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Weekend game: Drench squares in color

2:30 AM Sat, Nov 07, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

Drench - the world's simplest flash game There are no instructions, but the premise really is simple: Turn the entire board any one color within a set number of moves. Begin at the upper left square and click one......

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Hi-rez Mars photos show all the textures of skin

10:28 PM Fri, Nov 06, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

NASA/JPL/University of Arizona Intersecting swirling trails left by the earlier passage of dust devils across sand dunes, as they lifted lighter reddish-pink dust and exposed the darker material below. Also visible are darker slope streaks along dune edges, formed......

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'60s fashion model's memoir seems unfathomable to an '09 fashionista

11:38 AM Fri, Nov 06, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

Ann Johansson for The New York Times Léon Bing, a model for Rudy Gernreich in the '60s, in her Pasadena apartment. Cathy Horyn, fashion critic of the Times, writes a surprisingly judgmental story (Modeling and All That Came After)......

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4 links for the eye

11:40 PM Wed, Nov 04, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

These all lead to far better visuals: Enthused and Infused: 19 New Directions For Teapot Design at WebUrbanist. Shaped like a gun, books, a torus, swan or snail, changing color when hot, transparent, trapping tea leaves, making toast too --......

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Punch in Washington Post newsroom blooms on media blogs

11:02 PM Tue, Nov 03, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

So, the story goes, the venerable Henry Allen, 68-year-old Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and editor at the Washington Post Style section, poet and, imho the most graceful narrative writer of our time, threw a single punch at colleague Manuel Roig-Franzia in......

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Dressed rehearsal: We cooked Thanksgiving dinner yesterday

9:30 PM Mon, Nov 02, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

We cooked Thansgiving dinner yesterday. This was not a trial run. I just saw a good deal on frozen free-range turkeys, and swooped down the aisles in search of dressing, cranberry sauce and stock. The family comes over on Sundays......

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Red Sox pitcher Dick Drago recalls legendary 6th game of '75 World Series

7:00 AM Mon, Nov 02, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

Photo by Sheila Lennon Right-handed former Red Sox pitcher Dick Drago as he recounts the memorable sixth game of the 1975 World Series. You can listen to his tale below. /> Click the left arrow in the player above......

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Free mp3s: Genesis in Providence, 1974

9:47 PM Sun, Nov 01, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

GENESIS - RHODE ISLAND 1974 REVISITED Providence 1974 [no label, 2CD, Dan Lampinski audience recording] Live at the Palace Theater, Providence, RI, December 8, 1974. An interesting anecdote regarding the show was posted by glampins: "Another little tidbit of info......

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Mask permits bird's-eye views with hummingbirds

1:35 AM Sun, Nov 01, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (2)
By Sheila Lennon    Email

Helmet feeder attracts hummingbirds just inches from your face . Daily Mail Online, the Brits: A new helmet with a built-in bird feeder will allow wearers to get amazing face to face contact with nature. The flighty birds hover......

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True horror: Big flies drag tiny banner ads through German book fair

11:26 AM Sat, Oct 31, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

It feels almost irresponsible to blog this, but there's postmodern horror news on Halloween. Imagine a world of large flies hobbled by tiny banner ads tied with thread to their legs like miniature airplanes at the beach, each disoriented and......

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