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11:10 AM Tue, Mar 31, 2009 | Permalink |
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David Bergman President Bush looking over at President-Elect Obama before the transfer of power. This entry about David Bergman's zoomable Gigapan photo of the inauguration has consistently been one of the most popular search results on this blog, and......
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10:10 PM Mon, Mar 30, 2009 | Permalink |
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Bob Dylan.com -- the homepage -- offers a free mp3 download of Beyond Here Lies Nothin' from his new album, Together Through Life. Monday and Tuesday only, says MeFi and others. Less, say a few more. It's there now. May......
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10:30 AM Mon, Mar 30, 2009 | Permalink |
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Iht.com is no more. The New York Times Global Edition uses the design of the U.S. home page but folds together reporting from its foreign bureaus and the International Herald Tribune, based in Paris. Meanwhile, at ValleyWag, Ryan Tate files......
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10:25 AM Sun, Mar 29, 2009 | Permalink |
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I use Thunderbird, Mozilla's Firefox companion, as a mail client. I've been having some hardware issues lately -- the kind that have the fan coming on loudly and usually end in a power-supply replacement -- and late last night I......
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12:12 PM Sat, Mar 28, 2009 | Permalink |
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Shouldn't the words fall after they're read? Imagedump: "a small collection of the best, funniest or coolest images" of each month. From March, above and at right. MeFi credits "a 19-year-old Dutch kid named Marco Kuiper" and commenters add......
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10:33 PM Thu, Mar 26, 2009 | Permalink |
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The Rite of Spring Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3. Chicago's Joffrey Ballet in 1987 recreated Nijinsky's original 1913 choreography of Stravinsky's Le Sacre du printemps, which occasioned a riot at its Paris premiere. (Yes, there used......
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12:53 PM Thu, Mar 26, 2009 | Permalink |
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Google's Gmail now lets you pull back emails sent in error -- but you only get five second to do it. Is that long enough for remorse to set it? Probably not, but it might help if you sent a......
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11:41 AM Thu, Mar 26, 2009 | Permalink |
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Open For Questions. Obama's Online Town Hall is streaming live now at that link. 12:53 p.m. It just ended.......
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10:20 AM Thu, Mar 26, 2009 | Permalink |
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NASA image of the first photo of earh from the moon in 1966. Click to see it about double this size. NASA's early lunar images, in a new light - Pictures from the mid-1960s Lunar Orbiter program lay forgotten......
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11:06 AM Wed, Mar 25, 2009 | Permalink |
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Photo by Frankie Elliott Hodges Willis Park, Bainbridge, Ga. My colleague Donita Naylor wrote recently about Bainbridge, Ga., which was about to launch its annual Riverside Artsfest: Each year, the festival celebrates a different state. Last year it was......
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11:29 PM Mon, Mar 23, 2009 | Permalink |
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The Belfast Zoo captions this photo, "Women looking after elephants during World War II." They had me at the headline, but the story's not bad, if true. BBC: Who gave a home to elephant Sheila? The search is on......
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12:46 PM Sun, Mar 22, 2009 | Permalink |
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Madoff Employee Breaks Silence. By Lucinda Franks at The Daily Beast. No Return to Normal: Why the economic crisis, and its solution, are bigger than you think. By James K. Galbraith at Washington Monthly. via Ft. Boise Making Sense of......
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9:18 AM Sun, Mar 22, 2009 | Permalink |
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The Providence Journal / Glenn Osmundson Applicants wait to be interviewed for jobs at The Foxy Lady "gentlemen's club" in Providence yesterday. Scores check out Foxy Lady jobs by John Hill of The Providence Journal: ...The Chalkstone Avenue strip......
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12:45 PM Sat, Mar 21, 2009 | Permalink |
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Secretary Salazar Releases U.S. State of the Birds Report March 20, 2009 Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar released the first ever comprehensive report on bird populations in the United States, showing that nearly a third of the nation's......
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4:36 AM Sat, Mar 21, 2009 | Permalink |
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Garden plan released by the White House. The unlabeled box at right is to be raised beds. There's joy in the gardensphere over Michelle Obama's groundbreaking of the White House Garden: Foodies Celebrate White House Veggie Garden. The dream......
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3:40 AM Fri, Mar 20, 2009 | Permalink |
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Photo by Joe Landry I'd like to thank my big fuzzy sweater for allowing me to blog at 3 a.m. in winter. The very first Subterranean Homepage News blog entry, on a handmade html page, published March 20, 2002.......
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8:52 PM Thu, Mar 19, 2009 | Permalink |
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Twouble With Twitters "Fantastic twitter parody," Ernesto Burden wrotes of this cartoon from current.tv. It's a promo for their animated SuperNews!, whose season premiere is Friday at 10. Current is not easy to find here, though.......
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6:00 AM Thu, Mar 19, 2009 | Permalink |
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The late Luciano Pavarotti, Ave Maria by Schubert, Nov. 23, 2006. Excellent sound quality for YouTube.......
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4:29 PM Wed, Mar 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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Updated: 4:29 p.m.I just spoke with Gail Ciampa, whose recipe below originally called for draining the ricotta overnight, asking, "What if I just find this recipe the day I want to make them?" She said that fresh ricotta, bought in......
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12:45 AM Wed, Mar 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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First Twitter Hardcover Published James Bridle of London has collected two years worth of Twitter posts in a hardcover book via the print-on-demand service, Lulu. "My life in Tweets" is a sleek hardback which permanently preserves a ephemeral set......
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3:08 AM Tue, Mar 17, 2009 | Permalink |
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In previous years, this blog has tackled St. Patrick's day with Timely recipe: Corned beef and cabbage and Truly Irish 'cooking': Toast and tea, both from 2008; Being Irish: feasting, music and one fiery female (2007); 'A Danny Boy for......
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2:47 AM Tue, Mar 17, 2009 | Permalink |
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I've updated the original post about the March 2 rescue of Nick Schuyler with the full Coast Guard report provided to The Associated Press Monday under a Freedom of Information Act request. (pdf) The survivor statement is on Page 21.......
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5:17 PM Mon, Mar 16, 2009 | Permalink |
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Dylan Thomas wrote, "After the first death, there is no other." That's not true. Watching these announcements at paper after paper doesn't get easier. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer will become a "standalone digital news and information business" tomorrow, writes Executive......
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9:07 AM Sun, Mar 15, 2009 | Permalink |
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Soundfix: Ethiopiques 21: Ethiopian Song Label: Buda Musique Here it is. This is it. The most achingly beautiful record of 2006. And what a story! Born in 1923 into a learned Ethiopian family, Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou was educated in Switzerland......
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10:00 PM Fri, Mar 13, 2009 | Permalink |
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MinnPost - Investigative reporter Seymour Hersh describes 'executive assassination ring' (UPI Photo/Mohammad Kheirkhah) Two Indian men, with their faces smeared with colored powder, pose for a photograph after celebrating the Hindu festival of Holi, or Festival of colors, in......
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3:14 AM Fri, Mar 13, 2009 | Permalink |
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Photo by Elle Amara and her son Jocko (John W. III) Holmes at Amara's Restaurant, which they co-owned, sometime in the 1980s. Jocko Holmes, 49, son of the late Amara Holmes and co-owner with his mother of Amara's Restaurant......
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9:37 PM Thu, Mar 12, 2009 | Permalink |
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What my browser framed of the NEWScan display of selected newspaper front pages. Newspapers the world over email a pdf of the front page as it goes to press each day to The Newseum, which today offers 757 front......
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10:13 AM Thu, Mar 12, 2009 | Permalink |
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Quick link to a good story at Wired: The Untold Story of the World's Biggest Diamond Heist. It's the tale, which might be true, of mastermind Leonardo Notarbartolo as told to Joshua Davis, who visited Notarbartolo at a Belgian prison.......
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11:58 AM Wed, Mar 11, 2009 | Permalink |
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Pattie Maes, director of the MIT Media Lab's Fluid Interfaces Group, demonstrates the work of student Pranav Mistry at the TED conference last month in Long Beach, California. 08:42.. Its name is more catchy than accurate, but the technology......
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11:28 PM Tue, Mar 10, 2009 | Permalink |
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I am mesmerized by Twitterfall. This is what it must be like to be a government eavesdropper. Twitterfall is a way of viewing the latest 'tweets' of upcoming trends and custom searches on the micro-blogging site Twitter. Updates fall from......
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10:59 AM Tue, Mar 10, 2009 | Permalink |
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Nova Spivack rattled the blogosphere Saturday with Wolfram Alpha is Coming -- and It Could be as Important as Google. He has been allowed to peek at Wolfram Alpha, a new way to find answers to factual questions -- a......
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1:34 AM Mon, Mar 09, 2009 | Permalink |
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Breathtaking and Inspiring Pieces of Public Art at Web Urbanist is a good way to slide gently into Monday. These aren't statues of generals on horses. Puppy, the topiary dog made from live flowers, irrigated from within, is by Jeff......
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12:47 PM Sun, Mar 08, 2009 | Permalink |
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Daylight Savings Time went back into effect overnight. "Spring ahead" -- if your clock says 1, change it to 2. I'm seeing search requests land on this post at last year's, Daylight savings time starts Sunday: How to tell your......
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3:45 AM Sun, Mar 08, 2009 | Permalink |
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Rainbow cake The recipe and step by step photos are at Omnomicon. This showed up on the always-vibrant colour lovers blog. White space: Paris hosts new exhibition of nothing: In nine empty rooms, 'most radical show ever seen'......
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1:19 AM Sun, Mar 08, 2009 | Permalink |
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After yesterday's post about Gordon Lightfoot coming to Lincoln in July, reader jk emailed, "Can he still sing?" He sounds pretty good to me in these clips from 2007. The 2008 review of an Ohio show (Singer's delivery adds to......
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11:35 AM Sat, Mar 07, 2009 | Permalink |
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Ticket sales opened this morning: Gordon Lightfoot Twin River Events Center Lincoln, RI Fri, Jul 31, 2009 08:00 PM US $25.50 - US $35.50 Gordon Lightfoot, now a legend at 70 (Wikipedia), was the soundtrack to many a mellow......
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10:45 AM Sat, Mar 07, 2009 | Permalink |
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Update, 10:15 a.m. Saturday This is the unimproved version. I started this post last night in one tab, got this far, and saved it unpublished. After dinner I added more and published it. This morning, I managed to save this......
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8:20 AM Fri, Mar 06, 2009 | Permalink |
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Pure links. JOHN LENNON: At Home All the songs were demos Lennon was preparing for his comeback album, Double Fantasy. In Yoko Ono's authorised The John Lennon Anthology, are the rest of the demos on disc 4, labelled "Dakota" after......
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6:27 AM Thu, Mar 05, 2009 | Permalink |
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This slideshow at the National Garden Bureau has me mesmerized. Daylight Savings Time starts this weekend, and visions of summertime dance in my head. John Lennon backstage. Beatles and Rolling Stones photographs, 1964-'66. 21 photos in a slideshow at......
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11:06 PM Tue, Mar 03, 2009 | Permalink |
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Vin Crosbie's latest MRI of news orgs on Feb. 20, Wasting Ink, Beating a Dead Horse, hosts an interesting conversation about newspapers, news orgs' Web sites and revenue in comments that deserves a wider airing. But since then, he notes......
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7:44 AM Tue, Mar 03, 2009 | Permalink |
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Much later, March 17: http://media.tbo.com/pdf/031609mbreport.pdf">the full Coast Guard report provided to The Associated Press Monday under a Freedom of Information Act request. (pdf) and more details from TBO at this link. Update: The Coast Guard called off the search for......
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11:33 PM Mon, Mar 02, 2009 | Permalink |
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Google Me Business Card By NYC designer Ji Lee. I thought it was sensible, but it has hidden meanings in the rat race, it seems. Dave Gustafson at unpressable buttons writes, ...what this card is really about is flaunting......
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12:30 PM Mon, Mar 02, 2009 | Permalink |
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David Merrill: Siftables, the toy blocks that think MIT grad student David Merrill demos Siftables -- cookie-sized, computerized tiles you can stack and shuffle in your hands. These future-toys can do math, play music, and talk to their friends,......
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10:26 AM Sun, Mar 01, 2009 | Permalink |
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Gray day, ahead of snow, but February is over. It's March, Women's History Month. Let's kick it up with three feisty ladies -- and bid farewell to one of them. . Antoinetre straightened out Ernie K-Doe (pronounced KAY-doe) and, after......
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