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September 2010 Archives
5:40 PM Wed, Sep 29, 2010 | Permalink |
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Journal photo /Glenn Osmundson Last year's Providence Street Painting Festival at the Bank of America Skating Center in Kennedy Plaza. It all happens again this Saturday, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the same spot. If you want......
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9:43 AM Tue, Sep 28, 2010 | Permalink |
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ToneMatrix loops your tune. Click/unclick to make a note, space bar to clear. Thanks to Steve Knudde for the pointer.......
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7:19 AM Tue, Sep 28, 2010 | Permalink |
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Moxie 2 is a free online word game with 64 letters to place and replace to make words. You start by placing letters anywhere, and hope subsequent letters turn up that will fill in and become a word. When......
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5:04 AM Mon, Sep 27, 2010 | Permalink |
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Google's logo today is Happy 12th Birthday Google, created by Los Angeles pop artist Wayne Thiebaud, who's painted a lot of cakes. San Jose Mercury News: Google at 12: A company navigating the conflicts that come with age: For......
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2:14 AM Sun, Sep 26, 2010 | Permalink |
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On 26 September 1960, 70 million U.S. viewers tuned in to watch Senator John Kennedy of Massachusetts and Vice President Richard Nixon in the first-ever televised presidential debate. It was the first of four televised "Great Debates" between Kennedy and......
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2:09 PM Sat, Sep 25, 2010 | Permalink |
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In the rush of the work week, I don't get to read slowly. Today I have, and two movie reviews gave me pleasure. Both are longer than the snippets I blog -- these are not the point, they are the......
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3:39 PM Fri, Sep 24, 2010 | Permalink |
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Folks who live in mansions don't set up card tables in the driveway to sell their clutter, but my neighbors in the lesser end of Providence's East Side do. Along the side streets from Hope High School at Doyle Avenue,......
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11:22 AM Fri, Sep 24, 2010 | Permalink |
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Comedy Central comedian Stephen Colbert, who spent a day last month picking vegetables on a farm in New York as part of the UFW's Take Our Jobs campaign, testified before the House Judiciary Committee's subcommittee on immigration this morning. C-SPAN3......
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1:06 AM Fri, Sep 24, 2010 | Permalink |
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From AtlanticWire, Mapping the Segregation of U.S. Cities Many people have an anecdotal sense of what areas in a particular city are predominately black, white, or other ethnicity. Eric Fischer has a more precise sense, creating maps that visually represent......
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2:15 AM Thu, Sep 23, 2010 | Permalink |
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Europe According to USA London-based graphic designer Yanko Tsvetkov has created a set of tongue-in-cheek maps of Europe as seen through biased eyes: Mapping Stereotypes. The View from America, above, is most accessible, but the others are also fascinating......
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4:23 AM Mon, Sep 20, 2010 | Permalink |
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I'm off for a few days, a short break. Here's something to play with: The Wilderness Downtown. About it: The Flashing Lights Settled Deep In My Brain: "The Wilderness Downtown" and the Limits of Digital Imagination.......
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1:30 PM Sun, Sep 19, 2010 | Permalink |
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Providence Journal photo / Steve Szydlowski Hairy, bruised and tattooed legs defy current fashion as men in heels parade down Weybosset Street in downtown Providence during Saturday's Walk a Mile in Her Shoes fundraiser for the rape crisis center.......
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11:20 AM Fri, Sep 17, 2010 | Permalink |
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ELVIS PRESLEY The Return Of A Prodigy [Gravel Road GRCD 6901-2, 1CD] Live at the International Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, August 3, 1969, dinner show. Excellent- soundboard stereo. ...here he is at the very beginning of his Vegas years. The......
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12:17 PM Thu, Sep 16, 2010 | Permalink |
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What Are People Buying Online? from Jabber. "We took a look at some of the recent e-commerce data (mostly from the 2010 Census, and from Pew) and pulled the most interesting of the findings." The leader surprised me a bit,......
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9:10 AM Wed, Sep 15, 2010 | Permalink |
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Google honors the 120th birthday of mystery writer Agatha Christie today with a scenic logo featuring her dandy detective Hercule Poirot in action, above, but you'll only stumble across it if you live in the UK: Google UK. Here......
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10:39 PM Mon, Sep 13, 2010 | Permalink |
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Update: How it turned out. The final total is in the graphic just below. Musopen is on Kickstarter -- a donor site for specific projects -- raising money to record classical music and put it in the public domain. About......
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10:06 PM Sun, Sep 12, 2010 | Permalink |
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In the wake of Google Instant -- which starts showing search results as you type, without your having to click -- there have been enough copycats to spawn a portal for them: Scottish engineer Tam Denholm has created Instantise -......
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12:51 PM Sun, Sep 12, 2010 | Permalink |
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Music for the Pats' opening day: YouTube - Fleetwood Mac - Tusk This is footage of the original shoot interspersed with shots of the USC band in the studio. Wikipedia: The single was recorded live together with the supporting video......
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3:29 AM Sat, Sep 11, 2010 | Permalink |
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Gainesville (Fla.) Sun photo by Doug Engle Damien Cave, Miami bureau chief of the New York Times, wrote about this T-shirt, but the Times didn't show it. Wednesday, Gainesville.com ran this photo of one, captioned, ""I'm a Vietnam Veteran......
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7:27 PM Thu, Sep 09, 2010 | Permalink |
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It's called "Happy Inside." Click the bottom-right icon as you mouse over the video to make it full screen. For cat lovers, it's a slam-dunk hit. Guardian (UK) has the business story: "Mother London's first spot for the furniture......
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12:09 AM Thu, Sep 09, 2010 | Permalink |
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AP Photo / Kevin E. Schmidt A frog eats an insect as it clings to a window on Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010 in Maquoketa, Iowa. Click the photo for a larger version. At Dark Roasted Blend, The Weird &......
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11:59 PM Wed, Sep 08, 2010 | Permalink |
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Update Wednesday 11:59 p.m. Now that I see it, Google Instant is underwhelming. It is good to click less, but Google is not good yet at anticipating what I'm looking for. Bring back the dancing smashing logo. Update Wednesday 4:50......
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11:13 AM Tue, Sep 07, 2010 | Permalink |
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Bob Dylan, The Incident, 2010, Acrylic on canvas. "The Brazil Series" -- 40 acrylic paintings and eight drawings of Brazil Bob Dylan created in the last 18 months to be the major fall show at The National Gallery of......
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11:43 AM Mon, Sep 06, 2010 | Permalink |
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YouTube - Raw Video: 'Burning Man' Festival's Big Finish The Man, art cars, coupla hundred artworks, music, lectures and 50 thousand people hanging out on the playa sans clothes are local news at Carson Now in Carson City, Nevada,......
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12:09 PM Sun, Sep 05, 2010 | Permalink |
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Jamie Eisenstein at Andrew Kreps Gallery. (Thumbnails and slideshow.) The lady is funny. Rug Harp, 2008 Rug Rug Rug Rug Rug, Bear, Sheep, Wolf, Woman, Rug, 2008 Snuffer, 2008 Inhabiting her work during a winter show, below, focused......
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12:42 AM Sat, Sep 04, 2010 | Permalink |
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Nice story, hope it's a model for other philanthropic funds. San Francisco Chronicle: Pleasant surprise for DonorsChoose.org, schools: Hilda Yao, executive director of the Claire Giannini Fund ...mailed a check of more than $1.3 million to cover the entire California......
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10:29 AM Fri, Sep 03, 2010 | Permalink |
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RICK DANKO: The Last Performance [no label, 1CD] Recorded for Acoustic Café (Michigan Radio), Ann Arbor, Michigan on December 6, 1999. VG+ FM stereo.Just four days after this radio show, Rick Danko passed away at age 56. Back in the......
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4:23 AM Thu, Sep 02, 2010 | Permalink |
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I listened to a lot of stormy songs tonght, and songs about Earls. One by an Earl perfectly suits the mood, so we'll lead with it. All song links go to YouTube. Earl songs Earl King, Come On Baby Let......
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3:36 PM Wed, Sep 01, 2010 | Permalink |
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Burning Man (Wikipedia), the festival in the desert in Imlay, Nevada, aka Black Rock City. (map), is streaming live now at UStream. Here's the link -- there's realtime chat alongside it there.......
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