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Weekend game to drive you nuts

This Is The Only Level But, as you can see from the screenshot above, after 10 minutes my elephant has "died" 132 times....

August 8, 2009 11:55 pm
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Georgian blogger Cyxymu blames Russia for DDoS attack that felled Twitter, Facebook, LJ

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...

August 8, 2009 7:51 am
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Mp3s: Bob Dylan, April 2009; Dylan to release Christmas album

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...

August 8, 2009 6:05 am
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Links: Boston Globe for sale; Twitter, Facebook attack aimed at one user; Solar saint; How Netflix does it...

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...

August 7, 2009 1:57 am
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Mp3s: Jimi Hendrix '69 at Royal Albert Hall

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....

August 6, 2009 8:01 am
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Saying goodbye to Carol

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....

August 6, 2009 12:03 am
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President, journalist Helen Thomas share a birthday, and cupcakes

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...

August 5, 2009 12:44 am
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10th Festival of the Desert: Rocking the Sahara in January

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...

August 4, 2009 10:49 am
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Brown-bound 'Hermione Granger' may have a good-witch ancestor

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...

August 3, 2009 8:28 pm
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Food fest, auction at Castle Hill Tuesday to benefit Farm Fresh RI

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...

August 3, 2009 3:19 pm
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90 years of Bauhaus; How can photographer Annie Leibovitz owe $24 million?

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...

August 3, 2009 2:02 am
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Knockoffs of the Abbey Road cover; slugs; a hobbit house of straw, clay

 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...

August 2, 2009 10:31 am
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