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'Social Media is for Losers'

7:05 PM Wed, Jul 06, 2011 | | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

James Kotecki's love-hate song.......

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Lobster and Leonardo

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By Sheila Lennon    Email

Photo / Sheila Lennon July 3, 2011 My birthday is followed by the Fourth of July and then by vacation. It doesn't get better than this. If you're also fortunate enough to slow down, you might want to sink......

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2011 4th of July barbecue recipes from newspaper food sections

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By Sheila Lennon    Email

The Providence Journal/ Steve SzydlowskiThe Fourth in the Ocean State: Cod Paupiette, foreground, with watermelon and feta cheese salad in the background and grilled littlenecks with sun dried tomatos and honey butter from Pinelli's Cafe Chef Michael Moreno. Not pictured......

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'As long as something creates a reaction it's alive'

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'As long as something creates a reaction it's alive' simply says something we all understand:The power to move us is still cooking in the best work by artists living and long dead. That quote belongs to this artist: The Embroidered......

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Free new Google Web Fonts are a type fan's playground

11:10 PM Tue, Jun 28, 2011 | | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

Google Web Fonts: Yet another new launch, another hundred or so new fonts, eye candy for folks who like fonts and spec type: "Hundreds of free, open-source fonts optimized for the web." They offer the code, too, to embed in......

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Google quietly launches 'What do you love?' search portal

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By Sheila Lennon    Email

Overnight Google launched a new search page, titled only 'What do you love?' at a URL that's an acronym for those words, wdyl.com. On a faint pink background, you'll see, Having played with it a bit, I understand that it's......

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From seed to this

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By Sheila Lennon    Email

Photo / Sheila Lennon This patio tomato sits in a 12-inch pot on the lip of my deck. I've given it water and some invisible (to me) nutrients, light did the rest. The results seems far more than the......

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Links dump: Ticketmaster to get clue, belly-dancing billionairess bankrupt

8:40 AM Sun, Jun 26, 2011 | | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

Financial profiles of Patricia Kluge have been done more soberly elsewhere, but never so colorfully as the Daily Mail's Fall of the belly-dancer billionairess. That headline is hard to beat. Subhed "How ex-cloakroom girl and porn star who married America's......

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Roz Raskin and the Rice Cakes are a band worth catching

11:46 PM Thu, Jun 23, 2011 | | Write a comment
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We dropped into Nick-A-Nee's tonight, going out into a music world that was full of the really young. Roz Raskin and the Rice Cakes are originals, a really good band. On that ReverbNation link they're pigeonholed as "Alternative /......

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Free mp3s: Clarence Clemons, Springsteen

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By Sheila Lennon    Email

Tributes to Bruce Springsteen's sax sidekick Clarence Clemons, who died Saturday, June 18 in his Singer Island, Fla., condo after suffering a stroke the previous Sunday, pour in. The New Yorker's editor, David Remnick, honors him with Bloodbrother: Clarence Clemons,......

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