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The mommyblogger racket

12:16 PM Mon, Apr 27, 2009 | | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

I'm Calling Out The Carpetbagging Mommybloggers. Erin Kotecki Vest, blogging as Queen of Spain names no names: You scream about your power and you yell about your influence and you position yourself in articles and demand attention, but there's no......

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Fact-based info about swine flu

12:36 AM Mon, Apr 27, 2009 | | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

Questions & Answers Swine Influenza and You U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) | The current U.S. case count. Later: The CDC has created a Swine Flu page. The CDC emergency Twitter account is issuing fact-based reports about......

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Big Sunday links dump

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By Sheila Lennon    Email

Karen Cunningham for The New York Times Michelle Rosen and David Zornitsky: "On April 5, the couple was escorted by their three boys down an aisle lined with lollipop trees at Dylan's Candy Bar in New York. The bride......

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The alphabet found on Google Maps

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By Sheila Lennon    Email

The letter Q Melbourne, Australia, designer Rhett Dashwood: Over the course of several months beginning October 2008 to April 2009 I've spent some of my spare time between commercial projects searching Google Maps hoping to discover land formations or......

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The neighborhood printer? Book Machine prints books on demand

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By Sheila Lennon    Email

Espresso Book Machine There is one at The Library of Alexandria, in Alexandria, Egypt, that prints books in Arabic; one at the Internet Archive in San Francisco, and one launched yesterday in London's Blackwell's bookstore. Guardian (Revolutionary Espresso Book......

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Recipe: African goat stew

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By Sheila Lennon    Email

You can treat goat like stew meat and cook it with carrots and onions, but I prefer it African-style, with pumpkin. African Goat Stew Recipe from Library of Congress American Memory project. A note about goat: We refused to buy......

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Yahoo closing free Web host GeoCities, where pre-commercial homepages still live

11:18 AM Fri, Apr 24, 2009 | | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

Nail in coffin: Yahoo! announced at GeoCities Help, GeoCities will close later this year. Yahoo! GeoCities: Get a free web site with easy-to-use site building tools contradicts itself. GeoCities Help: GeoCities will close later this year....we encourage anyone interested in......

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Former Rocky Mountain News staffers part ways with first backers

7:38 PM Thu, Apr 23, 2009 | | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

InDenverTimes backers, staff part ways. The Denver Post: Financial backers of InDenver Times and many of its unpaid employees -- former staff members of the Rocky Mountain News -- are parting ways after a meeting Wednesday night. Handoff time. I......

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Inhalable chocolate might appeal to sylphs and wraiths

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By Sheila Lennon    Email

My computer is back, but dying. The trouble started when I heard a loud "ping" inside the case, as though something metallic had hit the side of it. Turns out, it was a capacitor shooting off the motherboard. I've ordered......

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Google Profile lets you affect what comes up when you're Googled

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By Sheila Lennon    Email

Official Google Blog: Search for "me" on Google To give you greater control over what people find when they search for your name, we've begun to show Google profile results at the bottom of U.S. name-query search pages. These results......

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