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Free mp3s: Jackson Browne '75

8:06 PM Fri, Sep 18, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

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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National Grid offering $50 and free pickup for your old fridge, freezer

9:27 AM Fri, Sep 18, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (2)
By Sheila Lennon    Email

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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Updated: Online Monopoly game has rebooted, restarted; here's my review

1:41 AM Fri, Sep 18, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (2)
By Sheila Lennon    Email

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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Early folkie Mary Travers dies at 72, leaving Peter, Paul & Puff

2:15 AM Thu, Sep 17, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

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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Hot men's fashion is quahogger chic?

11:07 PM Tue, Sep 15, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

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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Explore the Milky Way: Zoom into Jupiter in this panoramic version

12:25 PM Tue, Sep 15, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

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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Maker Faire: A week of hands-on art and science climaxes at WaterFire Saturday

8:03 AM Mon, Sep 14, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

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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Students' balloon, camera rise 17.5 miles, photograph Earth

11:21 PM Sun, Sep 13, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

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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Poet, author, punk rocker Jim Carroll dead at 60

9:55 PM Sun, Sep 13, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

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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Weird science: Urine-fed tomatoes, plug into a tree, liposuction stem cells

1:49 PM Sun, Sep 13, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
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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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Pawtucket mill artists open studios, a capella choruses at Vets today

8:03 AM Sun, Sep 13, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
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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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