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February 8, 2012
Uniiverse: not a social network (Craigslist with references?)
Uniiverse has launched, and it's not a social network. It does use a social layer to link people offering and seeking goods and services and especially experiences, producing something like Craigslist with references. TechCrunch (With Funding In Tow, Uniiverse Launches...
February 8, 2012 3:29 am
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February 3, 2012
Super Bowl 2012 recipes from newspaper food sections
Patrick Connolly Maine lobster and crab nachos. NYC Chef Patrick Connolly -- brother of Patriots offensive lineman Dan Connolly -- has done New England proud with his Maine lobster and crab nachos. We've scoured the nation's food section Web...
February 3, 2012 9:37 am
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February 1, 2012
Recipe smackdown: NYC vs. Boston
Ken Oringer makes Carne Asada Tacos We'll be scooping up recipes from the nation's newspaper food sections over the next few days, but The New York Daily News came out early with a recipe smackdown: "Big game food rivalry:...
February 1, 2012 8:50 am
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January 31, 2012
This long, empty week for football fans has a storied history
For fans, the wait is excruciating, the hype unrelenting. For the players, maintaining an edge must be exhausting, and some over the years, have fallen over it. For the teams' hometown journalists, it's the junket of their lives. In 1974,...
January 31, 2012 7:14 am
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January 30, 2012
Our favorite Super Bowl recipes
Our family has gathered at my house for every Patriots game since Drew Bledsoe was quarterback. We're hardcore football fans who troll through several courses, nervously nibbling as we root. But the late start of Sunday's Super Bowl -- 6:30...
January 30, 2012 2:38 pm
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January 29, 2012
3 motorcycle stories: Hells Angels, love, life, death and Harley
Bill Ray/TIME & LIFE Pictures "Buzzard and an old lady on a California freeway, 1965." Hell's Angels on Harleys: From LIFE Magazine, In early 1965, LIFE photographer Bill Ray and writer Joe Bride spent several weeks with a gang...
January 29, 2012 11:30 am
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January 24, 2012
Mp3s: Bob Dylan and Etta James, Providence, 1986
BOB DYLAN AND ETTA JAMES Providence 1986 Live at the Marriott Hotel, Providence, RI; July 10, 1986. Very good to excellent soundboard. This is an after-hours jam session with Bob Dylan and Etta James and her band. The Bob...
January 24, 2012 1:18 am
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January 22, 2012
Napoleonland theme park proposed near Paris would refight Waterloo daily
French plan 'Napoleonland' theme park which will stage daily reenactments of Battles of Waterloo and Trafalgar, reports the U.K. Daily Mail. The Battle of Waterloo, which put an end to Napoleon's rule in France, is expected to be recreated on...
January 22, 2012 11:44 am
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January 18, 2012
Internet blackout today to warn off Web censors
This is what happens when you make the Internet mad. Web Strike Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Wikipedia Blackout: An #altwiki Band-Aid Electronic Frontier Foundation Statement by (former) Sen. Chris Dodd, Chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of...
January 18, 2012 9:40 am
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January 13, 2012
R.I.'s school prayer banner: United we stand, divided we can be nasty
Robbie Robertson, "When The Night Was Young""...The sign reads, "God bless America, guns and ammo" / I'm not sure that's what it means." Judge Ronald R. Lagueux's 40-page decision that ordered the removal of the school prayer banner in...
January 13, 2012 8:54 am
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