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11 fans greet Colts on return to Indy

12:05 PM Tue, Feb 09, 2010 | | Comments (2)
By Sheila Lennon    Email

The Indianapolis Star reports (A few fans brave cold to welcome Colts), The end of the Indianapolis Colts' season came down to 11 people. Not the 11 players on the field during the Super Bowl, but the 11 who showed......

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The Who at the Super Bowl: Video in 2 parts

12:29 PM Mon, Feb 08, 2010 | | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6Io05fTLSg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCqgtb3Nby4 They seemed to get better after they warmed up, like the Saints.......

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1906 San Francisco traffic video, shot from the front of a streetcar

4:07 PM Sat, Feb 06, 2010 | | Comments (1)
By Sheila Lennon    Email

San Francisco in 1906. My brother sent a link to this historical footage, writing, "Things like this fascinate me." Me too. It's Market Street in San Francisco as filmed from the front of a streetcar a few days before......

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Wild music, public art: Birds on electric guitar

10:42 PM Thu, Feb 04, 2010 | | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

40 wild birds play a Gibson Les Paul guitar. Here's the installation, which the BBC thinks is "very Marcel Duchamp, the French artist who started the conceptual art ball rolling nearly a hundred years ago. " YouTube - Céleste Boursier-Mougenot......

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Another reason to dislike the Colts: Bad Super Bowl party food

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By Sheila Lennon    Email

Breaded and deep-fried pork tenderloin sandwich is a Hoosier specialty. For Patriots fans, it's a lackluster Super Bowl. The best we can do is root for the Saints. But while oyster po' boys aren't our idea of easy munchies,......

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'State of the Internet': Who's here, how fast

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By Sheila Lennon    Email

Key statistic: U.S. Internet speeds are really slow. The State of the Internet. from Focus Research. Data is presented with colorful, easy-to-digest graphics. Here we take a look at exactly who is using the Internet the most, how they......

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Live TV Web cam on a nesting Va. bald eagle, egg

eagle.jpg 5:02 PM Tue, Feb 02, 2010 | | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

Eagle Cam by WVEC.com documents bald eagles nesting at the Norfolk, Va. Botanical Garden. First egg laid Sunday, Jan. 31 It's quite amazing, TV-quality. When I first came on it, the lens was zoomed up close; it has since pulled......

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Drawing a woman from the inside out

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By Sheila Lennon    Email

It's gotten 20 million pageviews and more than 15,000 comments since it was posted in 2005 to a Russian Flash drawing site. How to "draw a woman from the inside out" starts with a skeleton: You see -- and can......

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Digital painting by an artist whose day job is game developer

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By Sheila Lennon    Email

Daniel Lieske, The Journey Begins, 2006. (enlarge). "The image was created in 2006 for the 19th CG Challenge 'The Journey Begins' on CGSociety.org and it eventually won the second prize in this competition," Lieske write on a page entirely......

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Transcript and video of Obama's Q&A with House GOP members

12:11 AM Sat, Jan 30, 2010 | | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

President Obama's Speech at the House Republican retreat in Baltimore.: Bigger video. If you'd rather read it, there's a transcript at WaPo. And a story: Obama talks to House Republicans in rare, televised debate in Baltimore. Our government talks......

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