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November 2009 Archives
2:20 AM Mon, Nov 30, 2009 | Permalink |
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Dealnews's reporting from Friday's online shopping front (Black Friday Cheers & Jeers 2009 ) probably presages what you're likely to encounter today on CyberMonday, aka Shopping From Work Day. Jeers outnumbered cheers. Examples of each: Jeers: To Roku, maker......
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5:55 PM Sat, Nov 28, 2009 | Permalink |
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Would you care for a novel with those ramekins?......
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11:30 AM Sat, Nov 28, 2009 | Permalink |
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Paper Cannon is a thoroughly enjoyable Flash game -- if you were any good at knock hockey on the playground, you'll love it. It's all about angles. Aim your cannon at the one--eyed pink rabbits, bounce cannonballs off the......
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4:25 PM Fri, Nov 27, 2009 | Permalink |
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Turkey soup means two things: Simmer the carcass and/or use leftover turkey in a soup. You can do either step without doing the other: Simmering the carcass with vegetables and spices makes turkey stock. You extract all the flavor from......
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5:42 AM Fri, Nov 27, 2009 | Permalink |
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JIMI HENDRIX - NEW YORK CITY 1969 Jimi Hendrix's Gypsy Sun And Rainbows (sometimes shortened to Rainbows; also known as A Band of Gypsys) was active for just one month and played four live gigs, the most prominent being......
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1:10 AM Wed, Nov 25, 2009 | Permalink |
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To make this full screen, click the box to the right of the triangle with the four arrows at the corners, under the "ou T" in YouTube. The audio is quiet crackling. It should loop indefinitely. Source Happy Thanksgiving,......
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12:40 PM Tue, Nov 24, 2009 | Permalink |
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Thanksgiving doesn't leave a lot of room for the surreal. Some may overimbibe, snarks may poke the black sheep of the family, the chef may drop the turkey on the floor, but there's not a lot of room for a......
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3:36 PM Mon, Nov 23, 2009 | Permalink |
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AP has moved 31 holiday cookie recipes -- one for each day in December -- but maybe you'd like to make some for Thanksgiving, so here they are now. It's a nice bunch this year, and includes sugar cookies to......
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1:50 PM Mon, Nov 23, 2009 | Permalink |
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This is Part 2 of our annual survey of Food Editors' Thanskgiving choices. Here's Part 1. Baton Rouge (La.) Advocate: A few basic facts make roasting turkey simple, Basic Thanksgiving recipes good year after year New Orleans Times-Picayune: Favorite New......
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12:27 PM Sat, Nov 21, 2009 | Permalink |
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For Thanksgiving, the elegant Luxirare molds Silicone Plastique Food Grade Silicone Mold Putty around a real, tiny pumpkin, cuts it in half to make two molds, then presses pie-crust dough around their inside walls, pipes in pie filling, removes the......
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2:21 AM Sat, Nov 21, 2009 | Permalink |
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Bob Dylan, Must Be Santa by Hal Moore and Bill Fredericks (1960), first made popular by Mitch Miller. Well, the last thing I remember before I stripped and kneeled Was that trainload of fools bogged down in a magnetic......
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12:24 PM Fri, Nov 20, 2009 | Permalink |
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Black Friday 2009 countdown: Sales, deals and tips. Doug Stanglin of USA Today blogs the roundup (so I don't have to). For instance, Dealnews is awash with Black Friday information, including a Buying Strategy Guide. If nothing could get you......
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11:05 AM Thu, Nov 19, 2009 | Permalink |
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Here's the first pass of 2009 through the nation's newspaper's Thanksgiving food sections online. I'll add more over the next few days. Akron Beacon Journal: Holiday sides from scratch, Maple Candied Yams, Green Beans With Mushrooms, Almonds And Caramelized Onions,......
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1:54 AM Wed, Nov 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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Wolfgang's Vault lets you listen free to more than 3,000 live concerts and interviews from hundreds of groups and musicians -- Bill Graham's West Coast concerts as well as, as of yesterday, 27 acts from the 1959 Newport Jazz Festival,......
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10:25 PM Mon, Nov 16, 2009 | Permalink |
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I am watching the 12-year-old play Okami, a game I gave him last Christmas, on the Nintendo Wii. It is stunningly beautiful, perhaps the most beautiful video game ever, and he is still enthralled by it, playing it again.......
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1:38 PM Sun, Nov 15, 2009 | Permalink |
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Long Sunday before the Pats game tonight. I'm Belle de Jour: "Finally the anonymous sex blogger from Diary of a London Call Girl comes clean to The (London) Sunday Times: She's Dr Brooke Magnanti." Just another London student paying the......
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2:22 PM Sat, Nov 14, 2009 | Permalink |
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Paintings by Mike Stilkey; photos by by Dave Kinsey Mike Stilkey's Library : The Book Bench : The New Yorker: Books are sacred objects which we are all free to worship in different ways. The L.A.-based artist Mike Stilkey,......
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8:58 AM Sat, Nov 14, 2009 | Permalink |
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Go to Google today and the search may already be filled out, under a special logo honoring NASA's discovery of significant water on the moon. AP: Splash! NASA moon crash struck lots of water LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The......
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1:06 AM Fri, Nov 13, 2009 | Permalink |
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Tara Bradford's Paris Parfait usually shows lush, large photos from elegant curio shops and fashionable shop windows in Paris, or perhaps lush countryside with lovely stone walls and a castle. A field trip trip suggests there are a lot of......
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1:20 AM Thu, Nov 12, 2009 | Permalink |
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Trailer for the Video Art Exhibition at Gallery Z on Atwells Avenue, launching Thursday night and running through Nov. 28. Laurie McDonald, Private Parts, courtesy Philip PalomboMay, 1978: Journal arts writer Channing Gray after police raid the Private Parts......
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2:00 AM Wed, Nov 11, 2009 | Permalink |
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The Detroit News has a nice clickable graphic breaking down the Cash for Clunkers trades by state: Interactive: State-by-state numbers for the'cash for clunkers' program. That's a screenshot of Rhode Island's data at right. Every New England state shed......
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8:47 PM Mon, Nov 09, 2009 | Permalink |
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The Design Inspiration collects a sample of favorite Google Doodles from Different Countries You Haven't Seen. While enjoying this fine filtering of the Google logo database, I also learned about some new holidays, although I won't be celebrating them.......
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9:18 PM Sun, Nov 08, 2009 | Permalink |
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BOB DYLAN Music From Renaldo And Clara [no label, 1CD] Stereo film soundtrack. But it is the music, filmed during Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue tour in 1975, that lives on. Of the wealth of music featured, only a four-song promo......
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2:30 AM Sat, Nov 07, 2009 | Permalink |
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Drench - the world's simplest flash game There are no instructions, but the premise really is simple: Turn the entire board any one color within a set number of moves. Begin at the upper left square and click one......
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10:28 PM Fri, Nov 06, 2009 | Permalink |
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NASA/JPL/University of Arizona Intersecting swirling trails left by the earlier passage of dust devils across sand dunes, as they lifted lighter reddish-pink dust and exposed the darker material below. Also visible are darker slope streaks along dune edges, formed......
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11:38 AM Fri, Nov 06, 2009 | Permalink |
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Ann Johansson for The New York Times Léon Bing, a model for Rudy Gernreich in the '60s, in her Pasadena apartment. Cathy Horyn, fashion critic of the Times, writes a surprisingly judgmental story (Modeling and All That Came After)......
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11:40 PM Wed, Nov 04, 2009 | Permalink |
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These all lead to far better visuals: Enthused and Infused: 19 New Directions For Teapot Design at WebUrbanist. Shaped like a gun, books, a torus, swan or snail, changing color when hot, transparent, trapping tea leaves, making toast too --......
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11:02 PM Tue, Nov 03, 2009 | Permalink |
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So, the story goes, the venerable Henry Allen, 68-year-old Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and editor at the Washington Post Style section, poet and, imho the most graceful narrative writer of our time, threw a single punch at colleague Manuel Roig-Franzia in......
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9:30 PM Mon, Nov 02, 2009 | Permalink |
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We cooked Thansgiving dinner yesterday. This was not a trial run. I just saw a good deal on frozen free-range turkeys, and swooped down the aisles in search of dressing, cranberry sauce and stock. The family comes over on Sundays......
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7:00 AM Mon, Nov 02, 2009 | Permalink |
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Photo by Sheila Lennon Right-handed former Red Sox pitcher Dick Drago as he recounts the memorable sixth game of the 1975 World Series. You can listen to his tale below. /> Click the left arrow in the player above......
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9:47 PM Sun, Nov 01, 2009 | Permalink |
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GENESIS - RHODE ISLAND 1974 REVISITED Providence 1974 [no label, 2CD, Dan Lampinski audience recording] Live at the Palace Theater, Providence, RI, December 8, 1974. An interesting anecdote regarding the show was posted by glampins: "Another little tidbit of info......
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1:35 AM Sun, Nov 01, 2009 | Permalink |
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Helmet feeder attracts hummingbirds just inches from your face . Daily Mail Online, the Brits: A new helmet with a built-in bird feeder will allow wearers to get amazing face to face contact with nature. The flighty birds hover......
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