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The Occupy movement: Rich sympathizers and Mark Cuban's advice to protesters

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Rich people are invited to make signs and upload them at We are the 1 percent | We stand with the 99 percent Oddly related: Mark Cuban, who first made his money in computer hardware and early Internet streaming......

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Jack Scott headlines as RI Music Hall of Fame inducts another tonight at doo-wop show

9:19 AM Sat, Oct 15, 2011 | | Write a comment
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Jack Scott anchored the soundtrack of many a first fluttery hormone surge and he'll be headlining the Legends of Rock'N'Roll & Doo Wop show at the Park Theatre in Cranston Saturday night. Singer-songwriter, label owner and producer Gerry Granahan......

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Hitchens, the atheist monk

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Suzie Harmon via Houston Chronicle "Christopher Hitchens to 8yearold who asked, "What should I read?" "All the old myths and fairy tales." -- Suzie Harmon on Twitter. The intellectually dazzling Christopher Hitchens, despite esophageal cancer is still alive, has......

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Occupy Sesame Street

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Occupy Sesame Street Occupy Wall Street is a major movement both on the streets and on the web, but it isn't getting the media attention it deserves. Why? Because it doesn't resonate with kids. Kids drive the market and......

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How to keep Facebook from sharing your surfing

6:08 AM Fri, Oct 07, 2011 | | Write a comment
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Facebook privacy: How to limit sharing on Facebook's new features. L.A. Times: Now you don't have to "like" something to share it. A new breed of apps will tell your friends what you read, listen to and watch -- because......

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Thanks, Steve

8:44 AM Thu, Oct 06, 2011 | | Write a comment
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Steve Jobs, February 24, 1955 - October 5, 2011......

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Update: Occupy Wall Street: Video from Brooklyn Bridge, photos & tweets from jail

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Update, Oct. 3: From British magazine New Statesman, Laurie Penny writes from the Occupy Wall Street emcampment(Occupying Wall Street): But what is the idea? The most consistent criticism laid against the occupiers is their lack of a central organising system......

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90 faces of Women in Art melt into each other on video

5:03 AM Wed, Sep 28, 2011 | | Write a comment
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Philip Scott Johnson's 500 Years of Female Portraits in Western Art elegantly morphs selected portraits to the elegant strains of Bach's Sarabande from Suite for Solo Cello No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007 performed by Yo-Yo Ma. Outstanding.......

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Pig flies again over London in Pink Floyd promo

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AP photo A police boat is seen on the Thames river below an inflatable pink pig, which was made famous on the sleeve of the 1976 Pink Floyd album 'Animals', and flies once again over Battersea Power Station in......

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Inflatable floating cars -- beach toys of the future?

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As summer ends, I wanted to point optimistically to the promise of summers future. I've waited all my life for the adult toy above, and there it is as an inflatable concept car. Unfortunately, close up you'll see there's......

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