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Spice shops and Bittman’s Soup Recipes

There is no real connection between these great places to get spices and Bittman’s soup recipes, except that they were found on the same day. Penzeys Spices Home Page premier spice store (tags: food spices cooking) Welcome to World Spice Merchants Spice shop in Seattle, recommended (tags: spices food cooking shopping) Mark Bittman’s Customizable Soups […]

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Checking Plagiarism

Different Types of Plagiarism | WriteCheck Various resources for writers about plagiarism (tags: writing plagiarism)

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Free Online Course Materials at MIT, The HigherEd Teaching and Learning Portal, a very nice collection of electronic literature

Here are three very nice resources that may seem disparite, but have lots in common. They all deal with sharing excellent sources that deal with creativity, teaching, and learning. Free Online Course Materials | OCW Scholar | MIT OpenCourseWare “OCW Scholar courses are designed for independent learners who have few additional resources available to them.” […]

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Cutting Off the Internet

Egypt’s Autocrats Exploited Internet’s Weaknesses – NYTimes.com “But quickly lost in the swirl of revolution was the government’s ferocious counterattack, a dark achievement that many had thought impossible in the age of global connectedness. In a span of minutes just after midnight on Jan. 28, a technologically advanced, densely wired country with more than 20 […]

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A Place to Bury Strangers links for mid February, 2011

Interview with Oliver Ackermann of A Place To Bury Strangers | Rock Edition Heck yeah, thanks for making this happen! (tags: interview aptbs oliver) Beirut Gulag Orkestar Josh Ritter So Runs World Wallpaper | Tiled Desktop Wallpaper “Download this free wallpaper with images “ (tags: BestOf2010)

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Spring planting, February

Planted one row of lettuce, Feb 11, 2011. The weather was pretty good and Heidi Lewis said, on Facebook, that  she was planting. Planted three short rows of peas today, February 13, 2011. One of Sugar Snap – dated 2006 Two of  Snow Peas – probably from 2008 It is windy today, but the temperature […]

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Death By Audio – Interview & Story, February 2011

Made in New York: Oliver Ackermann’s Death By Audio : SonicScoop – Creative, Technical & Business Connections For NYC’s Music & Sound Community ““It just goes to show,” says Ackermann, “anyone can be in business doing what they love. As long as you’re doing the things you really love every day, you’re going the right […]

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Women as computers

Top Secret Rosies “In 1942, when computers were human and women were underestimated, a group of female mathematicians helped win a war and usher in the modern computer age. Sixty-five years later their story has finally been told. “ (tags: mathematics women history computing computers)

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APtBS at Grasslands on January 29, 2011

Flickriver: Photoset ‘A Place to Bury Strangers’ by Debi Del Grande (tags: aptbs pics) Show Review: Guards, A Place to Bury Strangers, and Caveman (Glasslands, Jan 29) | Showlistix “In contrast, A Place To Bury Strangers played like the world was about to end, slinging their music, their instruments and themselves around in space with […]

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AI, Gaming, and Adopting New Technologies links for 2011-02-07

What Is Artificial Intelligence? – NYTimes.com “I.B.M.’s groundbreaking question-answering system, running on roughly 2,500 parallel processor cores, each able to perform up to 33 billion operations a second, is playing a pair of “Jeopardy!” matches against the show’s top two living players, to be aired on Feb. 14, 15 and 16. “ (tags: ai ibm […]

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