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Researcher finds new pyramid-like formations in Egypt using Google Earth
By Sheila LennonPossible Egyptian pyramids found using Google Earth at Archaeology News Network: One of the complex sites contains a distinct, four-sided, truncated, pyramidal shape that is...
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Digg is back: Google's 3D pasta 'printer,' $50 anti-FB, DNA truck
By Sheila LennonPortal Digg fell but got up again, and its new accessible design is chock full of links today that say the weekend is almost here. Reinventing the fusilli: Technically Personal is full...
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Crew blogs Diana Nyad swimming from Cuba to Florida at age 62
By Sheila Lennon At 50 strokes a minute, 62-year-old Diana Nyad is trying to swim from Cuba to Florida, equivalent to five English Channels. A crew accompanies her, feeding her, shooting photos and...
View ArticleThe Web turns 21 Monday
By Sheila LennonOn Aug. 20, 1991, Tim Berners-Lee posted, "WorldWideWeb wide-area hypertext app available" in the old Usenet group comp.sys.next.announce. (Google has preserved the Usenet archive as...
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Preseason fare for tonight's Patriots game on TV
By Sheila Lennon Sheila Lennon Caprese salad: Garden tomatoes and basil plus fresh mozzarella and olive oil, salt and pepper make an easy and colorful summer dish. The Patriots play the Tampa Bay...
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Slideshow tracks NY Daily Newsroom through history, intensity, fedoras and...
By Sheila LennonNew York Daily NewsNewsroom, 1936.Inside the New York Daily News newsroom through the years is a slideshow of 25 photos, most of them very noir, of a male bastion with great light...
View ArticleNew Dylan video: 'Duquesne Whistle' from upcoming 'Tempest' album
By Sheila Lennon Bob Dylan's new album Tempest comes out Sept. 11, but the Guardian has the video now for the tune that opens the album, "Duquesne Whistle." See it below. Guardian review: Bob Dylan's...
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Obama took questions in Reddit chat Wednesday
By Sheila Lennon Obama for America photo via Twitter President Barack Obama posted a link to this photo to prove to Reddit he was actually the one in chat there Wednesday. Reddit is a geeky aggregator...
View ArticleWhite House beer recipes / Video
By Sheila Lennon Video of beer-brewing in the White House kitchen. Recipes for Honey Ale and Honey Porter are included in this Sept. 1 entry on the White House blog,: Ale to the Chief: White House Beer...
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Google Street View, curated, and other recent links
By Sheila LennonIMG MGMT: The Nine Eyes of Google Street View is curator Jon Rafman's explanation of his collection of images snapped from the 9-eyed camera on Google Street View's cars. These are...
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PG-rated Photos from Burning Man from Mark Morford (S.F. Chron)
By Sheila Lennon Mark Morford Man (Mark Morford) meets mantis at Burning Man. The gallery is titled, Burning Man 2012 in photos, in captions, in deep and dusty moans. Back from the desert, Mark Morford...
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Shepard Fairey gets probation for hiding use of AP photo in Obama 'Hope' poster
By Sheila Lennon AP Photos Shepard Fairey, seen here posing in 2009 before his icon poster for Barack Obama, was sentenced in Manhattan Federal court in New York, Friday, Sept. 7, 2012, to two years of...
View ArticleJimmy Fallon convention song parodies James Taylor's 'Fire and Rain'
By Sheila LennonParody is not easy to do well, but (NBC's Late Night with...) Jimmy Fallon nailed it in his impersonation of James Taylor singing "Fire and Rain." The title rhyme is "Romney and Bain,"...
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Brenda Bennett of Tombstone, Prince: CD release party Saturday
By Sheila Lennon Brenda Bennett -- who oldtimers may remember as Brenda Mosher, in Ken Lyon's Tombstone Bluesband -- is back after a whirlwind career with Prince, Vanity 6 Appollonia 6, and long break...
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Apple disappoints those now wrestling with 'easy' devices
By Sheila LennonWhile I bumble along with my custom extensions on a PC, I can sympathize with onetime Apple lover John Battelle of searchblog fame as he watches his magical iDevice morph into a...
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Worth a look: color photos of Paris, 1914-1918
By Sheila Lennon More than 79 images : PARIS 1914 : colored chronicles by Paris Unplugged and Nicolas Pelliciari d'Artois (beta version) : As surprising as this may seem, there are many photographs of...
View ArticleRandy Newman video: 'I'm Dreaming (of a White President)'
By Sheila Lennon NYT: Randy Newman Weighs In on Race and Presidency in New Song: You can always trust Randy Newman to talk about the elephant in the room. The award-winning songwriter, who supports...
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Goldieblox, a toy that hopes to make little girls into engineers
By Sheila Lennon A page from the storybook component, "GoldieBlox and the Spinning Machine." Can a Kids' Toy Bring More Women Into Engineering? Rebecca J. Rosen interviews the toy's creator and goes...
View ArticleSearch engine plug-in finds results you once had and lost
By Sheila LennonSeen Before: A search engine for what you have seen before strikes me as an extremely useful browser plug-in. How often have you found something and needed it later, wanting it back...
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Concert Thursday to benefit children of Providence murder victim Shemeeka Barros
By Sheila Lennon Shemeeka Barros Thursday night there's to be a Memorial Benefit Show for Shemeeka Paulette Barros, a 22-year-old mother of two who was killed in a triple homicide at their apartment in...
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