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October 2009 Archives
11:26 AM Sat, Oct 31, 2009 | Permalink |
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It feels almost irresponsible to blog this, but there's postmodern horror news on Halloween. Imagine a world of large flies hobbled by tiny banner ads tied with thread to their legs like miniature airplanes at the beach, each disoriented and......
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12:23 PM Fri, Oct 30, 2009 | Permalink |
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Cake Wrecks, which shows good icing ideas gone bad, and great execution by the pros, has a Halloween collection to laugh at or emulate. You can start at the main link and keep going through some non-Halloween posts, or click......
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9:34 PM Thu, Oct 29, 2009 | Permalink |
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Amazon is offering, for free, the 21-trackAmazon.com: The Orange Mountain Music Philip Glass Sampler Vol.I Whether you're already a fan of the minimalist composer or have never heard of him, this is worth checking out. This may be just the......
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10:51 AM Thu, Oct 29, 2009 | Permalink |
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Termites In My Basement [Hi Rez], recording for Al Basile's Soul Blue 7 CD. Al Basile was Roomful of Blues' first trumpet player, in 1969, and his seventh album, Soul Blue 7, on which he sings and plays cornet......
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5:12 AM Thu, Oct 29, 2009 | Permalink |
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not martha offers lovingly documented, fully illustrated instructions for a Meat Hand for your Halloween dinner. Uncooked, some of its secrets are revealed -- onion fingernails, provolone over the fingers. Mashed potato piping is added between the fingers after......
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11:29 AM Wed, Oct 28, 2009 | Permalink |
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Quick start: Left-click and hold the button down as you drag this link -- Library -- to your browser's bookmarks/links toolbar One of the handiest things I ever discovered on the Web was called Library Lookup: Clicking a link on......
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12:34 PM Tue, Oct 27, 2009 | Permalink |
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Foster Parrots photo The headline on the projo news blog yesterday read, RI parrot rescuers honored by Mass. animal cruelty-prevention society HOPKINTON, R.I. -- Marc Johnson and Karen Windsor, co-directors of Foster Parrots, a rescue, adoption and sanctuary service,......
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3:34 PM Mon, Oct 26, 2009 | Permalink |
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Last night's live stream of U2 on YouTube - Live from the Rose Bowl is now archived at that link, streaming in wide-screen (853 pixels). Two hours, 21 minutes long. The concert didn't start until 8:30 p.m. in California,......
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11:38 AM Mon, Oct 26, 2009 | Permalink |
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GeoCities' time has expired, Yahoo closing the site today. Los Angeles Times: We always imagined how this might end: GeoCities would finally take down all of the animated "under construction" signs, and we'd hear one last Midi file to......
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10:56 AM Mon, Oct 26, 2009 | Permalink |
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sugarpond at flickr Produce at the Park Slope, Brooklyn, Food Co-op When Members Run Afoul of the Park Slope Food Coop, recently in the Times, brought back memories. A Brooklyn resident -- -- suspended from the co-op, kicked out......
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8:44 AM Sun, Oct 25, 2009 | Permalink |
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RoboZZle "A simple puzzle game." A tutorial shows you how to program the arrowhead around the maze to pick up the stars. The solution above, mine, works: Go straight until you hit a green square, then turn right. F1......
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7:25 AM Sat, Oct 24, 2009 | Permalink |
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Fake AP Stylebook is great fun for pedants and desk jockeys. Always capitalize 'Bible.' You don't want to get letters from those people. Use 'Scotch' to refer to the adhesive tape or the drink, 'Scottish' to refer to Starfleet engineer......
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11:48 AM Fri, Oct 23, 2009 | Permalink |
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Leaping wolf snatches photo prize. The BBC story. A picture of a hunting wolf has won the prestigious Veolia Environment Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2009 award. (The WPY competition, now in its 45th year, is owned by BBC......
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12:30 PM Thu, Oct 22, 2009 | Permalink |
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Pearl Jam, Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine and R.E.M. are among the musicians supporting the National Campaign to Close Guantanamo: from Musicians Standing Against Torture . Musicians crank up the volume on Guantanamo debate. AP: WASHINGTON (AP)......
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6:11 PM Wed, Oct 21, 2009 | Permalink |
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The bedroomTo Paul Gaugin from ArlesOctober 1888 [706] "Look here, I wrote to you the other day that my vision was strangely tired. Well, I rested for two and a half days, and then I got back to work.......
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12:23 PM Tue, Oct 20, 2009 | Permalink |
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Bob Dylan: Outfidel Intakes: Power & Greed & Corruptible Seed. A reassemble of Dylan's 1983 album, Infidels, recorded in May, 1983 at the Power Station, New York. Excellent soundboard. On board for the sessions were two Englishmen, Mark Knopfler and......
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11:22 PM Mon, Oct 19, 2009 | Permalink |
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Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel photo English Mummies (clockwise from bottom), Mummy Dogs and Pups, Frozen Zombie Eyes, Lime Kool-Aid, Edible Eyeballs, and Frightening Fingers. You could spend hours drilling down deep to find Halloween party foods that look spooky but actually......
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3:50 AM Mon, Oct 19, 2009 | Permalink |
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Trailer for Machinarium; in the actual game, clicking around in the right order initiates many of the actions you see here. Machinarium is the latest stunning art game from Flash designer Jakub Dvorsky and his crew at Amanita Design......
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3:31 PM Sun, Oct 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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Inside Bill Moorier's head In September 2009 my doctor recommended an MRI to rule-out a couple of potential conditions. The scan came back completely normal, which was a great relief! I decided to do something with the images, and......
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2:45 AM Sun, Oct 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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Updated: AP Saturday night: Artist Shepard Fairey, who recently admitted concealing a key mistake in a lawsuit over his use of an Associated Press photo in his famous Barack Obama "HOPE" poster, said Saturday that the error should not be......
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2:50 PM Fri, Oct 16, 2009 | Permalink |
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Stacks by Tony Cragg, 1975, the Tate Collection. To make this work Cragg arranged miscellaneous objects and materials, collected at random, into a solid, geometric structure. The layering suggests geological strata, showing how both natural and fabricated elements are......
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4:57 AM Thu, Oct 15, 2009 | Permalink |
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Alfred Hitchcock famously directed Psycho and other classic movies, but many of us first knew him as kids, when he hosted a weekly nighttime series of TV stories called Alfred Hitchcock Presents from 1955-65. Sir Alfred died in 1980 --......
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2:20 AM Wed, Oct 14, 2009 | Permalink |
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Sept. 26 2009: Polaroid Last picture show. Telegraph (U.K.) As the final cartridges of Polaroid film pass their use-by date, an exhibition of the finest photographers to use the instant format demonstrates just how much it will be missed... Oct.......
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3:09 PM Mon, Oct 12, 2009 | Permalink |
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Former Vanity Fair and New Yorker editor Tina Brown's Daily Beast site ranks America's Smartest Cities--From First to Worst and Providence is #22: #22, PROVIDENCE Metro Area Population: 1,596,611 Daily Beast IQ Score: 110 Providence is home to half of......
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11:37 AM Mon, Oct 12, 2009 | Permalink |
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Monday 11:37 a.m. I slept through the night, and woke late, feeling cool-headed and clear-eyed. My voice is husky, but most of the syllables are now audible. More important, I feel alive again. This flu packs a wallop. I spent......
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7:42 AM Sat, Oct 10, 2009 | Permalink |
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THE HUNGRY YEARS THE ROLLING STONES LIVE! On The BBC: Fast Eddie Version [Sister Morphine 43, 1CD] BBC studio sessions, London. Best sources. VG+ to Ex FM stereo. These sessions are from 1963 and 1964 -- the signature songs: You......
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8:46 AM Fri, Oct 09, 2009 | Permalink |
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NASA TV NASA TV stream of the final minutes before impact with the moon. Updated 10.09 8.02 a.m. This image of crater Cabeus was taken from the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite shortly after the Centaur rocket impacted......
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6:24 AM Fri, Oct 09, 2009 | Permalink |
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The official announcement in Oslo this morning by Thorbjorn Jagland, President of the the Norwegian Nobel Committee and of the Norwegian Storting (parliament), and Secretary General-elect of the Council of Europe. The 2009 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded......
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9:05 AM Thu, Oct 08, 2009 | Permalink |
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Dan Chung Dan Chung of the Guardian (U.K.), whose time-lapse and slow-mo coverage of the recent China national day parade above is a vast improvement over tedious realtime versions, has started a blog dedicated to high-definition news video and......
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6:12 PM Tue, Oct 06, 2009 | Permalink |
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Anthony Braxton Septet Accelerator Ghost Dance 2008 [no label, 1CD] Live at the Kursaal Chamber Hall, 43 Heineken Jazzaldia, Donostia, San Sebastian, Spain. July 25, 2008. Very good satellite broadcast. ...With a good broadcast sound quality, the septet are......
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3:43 AM Tue, Oct 06, 2009 | Permalink |
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Cooka - "placemat stove" by Maurizio Maiorana is exactly what it looks like: Flexible burners to whip out wherever you need them. The Cooka placemat stove is created of non-toxic LSR (Liquid Silicon Rubber) that you can roll up......
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11:25 AM Mon, Oct 05, 2009 | Permalink |
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Roomba, Economics and Long-Exposure Photography | signaltheorist.com. This is the post by Paul Chavady at Signal Theorist that started a trend, and a Flickr group: Roomba art. Sure beats Etch-A-Sketch. Earlier this weekend I picked up a Roomba, as my......
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1:13 AM Sat, Oct 03, 2009 | Permalink |
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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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8:02 PM Fri, Oct 02, 2009 | Permalink |
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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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4:17 AM Fri, Oct 02, 2009 | Permalink |
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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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