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January 2011 Archives
11:42 AM Sun, Jan 30, 2011 | Permalink |
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Rare Breeds: Petunia is a free online flower-breeding game. It's more art toy than game, but quite extraordinary and surprising results can come from your intensive crossbreeding. The screenshot above is one of my results along the way. The......
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8:35 AM Sun, Jan 30, 2011 | Permalink |
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Update, Jan. 30, 8:35 a.m.: Egypt shuts down Al Jazeera bureau in Cairo. Dan Nolan of Al Jazeera English is tweeting it. # Gov't agents say they've been watching our coverage but also listening to our phone calls. #Jan......
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7:12 AM Fri, Jan 28, 2011 | Permalink |
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We have a Super Bowl bet!, Tyler Green at ARTINFO.com on a Super Bowl bet of Impressionists: The Milwaukee Art Museum and the Carnegie Museum of Art have agreed to a Super Bowl bet! Even better: The museums have put......
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1:36 AM Fri, Jan 28, 2011 | Permalink |
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Yes, Friday cat blogging, even here. Photo by Sheila Lennon......
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10:57 AM Thu, Jan 27, 2011 | Permalink |
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The Times's Dealings With Julian Assange. NYTimes editor Bill Keller's account of the Times' affiliation with WikiLeaks and its founder. Related: No Secrets: Julian Assange's mission for total transparency. Raffi Khatchadourian's New Yorker profile, referenced by Keller. The Minimalist The......
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12:22 AM Thu, Jan 27, 2011 | Permalink |
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Photo by Sheila Lennon | Larger Icicles bent by a north wind in the sleety time before the big snow arrives.......
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8:39 AM Wed, Jan 26, 2011 | Permalink |
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YouTube - Rumba Rave "banquero" en el Santander Marching around outside in the cold with signs shouting slogans is so 20th century. In Spain, there's a flashmob movement of protestors entering bank branches with boom boxes loaded with rumba......
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12:19 AM Wed, Jan 26, 2011 | Permalink |
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2011 State Of The Union Address. Captioned. President Barack Obama's Jan. 26 State of the Union speech "as prepared for delivery" -- the preprinted copy members of Congress can be seen reading as he delivers his remarks.......
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10:57 PM Tue, Jan 25, 2011 | Permalink |
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CHARLIE PARKER Together With Woody Herman And The 3rd Herd: Bird With The Herd 1951 Live at the Municipal Arena, Kansas City, Missouri; July 22, 1951. Ripped from vinyl. Soundboard? Speed corrected and rejoined. A historic summit meeting of jazz......
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8:58 AM Mon, Jan 24, 2011 | Permalink |
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Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall have breakfast. Looks like a Monday morning photo. At the handsome blog If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger, There'd Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats, a category called They Were an Item publishes......
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7:44 PM Fri, Jan 21, 2011 | Permalink |
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Photos / Journal files, unless noted Broccoli-Cheddar Soup, winter white. First... Hot chocolate Hot chocolate is the best reward for snow shovelers, a throwback to a time when we skated on neighborhood ponds, tended by moms who brought great......
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11:59 AM Fri, Jan 21, 2011 | Permalink |
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Robbert van der Steeg Eternal Clock The Photomanipulations of Robbert van der Steeg at the interesting Kuriositas: Robbert van der Steeg is (above) a Dutch National who lives in Kenya and works for an NGO (Non-Governmental Organisation) in Somalia......
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8:51 AM Thu, Jan 20, 2011 | Permalink |
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Jazz Videos is the name of a site that includes a YouTube search engine as well as a Jazz Videos Directory alphabetized by performers' first names. "Jazz on the Tube is a labor of love by a group of......
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1:39 AM Tue, Jan 18, 2011 | Permalink |
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Improbably zany as Harry's Law is, we hope it gets zanier. Kathy Bates' new series produced by David E. Kelley (Ally McBeal, The Practice, Boston Legal) is a breath of fresh air after so many terse detectives, impossibly beautiful......
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8:58 AM Sun, Jan 16, 2011 | Permalink |
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William Langewiesche, Vanity Fair's international correspondent, writes a droll account of the hijacking of a French cruise ship by Somali pirates, The Pirate Latitudes. The photos are of the captured ship, Le Ponant, and its captain, Patrick Marchesseau. Samples: The......
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9:57 AM Fri, Jan 14, 2011 | Permalink |
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Baltimore Sun photo Be glad you're not a Baltimore Ravens fan -- you'd have to come up with purple food. In select cities around the NFL, fans are settling in for four big games this weekend, and food editors......
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6:04 AM Thu, Jan 13, 2011 | Permalink |
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From the White House, primary sources: Embeddable video, audio and a transcript of President Obama's speech in Tucson in the wake of the fatal shooting of 6 and the wounding of 14 others on Jan. 8 as Rep. Gabrielle Giffords......
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10:27 AM Wed, Jan 12, 2011 | Permalink |
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Silent and still snowing in Providence, stillness and white. Photos by Sheila Lennon This is not fluffy stuff. Dense, heavy snow has brought down a branch of a tall white pine in the front yard. Some neighboring hemlock branches dropped......
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6:53 PM Mon, Jan 10, 2011 | Permalink |
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Silk is an experiment in generative art. And desktop wallpapers. Fun to play with.......
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2:18 PM Sat, Jan 08, 2011 | Permalink |
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The late Sandy Denny's resonant voice puts her in a line that also includes Janis Joplin, Joni Mitchell, Stevie Nicks, Lucinda Williams and Amy Winehouse. An English singer and songwriter, she was a founder of British folk rock who......
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11:12 AM Fri, Jan 07, 2011 | Permalink |
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Letterheady bills itself as "Interesting Letterhead Designs" -- 33 pages of actual leftover stationary, much of it from the famous, some of it just lovely. Below, the writing paper of Mickey Mouse in "The Mail Pilot", 1933; Charles Schulz, 1958;......
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1:18 AM Fri, Jan 07, 2011 | Permalink |
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The Snow Candy Recipe at grouprecipes: Ingredients * 1 cup real maple syrup * 1/4 cup salted butter * Fresh snow, vanilla ice cream, or shaved ice Optional: dill pickles and saltines How to make it * Heat the syrup......
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11:40 AM Thu, Jan 06, 2011 | Permalink |
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Update 2: Ted Williams on the Today Show with Meredith Viera and Matt Lauer Thursday morning: Media frenzy overwhelms homeless man with the 'golden voice'. Columbus Dispatch: NEW YORK - The big-time anticipation surrounding Ted Williams at LaGuardia Airport......
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1:19 AM Thu, Jan 06, 2011 | Permalink |
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By now you probably know that the downward spiral of Scottish musician Gerry Rafferty, a shy performer, ended yesterday. He has died from too much. Officially, he died at 63 of liver disease in Dorset, England. Back in the day......
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8:22 PM Mon, Jan 03, 2011 | Permalink |
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Wilson Football Factory Fascinating tour of the Wilson factory in Ada Ohio, where a team who've been doing it for decades make only footballs. Via Kottke, who says, "It's fascinating that every football used in the NFL for the......
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11:06 AM Sat, Jan 01, 2011 | Permalink |
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On Flickr, photos of the 1946 Tournament of Roses Parade illustrate a time when the parade was about flowers, sunshine and the girls next door. I recently purchased a box of what turned out to be more than 1,000......
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