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February 2011 Archives
1:49 AM Mon, Feb 28, 2011 | Permalink |
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The woman I was most curious about at 16 has died. She was Bob Dylan's girlfriend, Suze Rotolo, photographed for The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan walking with him on snowy Jones Street in Greenwich Village in 1963. By that summer,......
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10:08 AM Sun, Feb 27, 2011 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
I'm as baffled as anyone else by the ways in which the world is suddenly changing. In America, the former middle class seems to be battling to impoverish itself. Viral tweet of the week: Why is a 3% tax increase......
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8:31 PM Fri, Feb 25, 2011 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
Updated 8:30 p.m. Friday My colleague Karen Ziner visited the Flower Show: They've put their heart into this year's R.I. Flower & Garden Show So did projo gardenblogger Pat Feinstein: A visit to the Flower Show 10:21 p.m. Thursday......
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7:53 AM Wed, Feb 23, 2011 | Permalink |
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The Top 10 Poets: Who are the Greatest? Dean Rader, Professor of English at the University of San Francisco and a poet, is whipping up a class discussion at SF Gate (Chronicle). He tops the post with images of Emily......
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2:12 PM Mon, Feb 21, 2011 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
First Listen: Lucinda Williams, 'Blessed' at NPR: Stand back and look at Lucinda Williams' songwriting catalog, and you'll see themes that keep coming back: love, unrequited love, heartbreak, passion, anger-fueled passion -- you get the idea. But with Blessed, her......
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11:15 AM Sun, Feb 20, 2011 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
In these days of terse tweets and status updates, I find myself missing the in-depth stories, literary journalism. Here are a few good ones I've found. Beyond judgment: At St. Paul 'wet house,' liquor can be their life -- and......
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8:42 AM Sun, Feb 20, 2011 | Permalink |
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The Afterlife by marcoliv The embed is from Will Hermes at Rolling Stone: "The narrative wit is sharp on the second track from Paul Simon's forthcoming So Beautiful or So What..." It's due out April 12.......
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1:05 PM Sat, Feb 19, 2011 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
Constantin Brancusi's 135th Birthday. Courtesy of ARS, NY / ADAGP, Paris.......
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10:59 PM Fri, Feb 18, 2011 | Permalink |
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Gartho, left. There's an unconfirmed report tonight that Buddy has been adopted. PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The Providence Animal Rescue League sent out a plea today to animal lovers: Last week 76 animals were dropped off at the shelter --......
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9:43 AM Fri, Feb 18, 2011 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
NEIL YOUNG Bakersfield 1973 [no label, 2CD] Live at the Civic Auditorium, Bakersfield, CA; March 11, 1973. Very good audience recording. While audience recordings of the show had previously circulated among fans, this version came from a first generation cassette......
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9:23 AM Thu, Feb 17, 2011 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
Nonprofit arts group Providence Inner City Arts plans to launch its new Roots Café in the former Black Rep space at 276 Westminster Street just before Mardi Gras, on Sunday, March 6, with a fundraiser featuring Louisiana band Leroy Thomas......
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12:51 PM Wed, Feb 16, 2011 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
Google's new Chrome extension lets users choose which low-quality sites to block, and tells Google what they are; this collective filtering should improve search results for everyone. (The PBS link explains the context.) Google knows it's been gamed by......
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10:47 AM Tue, Feb 15, 2011 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
Wikipedia: Fir0002/FlagstaffotosThe Rhode Island Planting Calendar for Fruits and Vegetables, published by the URI Master Gardener Association, says today, Feb. 15, is the first day you may safely plant broccoli seeds indoors. Purdue University in Indiana has a nice pdf......
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12:05 PM Mon, Feb 14, 2011 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
At WebUrbanist, a nostalgic collection of Egyptian travel posters from a simpler time: In De Nile: Revisiting Vintage Egypt Travel Posters Lovely romantic images, many juxtaposing camels and aircraft, which makes sense since they're often airline advertising.......
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12:50 PM Sun, Feb 13, 2011 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
"Cosmology (from Greek κοσμολογία - κόσμος-, kosmos, "universe"; and -λογία, -logia-, "study") is the study and understanding of existence in its totality, encompassing the infinite and eternal, and the origins and evolution of the cosmos, galaxies, stars, planets, earth,......
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12:04 AM Fri, Feb 11, 2011 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
The New London Day - Hot wieners: a Rhode Island delicacy To these reporters from faraway New London, Conn. -- about 15 miles from the R.I. border at Westerly -- we Rhode Islanders are an exotic species with strange......
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3:07 PM Wed, Feb 09, 2011 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
Photos by Nick Carr | Click to enlarge this one. The Coolest Locksmith Shop in New York City is at Nick Carr's Scouting New York blog. Carr scouts movie locations, and he found this longtime locksmith shop in Greenwich......
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10:35 AM Tue, Feb 08, 2011 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
Good stories that I snagged to read later, and did. How 'The Fridge' lost his way: ESPN visits William "Refrigerator" Perry at 48. It's not a happy story. ...His day consists of watching television and eating three or four meals......
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12:31 AM Mon, Feb 07, 2011 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
BBC Newsnight's economics editor: Paul Mason: Twenty reasons why it's kicking off everywhere We've had revolution in Tunisia, Egypt's Mubarak is teetering; in Yemen, Jordan and Syria suddenly protests have appeared. In Ireland young techno-savvy professionals are agitating for a......
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9:51 AM Sun, Feb 06, 2011 | Permalink |
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This Patriots fan woke on Super Bowl Sunday with the thought, "At least there's no chance of disappointment today." We can have a low key family party, classic chili and salad and little sandwiches, gingerbread and whipped cream. No tension.......
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4:31 PM Fri, Feb 04, 2011 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
The live streaming EagleCam at the Norfolk, Va., Botanical Garden is up and running, the first egg of 2011 having been laid yesterday. First Egg!: The bald eagles at the Norfolk Botanical Garden have an egg. The first egg......
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7:27 AM Fri, Feb 04, 2011 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
Everybody needs disposable email addresses. Maybe you want one that sounds solid and businesslike, and other, more anonymous ones, for political or medical forums. When you're on the hunt, you may need to register at sites that require it......
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4:49 PM Wed, Feb 02, 2011 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel photo Refried Bean Nachos Even Patriots fans, with two weeks to get past their team's shocking meltdown in the playoffs, can probably summon the energy for a farewell to football, one last party. Even if they're......
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11:18 AM Wed, Feb 02, 2011 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
Egyptian Resources, a "Crisis Response" from google.org (Technology-Driven Philanthropy).......
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9:36 AM Wed, Feb 02, 2011 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
The King's Speech: good movie, very bad history at Slate: Churchill Didn't Say That The King's Speech is riddled with gross falsifications of history. By Christopher Hitchens The King's Speech is an extremely well-made film with a seductive human interest......
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12:19 AM Tue, Feb 01, 2011 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
cl1p.net - The internet clipboard: Copy and paste between computers in three easy steps. 1 Enter a URL that starts with http://cl1p.net. example: http://cl1p.net/engendrure/ 2 Paste in anything you want. Some text, links, etc. Click 'Save' when done. 3 On......
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