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August 30, 2009 - September 5, 2009 Archives

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The talkin' tired 9 to 5 blues

9:52 AM Sat, Sep 05, 2009 | | Write a comment
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"Blues 2.0" - Fruteland Jackson Happy Labor Day weekend, fellow working stiffs.......

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Century-old color photo plates come alive at Library of Congress site

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Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii / Library of Congress. The only known color photo of Russian author Leo Tolstoy, circa 1908, in number 5 in Newsweek's Flash slideshow. The selections come from The Empire That Was Russia: The Prokudin-Gorskii Photographic Record Recreated......

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Patriots preseason announcers fail to call the game

11:34 PM Thu, Sep 03, 2009 | | Comments (2)
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Patriots preseason announcers Randy Cross and Don Criqui talked to each other throughout the Patriots-Giants game tonight as though they were somewhere else. They did not even seem to be watching the action. Which Patriot sacked Giants rookie quarterback Rhett......

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Royal Belgian ceiling glows with Flemish sculptor's beetles arrangement

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Photos / angelos.be The sacred scramble to reach the most eyeballs puts a patina of news, stocks and Viagra sales on the face of the Internet. But deeper, harder to find without a clue, the quirky parts of life......

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iPhones slow down as users clamor for bandwidth

11:55 PM Wed, Sep 02, 2009 | | Write a comment
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Bandwidth again: IPhone Users Love the Device, but Hate Its Slowness. NYT: It's a data guzzler. Owners use them like minicomputers, which they are, and use them a lot. Not only do iPhone owners download applications, stream music and videos......

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Update: Rolling Stones deny drummer Charlie Watts quitting

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AP Ronnie Wood, Keith Richards, Mick Jagger and Charlie Watts, right, in 2008. Update: A spokesperson for the Rolling Stones (at their N.Y. PR firm) emailed this one line to me: ''Contrary to a fabricated story that ran this......

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Links dump: Cheap is good, Augmented Reality, CD with a bonus thermin

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The Good Enough Revolution: When Cheap and Simple Is Just Fine. Will Skype do away with phone bills? Think Craigslist, disposable cameras. Good read, with mini-case studies (Flip video cameras, mp3s, unmanned aircraft, health clinics) from Wired editor Robert Capps.......

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'Silver Palate' cook Sheila Lukins dies, but her recipes live on

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This is a crosspost from the Projo Food Blog. Gail Ciampa is on vacation again, so I'm stepping in to note, Sheila Lukins dies at 66; co-author of 'The Silver Palate' cookbook. L.A. Times: Sheila Lukins, an influential cookbook author......

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Beatles Rock Band game commercial rejuvenates the lads on Abbey Road

10:32 AM Tue, Sep 01, 2009 | | Write a comment
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The Beatles: Rock Band Abbey Road Commercial The Beatles: Rock Band videogame will be released on September 9 for the Microsoft XBox 360, Sony Playstation 3 and Nintendo Wii. The commercial you'll see constantly reincarnates John and Paul with......

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How parents can snoop on college kids via Facebook, Twitter

11:07 PM Mon, Aug 31, 2009 | | Write a comment
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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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Julia Child's recipe for Primordial Soup

4:04 PM Mon, Aug 31, 2009 | | Write a comment
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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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'60s songwriter Ellie Greenwich stirred teenyboppers' lives

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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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