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February 2010 Archives
8:51 AM Sun, Feb 28, 2010 | Permalink |
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YouTube - Shane MacGowan and friends "I Put A Spell On You" in aid of Concern Worldwide's work in Haiti Pogues singer Shane MacGowan and friends have recorded Screamin' Jay Hawkins' 1956 hit I Put a Spell on You,......
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12:20 PM Fri, Feb 26, 2010 | Permalink |
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After blogging that Conan O'Brien is tweeting, I need a good long smart read to sink my brain into. Thanks to Conor Friedersdorf, who collected a lot of them in his post The Best of Journalism (2009). Throughout 2009, I......
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8:06 PM Thu, Feb 25, 2010 | Permalink |
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Conan O'Brien on Twitter: http://twitter.com/conanobrien Former Tonight Show host Conan O'Brien has started tweeting. He doesn't know what to say, but he's saying it.......
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2:52 PM Wed, Feb 24, 2010 | Permalink |
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Badfinger live at the Paramount Theatre, Springfield, Massachusetts, Feb 3, 1972. ...live, Badfinger were rocking. You can't believe this hard rock band were the same that recorded Come And Get It. Here is an uncirculated show from way back in......
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2:54 AM Tue, Feb 23, 2010 | Permalink |
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Back when obits were news stories written by live journalists, the truth of your life as reported in the newspaper reigned. Sometimes long-buried scandals and convictions were unearthed just in time to cast a pall of embarrassment over your wake.......
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10:54 AM Mon, Feb 22, 2010 | Permalink |
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Singing about newspaper woes - The Globe and Mail on Vodpod Fine Grind, "the (Toronto) Globe and Mail's very own complaint choir," sings reporter Siri Agrell's lyrics about the woes of newspapers to the tune of Gnarls Barkley's Crazy.......
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12:17 PM Sat, Feb 20, 2010 | Permalink |
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Mardi Gras: Binche Carnival. Global Post: "It's said the English word 'binge' originates in the reputation of the festivities at Binche." Who knew Belgium could get any weirder than Hercule Poirot? ...the United Nations recognizes the Binche carnival as......
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6:45 AM Fri, Feb 19, 2010 | Permalink |
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How To Over-Share Every Detail Of Your Life Online at Business Insider started this round: We've put together a list of 10 ways you can let strangers know far too much about you and what you're doing. Write a personal......
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12:12 AM Thu, Feb 18, 2010 | Permalink |
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CREAM Fruit Of The Poisoned Tree [HiWatt - HDR-40497, 4CDs] Studio sessions, BBC live and 1993 Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame show. VG+ to Ex SBD stereo/mono? This bootleg was released in 2006. Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker and......
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11:18 AM Wed, Feb 17, 2010 | Permalink |
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No doubt you know by now that Chicago Sun-Times film critic Roger Ebert cannot eat or speak, due to cancers of the thyroid in 2002, salivary glands in 2003 and jaw in 2006. Chris Jones, writing in Esquire, brings a......
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4:39 PM Tue, Feb 16, 2010 | Permalink |
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"Somebody play Suzie Q tonight if yer giggin -- RIP Dale Hawkins," writes Providence musician Mark Cutler on Facebook. The Arkansas Times' Rock Candy blog has the obit of the man who wrote a rockabilly song that got past parents......
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10:49 PM Mon, Feb 15, 2010 | Permalink |
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NORAH JONES - PARIS 2010 Live at Espace Pierre Cardin, Paris, France, February 10, 2010. Very good FM broadcast. Ravi Shankar's daughter, last Wednesday.......
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8:40 PM Sun, Feb 14, 2010 | Permalink |
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7 Ways To Become More Productive With Firefox Tabs by Ann Smarty at MakeUseOf.com: Sometimes I have dozens of them opened and this is when it stops being handy (and usable). Luckily Firefox is awesome and there are plenty......
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1:06 AM Sun, Feb 14, 2010 | Permalink |
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It's The Revolution Waltz now. Paid for by the American People, this performance of The Times They Are A-Changin' by Bob Dylan Feb. 10, 2010 at the White House is in the public domain. Here's the audio.......
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12:59 AM Sat, Feb 13, 2010 | Permalink |
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Chocolate Valentine Cake The photo and recipe come from Tish Boyle, author of The Cake Book (John Wiley & Sons, 2006), which speaks well for it. On her blog, she writes, The secret ingredient in this flourless chocolate cake......
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5:12 PM Thu, Feb 11, 2010 | Permalink |
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Google Fiber for Communities: Think big with a gig Google is planning to launch an experiment that we hope will make Internet access better and faster for everyone. We plan to test ultra-high speed broadband networks in one or......
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8:52 AM Wed, Feb 10, 2010 | Permalink |
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Bob Sullivan, MSNBC's scam-and-fraud reporter, details his clicks through online flower sites and comes back with "$19.99 roses" that all end up costing around $35 after fees and shipping: Online flower prices still grow and grow... If you study hidden......
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12:05 PM Tue, Feb 09, 2010 | Permalink |
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The Indianapolis Star reports (A few fans brave cold to welcome Colts), The end of the Indianapolis Colts' season came down to 11 people. Not the 11 players on the field during the Super Bowl, but the 11 who showed......
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12:29 PM Mon, Feb 08, 2010 | Permalink |
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6Io05fTLSg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCqgtb3Nby4 They seemed to get better after they warmed up, like the Saints.......
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4:07 PM Sat, Feb 06, 2010 | Permalink |
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San Francisco in 1906. My brother sent a link to this historical footage, writing, "Things like this fascinate me." Me too. It's Market Street in San Francisco as filmed from the front of a streetcar a few days before......
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10:42 PM Thu, Feb 04, 2010 | Permalink |
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40 wild birds play a Gibson Les Paul guitar. Here's the installation, which the BBC thinks is "very Marcel Duchamp, the French artist who started the conceptual art ball rolling nearly a hundred years ago. " YouTube - Céleste Boursier-Mougenot......
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9:34 AM Thu, Feb 04, 2010 | Permalink |
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Breaded and deep-fried pork tenderloin sandwich is a Hoosier specialty. For Patriots fans, it's a lackluster Super Bowl. The best we can do is root for the Saints. But while oyster po' boys aren't our idea of easy munchies,......
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12:36 PM Wed, Feb 03, 2010 | Permalink |
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Key statistic: U.S. Internet speeds are really slow. The State of the Internet. from Focus Research. Data is presented with colorful, easy-to-digest graphics. Here we take a look at exactly who is using the Internet the most, how they......
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5:02 PM Tue, Feb 02, 2010 | Permalink |
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Eagle Cam by WVEC.com documents bald eagles nesting at the Norfolk, Va. Botanical Garden. First egg laid Sunday, Jan. 31 It's quite amazing, TV-quality. When I first came on it, the lens was zoomed up close; it has since pulled......
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2:40 PM Mon, Feb 01, 2010 | Permalink |
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It's gotten 20 million pageviews and more than 15,000 comments since it was posted in 2005 to a Russian Flash drawing site. How to "draw a woman from the inside out" starts with a skeleton: You see -- and can......
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