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8:42 AM Sun, Jan 31, 2010 | Permalink |
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Daniel Lieske, The Journey Begins, 2006. (enlarge). "The image was created in 2006 for the 19th CG Challenge 'The Journey Begins' on CGSociety.org and it eventually won the second prize in this competition," Lieske write on a page entirely......
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12:11 AM Sat, Jan 30, 2010 | Permalink |
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President Obama's Speech at the House Republican retreat in Baltimore.: Bigger video. If you'd rather read it, there's a transcript at WaPo. And a story: Obama talks to House Republicans in rare, televised debate in Baltimore. Our government talks......
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11:35 PM Thu, Jan 28, 2010 | Permalink |
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Egg Watchers: the egg timer that entertains you. Interactive, simple and Webby, with YouTube entertainment while you wait. It's perfect for folks who just want their egg to work without having to think about it. You may choose timing......
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7:01 AM Thu, Jan 28, 2010 | Permalink |
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Jason Putorti of Novaurora.Blog made a "word cloud" from President Obama's State of the Union speech last night: The most frequent spoken words -- excluding articles and pronouns, and other lightweights -- are weighted to appear more prominent in the......
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1:33 AM Wed, Jan 27, 2010 | Permalink |
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NYT video: Watching Serpico with Serpico. Frank Serpico watches Al Pacino play him on a reporter's laptop. This is the man whose long and loud complaining about widespread corruption in the New York Police Department made him a pariah......
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9:12 PM Mon, Jan 25, 2010 | Permalink |
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NASA via AP The Cartwheel galaxy as seen by the Galaxy Evolution Explorer's Far Ultraviolet detector, the Hubble Space Telescope, the Spitzer Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory On a far smaller scale, that form is a jellyfish.......
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10:50 PM Sun, Jan 24, 2010 | Permalink |
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roio » Blog Archive » THE AACM - UMBRIA JAZZ 2009: PROGRAMME 4 Programme 4 starts with Ann Ward's piano piece, Promises, which will lull the unwary into thinking that this is just another stroll in the park. But be......
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9:35 AM Sat, Jan 23, 2010 | Permalink |
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...To all the people watching, I can never thank you enough for your kindness to me and I'll think about it for the rest of my life. All I ask of you is one thing: please don't be cynical. I......
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4:38 PM Fri, Jan 22, 2010 | Permalink |
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Raj Patel: The Value of Nothing is a new species -- a video preview of a book. Author Patel illustrates his premises with photos, graphics and news footage, and, at that YouTube link, you can read the first chapter......
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10:51 PM Thu, Jan 21, 2010 | Permalink |
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A Tool to Deceive and Slaughter (2009) - Caleb Larsen, the scuplture at right, is on eBay. The product description is followed by legal terms of the sale. They begin, A. Artist has created a work of art titled "A......
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11:12 AM Thu, Jan 21, 2010 | Permalink |
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A send-up of airport security from CBC TV's Rick Mercer Report: RMR: A Message From Transport Canada. "Please arrive three days prior to your flight."......
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12:42 PM Wed, Jan 20, 2010 | Permalink |
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2010: Living In the Future | the book. Dan Sinker, who teaches journalism at Columbia College Chicago, bought the children's book as a library discard in the '80s, and is putting it online, a few pages a day of......
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12:10 AM Wed, Jan 20, 2010 | Permalink |
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I'm late with this, but New Orleans Home of the Groove: Bobby Charles Must Be In A Good Place Now. . . I was saddened to learn Thursday of the passing of Robert Charles Guidry, a/k/a Bobby Charles, without a......
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6:25 AM Tue, Jan 19, 2010 | Permalink |
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BALTIMORE (AP) -- Edgar Allan Poe's fertile imagination has endured for more than 150 years -- and so has his pale, death-haunted image, with his sunken eyes, a trim mustache and unruly mop of curly hair. However, scholars say......
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3:08 PM Sun, Jan 17, 2010 | Permalink |
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Set your DVR: Mythbusters' scientists/special-effects experts are hip Mr. Wizards for whom no old saw, urban myth or old wive's tale is too weird, dangerous or gross that an experiment can't be designed to test its truth. (Stern "Do not......
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11:22 PM Sat, Jan 16, 2010 | Permalink |
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Let me be among the last to link to First-Person Tetris. The falling piece doesn't move, the rest of the game does. I could only take a few minutes of it.......
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11:45 AM Sat, Jan 16, 2010 | Permalink |
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Yesterday, a colleague browsing the Haiti wire photos for a new one for the top of our homepage asked my help. The photos were so depressing she wanted to turn away, and knew readers would, too. "Try to find somebody......
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1:21 AM Sat, Jan 16, 2010 | Permalink |
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I'm good at ducking these landmarks, but I've been online for 20 years this week. I'm publishing this first bleat to force myself to write next about how what I foresaw then has turned out. No background today, just raw......
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11:19 AM Fri, Jan 15, 2010 | Permalink |
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The owner, publisher and editor of the North Florida Herald writes a rare front-page editorial today: Ronald Dupont Jr. column: As my son clutched my side, the man said he knew where I lived: "Let this be a lesson to......
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9:41 AM Thu, Jan 14, 2010 | Permalink |
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7 Teddy Pendergrass - Only You, above, from a 1979 concert, is more of a funk jam than the seductive soul he's better known for that earned him the nickname Teddy Bear. Philly-born soul singer Pendergrass dies at age 59.......
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9:45 AM Wed, Jan 13, 2010 | Permalink |
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On Flickr, the most recent photos from Haiti. YouTube: Haiti, uploaded today The Livesay family of Zimmerman, Minn., aid workers in Haiti for the last five years, blogs from their home in Port au Prince. #haiti: Twitterstream on the disaster.......
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7:42 AM Tue, Jan 12, 2010 | Permalink |
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Magazines on Google: That link leads to a page that looks a lot like magazines you can subscribe to while entering a sweepstakes, but it's an index of magazine back issues you can read cover-to-cover in Google. Dawn on a......
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12:11 PM Sun, Jan 10, 2010 | Permalink |
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AP Photo Former Sen. John Edwards and his wife Elizabeth at late Sen. Edward Kennedy's memorial service at the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum in Boston last August. An Excerpt From John Heilemann and Mark Halperin's 'Game Change:......
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8:21 AM Sat, Jan 09, 2010 | Permalink |
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We're not used to NFL games on Saturday, but this weekend and next we get a football marathon, two games each day. NFL Playoffs Wild-Card Round Saturday 4:30 p.m. NBC N.Y. Jets Cincinnati 8:00 p.m. NBC Philadelphia Dallas Sunday 1:00......
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2:46 PM Thu, Jan 07, 2010 | Permalink |
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This Smoked Haddock Chowder Recipe (with pancetta and vegetables) at Serious Eats has readers scrambling to find smoked haddock, which is common in England. Smoked whitefish will do, which is usually found near smoked salmon in markets. The recipe......
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4:37 PM Tue, Jan 05, 2010 | Permalink |
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Google unveiled its long-awaited phone today, named Nexus One (specs), and it looks a lot like an iPhone: No physical keyboard, lots of icons. At the new Nexus One Google Web store, it's $179 if you buy it with a......
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3:51 PM Mon, Jan 04, 2010 | Permalink |
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Rickie Lee Jones - Paris 2009 Live at Studio 105, Paris, France, November 26, 2009. Very good satellite broadcast. 2 CDs. Like many of you, I'm just back from vacation, easing in slowly. These are good tracks to play as......
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11:22 PM Fri, Jan 01, 2010 | Permalink |
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2010: 'Twenty ten' vs. 'two thousand ten'. San Francisco Chronicle: How do you say "2010"? Coming off of "two thousand nine," you'll probably say "two thousand ten." In fact, 4 out of 5 YouTube videos randomly reviewed by The Chronicle......
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