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October 3, 2006

Photos from Square America; Bagvertising; Big bluegrass bash Oct. 22; R.I. garden news blog; Keyboard shortcuts

At Square America -- "A gallery of vintage snapshots & vernacular photography" -- don't miss the section on Love.

Context art: Bagvertising. Snopes.com, usually a debunker of urban myths, stretches its format to put the title of this photoessay into the form of a question ("Claim: Photographs show shopping bags adorned with clever artwork. " Well, d'oh...) but we see why:

More cleverness at the link above.

The previous two items both come via the minimalist Traveler's Diagram, who has abandoned narrative and now autoblogs his public bookmarks at del.icio.us.

Mark your calendar: If bluegrass makes you happy, you'll want to know about a concert on Sunday, Oct. 22, at the Assembly Theatre in Harrisville at 5 p.m.

Northern Lights (at right) -- with 11 albums and 30 years of music under that name -- will headline a bill that includes The Pegheads, a RI based
band featuring two Northern Lights alumni, along with The Worcester County Bluegrass All-Stars, and the duo Blue Around The Edges, who mix Appalachian folk songs with contemporary folk.

The Pegheads feature former members of the Neon Valley Boys (Karl Dennis and Jeff Horton), former members of Northern Lights (Jeff Horton and Mike Kropp), a member of the Cajun band Magnolia (Martin Grosswendt), and young mandolin player Ben Pearce.

Nick DiBiasio of Worcester's WICN (90.5 FM) public radio is putting it together. More at his site.

Citizen (gardening) journalism: The Providential Gardener: The meeting space for the growing community that cares for the fruitful earth in Providence, RI.

Less a personal garden diary, more a collection of news items of interest to local gardeners, this is a more than welcome addition to the local scene. I've bookmarked it -- and added it to the ever-growing Garden Blogs list, along with a few more late-season entries.

For your wall: XP Keyboard Shortcuts is a printable cheat sheet. More such lists of keyboard shortcuts are linked at TechCheatSheets.com. Here's a Firefox one.

I regularly run dozens of open tabs in a single Firefox window, going back and forth between the blog tool window and whatever page I'm blogging, quoting and linking, so Ctrl-Tab is a lifesaver for me -- it takes me back and forth between the last open tab and the current one.

The Mother of The Year: "A zoo in California attempted something that has never before been documented": A mourning, lactating tiger and orphaned suckling piglets in tiger suits. (The photos are real, but the context turns out to be different.)