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October 2010 Archives
4:12 PM Sun, Oct 31, 2010 | Permalink |
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12:11 AM Sun, Oct 31, 2010 | Permalink |
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Photo by Sheila Lennon Spinach & Cheese Squares recipe For Sunday's Patriots game against the Vikings -- Randy Moss! Brett Favre -- we're bringing back this Spinach & Cheese Squares recipe from a few seasons ago. Spinach, cheese (cheddar......
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3:11 PM Fri, Oct 29, 2010 | Permalink |
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Just in time for Halloween, The Wilmington (Del.) News Journal offers printable pdfs: a Christine O'Donnell witch mask and Chris Coons bearded Marxist mask No, the name Coons -- O'Donnell's Democratic opponent for Senate from Delaware -- is not a......
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9:11 AM Thu, Oct 28, 2010 | Permalink |
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Barack Obama Pt. 1www.thedailyshow.com Part 2 | Part 3 | Moment of Zen | The full show Jon Stewart's Rally to Restore Sanity happens Saturday at noon on the National Mall. There's a » FAQ; an official Twitter site, @Rally4Sanity,......
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3:16 AM Thu, Oct 28, 2010 | Permalink |
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I've been poking into all the interviews that ever ran in the 57-year-old Paris Review -- there are hundreds, indexed by name and by decade -- at that publication's redesigned Website (NYT: The Paris Review Opens Its Interview Archives Online).......
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3:40 AM Wed, Oct 27, 2010 | Permalink |
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AP photo Annie LeibovitzHow Annie got shot at FT.com tries to explain why photographer Annie Leibovitz can't just sell some work to pay her debts: The problem is that, as Jeffrey Boloten, a managing director of the ArtInsight consultancy......
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2:47 AM Tue, Oct 26, 2010 | Permalink |
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The Geek Pumpkin Roundup at Snipe.Net corrals most of the carving styles that haunt the Web on one page: Star Wars, a D.C. Comics sculptor who wins prizes for his portrait pumpkins, Extreme Pumpkins and the casual geek's fall science......
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1:11 AM Mon, Oct 25, 2010 | Permalink |
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BOB DYLAN - ROSELAND BALLROOM 1994 Positively West 52nd Street [no label, 3CD] Live at the Roseland Ballroom, New York City. October 19, 20, 1994. Very good soundboard. This concert has apparently just surfaced, and it sounds good in my......
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10:56 AM Sat, Oct 23, 2010 | Permalink |
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No batteries required, since it's powered by wishful thinking. That's right, this remote does nothing because there is not even a remote possibility of controlling a cat. Not unless you can fill this thing with catnip. But does this......
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12:25 AM Fri, Oct 22, 2010 | Permalink |
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YouTube - Obama! A Modern U.S. President (musical spoof). Actor Ron Butler crisply nails the Obama role in smart, fast-paced patter to the tune of Gilbert & Sullivan's "I am the very model of a modern Major-General..." from The......
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8:38 PM Thu, Oct 21, 2010 | Permalink |
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Google wishes a happy birthday to jazz great Dizzy Gillespie (Oct. 21, 1917 - Jan. 6, 1993). Clicking the logo leads to search results on the man who was much more than a trumpeter. Since it would be his......
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12:29 AM Wed, Oct 20, 2010 | Permalink |
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Sundial : How to make your own Cut Out Paper Vertical Sundial. Lovely, simple, and, thanks to Google Maps' satellite view, accurate for the coordinates of the exact wall you're going to put the sundial on.There are also instructions for......
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9:08 PM Mon, Oct 18, 2010 | Permalink |
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It's new, fun, and short. (Not so short if you're better than me.) You're a small whale trying to get enough to eat while dodging Ahabs and Ismaels and some pirates too. Play Moby Dick - The Video Game Review......
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3:25 AM Sun, Oct 17, 2010 | Permalink |
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Edwards Horsford's High-Speed Photography set on Flickr. At NPR's The Picture Show blog Thursday, Mito Habe-Evans wrote (Water Balloons Without The Balloons) about the precise high-speed photography of hobbyist Edward Horsford, who fills small water balloons with dyed water,......
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10:46 AM Sat, Oct 16, 2010 | Permalink |
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The wood or heathland ant holding a microchip in its toothed mandibles. The photos are from a new book, Microcosmos: Discovering The World Through Microscopic Images From 20 X to Over 22 Million X Magnification (paperback, $13.57) -- 300......
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1:29 AM Thu, Oct 14, 2010 | Permalink |
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ENVISION : Step into the sensory box from SUPERBIEN on Vimeo. Video mapping: "ENVISION : Step into the sensory box" illustrates the immersive experience Alcatel-Lucent was offered its customers at the Mobile World Congress." Customers were invited to enter into......
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1:02 PM Tue, Oct 12, 2010 | Permalink |
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Photos by Joe Landry Big Nazo puppets parade down Wickenden Street in Providence behind the Honk Fest Providence bands, leading festival-goers along the parade route from India Point Park across the pedestrian bridge over Rt. 195 to Wickenden to......
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4:40 PM Sun, Oct 10, 2010 | Permalink |
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Douglas Coupland, the Canadian novelist who broke through with Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture in 1991, publishes A radical pessimist's guide to the next 10 years in The Toronto Globe and Mail: There are 45 pithy predictions. Some......
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12:10 AM Sat, Oct 09, 2010 | Permalink |
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Are John Lennon and Sheila Lennon related? I don't know. My father was named Francis Lennon, his father, Patrick Lennon; his father, John Lennon, his father, Francis Lennon. That's as far back as we know. In Ireland, we were......
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10:38 AM Fri, Oct 08, 2010 | Permalink |
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Electrolux Design Lab 2010 Finalists Your home appliance gifts of Christmas 2050 are here. The designs are clean and elegant, but can you figure out what they do? The 2010 edition of the Electrolux Design Lab competition focuses on......
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9:04 AM Thu, Oct 07, 2010 | Permalink |
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AP Photo/Aliosha Marquez Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa (proonounced ee-O-sa), here speaking in Chile in January, has won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Vargas Llosa Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature. NYT. From Why Literature? by Mario Vargas Llosa,......
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2:33 AM Wed, Oct 06, 2010 | Permalink |
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Randall Munroe, much touted for his xkcd comics, but immortalized for his maps of the Internet, has made a new one -- Map of Online Communities 2010 is the giant version. It's an update of the 2007 map below......
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11:36 AM Tue, Oct 05, 2010 | Permalink |
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Sophia George, Girlie, Girlie In the Patriots' satisfying 41-14 win over Miami last night, safety Patrick Chung's performance -- he blocked a punt and a field goal, ran back an interception 51 yards for a touchdown and had four......
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3:37 AM Mon, Oct 04, 2010 | Permalink |
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Diversity: Yes, in my backyard is a fun visualization of data from the World Values Survey about global values -- who would you not want to be your neighbor? Among the choices, people of a different race (Hong Kong is......
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11:05 AM Sun, Oct 03, 2010 | Permalink |
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Providence Journal / Sandor Bodo Arides Pichardo, at right, is working with his student Leiby Piralta, 18, on an tiger drawing at the 11th annual Providence Rotary Street Painting Festival. Over 150 artists compete for cash prizes. There's one......
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11:02 PM Fri, Oct 01, 2010 | Permalink |
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Lawrence Lessig -- author, Harvard law professor, co-founder of Creative Commons -- reviews 'The Social Network' in The New Republic ( A Review Of Aaron Sorkin's Film About Facebook And Mark Zuckerberg). The review opens with the lovely distinction between......
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