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March 2011 Archives
10:26 AM Thu, Mar 31, 2011 | Permalink |
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Google's example of how +1 recommendations will appear in search results. There's some confusion over Google's launch of "the +1 button" Wednesday, perhaps fueled by the lead on this NYT story: Google Introduces +1, and Settles Charges Over Buzz......
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10:10 PM Wed, Mar 30, 2011 | Permalink |
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Kansas CityWilbert Harrison1959 More than 1,100 cities competed for the makeover, but the Official Google Blog announced today (Ultra high-speed broadband is coming to Kansas City, Kansas) that Kansas City, Kansas, has been chosen as the site for a......
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11:05 AM Tue, Mar 29, 2011 | Permalink |
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You might call this H.P. Lovecraft news "of neighborhood interest." MetaFilter | From Beyond:Providence Journal files H.P. Lovecraft's gravestone in Swan Point cemetery in Providence. Following the success of The Haunter of The Dark, the HP Lovecraft Literary Podcasts presents......
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6:00 PM Mon, Mar 28, 2011 | Permalink |
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Philip Greenspun started in, on his blog at Harvard Law's Berkman Center: How did the New York Times manage to spend $40 million on its pay wall? Google was financed with $25 million. The New York Times already had a......
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10:23 PM Sat, Mar 26, 2011 | Permalink |
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Damon Winter/NYTBob Herbert: "...for some time now I have grown eager to move beyond the constriction of the column format, with its rigid 800-word limit, in favor of broader and more versatile efforts." "In his last column for The......
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7:39 PM Thu, Mar 24, 2011 | Permalink |
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While Curt Finch of Inc.com was leaping for joy yesterday, I'm somewhat creeped out by this "opportunity": Beyond Googling Yourself: Greplin Greplin is a personal search engine that searches through your personal online data. It indexes a variety of websites......
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10:21 PM Tue, Mar 22, 2011 | Permalink |
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What is Consciousness? at Information is Beautiful. Choose up to 3 options. The choices are drawn from traditions and theories prominent enough to have names. There could be more choices, without names but fully describable. Shouldn't I get a badge?......
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6:52 PM Tue, Mar 22, 2011 | Permalink |
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In a kinder, gentler world, this type of licensing would be commonplace. It's good to see it at all here now. Licensing Agreement - Introduction to Data Communications Introduction to Data Communications since Revision 2.0 has the following licensing agreement.......
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12:38 PM Mon, Mar 21, 2011 | Permalink |
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Just a few good links you may have missed. Larry Page Wants to Return Google to Its Startup Roots Here's why I think this could be a Very Good Thing: Page was disappointed when critics glossed over the benefits of......
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7:46 AM Sun, Mar 20, 2011 | Permalink |
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Radio Collective -- a .org, not a .com -- brings together dozens of "high-quality streaming commercial-free radio stations that you can load into a convenient playlist." (The quote comes from a description of the baby project on MeFiProjects back......
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5:18 PM Fri, Mar 18, 2011 | Permalink |
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PAUL BUTTERFIELD - SAUSALITO 1973 Live at the Record Plant, Sausalito, CA; December 30, 1973. Very good radio broadcast; slight hiss. Plus bonus tracks. From the mid-'60s to the early '70s, the late harmonica player and vocalist, seen by some......
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6:42 PM Thu, Mar 17, 2011 | Permalink |
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The first workaround to the New York Times paywall announced earlier today has arisen: @freenyt. Since the 20-story per month limit won't apply to links coming from Facebook or Twitter, @freenyt intends to Tweet all NYT story links. (The RSS......
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12:31 PM Thu, Mar 17, 2011 | Permalink |
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The New York Times to Begin Charging for Web Use on March 28. The Times announces, Beginning March 28, visitors to NYTimes.com will be able to read 20 articles a month without paying, a limit that company executives said was......
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2:06 PM Tue, Mar 15, 2011 | Permalink |
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Pubs everywhere in Ireland have music on Saturday nights, and the only song more popular than Johnny Cash's "Ring of Fire" is the rousing "Black Velvet Band," a cautionary tale about "strong drink and pretty colleens": A sly lass pickpockets......
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9:31 AM Tue, Mar 15, 2011 | Permalink |
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As he has for several years, musician Marc Gunn of Celtic MP3s Music Magazine offers a new edition of 17 Celtic Bands that You Need to Hear on March 17th for St. Patrick's Day. ...I bet you, like me, realize......
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12:45 AM Mon, Mar 14, 2011 | Permalink |
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YouTube - To Ramona - Sinéad Lohan I'm on vacation.......
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12:43 PM Sat, Mar 12, 2011 | Permalink |
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Inside a 13-story office building in Yokohama, about 17 miles from Tokyo and 300 miles from the epicenter, during the earthquake Friday. Journalist Adario Strange wrote Aftershock: A New Yorker on the dark side of Japan (eyewitness account of......
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11:52 AM Fri, Mar 11, 2011 | Permalink |
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Monday morning before work I planted seeds of cool-weather crops. I had a domed plastic tray and some Jiffy pellets: Just add water and plant, about my speed for the first gardening of the year. I planted 3 rows......
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10:30 AM Fri, Mar 11, 2011 | Permalink |
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From the official Google Blog, Official Google Blog: Hide sites to find more of what you want ...find more of what you want on Google by blocking the sites you don't want to see. You've probably had the experience where......
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9:08 AM Thu, Mar 10, 2011 | Permalink |
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CULTURESTOPS.ORG Projo Arts Writer Bryan Rourke: Providence artists will pause to draw attention to cuts, Without culture, we'd all be monkeys fighting over piles of money, scalps and bragging rights. RHODE ISLAND DRAFT TOUR SCHEDULE: Here is the draft......
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10:20 AM Wed, Mar 09, 2011 | Permalink |
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Music is mathematical. Musician Michael John Blake took that literally and assigned numerical values to your basic 8-note major scale, and to chords. He then played "a musical interpretation of Pi to 31 decimal places," overlaying 10 different instruments: 3.1415926535897932384626433832795......
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7:47 PM Tue, Mar 08, 2011 | Permalink |
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Charlie Sheen is not filial, by Hao Leifeng in the English-language Global Times of Beijing, begins, "Actor Charlie Sheen is a classic example of the difference in Western and Eastern values and norms." Charlie Sheen is a classic example of......
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7:28 PM Mon, Mar 07, 2011 | Permalink |
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They're packaged as brunch recipes, but feel free to eat them for dinner. It's Mardi Gras, Fat Tuesday, after all, and Eggs Louis Armstrong, Cornbread Muffins and a Sazerac Cocktail may be your idea of a complete meal. (Scott Fitzgerald......
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7:20 PM Mon, Mar 07, 2011 | Permalink |
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In 2005, Food Editor Gail Ciampa previewed recipes from the then-new Arnaud's Restaurant Cookbook: Legendary Creole Cuisine by Kit Wohl with spectacular photos by David Spielman (Pelican Publishing $29.95). Bread Pudding, Meat Pies and Trout Amandine were part of Mardi......
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2:02 PM Sun, Mar 06, 2011 | Permalink |
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Photos / jr-art.net French photographer JR asked Israelis and Palestinians to make funny faces for this unique street gallery: " 'Face 2 Face', dubbed 'the largest illegal photo exhibition in the world', appropriated the border wall running the length......
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1:11 PM Sat, Mar 05, 2011 | Permalink |
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Yes, I know Cat Stevens is now Yusuf Islam, but he still sounds like Cat Stevens. YouTube - 'My People' By Yusuf Islam (song for Egypt), 4 minutes, 43 seconds. You can download the song for free at Amazon. Here's......
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1:55 AM Sat, Mar 05, 2011 | Permalink |
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The Faces - Boston Tea Party 1970 The Faces Boston 1970 [no label, 1CD] Live in Boston, MA; March 27, 1970. Very good soundboard Welcome to the weekend.......
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5:42 PM Fri, Mar 04, 2011 | Permalink |
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Now even Microsoft is trying to kill IE6: IE6 Countdown is a Microsoft site. 10 years ago a browser was born. Its name was Internet Explorer 6. Now that we're in 2011, in an era of modern web standards, it's......
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11:47 AM Thu, Mar 03, 2011 | Permalink |
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The Story of Stuff Project Street view: This Is Just The Start. The headline on Thomas Friedman's NYT missive from Egypt isn't illuminating; the essay is. Future historians will long puzzle over how the self-immolation of a Tunisian street......
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9:13 PM Tue, Mar 01, 2011 | Permalink |
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Led Zeppelin - Physically Present A high quality disc of "Physical Graffiti"-related material, including rehearsal room runthroughs, and some alternate mixes and takes from the studio. - Philip Cohen Back in 1975, when the album was released, Jim Miller wrote......
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