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May 2011 Archives
3:37 AM Sun, May 29, 2011 | Permalink |
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Sport Fisher (Dave Hansen) does the vocals on this clip of "It's a Complex World" at the Young Adults reunion Saturday night at The Met in Pawtucket. Rudy Cheeks is on sax, Jim Smith on guitar, Marty Ballou on......
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9:22 AM Thu, May 26, 2011 | Permalink |
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Play the movie while looking at the small white speck in the center of the ring. At first, the ring is motionless and it's easy to tell that the dots are changing color. When the ring begins to rotate,......
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3:42 PM Tue, May 24, 2011 | Permalink |
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Fawn Rescue In a nutshell: On the morning of May 18th 2011 my wife noticed a deer in our yard that appeared to be franticly looking for something in the rocks that form a wall on property line in......
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9:06 AM Sun, May 22, 2011 | Permalink |
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Oct. 8, 1925 Archival photos of the Globe's strangely webpage-like Newspaper Row storefront, 1912-1963: At Beta Boston, the Globe's Web staff demos include the first eerie precursor of a news homepage: Handwritten headlines on huge sheets of newsprint flanking......
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11:13 PM Thu, May 19, 2011 | Permalink |
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Saigon Sound System / APBob Dylan plays Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, April 10, 2011. Bob Dylan turns 70 next Tuesday, May 24, and two local long-running groups that celebrate his birthday will try to make it special. I'm......
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12:11 PM Mon, May 16, 2011 | Permalink |
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A travel story in Saturday's Daily Telegraph of London headlined, Providence, Rhode Island: New England's coolest city begins, "Providence, Rhode Island, is the coolest city in New England. I would even put it on the shortlist of coolest small cities......
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10:00 PM Sun, May 15, 2011 | Permalink |
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I've been coding all weekend, and just looked up to see this photo, Gutzon Borglum's model of Mt. Rushmore at Wikpedia, (via kottke). "Upon Gutzon Borglum's death in March 1941, his son Lincoln Borglum took over construction. Although the initial......
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10:39 AM Fri, May 13, 2011 | Permalink |
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What follows is a story told in Tweets, manually dragged to a page on Storify, which can display and permits you to embed isolated pieces of "Web content" you collect: Man tracks stolen laptop hundreds of miles away, calls thief......
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12:20 AM Fri, May 13, 2011 | Permalink |
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This is the only review I could find of Alice Cooper's Wednesday night's performance of a holographic concert in London. Neither he nor his band were actually present, but they appeared and played as... apparitions. The bit of fan......
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9:57 AM Thu, May 12, 2011 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
There's a Subaru commercial now that kept catching my ear, a streetworn honey vibrato oozing, "Aw yes this is powerful stuff..." The voice belongs to San Francisco musician Sean Hayes. YouTube - Sean Hayes - "Powerful Stuff" from the album......
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11:24 AM Wed, May 11, 2011 | Permalink |
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Today is the 30th anniversary of Bob Marley's death. Tonight would be a good time to listen to BOB MARLEY - WISCONSIN 1979. Live at the Dane County Coliseum, Madison, Wisconsin; November 11, 1979. Very good soundboard. Late Night with......
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10:35 AM Tue, May 10, 2011 | Permalink |
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Microsoft has agreed to purchase ($8.5bn) the "voice over Internet" pioneer Skype, which boomed by offering free calls between Skype addresses and profits from charging for Skype-to-phone services. There's some mourning. Next Post May 10, 2011 Skype Out by NYC......
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5:45 AM Mon, May 09, 2011 | Permalink |
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Obama on bin Laden: The full "60 Minutes" interview, with transcript.......
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6:41 AM Sun, May 08, 2011 | Permalink |
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Providence Journal photo Click on the image above to bring up the large version. Right-click that and save it to your hard drive. Print as is or insert it into a greeting-card template. If you want a vertical, rotate......
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8:37 AM Fri, May 06, 2011 | Permalink |
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The Wall Street Journal yesterday launched SafeHouse: Securely share information with the Wall Street Journal, a website modeled after WikiLeaks ("We help you safely get the truth out."). The Atlantic has the main story, The Wall Street Journal Launches......
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2:41 PM Thu, May 05, 2011 | Permalink |
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Conor Friedersdorf, associate editor of The Atlantic, feeds the need for good reads with Nearly 100 Fantastic Pieces of Journalism: Throughout 2010, I kept my own running list of exceptional nonfiction for the Best of Journalism newsletter I publish. The......
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7:08 PM Wed, May 04, 2011 | Permalink |
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Do you feel you don't fit old labels such as liberal or conservative, or feel you're mostly a blend of both? For a new label, take the new quiz:Where Do You Fit? 2011 Pew Research Political Typology Quiz. Click on......
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9:05 PM Tue, May 03, 2011 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
Last Sunday Dave Hansen, Dave Tanury, Thom Enright, Marty Ballou, Mark Taber, Ricky Couto and Duke Robillard played at The (new new) Met on Main St. in Pawtucket. Here's Chuck Berry's "Nadine": YouTube - Dave "Sport Fisher" Hansen with Duke......
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7:16 PM Mon, May 02, 2011 | Permalink |
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If, like me, you've absorbed too many words today, maybe these will soothe your other sides: THE CLASH, TOOTS AND THE MAYTALS, JIMMY CLIFF - JAMAICA 1982 The three-day Jamaica World Music Festival (Nov 25-27) in 1982 featLive at the......
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7:14 AM Sun, May 01, 2011 | Permalink |
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With Donald Trump in attendance as the guest of The Washington Post, President Obama's speech at the White House Correspondents' Dinner Saturday night opened with video that flashed his long-form Hawaii birth certificate between clips of sports triumphs to the......
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