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9:52 PM Tue, Aug 31, 2010 | Permalink |
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The CERN Choir sings The Particle Physics Song to the tune of The Hippopotamus Song (aka "Mud, Mud, Glorious Mud)." CERN, near Berne, Switzerland, is the home of the Large Hadron Collider, and the Higgs Boson is what some......
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2:03 AM Tue, Aug 31, 2010 | Permalink |
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Man Built a Sanctuary for Homeless Cats at Animal Talk has lots of amazing pics of Caboodle Ranch, Craig Grant's nonprofit cat rescue in the woods in Lee, Fla., between Jacksonville and Tallahassee. More than 500 cats range free......
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1:50 AM Sun, Aug 29, 2010 | Permalink |
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Providence native Leo Laporte, whose syndicated show "The Tech Guy" airs on more than 100 radio stations, XM and online, fell off the social media grid for 16 days and nobody noticed. He'd been posting in Google Buzz, which works......
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1:43 AM Sat, Aug 28, 2010 | Permalink |
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AP Photo, above; Seattle Seahawks photo below Paul Allen smashes a guitar a la jimi Hendrix -- actually a Dale Chihuly sculpture -- at the June 2000 opening of Seattle's Experience Music Project, which he founded. Below, the NFL......
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12:25 AM Fri, Aug 27, 2010 | Permalink |
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Although I've embedded it, this link -- Every Painting in the MoMA on 10 April 2010 -- goes to a large-screen version in which the paintings are big enough to see, fleetingly. (My brain registered the large versions better,......
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11:54 AM Thu, Aug 26, 2010 | Permalink |
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WEATHER REPORT - PROVIDENCE 1978 Live at the Veteran's Memorial Auditorium, Providence, RI; November 12, 1978. Very good audience recording. ...live in Providence, Weather Report stuck to their guns, played only two tracks from their then new album (Mr Gone),......
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12:41 AM Thu, Aug 26, 2010 | Permalink |
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Pitchfork: Staff Lists: The Top 50 Music Videos of the 1990s MTV's ability to place a song and musician into the pop music conversation was unparalleled at the time, and by the end of the decade that meant absurd levels......
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10:00 AM Wed, Aug 25, 2010 | Permalink |
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Shuffler.fm aggregates the music blogs, which write about musicians and make their tunes available for a short time as part of their reporting. Pick a category and it takes you through tunes in that genre and their host blogs, such......
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9:00 PM Tue, Aug 24, 2010 | Permalink |
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Artifacts of the 1963 March on Washington: Guernica publishes the handouts -- program, route map, demands and a call for discipline from marchers, pictured above -- for the August 28, 1963 March on Washington, scans and transcripts from the......
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12:19 AM Mon, Aug 23, 2010 | Permalink |
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NASA photosThe space shuttles Discovery, above, and Endeavour, below, will fly the last two shuttle missions.With the final space shuttle flights nearing, NASA is inviting people worldwide to participate in Space Rock by writing a wake-up song for the astronauts......
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12:10 PM Sat, Aug 21, 2010 | Permalink |
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In 1994 Arthus-Bertrand started a thorough study on the state of the Earth sponsored by UNESCO. As part of the study, he made a picture inventory of the world's most beautiful landscapes, taken from helicopters and hot-air balloons. The book......
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12:04 PM Fri, Aug 20, 2010 | Permalink |
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Photo from Disable Facebook Places in 3 Easy Steps [How To] at Cult of Mac. Not just your friends: The venue knows you're there, too. Maybe you think Facebook Places, the feature that allows you (and your friends) to......
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11:16 AM Fri, Aug 20, 2010 | Permalink |
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Franken: Net Neutrality "Biggest Issue Since Freedom of Religion Last night in Minneapolis, Sen. Al Franken spoke at a hearing on Net Neutrality attended by Federal Communications Commission Commissioners Mignon Clyburn and Michael Copps. Franken explains the two- or......
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11:06 PM Wed, Aug 18, 2010 | Permalink |
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'the land of giants' DesignBoom writes:: american firm choi + shine architects recently received the 2010 boston society of architects award for unbuilt architecture for their project 'the land of giants', which they originally designed for the icelandic high......
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7:15 AM Wed, Aug 18, 2010 | Permalink |
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First look at fall, Chanel at 31 rue Cambon, Paris. Tara Bradford's extravagant Paris Parfait goes window shopping: More photos at Glimpse of fall.......
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8:59 AM Tue, Aug 17, 2010 | Permalink |
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Jazz photographer Herman Leonard died Saturday at 87 in Los Angeles, to which he relocated from New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. In 2008, he was awarded a Grammy Foundation Grant, which enabled him to digitize and preserve his 60,000 jazz......
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1:53 AM Mon, Aug 16, 2010 | Permalink |
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Irish social-media startup Simply Zesty makes a map that envisions the Internet as a subway system. Colored lines represent "route" categories: The gray-black line is Search, red is News, Social Networks are the yellow line, blue the Financial District.......
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12:31 PM Sun, Aug 15, 2010 | Permalink |
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Phil Nash's level of indirection blog is indecipherable to me, a second life of code he splashes happily in. (The Londoner has developed a game for Iphone.) But in language almost* simple, his tweet went viral: Welcome to the new......
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11:01 PM Fri, Aug 13, 2010 | Permalink |
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REVOLUTION IN THE AIR PHIL OCHS Live at the Troubadour Nightclub [no label, 2CD] Live in West Hollywood, California, February 1, 1970. First Generation recording from the master R2R tapes. Very good MONO audience recording. "This show stayed hidden for......
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8:45 AM Fri, Aug 13, 2010 | Permalink |
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It's Friday the 13th. Popeye: I Don't Scare (1956) Go easy.......
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11:26 PM Thu, Aug 12, 2010 | Permalink |
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Jeff Koons' Art Car, at Wired. BMW art car by Jeff Koons unveiled for 24 Hours of Le Mans [w/video] The latest in a 35-year-long run of BMW art cars was unveiled in Paris today ahead of its participation......
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10:01 AM Thu, Aug 12, 2010 | Permalink |
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AP Photo/Winslow Townson Long-haired Pats QB Tom Brady, with ice on his shoulder, during practice Wednesday in Foxboro. NFL Network is showing Arena Football on the first night of preseason games. (Why?) ESPN has the Carolina Panthers vs. The......
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9:15 AM Thu, Aug 12, 2010 | Permalink |
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It's the 71st anniversary of the 1939 Judy Garland film, and the Guardian serves up The Wizard of Oz: 71 facts for the film's 71st birthday. My favorites: 1) So frightening was Margaret Hamilton's performance as the Wicked Witch......
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11:49 AM Wed, Aug 11, 2010 | Permalink |
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120 160 thousand and counting like Steven Slater on Facebook. He's the JetBlue flight attendant who took the chute to the future, a brand new version of Take This Job and Shove It. JetBlue flight attendant strikes a nerve......
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10:46 AM Wed, Aug 11, 2010 | Permalink |
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The Journal's Bill Van Siclen talked to Shepard Fairey about the Providence mural and his coming back this weekend for Foo Fest: Artist Shepard Fairey's mural includes favorite Providence places: Fairey: I have very fond memories of Providence, and these......
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9:23 AM Tue, Aug 10, 2010 | Permalink |
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Science@NASA Looking northeast around midnight on August 12th-13th. The red dot is the Perseid radiant. Although Perseid meteors can appear in any part of the sky, all of their tails will point back to the radiant. Planets Align for......
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12:20 PM Mon, Aug 09, 2010 | Permalink |
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The Providence Journal / John Freidah Umberto "Bert" Crenca, founder and artistic director of AS220, works on a piece for an installation at the Firehouse 13 Gallery. The Shepard Fairey Providence mural is part of Foo Fest, upcoming this......
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11:02 AM Sat, Aug 07, 2010 | Permalink |
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Jazz At Newport : NPR: Along with WBGO and WGBH, we'll be heading to the CareFusion Newport Jazz Festival for two days of live webcasting, broadcasting and archival recordings. Join us Aug. 7-8 for artist interviews, photo streams, live chat......
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10:35 PM Fri, Aug 06, 2010 | Permalink |
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Exodus-to-Escoheag happens at Stepping Stone Ranch (map) in Escoheag Saturday. Gates open at 10 a.m. and music goes well into the night. Schedule. Escoheag may be my favorite concert place. Cool weather predicted. We're probably going to this one in......
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10:41 AM Fri, Aug 06, 2010 | Permalink |
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Update: Video! Journal video / Kathy Hodge DeVault Providence muralist Johan Bjurman executes Shepard Fairey's design on the north side of the Pell Chafee Performance Center on Aborn Street for AS220's 25th anniversary. Accompanying story, by the videographer: 'Wall dog'......
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8:56 AM Fri, Aug 06, 2010 | Permalink |
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CREAM, Secret History [Left Bank Productions MS1, 2CD] Outtakes from the Fresh Cream sessions and BBC sessions. Very good soundboard. Cream - Jack Bruce, Ginger Baker and Eric Clapton (for some, it was a time when he still mattered). And......
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2:04 AM Thu, Aug 05, 2010 | Permalink |
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Virginia Woolf's desk, photographed by Gisèle Freund. Click the photo to enlarge it. Photojournalist Gisèle Freund's photo set on Flickr includes her portraits of James Joyce, Henry Matisse, Jean Cocteau, Pierre Bonnard, Man Ray, LeCorbusier, Marcel Duchamp, Sartre, de......
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10:07 AM Wed, Aug 04, 2010 | Permalink |
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2006 music video for Wyclef Jean's "If I Was President." Wyclef Jean to Announce Run for Haiti's Presidency. Time Magazine confirms it: Jean told TIME he is going to announce his candidacy for the Nov. 28 election just days......
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6:52 AM Tue, Aug 03, 2010 | Permalink |
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President Obama Explains Healthcare.gov Part tutorial, part speech (with footage of people denied insurance for pre-existing conditions), President Obama screencasts a preview of healthcare.gov, with captions. He has a future in infomercials.......
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8:26 AM Sun, Aug 01, 2010 | Permalink |
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NPR's coverage of the Newport Folk Festival ranges from streaming it live to hundreds of photos by Shantel Mitchell, such as this of the long view from Fort Adams of Narragansett Bay. NPR is webcasting live from George Wein's......
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