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A bravura 'Ave Maria' for Ted Kennedy
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...
August 29, 2009 3:54 pm
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Playing For Change: Musicians around the world meet on 'Stand By Me'
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...
August 28, 2009 7:55 pm
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After Twitter, now there's Woofer; Mp3s: History, streaming, Santana '73
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...
August 28, 2009 9:04 am
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Hurricanes: How they're born, a handsome tracker and 'Where's Danny?'
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...
August 27, 2009 10:43 am
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Is this what you're loving with?
Robert Clark, photographed at Mütter Museum. National Geographic, wallpaper image | More photos Story at National Georgaphic, 2007: Mending Broken Hearts....
August 26, 2009 11:13 pm
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41 years ago, Ted Kennedy eulogizes his brother Bobby: Video
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...
August 26, 2009 9:59 am
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Sony Reader: 'Borrow' e-books from public library for 21 days
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...
August 26, 2009 8:44 am
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Bob Dylan to be a voice in car GPS navigation systems?
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...
August 25, 2009 10:15 am
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eBay bidder balks after winning crypt above Marilyn Monroe
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...
August 25, 2009 8:59 am
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Free mp3s: Genesis in Providence, '74
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...
August 25, 2009 12:16 am
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Cell phone costs -- and how carriers thrive at callers' expense
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,...
August 24, 2009 8:40 am
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Unpublished 1939 Poirot tale surfaces in a London newspaper
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...
August 23, 2009 5:00 am
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