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Give or get a free robocall from Santa Claus

12:19 AM Thu, Dec 04, 2008 | | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

ChristmasDialer.com promises to make a free call "from the North Pole!" to one kid on your list. After inputting the phone number, you choose from these three messages: 1. I am holding a long list with all the names of......

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 Tags  free   phone call   Santa  

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'70s photos: rock stars at their parents' homes

david_crosby.jpg 11:50 PM Tue, Dec 02, 2008 | | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

70's photographs: Rock stars at their Parents Houses. Zappa, Clapton, Grace Slick, etc at | Noise Addicts music blog audio blog The photos were shot by John Olson of Life at the newly opened Google-Life Archives. The "etc." in......

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 Tags  1970s   David Crosby   Donovan   Elton Johh   Eric Clapton   Frank Zappa   Ginger Baker   Grace Slick   Jackson Five   Joe Cocker   photos   Ritchie Havens  

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Maureen Dowd interviews Tina Fey; Sky souvenirs

moon_jup_ven.jpg 10:59 PM Mon, Dec 01, 2008 | | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

Maureen Dowd interviews Tina Fey for Vanity Fair: What Tina Wants. Maureen is reporter here, not her NYT columnist self at all. Read... Folks all over photographed the moon with bright Jupiter and brighter Venus tonight. Flicker has thousands of......

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An early bird surveys Cyber Monday deals

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By Sheila Lennon    Email

Cyber Monday" was invented in 2005 by Shop.org, part of the U.S. trade association National Retail Federation, which hosts CyberMonday.com. Cyber Monday is not actually the biggest online shopping day of the year; last year it was only ninth, with......

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 Tags  Cyber Monday 2008   deals   discounts   free shiping   online shopping  

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Smart reads: Kurzweil on consciousness; Dean Kamen; Esquire's 7 greatest stories

dean-kamen-portrait-1208-lg.jpg 3:04 PM Sun, Nov 30, 2008 | | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

Kurzweil: "Technology is a double-edged sword" is a new interview with futurist Ray Kurzweil, by Natasha Lomas at silicon.com. Will super intelligent machines ever have souls? The soul is a synonym for consciousness... and if we were to consider where......

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 Tags  C.J. Chivers   consciousness   Dean Kamen   Good reads   Ray Kurzweil   singularity  

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Hear NPR's tribute to Rhode Island jazz great Dave McKenna

mckenna_200.jpg 12:45 PM Sat, Nov 29, 2008 | | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

Remembering Jazz Pianist Dave McKenna. Terry Gross on NPR's Fresh Air on Thanksgiving Day. You can stream the 47-minute show at that link, as well as two "unreleased 1965 demo tracks featuring Dave McKenna on piano, with his sister Jean......

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 Tags  Dave McKenna   jazz   music   NPR   Terry Gross   tunes  

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Hot-selling Blu-ray video: What it is

Blu-ray_disc2.png 5:59 PM Fri, Nov 28, 2008 | | Comments (2)
By Sheila Lennon    Email

I got a note from downtown saying, "Lots of people were buying (Blu-ray) in the stores today...But we don't really know what it IS." Blu-ray video discs play high-quality movies (1080p) on high-definition TVs. Compared to regular DVDs, a Blu-ray......

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 Tags  Blu-ray   DVD   high-def   video formats  

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Kale & Squash Gratin, Pecan Pie wowed 'em at Thanksgiving

pecanpie.jpg 12:33 PM Fri, Nov 28, 2008 | | Comments (2)
By Sheila Lennon    Email

Kale and Butternut Squash Gratin I sniffed at kale: ...Kale and Butternut Squash Gratin, at right, from the Washington Post, looks intriguing, but kale can be tough, so I may use fresh spinach instead. After a family discussion, we......

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 Tags  kale   pecan pie   recipe   Sheila's photos   squash   Thanksgiving dinner   vegetables  

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Enjoy this crackling fireplace: high-quality, full screen and looping

2:16 AM Thu, Nov 27, 2008 | | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

To make this full screen, click the box to the left of the triangle, under the "ou T" in YouTube. The audio is quiet crackling. It should loop indefinitely. Source Happy Thanksgiving, let's hope it's a good one. Thanks......

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 Tags  fireplace video   video  

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Thanksgiving Chocolate Mousse; Truffles from France, $125 oz.; Fantasy draft for T-day dishes

mousse.jpg 10:47 PM Tue, Nov 25, 2008 | | Comments (1)
By Sheila Lennon    Email

Chocolate Mousse. For Andrea, from Toriello-Nicosia Thanksgiving Traditions at Midwest Living. "Jen's Grandmother has been making this recipe at the Toriello's Thanksgiving since Jen was a little girl. This mousse came to be known as "the fort" because of the......

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 Tags  chocolate mousse   geek holiday   recipe   Thanksgiving   truffles  

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