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3:14 AM Tue, Nov 30, 2010 | Permalink |
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I've been shopping online, too much in hunter-gatherer mode to blog, but I did run across a bargain too good not to share. 81 Rhode Island teachers' projacts ask for specific classroom items from DonorsChoose.org, "an online charity connecting......
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1:16 AM Mon, Nov 29, 2010 | Permalink |
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THE BEATLES - THE DECCA AUDITION January 1, 1962 ...the Decca audition is the name given to the now-famous Beatles audition for Decca Records at their Decca Studios in West Hampstead, north London, England, before they reached international stardom. Decca's......
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10:46 AM Fri, Nov 26, 2010 | Permalink |
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I've set this video to loop indefinitely. Click the bottom right corner on the bottom frame to display it full-screen. The title will go away. There are drips and occasional muted thunder mixed under the fire sounds here. I......
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8:10 AM Thu, Nov 25, 2010 | Permalink |
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Arlo (Guthrie) Alice (Brock) Miko at MetaFilter has annotated the lyrics to Arlo Guthrie's classic Thanksgiving song: with 120 links to bring together the story that lives all over the Web: Alices Restaurant. For example, Arlo Guthrie's 's wife Jackie,......
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1:29 AM Wed, Nov 24, 2010 | Permalink |
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Depending on the composition of your holiday crowd, you might be able to bring something fresh to the table after browsing these tidbits. Phil Kirkland's illustration for Developmental Psychology Today in 1971, "The id and the superego" seems just right......
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11:42 AM Mon, Nov 22, 2010 | Permalink |
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This is part 2 of our 2010 survey of the nation's food sections. Part 1 is here. If a whole turkey is too much for your small celebration, check out Wine-Braised Turkey Breast and Roasted Turkey Breast with Madeira......
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3:06 AM Sun, Nov 21, 2010 | Permalink |
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The first Complaints Choir was organized in Birmingham (UK) in 2005. I want my money back My job's like a cul-de-sac And the bus is too infrequent at 6:30. Why don't they pay me more? Life was good before.........
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9:49 AM Fri, Nov 19, 2010 | Permalink |
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This is the first installment in a 2010 holiday recipe collection that's bound to grow over the next few days. (Update: Here's More Thanksgiving 2010 recipes from newspaper food sections, Nov. 22.) Keep in mind that the New England Patriots......
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8:22 PM Thu, Nov 18, 2010 | Permalink |
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Grandma's Superhero Therapy (18 photos) - My Modern Metropolis A few years ago, French photographer Sacha Goldberger found his 91-year-old Hungarian grandmother Frederika feeling lonely and depressed. To cheer her up, he suggested that they shoot a series of......
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10:11 AM Thu, Nov 18, 2010 | Permalink |
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Neil Young's 1959 Lincoln Continental Mark IV hybrid. I blogged about Neil Young's hybrid 100mpg 1959 Lincoln Continental back in April 2009: Neil Young's hybrid 100mpg 1959 Lincoln Continental and video. Now it's gone and torched itself and its......
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10:50 PM Wed, Nov 17, 2010 | Permalink |
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AP Photo U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R) Alaska, center, is greeted by her sister Carol Sturgelewski, left, upon her arrival from Washington at Ted Stevens International Airport in Anchorage today. Anchorage Daily News captions this, "Sen. Lisa Murkowski claimed......
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11:25 AM Wed, Nov 17, 2010 | Permalink |
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Gordon Ramsay's Reindeer Stew. Lidl's reindeer meat: Backlash after budget supermarket's Christmas launch A discount supermarket chain has been accused of destroying the magic of Christmas after putting reindeer steaks on its shelves. Lidl, which has more than 500......
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8:45 PM Mon, Nov 15, 2010 | Permalink |
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A spurt of news today from the Large Hadron Collider in Cern, Switzerland. Large Hadron Collider scientists release music record. The Guardian: Physicists working on the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland have released a music record. A group of 20......
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10:25 PM Sat, Nov 13, 2010 | Permalink |
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Wonderfully geeky, Daniel Radcliffe, back in the spotlight as another Harry Potter movie releases, chants folksinger/mathematician Tom Lehrer's list of the names of the chemical Elements, originally set to the tune of the "Major-General's Song" from Gilbert and Sullivan's Pirates......
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9:29 AM Sat, Nov 13, 2010 | Permalink |
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My daughter stumbled across this one: German band Jamaran has a song called... Rhode Island. It's in English and it's pretty good. It is even better live in a German club music festival called "Rock im Treff," which Google translates......
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9:18 PM Fri, Nov 12, 2010 | Permalink |
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My colleague Sandor Bodo shot this video in advance of Sweet Honey in the Rock's appearance Saturday night at the Firstworks Festival. The Providence Journal / Sandor Bodo PROVIDENCE, RI -- 11/12/2010 -- First Works season closes with a......
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12:11 PM Fri, Nov 12, 2010 | Permalink |
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Photo / Joe Hall Edward FeltenEd Felten, whose track record puts him on our side of computer privacy and security and voting integrity, is joining the government. "My main role at the FTC will be to provide advice on technology......
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3:59 PM Thu, Nov 11, 2010 | Permalink |
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From Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters, Marilyn Monroe's handwritten stuffing recipe. Click image to enlarge it. The publication Friday of Marilyn Monroe's Stuffing recipe is easily the shiniest news of the Thanksgiving Dinner season. Page 180 of Fragments: Poems,......
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6:57 PM Tue, Nov 09, 2010 | Permalink |
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In Saturday clothes, mingling with shoppers, some carrying shopping bags, accompanied by families and identified only by a button, hundreds of singers belted the 'Hallelujah Chorus' from Handel's Messiah Oct. 30 to shoppers at a busy Macy's in Philadelphia.......
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4:57 PM Mon, Nov 08, 2010 | Permalink |
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Rockmelt: Do I really want your lunch to interrupt my life? A new browser is in public beta, the child of Netscape founder Marc Andreessen and friends but based not on Mozilla but on Google Chrome code. You have......
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12:00 PM Sun, Nov 07, 2010 | Permalink |
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AP Photo Sen. Lisa Murkowski and sons Matt, left, and Nic react to early returns on election night showing her leading a three-way race as a write-in candidate. Son Matt's T-shirt is a rebus telling Alaskans how to spell......
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8:13 AM Sat, Nov 06, 2010 | Permalink |
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Update: 10:57 p.m. The Journal's John Hill reports on the event: Kennedy's 1960 Providence speech re-created in City Hall Providence Journal files Sen. John F. Kennedy (D-Mass.) after speaking from the steps of Providence City Hall on Nov. 7, 1960,......
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12:31 PM Fri, Nov 05, 2010 | Permalink |
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Jef Nickerson at GCPVD has done the tedious work of blogging photos of all 11 Providence River Pedestrian Bridge Design Finalists that the city put on Flickr. It's to be built just north of Wickenden and Point streets (that's the......
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9:10 PM Thu, Nov 04, 2010 | Permalink |
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Andrew Horner: The reverse job application Skip down to About Me to see the bullet points. He treats himself as a product, not a universal one but a very creative one. It worked.......
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3:46 PM Wed, Nov 03, 2010 | Permalink |
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I've been seeing a lot of searches for "Caprio concession speech" land on the previous post of photos I liked from the candidates' public moments last night. Conservative Democrat Frank Caprio came in third for governor behind Independent Lincoln Chafee......
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3:09 AM Wed, Nov 03, 2010 | Permalink |
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Journal photographers shot more photos of candidates owning their outcomes in the spotlight last night than will make the paper or the slideshow of record. (As it turned out, a couple did make the infinitely expandable slideshow.) Here are a......
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3:23 AM Tue, Nov 02, 2010 | Permalink |
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I've spent several hours on YouTube tonight, looking at voting videos -- public service announcements, film school projects, celebrity and partisan pitches. I've seen sappy, mean, slick and naive. Finally, at 3 a.m., I found one that speaks perfectly to......
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6:08 AM Mon, Nov 01, 2010 | Permalink |
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The headline, which you eventually learn is a pun, is For the First Time, the TSA Meets Resistance. Jeffrey Goldberg's adventure in Warwick, published in The Atlantic where his title is national correspondent, has gone somewhat viral for a text,......
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