|
June 2010 Archives
6:28 PM Wed, Jun 30, 2010 | Permalink |
Write a  comment
By Sheila Lennon  Email
The winner of the 2010 Bulwer-Lytton Contest, which honors deliverately bad writing: For the first month of Ricardo and Felicity's affair, they greeted one another at every stolen rendezvous with a kiss -- a lengthy, ravenous kiss, Ricardo lapping and......
|
7:08 AM Wed, Jun 30, 2010 | Permalink |
Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon Email
Francesco Tonelli for The New York Times The Minimalist - 101 Fast Recipes for Grilling by Mark Bittman at NYTimes.com. You can't beat food styling like that, even if you wonder why they're grilling fruit. It looks terrific. As......
|
7:01 AM Tue, Jun 29, 2010 | Permalink |
Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon Email
Newspaper Sculptures by Nick Georgiou. at the Design Inspiration. Georgiou uses books as parts, too. Julio the Sewer Diver. He loves his job. Music Streaming Services in the Post-Lala Internet. The music never stops. Gourmet Magazine Revived for the iPad.......
|
10:01 AM Mon, Jun 28, 2010 | Permalink |
Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon Email
AP Photo/Keystone, Martial Trezzini Large Hadron Collider: The magnet core of the world's largest superconducting solenoid magnet. LHC smashes beam collision record. BBC News reports, Scientists working on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) say they have moved a step......
|
1:05 AM Sun, Jun 27, 2010 | Permalink |
Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon Email
Downright weird: After I grabbed chicken drumsticks but before I got the soda for today's family barbecue, I headed for the seasonal aisle and picked up some fireworks. Until recently illegal in Rhode Island, now they're flanked by paper muffin-cup......
|
10:55 AM Fri, Jun 25, 2010 | Permalink |
Comments (1)
By Sheila Lennon Email
Google Voice Blog announced the company is opening its "one number to ring all your phones, voicemail that works like email, free calls and text messages to the U.S. and Canada, low-priced international calls" to everyone. PC World shows you......
|
9:02 AM Fri, Jun 25, 2010 | Permalink |
Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon Email
THE KINKS The Songs We Sang For Auntie [Meerkur, 3CD] BBC sessions outtakes and live tracks 1964-1994. The Songs We Sang For Auntie was the title of the Kinks official BBC sessions album but it was abandoned. Now the fans......
|
7:14 AM Thu, Jun 24, 2010 | Permalink |
Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon Email
Faster Forward: Judge junks Viacom's YouTube suit by Rob Pegoraro at WaPo: Google won an immense legal victory when a federal judge dismissed a $1 billion lawsuit filed by Viacom against its YouTube video-sharing site. U.S. District Judge Louis Stanton......
|
5:27 PM Wed, Jun 23, 2010 | Permalink |
Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon Email
AP Photo/BP PLC This image from video provided by BP PLC early this morning shows oil continuing to gush millions of gallons a day from the broken wellhead at the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil well in the......
|
11:45 AM Tue, Jun 22, 2010 | Permalink |
Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon Email
Accompanying its story about Gen. Stanley McChrystal, our top commander in Afghanistan, being in trouble over comments he made to Rolling Stone (McChrystal Is Summoned to Washington Over Remarks), The New York Times excerpts the article, which is in six......
|
8:19 AM Tue, Jun 22, 2010 | Permalink |
Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon Email
I picked up Winterland by Alan Glynn in paperback at Dublin airport to read on the plane, and just finished it. It's a good thriller that begins with two members of the same family with the same name -- an......
|
6:18 AM Mon, Jun 21, 2010 | Permalink |
Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon Email
Back from Ireland, The last few days were surreal. After a ferry ride from Inis Meain, we zipped across the entire country in a few hours. Saturday we went to Knowth and Newgrange, neolithic mounds with subterranean passages and solstice......
|
2:44 AM Fri, Jun 18, 2010 | Permalink |
Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon Email
The taxi is arriving shortly to take us to the 8 a.m. ferry back to Rossaveal, where our rental car awaits. Today we head for Drogheda, near Newgrange and Dublin airport, from which we'll fly home Sunday No time......
|
6:47 AM Thu, Jun 17, 2010 | Permalink |
Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon Email
In comments on an earlier post, "Looks like you've found a bit of heaven there," Andrea wrote. She liked the chickens, remembering roosters that wake vacationers up way too early. On Inis Meain, there are chickens but no roosters......
|
4:11 AM Wed, Jun 16, 2010 | Permalink |
Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon Email
Panorama: Click the photo above for the big wide view. I spent Tuesday watching the light change... ...and trying to figure out the oven's hieroglyphics without a Rosetta Stone:.......
|
8:22 AM Tue, Jun 15, 2010 | Permalink |
Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon Email
Looking left from the doorway of the cottage whose address is Cinn An Bhaile, Inis Meain, Aran Islands, Galway Bay, Ireland. Sometime in winter, I innocently answered a question in the Movable Type developers forum, which led to helping......
|
4:25 AM Mon, Jun 14, 2010 | Permalink |
Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon Email
A peat farmer parks his load outside a pub in Drumlish, Ireland, Saturday afternoon. Saturday night, we heard live music in two pubs, including two versions of Johnny Cash's "Ring of Fire" and a "Mr. Tambourine Man." Bands signal......
|
10:43 AM Fri, Jun 11, 2010 | Permalink |
Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon Email
We wanted to stay at an Irish castle that hadn't been turned into a chi-chi spa. After some deep Googling, we found one that's allegedly haunted. It's certifiably beautiful -- Ross Castle, at the end of several narrow roads in......
|
7:10 AM Wed, Jun 09, 2010 | Permalink |
Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon Email
Photos by Sheila Lennon Trompe l'oeil -- a mural on the side wall of a Galway drugstore. . A Spongebob Squarepants guitar for sale in the window of a music shop. Photo by Joe Landry Quay (pronounced "Key") Street,......
|
8:13 AM Tue, Jun 08, 2010 | Permalink |
Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon Email
A typical street in Galway, Ireland. Detail: Photos by Sheila Lennon Claddagh through a bus window. Click the image to see the raindrops larger.......
|
9:31 AM Sun, Jun 06, 2010 | Permalink |
Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon Email
Louder voice: For Mickey Kaus, Winning Isn't the Point. NYT profiles the former blogger (Kausfiles) who's running against Sen. Barbara Boxer. Art goes underground: Essay: Technology changes how art is created and perceived " Through the Internet, video games, YouTube,......
|
9:34 PM Sat, Jun 05, 2010 | Permalink |
Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon Email
For a while I hope to go into neutrai, no deadlines, no code. I'll have a camera, and a netbook. We'll see what happens. We'll be going back to the ancestral home, to the county my grandparents left, separately, before......
|
1:58 AM Fri, Jun 04, 2010 | Permalink |
Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon Email
J. Kenji Lopez-Alt at Serious Eats loves McDonald's french fries. After an exhaustive investigation -- more than 43 batches in 3 days -- he emerges triumphant with The Burger Lab: How to Make Perfect Thin and Crisp French Fries.......
|
6:23 PM Wed, Jun 02, 2010 | Permalink |
Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon Email
Ina Fried reports at CNet on Steve Jobs at D8: Post-PC era is nigh: Speaking for an hour and a half at the D: All Things Digital confab, Jobs said the day is coming when only one out of every......
|
12:50 PM Tue, Jun 01, 2010 | Permalink |
Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon Email
YouTube - The Secret Powers of Time Professor Philip Zimbardo, psychology professor emeritus at Stanford University, draws -- sped up, for the impatient -- "how our individual perspectives of time affect our work, health and well-being. Time influences who......
|
11:21 AM Tue, Jun 01, 2010 | Permalink |
Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon Email
A little time-waster to get your brain back into post -holiday thinking. The Wikipedia Game You're given a start Wikipedia article, like "Banana" And a winning article, like "Britney Spears" Now click as few links as possible to get from......
|
|
Keepers
New photos
New posts
Projo blogs
Archives