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YouTube becomes obit guestbook for Doors' Manzarek

rayjim.jpg The YouTube video comments of this 12 1/2-minute performance in Copenhagen in 1968 have become a de facto guest book for The Doors' late keyboard player Ray Manzarek, who died of bile duct cancer at the RoMed Clinic in...

May 22, 2013 10:28 am
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Photo: Dylan Night in Providence

zimmermen.jpg Sheila LennonBruce McCrae (aka Rudy Cheeks) plays harmonica with The Zimmermen at the annual Bob Dylan Revival Friday night at Patrick's Pub in Providence. From left, Vincent Pasternak, Rick Bellaire, McCrae, Nick DiBiasio, Fred Wilkes and Richard Sage. Click the...

May 18, 2013 11:53 am
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Take an inch, a mile or a Rhode Island

risite.jpg It was just a matter of time before someone made a site like How Many Rhode Islands? Dan Bertwell, "a Rhode Island enthusiast," finally did it. On the voracious Internet, where no fact is too small to deserve its own...

May 17, 2013 9:36 am
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Bob Dylan Night Friday at Patrick's Pub

dylannight_620.jpg The right-brain side of the annual Dylan Night invitation to those on the mailing list Providence's annual Bob Dylan night happens at Patrick's Pub, 381 Smith St., Fri. May 17, starting at 7 p.m. $8. (401) 808-0184. This long-running gig...

May 15, 2013 7:53 am
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A year after I launch Time Lapse, Google and Time launch Timelapse

VILLAGE_BLACKSMITH_SHOP_370.jpg I wuz robbed!!! May 2013: Search Engine Land: Google & Time Inc. Launch Timelapse: See How Any Part Of The World Has Changed Over Time Timelapse Watch the world change over the course of nearly three decades of satellite photography...

May 10, 2013 9:48 am
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Haven Bros. Diner uses its backup truck

havenbros.jpg Peter PhippsHaven Bros. backup truckWe saw a different Haven Bros. Diner truck outside City Hall this week, more a self-contained food truck than a diner on wheels. Cassandra Giusti, speaking for her husband, Haven Bros. owner Ivan Giusti, said the...

May 9, 2013 2:40 pm
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Passing links: Bad digs, obit worth dying for, half cat, Mars vols

google-street-view-cat2_crop.jpg New Cat Species Found on Google Street View, pictured at right. The perils of stitching when one object is moving. THE WORST ROOM: "A blog about trying to find affordable housing in New York City." You can spend a...

May 8, 2013 10:15 pm
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25 food trucks on our list, but they aren't all piping up

Providence Food Trucks is the easy way to see the full version of the Providence Food Trucks Twitter feed on the sidebar at right. You can also view it at Twitter (it's a Twitter list), as Food Trucks, Road food...

May 8, 2013 10:00 am
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Former Boston Phoenix staffers start Webzine

The Media_debutissue_370.jpg It looks like a newspaper, a high school newspaper. It 's called "The Media" and had they not used a Roman interpretation of the letter "U" I wouldn't have been able to show it to you. The new Web weekly,...

May 3, 2013 9:55 am
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The Web turns 30 today -- first page revived

The World Wide Web project_20130430-163553.jpg The very first Web page ever has been revived for the anniversary. The links all work, as well. Here's the CERN blog post about it. (Yes, the Web comes from the same folks who brought us the Large Hadron Collider.)...

April 30, 2013 4:39 pm
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