Appalachian Radio.
WMMT in Whitesburg, Kentucky, broadcasts a good mix of country, bluegrass, and old-time banjo music from the heart of Appalachia. […]
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Language is a virus.
Say you’re a Dadaist poet, but you’re tired of slicing up ribbons of newspaper to make your random poetry. You
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Manufactured meat.
If you are vegetarian, can you eat muscle tissue that’s been grown in a laboratory? Burgers from a lab? US
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Friedman the flattener.
I read Thomas Friedman’s early book, The Lexus and the Olive Tree, when I was trying to get a handle
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Google SMS.
Google SMS is a handy tool — just send your query as an SMS message to 46645 (“GOOGL” on the
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Free banjo lessons!
Want to learn how to frail the old banjo? Patrick Costello wrote a couple of books on the topic last
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Guess-the-Google.
How quickly can you scan a grid of 20 seemingly unrelated images and guess the word used on Google’s image
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Death by Tech Support
Ready to end it all? Believe us, nothing will suck the life out of you like spending an hour on
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Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ5 vs. Kodak EasyShare Z740
Whether it’s because of fear, prudence, or a restraining order, sometimes you just can’t get close enough for a decent
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Google Picasa 2
You know them: annoying Mac users who are always going on about Apple’s supposed “usability,” its “elegant design,” and all