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April 2010 Archives
2:05 AM Fri, Apr 30, 2010 | Permalink |
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BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN The Lost Masters I: Alone In Colts Neck (The Complete Nebraska Session) Solo session at Colts Neck, NJ, Dec 1981 to Jan 1982. This is the alternate Nebraska album. "When Bruce Springsteen handed a cassette of demos he......
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12:58 PM Wed, Apr 28, 2010 | Permalink |
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How to Opt Out of Facebook's Instant Personalization ("whereby select websites would 'personalize your experience using your public Facebook information.' The initial sites are Pandora, Yelp and Microsoft Docs."). The Electronic Frontier Foundation has made this easy: Even if you......
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12:53 AM Wed, Apr 28, 2010 | Permalink |
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The Fool by Adam Koford. If Tarot holds encoded meaning for you, this couldn't be less meaningful. Pop culture blogger John Struan (Super Punch) had an idea: Introducing the Super Punch Tarot. So, about this project. I wanted to do......
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3:03 PM Mon, Apr 26, 2010 | Permalink |
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Screenshot from the Sistine Chapel virtual tour, before zooming in. I'm in coding mode, no time to type. But worth checking out is the Sistine Chapel Virtual Tour at the Vatican. Pan, zoom, mouse around all those Michelangelo ceilings......
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2:37 AM Sat, Apr 24, 2010 | Permalink |
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Wikimedia Commons The Garden of Cosmic Speculationis a private garden in Dumfries, Scotland. Open to the public only one day a year, the Garden of Cosmic Speculation takes science and maths as its inspiration. Quite simply, there isn't another......
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11:35 AM Fri, Apr 23, 2010 | Permalink |
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Molecular eyeology: A Catalog Of 365 Petri Dishes Painted By Klari Reis at his blog, appropriately named The Daily Dish. The Pay Web: The iPad isn't a computer, it's a distribution channel. O'Reilly Radar: You aren't buying a computer......
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11:11 AM Thu, Apr 22, 2010 | Permalink |
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Click image to see it larger. Giant version (3000 x 3075 pixels) Stunning, too perfect not to be "photoshopped,NASA's Big Blue Marble image of Earth lingers in everybody's memory. It more than works as a portrait of home. NASA......
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9:19 AM Wed, Apr 21, 2010 | Permalink |
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A Correct Way to Pronounce the Iceland Volcano: Eyjafjallajökull. Even after you hear this, you still may not be able to wrap your lips and tongue around it. We now consider ourselves lucky to have rebooked our canceled Ireland......
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9:31 AM Tue, Apr 20, 2010 | Permalink |
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Photographer Aline Smithson's 85-year-old mother sits in various outrageous costumes -- Elvis, a bride, a wicked witch -- as a model for her takeoffs on Whistler's Mother (officially named Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1). Smithson's series of 20......
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8:22 AM Mon, Apr 19, 2010 | Permalink |
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We expected to be having lunch in a pub in Galway, Ireland today, but the volcano that closed Europe keeps our family home. By Saturday, we knew our Sunday night flight wouldn't happen: We spent the weekend diverting our......
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10:41 AM Fri, Apr 16, 2010 | Permalink |
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After Nieman Journalism Lab reported yesterday, Mark Fiore can win a Pulitzer Prize, but he can't get his iPhone cartoon app past Apple's satire police, the cartoonist got a call from Apple yesterday asking him to resubmit the app.......
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11:35 AM Thu, Apr 15, 2010 | Permalink |
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Compass Light, Inc for Penobscot Marine Museum Wonderful: Time-lapse video of the canning process at Stinson Seafood Company. Prospect Harbor, Maine, April 2010. Up past Bar Harbor, in Prospect Harbor, Maine, the last sardine cannery in the U.S.......
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3:47 AM Wed, Apr 14, 2010 | Permalink |
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THE DOORS: The Miami Incident Live at The Dinner Key Auditorium, Miami, Florida, March 1,1969. There's a warning: "This show contains swearing. If that bothers you, please do not download." Parts of the accompanying text may also offend some. I......
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11:12 AM Mon, Apr 12, 2010 | Permalink |
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A batch of odd links for a Monday. Ease in gradually... Fierce, with claws? Tiger the cat puts a stop to Royal Mail deliveries Owner Tracy Brayshaw, of Farsley, Leeds, said the postmen have complained that Tiger attacks them as......
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11:16 AM Sun, Apr 11, 2010 | Permalink |
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YouTube - Bambino Concert, Agadez Some of the most interesting modern music is coming from the edges of the Sahara Desert -- Issa Bagayogo and Tinariwen from Mali, and now Bambino from Agadez, Niger. This is mood music, an......
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11:34 AM Fri, Apr 09, 2010 | Permalink |
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UAW Daimler Chrysler While changing the record while driving looks distracting, it's obvious the tiny driver can't even see the road from that sunken seat, which is more troubling. Dark Roasted Blend: Car Record Players & Other Cool Vintage......
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10:31 AM Thu, Apr 08, 2010 | Permalink |
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DEREK & THE DOMINOS Live At Santa Monica: COMPLETE SHOWS [no label, 3CD] Live at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, CA, November 20, 1970. Taken from 2nd generation copies of master audience tape. "Remastered with noises, level changes......
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12:48 PM Tue, Apr 06, 2010 | Permalink |
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American Mensa | Top 50 American Mensa members across the country cast and recast their votes, winnowing down a list of more than 280 member-suggested sites to 100 and finally to the final 50. Few surprises here -- it's pretty......
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12:18 PM Mon, Apr 05, 2010 | Permalink |
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Atwood in the Twittersphere. The Canadian novelist writes a bemused, rambling and most unTwitterlike history of her Tweeting for The New York Review of Books. So what's it all about, this Twitter? Is it signaling, like telegraphs? Is it Zen......
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6:23 PM Sat, Apr 03, 2010 | Permalink |
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As a preschooler, just starting to try to figure out the adult world, I saw a commercial all week hyping a Washington's birthday celebration at a card dealer that included the launch of a new model. When the day came,......
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5:36 PM Fri, Apr 02, 2010 | Permalink |
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Updated with photo: We've done it before, we're doing it again Sunday. This recipe comes from the old, text-only Internet. The leg of lamb is "butterflied" -- unwrapped from the bone with a sharp knife so it lies flat. While......
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7:06 PM Thu, Apr 01, 2010 | Permalink |
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AP photo / Mary Schwalm Of all the photos of flooding in New England in this week -- some full of pathos and pain, others nearly biblical in their impact -- this one brought a smile. It's a Canada......
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10:55 AM Thu, Apr 01, 2010 | Permalink |
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Official Google Blog: A different kind of company name. The post, by "Posted by Eric Schmidt, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Topeka Inc.," begins, Early last month the mayor of Topeka, Kansas stunned the world by announcing that his......
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2:41 AM Thu, Apr 01, 2010 | Permalink |
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Do you have old records by local bands from around 1970? Is one of them American Dream's single, "Love Is A Beautiful Thing"? There's a man looking hard for that. He's Paul Payton, who describes himself as, ...one of the......
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