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September 27, 2009 - October 3, 2009 Archives


Easily carve a spooky pumpkin with these free Halloween stencils

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By Sheila Lennon    Email

David A. Claerr 13 Free Pumpkin Carving Patterns for Halloween. While we can all admire the elaborately textured and layered pumpkin sculptures by the pros, real-life pumpkin carving with children (or fumble-fingered grownups) needs simpler, more forgiving patterns. I......

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Mp3s: Clapton, Santana and Schon jam, 1970

8:02 PM Fri, Oct 02, 2009 | | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

KICK OUT THE JAMS SANTANA WITH DEREK & THE DOMINOS San Francisco 1970 [Mid Valley Records, 1CD] "Village And Recorders Tapes", Village Recorder Studio, San Francisco, CA, very good soundboard. The date's in question, the personnel, and is this when......

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Wearable tech to make yourself: LED turn signals on bike jackets, flashy fashion, a tree-topper

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By Sheila Lennon    Email

  Leah Buechley, MIT Media Lab This biking jacket has LED turn signals sewn onto its back, controlled by switches at the wrist. You can sew and program a jacket of your own using a flexible, washable microcontroller called the......

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Pumpkin jelly is a newcomer to my Halloween recipes

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By Sheila Lennon    Email

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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Which grocery checkout line is the fastest?

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By Sheila Lennon    Email

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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Projo Arts Blog launches

4:47 PM Mon, Sep 28, 2009 | | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

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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1,860+ issues of Life Magazine, 1936-1972, are now readable at Google Books

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By Sheila Lennon    Email

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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