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4:40 PM Sat, Apr 30, 2011 | Permalink |
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"The strangest cartoon I've every seen," said my husband when we saw part of it on Sundance Channel earlier this week. Strange and wonderful enough that I ordered the DVD. "It's beyond words," said the sardonic 13-year-old who just watched......
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6:24 PM Thu, Apr 28, 2011 | Permalink |
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The female eagle who enthralled thousands on the live Norfolk Eagle Webcam was killed by an airplane landing at Norfolk airport Tuesday. WVEC in Norfolk reported, The plane strike happened sometime between 8:30 and 8:50 a.m. A US Airways regional......
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6:16 AM Wed, Apr 27, 2011 | Permalink |
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The Crossing - Abbey Road Studios is a large live webcam on the London crosswalk the Beatles made famous on the Abbey Road album cover. Every few minutes, someone leaps into the road beyond the crosswalk with a camera......
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11:45 AM Tue, Apr 26, 2011 | Permalink |
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Phoebe Snow dies at 58 NEW YORK (AP) -- Phoebe Snow, a bluesy singer, guitarist and songwriter whose "Poetry Man" was a defining hit of the 1970s but who then largely dropped out of the spotlight to care for......
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5:23 AM Tue, Apr 26, 2011 | Permalink |
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The headline was irresistible, cherrypicking the absurdly diverse and detailed life history of Joichi Ito, 44, aka Joi (pronounced Joey), a venture capitalist named yesterday to head the MIT Media Lab. Comparisons to RISD's president John Maeda, a Media Lab......
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3:22 PM Mon, Apr 25, 2011 | Permalink |
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The Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland has been, among other things, searching for the Higgs boson, the 'God particle,' which would explain how particles acquire mass. I am quite flattened with flu, so I'm just throwing some pieces of......
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12:02 PM Sat, Apr 23, 2011 | Permalink |
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Easier to play than to explain, Eier Wuppen (Egg Toss) is a free Flash game with a friendly owl helping beginners succeed. This feature makes it accessible to kids of many ages. From Jay is Games, Everything in this......
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9:18 AM Fri, Apr 22, 2011 | Permalink |
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A good chunk of "The Cloud" -- massive data storage and processing elsewhere on the Web rather than on your own servers, whole sites hosted there -- went down yesterday when portions of Amazon Web Services in Virginia collapsed.......
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7:18 AM Thu, Apr 21, 2011 | Permalink |
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JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR - PROVIDENCE 1974Live at the Palace Theatre, Providence, RI; December 13, 1974. Very good audience recording. Given that this is the Triddium (Good Friday-Easter weekend), fans might want to give this a spin. Some of you......
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5:59 PM Wed, Apr 20, 2011 | Permalink |
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Last week, we focused on the big picture (2011 Easter recipes from newspaper food sections). Today, with Part 2, it's time to weigh time and energy and subtler factors such as freshness, lightness and flavor: Recipes beyond the basics. Let's......
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12:21 PM Wed, Apr 20, 2011 | Permalink |
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Alasdair Allan and Pete Warden A visualization of iPhone location data atored in a file on the phone. I used to say, "Who knew Big Brother would be voluntary?" about Facebook. Now I should add, "Who knew Big Brother......
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12:10 AM Wed, Apr 20, 2011 | Permalink |
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Providence Journal / Sandor Bodo Michael Giroux and Dauna Noble pose in front of the future home of the new Fertile Underground grocery store on Westminster Street in Providence. Tech startups rely on venture capitalists forstartup capital; the rest......
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4:41 PM Tue, Apr 19, 2011 | Permalink |
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From the Official Google Blog today, Add your local knowledge to the map with Google Map Maker for the United States: Today we're opening the map of the United States in Google Map Maker for you to add your expert......
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10:16 PM Mon, Apr 18, 2011 | Permalink |
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CREAM Lost Farewell Masters Disc 1 - live at the Alameda County Coliseum Arena, Oakland, CA, October 4, 1968. Disc 2 - live at The Forum, Inglewood, CA, October 19, 1968; Sports Arena, San Diego, CA, October 20, 1968. Disc......
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11:46 AM Fri, Apr 15, 2011 | Permalink |
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A few early entries to help focus your imagination on next weekend's big feast. There'll be more new recipes as Easter nears. HAM: Easter Ham with Maple Mustard Glaze, from the Shoreline Times (Conn.) uses maple syrup, an orange, fancy......
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7:31 PM Wed, Apr 13, 2011 | Permalink |
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The Cooperative, a consumer co-operative headquartered in Manchester, England, hopes to reverse the decline in bee populations by giving away 300,000 packets of wildflower seeds and building the first Bee Roads, beginning in Yorkshire and aiming for two-lane strips......
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4:38 PM Tue, Apr 12, 2011 | Permalink |
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To celebrate the 150th anniversary of Italian unification, the Brown University Italian department is hosting a symposium this weekend headlined by Romano Prodi, former Prime Minister of Italy and former president of the European Commission, Italian silent films and a......
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11:02 AM Tue, Apr 12, 2011 | Permalink |
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It's perhaps premature, but Mashable attempts to extract from the early data the impact on visitor stats and pageviews of the New York Times paywall, which went into effect March 28: What Impact Has The New York Times Paywall Had......
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5:35 PM Mon, Apr 11, 2011 | Permalink |
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Clement Valla has RISD ties and a lovely page of photos where Google Earth went wrong: Bridges. At Lens Culture, he explains, "The images are screenshots from Google Earth with basic color adjustment. They are glitches that occur when......
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7:02 AM Mon, Apr 11, 2011 | Permalink |
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H.P. Lovecraft and his kitty. Writers and Kitties "Where literature has whiskers and pointy ears." Some call them muses. Writers photographed with their cats include Stephen King, Françoise Sagan, Joyce Carol Oates, W.H. Auden, Edward Gorey, William Carlos Williams,......
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8:43 AM Sun, Apr 10, 2011 | Permalink |
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"If you attack the free in free software, they may be thinking free as in beer, but the community hears free as in speech." -- Pamela Jones, 2003 interview Why Groklaw? Pamela Jones, the paralegal who started a law blog......
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11:10 PM Fri, Apr 08, 2011 | Permalink |
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DANKO, FJELD & ANDERSEN Italy 1994 [no label, 2CD] Live at Skitz & Roll, Bagno di Gavorrano, Italy, December 4, 1994. Excellent stereo soundboard. The new band was an equal partnership with three singer-songwriters including Eric Andersen who is well-known......
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4:00 PM Thu, Apr 07, 2011 | Permalink |
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Larry Friedlander, a man who loved live jazz so much he made a home for it, died suddenly Feb. 26 at 57. Larry left a wife and five children in Lincoln, including 15-year-old twin sons. Sunday, musicians whose music......
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8:00 AM Thu, Apr 07, 2011 | Permalink |
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Fritz Kahn (1888-1968), Man as Industrial Palace, Stuttgart, 1926. Chromolithograph. National Library of Medicine Nostrums and joy and the spectre of death dance, warm, warn and comfort in the Health for Sale: Posters from the William H. Helfand Collection......
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11:26 AM Tue, Apr 05, 2011 | Permalink |
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If your photogenic family lives in a classic old R.I. house with lots of potential and you have the money to restore the place, the PBS TV series This Old House wants to make you all stars. The press release......
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5:15 PM Mon, Apr 04, 2011 | Permalink |
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Venice, Italy, "stretching across 117 small islands in the marshy Venetian Lagoon along the Adriatic Sea in northeast Italy," may be one of the most amazing places in the world to live. Fans of Donna Leon's fictional detective Guido Brunetti......
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1:47 PM Sat, Apr 02, 2011 | Permalink |
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The Web remains the home world of engineers. Social bookmarking is full of code tips and comics, the concerns of young male geeks. Sometimes I want to look at pictures. Photoree is a photos search engine, a user-friendly front end......
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