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Main page February 28, 2007Google Maps now displays real-time traffic info
At maps.google.com, it's another tab, to the left of Map, Satellite and Hybrid. (Enter your address, city and two-digit state abbreviation to focus the map on your location.) Google Maps Shows Real-Time Traffic Data at Google Operating System: To see traffic, switch to the map or hybrid mode and click on the new traffic tab. Google Maps will add a layer that colors the roads in green, yellow, red, or gray. The colors represent how fast the traffic is moving: In my neighborhood, it only shows nearby Rt. 95. Far more useful to me is the state's Dept. of Transportation's RhodeWays program, with cameras overlooking many streets and highways that refresh every 30 seconds. You can pick your camera here from a dropdown list, or see them all in seven screens or filtered by region or camera direction at the RhodeWays Live Traffic Camera Center. Seeing all the cameras in a region could be especially useful when you set out for South County beaches in summer. (You can also get to the cameras from projo.com/weather. Choose the first link under "Traffic watch." This is my usual route to them.) Below, the state's realtime camera view of a red area in the map at the top of this post:
Posted by Sheila Lennon New garden blogs: The giant list is updated
The Garden Blogs List has been updated for the first time since fall. Spring is just 20 days away, and gardeners are waking up. These garden bloggers joining the big list hail from Idaho, Michigan, Kentucky, Illinois, east of Boston, Pennsylvania, San Diego, Calif., and the Caribbean. It's a tough time to debut here -- all but the last two seem to be showing photographs of snowy plots and pergolas. Our Caribbean gardener
A gardener calling herself Weeping Sore notes that spring is an hour earlier because of the March 11 shift to daylight savings time. She drops insights like seeds: Tom Robbins said when people tell you to shut up, they mean stop talking; and when they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing. I want to be a growing person for my entire life. Working in my yard helps me embrace the constant state of change that a living garden embodies and that growth requires. They're a fascinating bunch, these people who play in dirt and write about, many blogging for as many years as I've been hosting the list. Pleasure awaits you on these late winter nights, scrolling through their pages. Posted by Sheila Lennon February 27, 2007Links: 10 Iraq-war protest songs; Gerald McBoingBoing, Mr. Magoo videos; Top political donors; Powerball payback odds; Great abandoned houses...Ten Protest Songs released since the Iraq war began in 2003. From Pearl Jam to Neil Young to Green Day to Bright Eyes, little YouTube videos. At ThrowAwayYourTV.com. Gerald McBoing-Boing, the 1951 cartoon, on YouTube. Gerald McBoingBoing won the Academy Award for Best Animation in 1951 for United Productions of America, the artists who also turned out Mr. Magoo. The style was groundbreaking -- few backgrounds, fewer lines, colors to suggest mood, more suggestive than "real." UPA was founded in the wake of the Disney animators' strike of 1941, which resulted in a number of long-time employees of Walt Disney leaving the venerable studio for greener pastures. One of the animators taking part in the Disney exodus was John Hubley, an artist who disagreed with the ultra-realistic style of animation that Disney had developed and championed. Along with a number of other animators, Hubley promoted the idea that animation did not have to be a painstakingly realistic imitation of real life; he felt that the medium of animation had been forced down a narrow path by simply trying to imitate reality. Nice stills and history in UPA’s Gerald McBoing Boing at Lost in Negative Space. A San Francisco weekly newspaper that bills itself as "The Voice of Asian America" is facing harsh criticism from that very community for publishing a column Friday titled "Why I Hate Blacks." But nothing put on the Web ever completely goes away. The Coalition of Asian Pacific Americans invites you to sign a petition stating, We join Asian American leaders in criticizing AsianWeek for printing Kenneth Eng's column "Why I Hate Blacks" in its February 23rd edition. We condemn the piece as irresponsible journalism, blatantly racist, replete with stereotypes, and deeply hurtful to African Americans. They also offer a pdf of Eng's piece so you'll know what you're objecting to. Deep pockets: Relatively healthy: It's not enough to prove that a particular blood test or CT scan really spots cancer, for example. You also need to know whether early detection of that cancer would make a difference in your ability to respond to treatment or it merely means that you would die at the same point but learn about your illness earlier than you would have without the test. Would you rather know you're dying for years, or learn about it at the last minute? (The late Molly Ivins, who died of inflammatory breast cancer, a particularly aggressive form, wrote of her treatment, "First they mutilate you; then they poison you; then they burn you.") Guys: The biological bell tolls on thee, too "It's too late to have a kid when you cannot guarantee that you're going to be in the game as a father when that kid is 18 years old." -- Ron Geraci, 36, author of "The Bachelor Chronicles." There's a guarantee? Eat, Drink and Be Merry,Or why we should learn to stop worrying and love food at Scientific American: "Swedish and Thai women were fed a Thai dish that the Swedes found overly spicy. The Thai women, who liked the dish, absorbed more iron from the meal. When the researchers reversed the experiment and served hamburger, potatoes, and beans, the Swedes, who like this food, absorbed more iron. Most telling was a third variation of the experiment, in which both the Swedes and the Thais were given food that was high in nutrients but consisted of a sticky, savorless paste. In this case, neither group absorbed much iron." Group says U.S. restaurants promote "extreme eating" ...Ruby Tuesday's offers an entree called Fresh Chicken & Broccoli Pasta so loaded with cheese and other stuff that it tipped the scales at 2,060 calories and 128 grams of fat... But it sounds so healthy. In that spirit, here's The Really Big Guide To Secret Menu Items. We're talking fast food here, at Consumerist. Peopleless homes: Abandoned Beauty: Amazing photos of abandoned houses around the world, at Archibase.net. I'll take this one:
Long overdue: I finally figured out how to let you page backwards through this blog one week at a time. There's a little overlap right now -- I see some entries on the main page repeated as part of "last week," but until I can fix that I'd rather repeat some than lose some. Links at the top of these weekly pages take you back and forth through time. The code places the link at the bottom of the last entry on this page, so I can't give it to you here without freezing it for future readers at this last week in February. Scroll down to the end of whatever post anchors this blog's homepage to enter that wayback machine. There's also a list of headline links to every entry, sorted by month, since I switched to this software in July 2005. Earlier than that, there are only weekly links back to March 2002. Finally... if you don't want the Anna Nicole circus and various missing blonde stories to suck up all the news broadcasts, don't watch the "special reports" on them. These are driven by ratings. If you don't watch, ratings will shrink. But you'll also have to watch serious news to push up its ratings. Posted by Sheila Lennon Providence Geeks gathering Wednesday at AS220Providence Geeks plan to gather Wednesday in the AS220 storefront at 115 Empire St., from 5:30 p.m. till at least 9 for their monthly get-together. It's a very relaxed atmosphere, with plenty of newcomers each time. (The future is already under way at Providence Geeks is about last month's meeting.) Each meeting features a short presentation of what some local geeks are doing. This time it's to be pay-per-click marketing experts Working Planet. Posted by Sheila Lennon February 26, 2007Greater City: Providence launches Tuesday with a public meetingGreater City: Providence is a new group that hopes to influence the "livability of the city." Their public launch meeting is tomorrow (Tuesday, Feb. 27), the first of what they hope will be monthly Greater City: Exchange meetings at different venues around the urban center. The kickoff spot is Jewel Cafe and Lounge at 15 Elbow St. between Chestnut and Ship Streets (where The Last Call, later The Call, used to be). Jef Nickerson (photoblogger Woneffe) is the group's president. The mingling starts at 5:30 p.m. He writes that there'll be "a brief presentation about the organization at 6:30 p.m. It will formally end at 7:30 p.m., however all are welcome to remain with us throughout the evening for more drinks, conversation, and live music." Here's the thinking behind the meeting, from his post announcing it: ...The goal of the Greater City: Exchange is to gather together people from across the city and around the region to exchange ideas, information, resources, and passion for the city. There are plenty of organizations and plenty of people out there championing the city and working hard on specific projects. The Greater City: Exchange gives us urban minded individuals a chance to gather together and discuss what we’re working on individually and the challenges we are facing in our own corners of the city. By setting a time and place to exchange ideas we can come up with new solutions and combine resources to work together on initiatives that work to improve the entire city... GCP's main initiatives are, but they're willing to listen to your ideas, too. Sounds like it might be worth dropping into, see what they're up to. Posted by Sheila Lennon February 25, 2007Links: Follies review; Thurmonds owned Sharpton slaves; Seymour Hersh; Weird Florida; Dead Cash most awesome; Woman wins top tech award...Good, Clean Fun at Feb, 2007 Newspaper Guild Follies: Pollster Darrell West covers the Journal union's annual fundraiser that went down Friday night at the Venus de Milo. That's a switch. Sharpton, Thurmond linked by slavery. Seems Coleman Sharpton was a Thurmond slave. Oops. News too: Liz Donovan blogs Dave Barry's hunt for the South Florida Giant Underground Weirdness Magnet, whose latest joke is the wacky judge that Anna Nicole's corpse drew -- a former New York taxi driver with an international audience at last. Liz also draws together links around UK withdrawal and our veterans failed, to which I would add one more: Disgusting treatment for those to whom we owe so much by Joseph L. Galloway, McClatchy's distinguished military affairs writer. Journalism: The Redirection by Seymour M. Hersh in the current New Yorker: "Is the Administration’s new policy benefitting our enemies in the war on terrorism?" Last straw? US generals ‘will quit’ if Bush orders Iran attack. London Times. Noticed: Now 74, Allen spent her entire career at IBM, winning several of the company's top awards. In 1968, she won an corporate award for her research. The prize: a pair of cufflinks and a tie clip. Brainy: Why Americans Don't Like Jazz. Do you hear the words or the music? At dyske.com Peaked early: Marc Andreessen Switches to a Mac: At GigaOm. Andreesen, who wrote the original Mosaic browser while a student at the University of Illinois, and later turned it into Netscape Navigator while he was still in college, has switched. Rolling log: The 50 Most Awesomely Dead Rock Stars. At Blender. Johnny Cash beats out Elvis for posthumous glory. Short: Reviewing the Presidential Campaign Websites. A /. journal. Sullying our good name: Hatred of America unites the world Syntax: The Ten Habits of Emotionally Intelligent People. How to communicate and not be crazy. Posted by Sheila Lennon Crockpot recipe: Frozen pot roast with Jack Daniel'sIt was cold yesterday morning, a perfect Saturday to stay home and read with the homey aromas of pot roast cooking. Trouble was, the pot roast I'd bought on sale was a fat brick in the freezer, stashed for just such a day. I knew there had to be workarounds. In the tradition of engineers sharing basic cooking tips on the Web, here's how to modify a pot roast recipe. I searched the Web for recipe frozen pot roast, and struck gold at American Grass Fed Beef, whose owner, Dr. Patricia Whisnant, a veterinarian and mother of six, offers Super Easy Crock Pot Beef Roast Recipe, writing, ...we just throw all the ingredients including the frozen grass fed beef chuck in a crock pot set on low and cook all day (about 8 hours or more). Either way . . . you will have beef so tender it will be falling apart.That was good enough for me. I liked the two cups of water in this recipe -- there would be lots of good juice. Dr. Whisnant used 3/4 liter of burgundy wine in her pot -- 25.3 ounces, more than 3 cups -- but I don't care for purple pot roast, and the only red wine here is about a glassful of leftover Merlot. But I suspect some alcohol is needed for this alchemy.
The Web makes it easy to improvise: Find a similar recipe, scan it for useful enhancements. Search terms: recipe bourbon pot roast. Joyce's Crockpot Roast with Bourbon says 1/3 cup bourbon. It uses too little water for me -- just 1/4 cup -- and celery, which I don't like hot. I'd stick with Dr. Whisnant's recipe, add garlic and wing it. I didn't have all the veggies I wanted, but knew I could add them later. They'd hold up better without cooking all day, and there were enough veggies in there at the start to flavor the broth. 10 a.m. I started with, 3 lb frozen beef chuck roast Put the vegetables, the beef, the spices and liquids into a slow cooker, in that order. Turn the crockpot on low and cover. Go away.
3 thin-skinned 3-inch boiling potatoes, cut into roughly 1-inch cubes 6:30 p.m. Adjust the seasoning. Tasty, but a little sweet (from the root vegetables). In went, for a half-hour's cooking,
At 7 p.m. we removed the meat, covered it with foil, turned off the crockpot and let everything sit for a little while longer. The meat was fall-apart tender, not stringy as it would have been if it were overcooked. (I've had that happen to other all-day crockpot roasts.) We joked that it might still be frozen in the center, but although it looked a little red, like corned beef, it was definitely cooked. We inhaled it. Leftovers today. And we'll have some hearty beef vegetable soup left over. Sorry, no pictures. It was a day off from everything. Notes: --The roast was straight from the freezer; if your roast is thawed, this will be too much cooking time. -- Use waxy "boiling" potatoes, not big bakers. Only use Yukon Golds if you're going to add them late; they tend to fall apart into a slurry if overcooked, and will disintegrate if cooked all day.
-- Any bouillon cube will work to flavor the water. I only had chicken, but beef might have stood up to the vegetables better. -- I think the sugar in carrots overwhelms stocks, so I use them sparingly. I like squash more, and the market sells small halves, peeled, washed and wrapped. -- in these Web searches, I always begin with "recipe" -- it eliminates restaurant menus, retailers and nutritition charts. -- If you have burgundy wine but no Jack Daniel's, you can reverse engineer this. I'd cut down on the wine, and maybe some of the water. You can always add more water later. Posted by Sheila Lennon February 23, 2007Providence teacher bringing school aid to Ghana this week blogs it
Longitude's Ghana Trip Blog: Shawn Rubin, a teacher at Providence's CVS Highlander School and cofounder of new Providence nonprofit Longitude, is in Akeba, Ghana this school-vacation week. He's helping Meshach Bondzie, pictured at right, and his nonprofit Professional Secretarial Academy of Ghana (PROFESA) move to a new facility, as well as bringing equipment and more than $5,000 in donations, collected largely from Rhode Islanders. Running as a separate track from the words, and worth browsing on their own, are daily photos at Flickr and perhaps video to come, since filmmakers John Lavall and Jessica Jennings came along to make a documentary of the trip and the work.
We want to build for the future so we are working on alternative teaching models so that the 14 students can share the 4 typewriters and the 6 computers that we have currently collected for his school. There are many models and options, but they are all foreign to Meshach so this requires a lot of time and negotiation. And there's a delicate moment at the Abeka Town Council Meeting in the Chief's palace, when the Financial Director, perhaps plumbing the depth of Longitude's pockets, said, “We would like for you to make a promise to us that you help us with our goals and objectives.”
I responded to the Financial Officer's request by saying that I am committed to finding and securing resources that will help Abeka grow, but that for now the most clear and viable option for this growth is through PROFESA, Meshach’s school. You could feel the collective air being released from the committee’s bubble, but I went on to explain to them that if they want to help Abeka to grow they too can do it by helping Meshach’s school.  Filmmaker Jessica, independent and successful, is troubled by the low expectations of women in this traditional culture: "If you already lack confidence (which these women do), learning becomes slowed and difficult and complicated because you feel that you CAN’T learn it. The door is already closed..."
There are tales of politics and negotiation and, of course, the heat. But it's not all work. There's also dinner with a family in a strange land: ...We started the meal with fufu (ground casava and plantain that is pounded into a mushy ball that you then dip in a palm oil soup and swallow without chewing), fish stew (complete with all the fish heads you could stomach), egg soup (a thicker palm oil derivitive with even more fish heads), rice, fried plantains and yam. As we finished our yam’s and soup the power kicked in,and the music began... Their week ends Sunday. I'll be checking in to see how it turns out. Posted by Sheila Lennon February 22, 2007Free live concert mp3s - The Doors 1969, Maria Muldaur 1974, Nirvana 1992Early weekend listening from BigO, Singapore, where it's already Friday. This March 1, 1969 show was recorded from the audience. We offer you a riveting performance of Five To One. This is the same tape that was brought before a Miami court as evidence of Morrison's outrageous behaviour, vulgar language and indecency. Maria Muldaur, Live at Ebbets Field, Denver, 1972. Not the home of the Brooklyn Dodgers, this Ebbets Field was a small nightclub in Denver. Maria Muldaur is better known as a folk and country singer but she might have shown her R&B roots on the opening two tracks, Chauffeur Blues and Any Old Time... Nirvana. Fire Extinguisher, Live in Tokyo, February 19, 1992.
Posted by Sheila Lennon Providence artist asks you to look inside envelopes
Safety envelopes, sometimes called security envelopes, are envelopes tinted -- printed -- inside in a variety of patterns to foil prying eyes. "Most of these patterns are found inside utility bills, bank statements and check window envelopes," Kenn says. With support from the R.I. State Council on the Arts, he's well into the Tinted Safety Envelope Research Project, which hopes to document, investigate and preserve these designs. At that link you can see 16 "Envelope Families" he's assembled. A few of them appear here. Kenn writes that he sees fewer patterns now, and wants to catalogue their variety "before it's too late." Here's where you come in. If you have or find envelopes with different patterns, and are willing to mail him the actual envelope, here's how to contact him. He'd like to widen the search. When I asked what this post might add to what's on the Safety Envelope site, he emailed, Hopefully I'll be found by people in other countries and they will send me envelopes from around the world.
The earliest example I have of an inside security tint is an envelope used at the White House during Woodrow Wilson's administration. The inside tint was used to insure that no one read the contents of the letter and Wilson used window envelopes at the time to save on readdressing time given the quantity of correspondence his administration produced. If you have old records and correspondence tucked away, check 'em out. They may be safely enclosed in rare envelope art. Posted by Sheila Lennon February 21, 2007My Katrina survivor has died
In September 2005 I got a call from an old friend, Bob Fabrizio, a Providence native and longtime Pawtucket resident who hated winter, and had moved to New Orleans nearly 20 years ago. That night, he was calling from a shelter in Houston, where he had been evacuated after Hurricane Katrina. I had given him my "Producer, projo.com" business card during a brief reunion in New Orleans in June 2004, and after a few days in Houston with no resettlement plans forthcoming, he pulled it out of his wallet and said he'd been "talking to the press." Shortly thereafter, he was given a voucher for a plane ticket to anywhere. I wrote about his calls from Texas, and his eventual return to Rhode Island, on this blog. Some links are below. This morning, his sister called to say that Bob has died. We had him over for Easter dinner last year. He suffered from severe heart and lung problems, as well as cataracts, and traveled with a portable oxygen system. Soon after he arrived, he realized that his air was running out. He had inadvertently turned in a full oxygen bottle, and brought along a nearly empty one. I called the V.A. Hospital, and a nurse offered us an emergency bottle. We took his ID and picked it up, and it saved the day. Nevertheless, it was obvious he was very sick. He died alone in his studio apartment in Pawtucket, having refused to live in a hospital or nursing home. When his sister hadn't heard from him for a few days, she went to his home to check on him and found him dead, probably from a heart attack. He will be cremated. There will be no services. He is survived by one grown daughter, named Stefanie, who lives in Virginia, and a sister, Angela Gage of Cranston. You can read about his Katrina experience here. Sept. 6, 2005: Displaced Rhode Island native calls from a Texas shelter: I got a call from an old friend last night, a friend who's now a temporary resident of Ben Garza Gym in Corpus Christi, Texas. More at the link above. Sept. 8, 2005: Update from Rhode Islander in Corpus Christi shelter Bobby's spirit was Buddhist. More than anyone else I've ever met, Bobby thought constantly about the meaning of life and the nature of death. Now, I hope, he finally has his answers Rest in peace, old friend. Posted by Sheila Lennon February 20, 2007Cajun Mardi Gras; Ballpoint Web page; 'Arcade Fire' streamed live; Painted cats; Kennedy videoJust about out of words... Cajun Mardi Gras: Webcam at Houma Today; Mardi Gras activities in rural Acadiana; Eunice has been whooping it up for days. Bands start at 10 a.m., parade at 3. Recipes: Cajun Cook-off for the mildly interested, or the mother lode, A Cajun Family's Recipe Collection. All the way: The Cartoons of Mr. Fish: a Selection at Harper's. Biting, he spares no one. He is Dwayne Booth.
A ballpoint Website, unlined pages : At balalar.ru the graphics, such as the animated guestbook at right, are hand-drawn; the type is the same familiar blue, and more drawings are sprinkled among its photos and text. Ballpoint pens didn't make the trip to the Web, so it's an eyeful. It's in Russian, which makes it entirely nonverbal to me.
Starts off slow, but gets there. The Arcade Fire formed in Montreal in 2003 around the husband-wife duo of Win Butler and Regine Chassagne, with Richard Reed Parry, William Butler, Tim Kingsbury, Sarah Neufeld and Jeremy Gara. Funeral drummer Howard Bilerman has since left the band. Stay for the encores, My Body Is A Cage and Neon Bible, the title track of their first album. Here's the Times review: ...upbeat, homemade anthems that pile on instruments — accordion, glockenspiel, Moog, hurdy-gurdy — and rise to group singalongs and wordless pop choruses. Music to blog to. All downhill since then: The last minutes of John Kennedy's life, and of Jackie's youth. Video at The Sixth Floor Museum. Leave 'em (alone): Your fears erased here daily. The photographer.
Kinetic art: Painted cats, at $15,000 a pop, and it grows out every three months. Some are tacky, some striking. Does the cat mind?
Archifunk: Strange Houses Around The World. You calling a Gaudi strange? Posted by Sheila Lennon February 19, 2007Year of the Fire Boar aka Golden Pig
Chinese New Year Horoscope Year of the Golden Pig 2007 - The Year of the Fire Boar, or Fire Pig, for all signs The last Fire Boar year was 60 years ago, Jan 22, 1947 to Feb 9, 1948. This one, which began yesterday, runs through Feb. 6, 2008. Posted by Sheila Lennon February 18, 2007Sunday in the right brain, browsing viral art emails
This is a detail of a larger image on a page, titled Nice artwork, that contains four of these drawings, all made with the names of the objects they depict. It's from the same source as the excellent Photoshopping I blogged Friday -- "graphics designer" at frogview.com, Frogview is an "open mailbox" site -- a place where you can browse funny and interesting emails running around the Net, rather than wait for a friend to send them to you. More of his collection:
From Photoshop Creations.
From You must see this pictures. You can browse -- by date, by user rating and by page views -- an index of more than 150 pages contributed by "graphicsdesigner," including Funny Pictures, by scrolling down below his photo on his profile page. Also found at Frogview:
Posted by Sheila Lennon February 16, 2007Mp3s from lefty Sam's blog, Norah Jones; DRM debate; Smartly surreal; Boiling water foils hijackSam's blog: Flotsam & Jetsam, by Sam Smith, editor, activist, social critic, author and... musician. Sam smartly slaps the left upside the head in an essay that currently leads this blog (MISSING IN ACTION: THE AMERICAN LEFT): Under Reagan and the Bushes, the left was happy to do what it seems to like best: protest. Under Clinton it switched gears and quietly and obediently complied. In either case - dissenter or drone - the left did little to offer Americans an alternative vision, platform or movement. 28 Washington Post reporters were assigned to cover the city's sleet storm Wednesday. From his own storm experience at the paper, Sam writes (THE CAPITAL'S FAVORITE SORT OF CRISIS), What the Post had actually sent out 28 reporters to cover was, according to Accuweather, exactly .92 inches of precipitation. But the Post takes such things quite seriously as your editor discovered two decades ago when he was still in the publication's good graces. He had been asked to write a piece on the latest storm and sat in an office for half an hour as the editor of the Outlook section and the op ed page editor argued over who would get to run it. The amazing thing was that neither had read the actual article. What they were really arguing about was who was in charge of snow. When you click on that link above, the resulting item now appears under a banner reading "City Desk," not Flotsam & Jetsam. Categories, perhaps. The publication Sam edits, The Progressive Review, is a stunning example of antique Web design, circa 1994. If you're now clued that this is one quirky site, Sam misspells the name of this publication, leaving out an "s," in Flotsam & Jetsam's banner. I can't help but think it's deliberate. Sam also offers mp3 tracks from jazz bands he's played in, piano and sometimes vocals. Scroll down the right column till you find the piano keyboard graphic. More Mp3s: Norah Jones Paris 2007. The anti-Sam: A stunning tour de force of Web design from FujiFilm, the beautiful but overblown Forests Forever Flash production.
Smart conceptual art: These nicely surreal visual ideas are what the Worth1000 Photoshopping contests wish they were. DRM debate: Pirates of the Multiplex. Vanity Fair. A long feature on Digital Rights Management, file-sharing via Torrents. torrent-tracker Pirate Bay, and the entertainment industry. DRM loses hearts and minds: Most music industry execs now want to dump DRM, at MacWorld. Can't make this up: Mauritanian Hijacker Gets in Hot Water. AP, TENERIFE, Canary Islands - A fast-thinking pilot with passengers in cahoots fooled a hijacker by braking hard upon landing, then accelerating to knock the man down. When he fell, flight attendants threw boiling water in his face, and about 10 people pounced on him, Spanish officials said Friday. Brain cells in a dish fly fighter plane at New Scientist. Six miles high: Storm whips paraglider to heights of 32,000 ft. Telegraph U.K: A champion paraglider described today her terror at being flung to a height greater than Mount Everest by a tornado-like thunderstorm in Australia. Ewa Wisnerska, 35, was sucked so high that she blacked out and became encased in ice....Can make this up: 25 things you should have learned by the time you have reached middle age Posted by Sheila Lennon February 15, 2007All the Mad Magazine covers, free
Issue #30, December 1956 • The archive At RealTechNews, Every Cover of Mad Magazine Cover Scanned and Posted Online for FREE. My brother sent this link. He's five years older, and I've always credited him for enabling my broad education -- far broader than a little girl alone would have gotten. Mad Magazine is right up there on my list of early influences, thanks to him. So when he emailed this one ("You should blog this"), I was pleased to find the blogger was another little girl who'd grown up with Spy vs. Spy and Alfred E. Neuman. From Alice Hill, Mad Magazine played a big part in my childhood - it helped me form my weird sense of humor, and I just loved the whole thing. A guy name Doug Gilford has painstakingly scanned in every cover of Mad since the 1950’s... Thank you, Alice. The artist who created most of the Mad covers in the first two decades was Norman Mingo, who died in 1980. Related: At Wikipedia, Spy vs. Spy is a wordless black and white comic strip that has been published in Mad magazine since 1961. It was created by Cuban (editorial cartoonist) Antonio Prohías, who fled to the United States in 1960 (just days before Fidel Castro took over the Cuban free press). Finally! I remember, as a kid, wondering what all that was about. In 2001, NPR wrote about Prohias, who died in 1988. (The page fell out of its container -- you'll have to scoot to the right to read it.) They also include a six-panel slideshow of this January 1961 strip. I remember seeing it back then. Bonus: •Spy vs. Spy: The Complete Casebook (Amazon link)
 Posted by Sheila Lennon R.I.P. Eric von Schmidt, painter, musician, Dylan source
First heard this from Ric von Schmidt. he lives in Cambridge. Baby let me follow you down Famed Artist and Musician Eric Von Schmidt died Feb. 2 in Westport, Conn. Westport Now, source of that link, delves into the life of its painter and musician. The Guardian, U.K., does a superb cultural obit, tracing Von Schmidt's musical life. A New York Times obit fills in the blanks for those who knew of him only from that intro off Dylan's first album: Both Mr. von Schmidt and Mr. Dylan appeared at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival, at which Mr. Dylan shocked traditionalists with electric guitars.
In DC, we've had a gradual shift in music retail over the last few years. There are fewer indie shops selling CDs and a few new ones that focus mainly on vinyl. I've been combing the folk sections of these shops, mostly full of Weavers/Baez/Seeger et al, and once in a while I come across something unusual, like Eric Von Schmidt's 1969 album Who Knocked the Brains Out of the Sky? Hadn't heard his name before, but the blurb on the back by Bob Dylan was enough for me to give it a shot. Caitlin von Schmidt, Eric's daughter, found the post and leaves and appreciative comment. She doubts that the croquet story is true. The photo below is of Caitlin and her dad in the very early '60s.
• More paintings from the Giants of the Blues 1920-1950 • Eric von Schmidt paints Lewis and Clark • Illustrated Eric von Schmidt discography • Baby, Let Me Follow You Down: The Illustrated Story of the Cambridge Folk Years by Eric Von Schmidt and Jim Rooney (Amazon link) Posted by Sheila Lennon February 14, 2007Valentine ravioli; Is this young Lincoln? Reading, games & microwave potato chips
Valentine veggies: Over at BlogHer, Kalyn Denny points to this classic theme done in... spinach ravioli. At Vegalicious. It's part of Vegetables for Valentines - The Vegetable Love Round-Up at Fat Free Vegan Food Blogga -- Susan from Providence, on safari in L.A. -- prefers fennel today. Valentinical: What exactly is love? Everything about love from a scientifical point of view.
I don't know about that nose... It was more of a ski jump in 1848. Doppelreaders: The Big List of Bookish Social Networks at Deeplinking. Play d'oh: If you're one of the lucky kids who's snowed in today, you'll want a game. SwapJob, which I blogged weeks ago, is ridiculously addictive. I'm still banging at it. So is my daughter. Welcome To The Treasure Hunt sounds interesting, if you're snowed in for weeks. If you are, you might wish you had the next item.
Chipper: Microwave Potato Chip Maker It comes with a slicer to get the right thickness. Load them in the rack, zap for six minutes, you get hot chips. Japanese, of course. You could probably figure out a way to do this without the gizmo, if you have a microwavable rack. Posted by Sheila Lennon February 13, 2007Nathan Bishop revisited; Speak up for good schools at meetings tonight, Thursday
The meeting was frustrating and disappointing to me and to my daughter, and I wrote about that (Vote came before discussion at Nathan Bishop meeting). In comments, the organizers were politely aghast. Jo Lee wrote, :... have a heart. Acknowledging the hard work that went into this event would have been nice too." She's right about this. The mayor is smart and passionate talking about his education ideas, and that's exciting. The substantial work the group has done speaks for itself. That's the news story. I do know the work involved in such a grassroots effort, and thank you for it. You have an important, good project, with powerful support. It should work. Your group has been very skillful at working successfully within the system -- the hardest part for many community groups, who tend to be outsiders. You've resurrected a school that had been eliminated. That's wonderful, and you deserve our gratitude and admiration for that. Maybe the group has grown to a point where the "managing up" that has revived Bishop can expand to organizing outward and downward to involve the rest of us. I went to that meeting for my 4th grade grandson, and for his mom, who rents a floor of a triple-decker a few streets away from me. At the meeting, the difficulty of buying a home on the East Side for young families came up, but the army of renters weren't mentioned at all. In our part of the Lesser East Side, between Hope and North Main near Pawtucket (where it was possible for teachers and journalists and public defenders and firefighters to buy a home until a few years ago) there are many, many three-deckers and renters. I rented for my first couple of decades here and so did everybody else I knew. Only rich people and old people owned homes on the East Side. That's still true. These earlier buyers and current renters can't afford anywhere near the roughly $30k annual tuition at the neighborhood's private schools. Many would eagerly make signs, stick leaflets in doors so more people would know about these meetings, staff booths at the farmer's market at Hope High in summer -- all the small ways in which people feel a part of something larger and are, together, able to muster power they could not have alone. Do you need anything from us besides political support? Several people asked, at different times during that meeting, "How can we help?", and the answers trended towards "Talk to your councilman." It would help if you could have some better answers to that. Community organizing is about participation, giving volunteers a stake, a sense of ownership. Open airing of all the issues creates trust and forges a bond of shared purpose, and an enthusiasm for breaking through walls of inertia and bureaucracy. These school decisions have been "top down" -- something mentioned in comments on an excellent post at the R.I. Future blog. The schools targeted -- including Nathan Bishop -- seem to have been closed by fiat, and the DeJong consultants have outraged the Mount Pleasant neighborhood by recommending that their landmark high school be torn down. (Neighbors urge city to save Mount Pleasant High) One of the questions I didn't get to ask involved the decision, already made, to site the new school at the old school, deep in a quiet, leafy neighborhood near Elmgrove Avenue that felt overrun by rowdy teenagers.
There's something to be said for putting the new school near the middle-income people who will most use it, rather than in an enclave of half-million-dollar homes near Brown Stadium. The scarcity of large alternate sites was offered as a reason for building in the same place. But what about the vacant Sears building on North Main Street? Middle-school students don't drive, and perhaps teachers and staff could share the parking lot, owned by Miriam Hospital. Sale of the prime property which the vacant school now occupies should yield enough to develop another parcel. Has that been explored? Given all the colleges (and Miriam) that have taken city properties off the tax rolls -- further burdening taxpaying parents -- shouldn't these institutions be stepping up to support public education in their vicinity? This wasn't mentioned at all in the money discussions. I'm sorry to have slammed the efforts of good volunteers who've brought this project as far as they have. Maybe I'm just a jerk complaining that they don't do good meetings -- but not in the direction they suggest. This was too much like a corporate board meeting with an agenda to present, and less like the cranky, quirky give and take of a New England town meeting that airs it all. I suspect that will change at future meetings, and that all questions will get some airing. And I hope the good folks who've worked so hard to bring a middle school back to the East Side won't be discouraged by this whine from the cheap seats. We're on your side. There are more meetings this week about the DeJong Company’s proposals for renovating and rebuilding the city’s schools. There's a meeting tonight at 6 p.m. at Bridgham Middle School Cafetorium, and another Thursday (Feb. 15) at 6 p.m. at Hope High School cafeteria. If you go to one, it's another chance to push for what you really want for your children. Much more about this can be found at the ESPEC blog. Posted by Sheila Lennon February 12, 2007Dixie Chicks Grammy video; Free music: Tom Waits, Carole King; 100 alt-search engines
Flashback: Dixie Chicks pulled from air after bashing Bush, March 14, 2003. Chicks sweep; what's the message to Big Media? at
The L.A. Daily News covered their local event wall to wall. At BigO: Tom Waits, Akron 2006 and Carole King, Boston 1976. Beyond Google: The Top 100 Alternative Search Engines at Read/Write Web. Posted by Sheila Lennon February 9, 2007Tonight, tomorrow: 'Will Paint for Food,' an art sale to feed the hungry
This is last-minute, but if you're out and about this weekend you might want to check out the food paintings and notecards at Shawn Kenney's Open Studio sale, tonight and tomorrow at Studio 108, 560 Mineral Spring Ave. in Pawtucket. A portion of the proceeds goes to Heifer International, Rhode Island Community Food Bank and Share Our Strength. The group blog Will Paint for Food has all the details, as well as this story of how it all began by cookbook author, teacher and blogger Lydia Walshin. She met Shawn when he took one of her Ninecooks classes:
Joe and I went to the Pawtucket Artists Holiday Sale, and I remember seeing a similar garlic painting there, too. Nice work. The hours are 7 to 10 tonight and noon to 3 tomorrow. Shawn's "set designer," Peg Meade, offers suggestions of restaurants within a two-mile radius, should the food paintings make you hungry. Here's a map link, and her very Rhode Island directions (You know where the Lorraine Mills outlet is, don't you?): We're on Mineral Spring Ave between Londsdale & Smithfield Aves, opposite Lorraine Fabrics. Best bet for parking is on the left side of the building, by the train tracks and the Big Fitness sign. You'll see us on the second floor overlooking the lot; follow the white holiday lights leading to the green double doors and, once inside, follow the signs one flight up. Open studios are usually casual and fun -- you can have a glass of wine, look at food paintings and probably find some food for thought, too -- but if you can't make it the notecards are also sold on the Will Paint for Food site, in boxes of 12 for $20. Click the photo on the top of this item to go there. Posted by Sheila Lennon February 8, 2007Vote came before discussion at Nathan Bishop meeting; 80k+ animal sounds online; 'Sopranos' viral marketingESPEC, the East Side Public Education Coalition, drew more than 100 people last night to a meeting in the Martin Luther King elementary school cafeteria about reopening Nathan Bishop Middle School. On a frigid February weeknight, this was a near-miracle. Advertised as lasting from 7 to 8:30, the meeting unfortunately didn't get around to the discussion we came for until after that ending time. Unfortunately, the agenda of the meeting seemed backwards. The meeting began late, opened with congratulations to committees for work most of us had yet to see. Mayor Cicilline spoke, but we were reminded several times that questions to him could not be about Nathan Bishop, only about the citywide school initiative. A speech followed that seemed to summarize a handout pamphlet, noting that a new Bishop would open with only a sixth grade the first year. Then a shorter speech reported that the committee had rejected several plans in favor of a traditional middle school in which advanced courses would be available to all students. At 8:15. when people with babysitters were beginning to leave, Bill Bryan of Gilbane Construction showed slides of schools in New Haven, Boston, Lincoln, Westerly and elsewhere that the committee had visited, and liked, suggesting what Bishop might become. As Bryan began what he described as a 50-slide presentation, it was clear this was running too late, people were tired. Although the handout suggested that it would be possible to open Bishop in the fall of 2008, Bryan said design and construction would take 2 1/2 to 3 years. At 8:35 we learned that our child, now in fourth grade at King, would be too old to go to Bishop if its sixth grade opened in fall 2009. As seats began emptying and an organizer noted they were losing their audience, a call came for a hasty vote on whether to renovate Bishop or build a new school, before there had been time for questions and discussions about Bishop itself. Some posed questions about time and cost of each option during the show of hands. This is my second time around for education meetings. Back in the '80s, when my daughter was in public schools, these meetings were packed with veterans of civil rights and antiwar organizations, and someone would have risen and pointed out that these working people had come at the end of a long day, leaving babysitters or older children to watch the little ones who might benefit someday from a new middle school. Let's get the discussion going so all can participate. This didn't happen last night, as a polite group, mostly white despite the racially mixed population that uses the neighborhood's public schools, and entirely adult -- not a single child came or was dragged along -- sat it out until they slipped out. Maybe it's years of blogging, the "bottom-up" ethic, the egalitarianism of the Web, but I didn't want to be a passive audience for speakers enlisting our support for their decisions. I would have preferred that the slides came first, interlaced with discussion about Nathan Bishop, about its best use, about renovation vs. new construction -- our concerns explored and questions answered. The Mayor might have spoken at 8, explaining the budget considerations and the principles behind his push to improve all schools. There would have been no need for speeches by organizers -- they would have slipped their points into their answers to questions from parents and residents early on. Those who had to leave would have left with nearly as much information as those who were still there at 9. There will be more ESPEC meetings, and more meetings citywide on these school proposals. I hope organizers will be more respectful of the time of the working parents, busy people who carved out this time in their packed lives to come out on behalf of their children and their neighborhoods. Don't waste their time with speeches. They came for answers. And to do that, they need to ask their questions early, without restrictions. Community organizing is a conversation, a discussion, not a lecture. Links: Sounds library now open to public online
Village Voice Pazz & Jop Poll: The first one without the legendary Robert Christgau, fired from the Voice last August "for taste." Get the Boston Police Department on the Case: Photos of a 2005 viral marketing campaign for The Sopranos that might have caused an overreaction in Beantown. Colorful ( & Poisonous) Frogs. Beautiful photos. Posted by Sheila Lennon February 7, 2007Steve Jobs: Free the music; Imaginary art; Nathan Bishop meeting tonight; Dick Armey unplugs; 28 Rules of ManhoodFrom Apple CEO Steve Jobs: Thoughts on Music
Well, yeah. At least he's trying to get us out of a failed policy. WEDNESDAY, FEB. 7TH Celebrate! Hear! Get Involved! Please note: This meeting is not the same as, and not intended to replace, the city-sponsored meetings to discuss the DeJong plan for the City’s schools. While attendees at the four DeJong meetings are likely to come from the areas where the meetings are held, they are not about specific schools. The ESPEC meeting on the 7th focuses on Nathan Bishop. It is not city-sponsored, though we are grateful that the Mayor will join us to talk about the “bigger picture” of improving Providence schools. (Disclosure: Our family has a kid in this fight.) Imaginary worlds: Monster Brains is an art blog, son of surrealism and the fantastic. Some of it is dark, some not. Some samples, from a post pointing to a gallery by Nanahira Ai:
Q. Your views on the Iraq war? Bonus: The McClatchy (formerly Knight Ridder) Washington Bureau site archives the writings of war reporter Joe Galloway. No speedbumps: ...The only thing I remember about the interview was promising her that we wouldn't screw up her columns with clumsy, heavy-handed or skittish editing; we wouldn't rob her of her indomitable voice. Yup, three mentos sitting on a stick, just waiting for the diet coke.link clue ...I gave my two weeks' notice Wednesday.link I got a really great response from the Executive Assistant/Office Manager/Light Reception ad I ran on mediabistro.com. Many of you wrote me enthusiastic, ingenious and downright wonderful letters. I appreciate the hard work that went into those (you know who you are).link
In subsequent comments, a funny female rejoinder: A typical macho man married a typical good-looking lady and, after the wedding, laid down the following rules: Posted by Sheila Lennon February 6, 2007Video: Randy Newman - A Few Words in Defense of Our Country-- "The end of an empire is messy at best..." (complete lyrics at randynewman.com) -- Newsweek interview with Newman Posted by Sheila Lennon February 5, 2007Molly Ivins' funeral; Have we been conned about cholesterol?; Why shrinks' kids go bad; Optical illusion art; 'Apparently, God Hates The Bears'
ava: ..after Marcia Ball sang "Honky Tonk Angel" one more time for Molly we all filed over to schultz beer garden for a beer on her behalf..... Texas Oasis ...We got to the Garten early and caught some rays before the crowd showed up from the church. Here's one group arriving banging pots and pans against the war. Very fitting. Usually I don't post this many pictures in a post, but I thought you might like to see them, all those who couldn't attend. The duct tape armbands say "W.W.M.D?" for What Would Molly Do?... or What Weapons of Mass Destruction?... Robert (A Memorial Service With Unlimited Free Beer): When two potted Cherry Laurels died at her house and we had to replace them, she asked me not to throw away any of the soil because her mother's ashes were mixed in. I have mentioned this to her housemaid of 23 years and other family and associates and as far as I can tell, no one else knew this. Turboville, Honky Tonk Angel: Her sendoff today was painfully bittersweet...I'm not sure how else to describe it. But judging from what all the friends and family who knew her best said today, it was clear that how she wrote and how she lived were synonymous. Austin American-Stateman: One last party for Molly. More photos, tributes are here, too. (Bugmenot can get you through if you hit a registration wall.) Village Voice: Running Scared offers, "Plucky" Molly Muzzled From the Grave Heretic: Have we been conned about cholesterol? by Malcolm Kendrick, M.D, in London's Daily Mail. is an extract from his book, The Great Cholesterol Con, published Jan. 25 in the U.K. Here's a long excerpt from it, published the day before the book's publication: ...A leading researcher at Harvard Medical School has found that women don't benefit from taking statins at all, nor do men over 69 who haven't already had a heart attack. The comments at the end of the story -- many from people who had suffered bad side effects from statins -- include this exchange: Dear Mr. Kendrick: The story's author steps in to reply: I felt the need to respond to Janet Brill (It's Dr Kendrick by the way). I will respond only to one point, or else this e-mail will get far too long. The US Government did not revise the LDL guidelines downwards. The group that 'responded' were the National Cholesterol Education Panel (NCEP), part of the National Insitutes of Health (NIH). The NCEP had nine members on it. Only one had no connection with the pharamceutical industry. To quote the Washington Times on the matter. 'Of the nine members of the panel that wrote the guidelines, six had each received research grants, speaking honoraria or consulting fees from at least three and in some cases all five of the manufacturers of statins; only one had no financial links at all.' Not quite the US Government, I don't think. (Oddly, in the light of this "Mr. /Dr." exchange, it turns out that Janet Brill is not an M.D. but a PhD, describing herself at that book link at Amazon as "a registered and licensed dietitian/nutritionist, exercise physiologist, and certified wellness coach.") More: Essays by Malcolm Kendrick, MD at The International Network of Cholesterol Skeptics. Understandably, those who prescribe statins are alarmed. Dr Thomas Stuttaford, also in the London Times, writes, Keep taking the statins: If people at risk of strokes and heart attacks throw away their statins, many will die. I claim no expertise and no experience. I do wonder, though, about the marketing of pharmaceuticals. Pharmaceutical ads dominate the prime time commercials. No wonder health insurance and drug costs are so high -- those 30-second commercials go for $200,000 to about $700,000. Powerful drugs are marketed like burgers, albeit with more deference to authority: "Ask your doctor if (our pill) is right for you." Suggested outcomes -- no matter what ails you -- are usually happy smiles and lovely landscapes. Would they have to advertise a cancer drug that worked? Would they develop one if there was no money in it? So many companies and livelihoods depend on treating what ails us that actually curing what ails us would devastate the economy. The reluctance of the government to act on climate change might be a model for what we'd face if cancer could actually be cured. Footnote: Oddly, there is another book with exactly the same title, The Great Cholesterol Con by Anthony Colpo. Amazon U.K. fends off confusion by offering the pair as a package. Why shrinks' kids go bad: The Last Psychiatrist: What Goes Wrong In A Psychiatrist's Family? Interesting concepts about raising kids, even if you aren't a shrink: "...The psychiatrists (teach their kids) what they are allowed to do and what they are not, what is acceptable and what is not-- but make no judgment on the kid himself. This is a disaster, because doing this denies the kid's identity, which is the whole purpose of childhood to begin with. Rules then exist in an invented framework, or worse, in a vacuum. There's no internalization of the rules; there's no superego. Just some arbitrary limits on id. If you tell a kid that a behavior is unacceptable, the kid has learned nothing about himself; he's only learned that this one thing is something he can't do. The information is in a vacuum. But if you make the kid own it-- make the behavior part of his identity, then he has a chance to change his identity. Instead of learning it is unacceptable to take his brother's potato chips away, he can learn that he has a choice: to be the kind of person who takes chips, or the kind of person who doesn't. " Trick the eye: Cool art that will mess with your head
Posted by Sheila Lennon February 2, 2007Free mp3s: More than 1,200 protest songs at Songs of the Times; 7 live albums at BigO
At the bottom of the links: Do you have a protest or topical song available on the web? Send us a link for possible listing here. There's a backstory at BigO, Singapore (of all places): Virtual War When Neil Young performed at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville on August 18-19, 2005, the show inspired Karen Barry Schwarz to review the show (A Prairie Wind Blows Through Nashville). When Neil Young challenged writers to write new anti-war songs about the war in Iraq, Karen responded. This is what she wrote: The lyrics follow.
Neil Young, Last Album (1973); Joni Mitchell, Mississippi River Festival 1969; Corinne Bailey Rae, New Pop Festival 2006; Robert Fripp/Brian Eno, Peel Session; Go Bears! Like my friend Gail Ciampa, the Journal's food editor, I'm not posting Super Bowl recipes this year. Bah humbug. Posted by Sheila Lennon Hysterical grownups terrorized by cartoon characters
Bruce Schneier, whose weblog covers security and security technology, writes, Non-Terrorist Embarrassment in Boston: The story is almost too funny to write about seriously. To advertise the Cartoon Network show "Aqua Teen Hunger Force," the network put up 38 blinking signs (kind of like Lite Brites) around the Boston area. The Boston police decided -- with absolutely no supporting evidence -- that these were bombs and shut down parts of the city. Schneier also points out, These blinking signs have been up for weeks in ten cities -- Boston, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta, Seattle, Portland, Austin, San Francisco, and Philadelphia -- and no one else has managed to panic so completely. Refuse to be terrorized, people! "A post-9/11 world" is no excuse for a city's alleged grownups to act like ninnies. Get a grip and admit you jumped straight to the doomsday scenario without investigating more plausible explanations. It's not the kids' fault that Boston -- alone -- spent $750,000 to defuse cartoon characters that had been decorating ten cities for three weeks. Doesn't anybody young work for Boston's public safety divisions? p.s. "Mooninites" merchandise is booming on eBay. Posted by Sheila Lennon February 1, 2007Molly Ivins, gone
Molly, being practical, used many of her most prestigious awards as trivets while serving exquisite French dishes at her dinner parties. AP: Molly Ivins Dies of Cancer at 62:
Inflammatory Breast Cancer Survivor's Site: Molly Ivins - IBC Survivor: "Maybe this is false bravado," she said. "In some ways for me, this is like having a manageable disease. It's like diabetes. It doesn't mean it's not going to come get me in the end." From her final column, dictated when she was too weak to write, Stand Up Against the Surge, January 11, 2007: We are the people who run this country. We are the deciders. And every single day, every single one of us needs to step outside and take some action to help stop this war. Raise hell. Think of something to make the ridiculous look ridiculous. Make our troops know we're for them and trying to get them out of there. From Merry Christmas to all, 2004: One thing I have learned over the years is that you should go ahead and eat the fudge, because the diet starts next year. And to all, a good night. I wish you didn't have to go so soon. Posted by Sheila Lennon |
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I do have a bottle of Jack Daniel's. How much? 
--Scotch Bonnet Sauce is the only hot sauce I really like. It's thick, adds flavor as well as heat, and spikes oversweetness. (This isn't gourmet stuff, it's Grace brand from Stop & Shop's Jamaican section.) 
Shawn, at right, and Jessica, below, are sharing the blogging. The posts contain anecdotes and impressions that range from bedbug worries to concerns about 
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At least one source has volunteered some background information. You can read, on the project's site, a 2005 letter, presumably replying to a query, from Maynard H. Benjamin, President and CEO of the Envelope Manufacturers Association and author of The History of Envelopes 1840 - 1900. It includes this historical note,
Last week, my daughter and I attended a meeting about rebuilding the closed Nathan Bishop Middle School on Providence's East Side. A group -- the East Side Public Education Coalition -- had formed to revive it and, in concert with the mayor, were meeting with success. 
With the stunning global success of Apple’s iPod music player and iTunes online music store, some have called for Apple to “open” the digital rights management (DRM) system that Apple uses to protect its music against theft, so that music purchased from iTunes can be played on digital devices purchased from other companies, and protected music purchased from other online music stores can play on iPods....
A. I’m not sure that it was the right thing to do. You might say removing Saddam from power was a right thing to do. Maybe it was, but was that necessarily then our responsibility to do that? And was it our responsibility to do that by invading a country that had in no way declared any war on us?
Molly Ivins' last party: From Austin bloggers who went to her memorial service:
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