BBC NEWS | Americas | Bush admits to CIA secret prisons Just in time for the 5 year anniversary (tags: 911 Bush terror torture secretprisons cynical) 9/11 lung ailments linked to WTC air | Chicago Tribune (tags: 911 lung)
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BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Arctic Monkeys win Mercury prize Woohoo!! I love me some Arctic Monkeys. They make me feel not middle-aged (which I really am). Arctic Monkeys have won this year’s Mercury Prize for their album Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not. The Sheffield-based band, whose album became the fastest-selling debut in the UK in February, were strong favourites to take the award. Now maybe I’ll figure out how to get Last.fm and Audioscrobbler working. iTunes: Arctic Monkeys: Dancing Shoes: Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not [2:21]
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The Universal Packing List (tags: Travel) The Cute Project – Collecting the World’s Cuteness! (tags: Tentacles Everywhere Cute Kitten)
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American Routes: radio show from New Orleans Monday, 9–11 am: For four months after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, American Routes stayed on the air in the French Louisiana city of Lafayette. In this two-hour special, host Nick Spitzer revisits many artists who were displaced by the storms—including Allen Toussaint, Irma Thomas, David and Michael Doucet, and Aaron Neville. Plus, music and conversation by Wynton Marsalis and Ghanaian master dummer Yacub Addy, recorded live in New Orleans’s famed Congo Square. I’m listening to the Labor Day show of this excellent music program. It’s outstanding, and they just played one of…
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ABC News: Stingray Kills ‘Crocodile Hunter’ Irwin No, it wasn’t a croc that got him in the end, but a stingray thwapped him in the chest with the barbed tip of its tail. Irwin will be immortalized as the “Crikey!” guy who got right up close to dangerous animal. In this case, a few times too many…but I’ll always remember him as yet another celebrity baby-dangler.
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Workplace dangers | Chicago Tribune news | Business (tags: Immigrant Throwaway Workers) 2005 Vacation Rental Guide (tags: Cottage Rentals)
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UPDATE: We’re back up, we’re rollin.’ David and I returned early from our weekend trip to Michigan to see what was wrong. I posted this at Razzberry Vinaigrette. Since Blogula Rasa is down until we get home, this one is going to have to do for the moment. We’re heading back home a day early because the system that our blogs run on also runs some other sites that David considers critical, including the archives for his discussion lists. We’re currently in Grand Haven, MI – we stayed last night at our second choice hotel, a Best Western that’s had…
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I had the day off today, asked for it months ago in November, back before everything changed. Tomorrow would have been Mom’s 91st birthday, and the original idea was vaguely “go to Salt Lake for the long weekend and spend it with Mom,” since I missed part of her 90th birthday celebrations last year due to not asking for the Friday off of Labor Day weekend back in the November before that. Vacation days are hard to get around holiday weekend. Well, we’re not in Salt Lake. But we’re gallivanting around. We’re in St Joseph, MI, on the shores of…
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Community Involvement (tags: charity grants)