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September 2009 Archives
9:44 AM Wed, Sep 30, 2009 | Permalink |
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This is a new one for me -- pumpkin jelly. The Jackson (Miss.) Clarion-Ledger (Pumpkin recipes, processing tips ) credits the Nichols-Boyd Pumpkin Patch for this, although I couldn't find recipes at that site. Pumpkin Jelly 2 cups cooked mashed......
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1:34 AM Wed, Sep 30, 2009 | Permalink |
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AP The checkout line probably slowed considerably when Barack Obama stopped for fruit and cookies in Webster City, Iowa during the 2008 campaign. At the grocery store, which checkout lane is the fastest? It's a problem we each try......
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4:47 PM Mon, Sep 28, 2009 | Permalink |
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I've been very busy coding the new Projo Arts Blog, long in the works and now under way. (I'm still squashing a few bugs.) When it's fully up to speed, the Journal Arts writers will be posting in categories that......
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4:01 AM Sun, Sep 27, 2009 | Permalink |
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At Inside Google Books (LIFE magazine now available on Google Books), product manager Brandon Badger blogs, When I was a kid I used to enjoy thumbing through a collection of older magazines that my grandfather had at his house. I......
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11:39 AM Fri, Sep 25, 2009 | Permalink |
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A Brand New Zeppelin Soundboard Led Zeppelin Long Beach Californication [Empress Valley Supreme Disc EVSD 523-525, 3CD] Live at the Civic Arena, Long Beach, CA, March 11, 1975. Very good soundboard. "While an excellent audience recording may better capture how......
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1:42 AM Fri, Sep 25, 2009 | Permalink |
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The only woman in the French Foreign Legion in the BBC Magazine comes from Wendy Holden, who helped Susan Travers write her memoir (Tomorrow to Be Brave) in 2000 at age 91. You might hunt this one down for a......
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7:01 AM Thu, Sep 24, 2009 | Permalink |
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I am a factory: Hard to imagine, but beautiful... "Amazing CGI visualization of molecular biology's central dogma. It shows animations of DNA coiling, replication, transcription and translation." It was created by biomedical animator Drew Berry of the Walter and......
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10:56 PM Tue, Sep 22, 2009 | Permalink |
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W.W. Norton A painting by Carl Jung from his Red Book of notes on his hallucinations, a detail from a large photo showing a few such pages. Worth noting, Sara Corbett's lovely, long tale in the Times Sunday Magazine......
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5:18 PM Tue, Sep 22, 2009 | Permalink |
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Tommy Flanagan, Benny Carter - Autumn Leaves During the equinox, the sun is directly overhead for anyone standing on the equator. Earth's axis is not tilted today. Today, 5:18 p.m.......
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12:24 AM Tue, Sep 22, 2009 | Permalink |
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Journal photo / Kris Craig Michael Macaulay of East Greenwich finishes his 3 dimensional Superman during the 6th Annual Providence Street Painting Festival in 2005. The 10th Annual Providence Rotary Street Painting Festival happens Saturday in downtown Providence, Westminster......
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8:11 AM Mon, Sep 21, 2009 | Permalink |
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Easing quietly into a new week... ANGELA HEWITT Bach - Goldberg Variations BWV 988 [no label, 1CD] Live at the Royal Festival Hall, London, UK, April 29, 2009. An excellent FM stereo broadcast. Bach's Goldberg Variations is the piano composition......
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11:09 AM Sun, Sep 20, 2009 | Permalink |
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Far from the weekday world of demonstrable facts... Mark Frauenfelder at BoingBoing delivers The Jet-Propelled Couch: true story of a physicist who thought he was a science fiction hero on another planet: This is the incredible true story of a......
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8:06 PM Fri, Sep 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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Jackson Browne And David Lindley Complete Live at the Main Point 1975 The Definitive Version [no label, 3CD] Live at The Main Point, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, September 7, 1975. Very good radio broadcast. ...the most memorable part of this 1975......
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9:27 AM Fri, Sep 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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Here's a way to make a few bucks and get that old energy-hungry fridge out of your basement. From coolturnin.com, Did you know your second refrigerator or freezer costs up to $150 a year to run? Why not save that......
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1:41 AM Fri, Sep 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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Fountain Street, with a big futuristic Providence Journal building surrounded by cottages, in Monopoly City Streets, an online game mashup by Hasbro U.K. using the venerable Monopoly and GoogleMaps. Updated 8:20 a.m. Monopoly City Streets has relaunched. The Blog......
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2:15 AM Thu, Sep 17, 2009 | Permalink |
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At the Peter Paul & Mary Website tonight, Mary Travers passed away today. After successful recovery from leukemia through a bone marrow/stem cell transplant, Mary succumbed to the side effects of one of the chemotherapy treatments. We all loved......
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11:07 PM Tue, Sep 15, 2009 | Permalink |
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We know runway fashion is now high conceptual art, but we still laughed ourselves silly over this year's haute couture for men. From this slideshow at the Washington Post, "Thom Browne's rock-star lobsterman aims to express unabashed assuredness" takes the......
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12:25 PM Tue, Sep 15, 2009 | Permalink |
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Panorama of Milky Way Two French photographers took six-minute exposures of the Milky Way with a digital camera and stitched them together into a panorama. You can explore that yourself in a zoomable version at the European Southern Observatory.......
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8:03 AM Mon, Sep 14, 2009 | Permalink |
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Photo / Brian Jepson Jenine Bressner exhibiting her glass beads and dolls. Wednesday, at a Maker Faire RI workshop, she'll show you how to do the "torchwork" process, which she taught herself from a kit. The first ever Rhode......
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11:21 PM Sun, Sep 13, 2009 | Permalink |
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Pictures from space for $150 is the headline at Hack a Day. This is very cool: Ever wanted to be able to launch a balloon into space, track its location via GPS, take some photographs of the curvature of......
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9:55 PM Sun, Sep 13, 2009 | Permalink |
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Jim Carroll Band- People Who Died: Jim Carroll, poet, author of The Basketball Diaries, has now joined the ranks of people who died, according to the Times: Jim Carroll, Poet and Punk Rocker, Is Dead at 60: Jim Carroll,......
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1:49 PM Sun, Sep 13, 2009 | Permalink |
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Better Tomatoes Via a Fertilizer of...Human Urine? at Popular Science. Apparently, human urine works remarkably well as a fertilizer for tomatoes, according to a new study out of Finland. Plants fertilized with a mixture of stored human urine and wood......
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8:03 AM Sun, Sep 13, 2009 | Permalink |
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Football season kicks off today, but not for us. The Patriots play tomorrow night on Monday Night Football. So if you're looking for something interesting to do, you might peek into Pawtucket Open Studios. Artists, craftspeople and mill-based businesses at......
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1:53 AM Fri, Sep 11, 2009 | Permalink |
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Larger Bruce Springsteen - Providence 1975 Live at the Palace Theater, Providence, RI, July 20, 1975 (first show of the Born To Run Tour). Very good master audience recording ... Okay folks, this is history here. Bruce Springsteen's Born......
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6:42 AM Thu, Sep 10, 2009 | Permalink |
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'The Beatles Remastered.' Getting better all the time? John Kehe at the Monitor: My assignment was to listen critically to the new CDs (which are available starting today), compare them with the previous CD versions released 22 years ago (at......
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3:24 PM Wed, Sep 09, 2009 | Permalink |
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Screenshot: Google Maps view of Mayfair in London with Monopoly pieces, from Monopoly City Streets. 3:41 a.m. Monopoly City Streets is a free online mashup of Google Maps and the venerable analog board game Monopoly. (The U.K. division of......
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2:30 AM Wed, Sep 09, 2009 | Permalink |
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Mouseless Browsing :: Add-ons for Firefox. Lean back and type without having to juggle a mouse on your knee or memorize keyboard shortcuts. Mouseless Browsing (MLB) enables you to browse the web entirely with the keyboard. The basic principle is......
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9:12 PM Tue, Sep 08, 2009 | Permalink |
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The Doctor Is Out, Moving From Harlem to Brooklyn. J. David Goodman in the Times' City Room Blog. Three paragraphs I hope will send you there. It's a wonderfully textured blog post, and a good story: Mr. (Donald) Childs opened......
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1:23 AM Mon, Sep 07, 2009 | Permalink |
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Bob Dylan's Christmas album, Christmas In the Heart, is to be released Oct. 13. Amazon is selling it for $9.99, or $16.99 in a deluxe edition with 5 greeting cards based on the album art. At bobdylan.com, "Christmas In The......
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9:13 PM Sun, Sep 06, 2009 | Permalink |
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Update, 1 Sept. 2010: The 2010 Burning Man video is streaming live here. Live Broadcasting by Ustream This is a live stream from the Burning Man festival, where the bonfire is set to go up tonight when they burn the......
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9:52 AM Sat, Sep 05, 2009 | Permalink |
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"Blues 2.0" - Fruteland Jackson Happy Labor Day weekend, fellow working stiffs.......
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12:01 PM Fri, Sep 04, 2009 | Permalink |
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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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11:34 PM Thu, Sep 03, 2009 | Permalink |
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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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1:06 PM Thu, Sep 03, 2009 | Permalink |
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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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11:55 PM Wed, Sep 02, 2009 | Permalink |
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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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1:37 PM Wed, Sep 02, 2009 | Permalink |
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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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5:37 AM Wed, Sep 02, 2009 | Permalink |
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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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11:54 AM Tue, Sep 01, 2009 | Permalink |
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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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10:32 AM Tue, Sep 01, 2009 | Permalink |
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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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