 1CD] Live at the O2 Arena, London, England, April 25, 2009. Very good soundboard. The folks at collectorsmusicreviews.com are only too glad that a good soundboard of the show has surfaced, never mind......
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1:57 AM Fri, Aug 07, 2009 | Permalink |
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News org needs good home: New York Times Co. confirms Globe is for sale Twitter, Facebook attack targeted one user A Georgian blogger with accounts on Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal and Google's Blogger and YouTube was targeted in a denial of......
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8:01 AM Thu, Aug 06, 2009 | Permalink |
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JIMI HENDRIX Listen To This Eric [JH 003/004, 2CD] Live at the Royal Albert Hall, London, UK, February 24, 1969. Excellent soundboard stereo. Everything was captured at the time for a film on the Experience. Even the rehearsals were recorded.......
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12:03 AM Thu, Aug 06, 2009 | Permalink |
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Photo / Sheila Lennon View from a pew: Present and former Providence Journal staffers as the white casket of their colleague Carol Montrond is wheeled into her funeral at Our Lady of the Rosary Church in Fox Point yesterday.......
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12:44 AM Wed, Aug 05, 2009 | Permalink |
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AP photo President Barack Obama yesterday turned 48, a birthdate he shares with veteran White House reporter Helen Thomas, left, who turned 89. He provided the cupcakes. "Feisty" was invented for this journalist. ("They don't like my boorishness," she......
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10:49 AM Tue, Aug 04, 2009 | Permalink |
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Guardian music journalist Rosie Swash at the 2008 Festival au Desert. This 12-minute video conveys the experience: Dunes -- hot during the day, cold at night -- camels, amazing music. The Guardian's coverage includes photos and free mp3s. After......
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8:28 PM Mon, Aug 03, 2009 | Permalink |
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AP Actors Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson attend the movie premiere of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince in New York on July 9. He plays the title role; she's fellow student and Harry's friend Hermione Granger at......
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3:19 PM Mon, Aug 03, 2009 | Permalink |
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Journal files At the 2007 Local Food Fest at Castle Hill, Newport, Randall Page, left, of Portsmouth, fills his plate next to a striped bass. Local Food Fest 2009, a benefit for Farm Fresh Rhode Island, happens at Castle......
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2:02 AM Mon, Aug 03, 2009 | Permalink |
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Bauhaus Master Instructors, 1926: From left, Josef Albers, Hinnerk Scheper, Georg Muche, László Moholy-Nagy, Herbert Bayer, Joost Schmidt, Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, Vassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Lyonel Feininger, Gunta Stölzl and Oskar Schlemmer. Bauhaus: Ninety Years of Inspiration. Sharon......
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10:31 AM Sun, Aug 02, 2009 | Permalink |
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The Abbey Habit: "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery for the Beatles, as 'most famous' album cover inspires dozens of imitations." The UK Daily Mail found more than 50 knockoff album covers, all spoofs of the Beatles crossing......
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