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October 25, 2009 - October 31, 2009 Archives

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True horror: Big flies drag tiny banner ads through German book fair

11:26 AM Sat, Oct 31, 2009 | | Write a comment
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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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 Tags  Halloween  

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Halloween 'Cake Wrecks' can be scary

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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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 Tags  cake   Halloween  

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Free mp3s: 21-track Philip Glass sampler at Amazon

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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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'Termites in the Basement' inspire Al Basile and a roomful of blues buddies

10:51 AM Thu, Oct 29, 2009 | | Write a comment
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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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 Tags  Al Basile   blues   music   Roomful of Blues  

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A gross meatloaf hand for Halloween dinner

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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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 Tags  dinner   Halloween   meatloaf   recipe  

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Read for free: See a book on Amazon, reserve it at your local library

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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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 Tags  bookmarklet   books   free   frugal   library   Library Lookup  

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My parrot fantasy didn't include life with wild birds

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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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Sunday's 'U2 Live From the Rose Bowl' concert is up at YouTube

3:34 PM Mon, Oct 26, 2009 | | Write a comment
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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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 Tags  free   live   music   U2   video  

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GeoCities dies today; spawned blinking, blaring, broken-icon style of Web design

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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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As food co-ops scale, their problems can grow with them

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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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Links dump: Puzzle, NASA, boiling eggs, dead musicians, programming lessons

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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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 Tags  cooking   NASA   puzzle   rock   tech  

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