Seattle Folk Smell the Coffee -- in Their Gardens (Reuters)

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Gardens-Guide.com is a New Directory of
over 450 Gardens Open to the Public in
the UK and Ireland

Gardens-Guide.com is a New Directory of
over 450 Gardens Open to the Public in
the UK and Ireland 06/24/2005 08:50 PM
Gardens-Guide.com is the premiere online directory of gardens open to the public in the UK and Ireland. Extensive information is available for each garden in the directory, including a large picture, contact details, garden website, detailed and overview maps, opening times and entrance fees, facilities available, disabled access facilities, and an extensive history, description and special features of each garden. [PRWEB Jun 23, 2005]

Dogs Trained to Smell Bladder Cancer in
Urine (Reuters)

Dogs Trained to Smell Bladder Cancer in
Urine (Reuters) 09/24/2004 11:07 AM
Reuters - Man's best friend could also be a lifesaver in the fight against cancer.

Overworked Police Dogs Losing Sense of
Smell (Reuters)

Overworked Police Dogs Losing Sense of
Smell (Reuters) 04/23/2004 10:52 AM
Reuters - Madrid's police dogs and their trainers have been so overworked since the March 11 Madrid train bombings that the dogs are losing their ability to detect bombs, a police union official said.

Coffee With Networking for Macmillan's
World's Biggest Coffee Morning

Coffee With Networking for Macmillan's
World's Biggest Coffee Morning 09/13/2004 03:17 AM
Worlds Biggest Coffee Morning Event to auction off lots from original works of art to lunch with IT/telecoms journalists. Great fun for a great cause. [PRWEB Sep 13, 2004]

Fancy a coffee-flavoured steak?
(Reuters)

Fancy a coffee-flavoured steak?
(Reuters) 01/17/2004 10:48 PM
Reuters - The city that spawned America's obsession with strong, dark coffee is giving locals a popular new coffee-flavoured steak, even while the mad cow scare that started in Washington state is putting some people off beef.

Model gets millions for coffee mug shot
(Reuters)

Model gets millions for coffee mug shot
(Reuters) 02/05/2005 09:24 PM
Reuters - A California jury has ordered Nestle USA to pay nearly $16 million (8.5 million pounds) to a model whose face appeared on Taster's Choice coffee labels in 18 countries for six years without his knowledge, his lawyer says.

Jailed Bomber Let Out for Coffee at
Starbucks (Reuters)

Jailed Bomber Let Out for Coffee at
Starbucks (Reuters) 09/02/2004 08:31 AM
Reuters - A Bali bomber serving a life term for his role in the nightclub blasts that killed 202 people was treated by police to an outing at an up-market shopping mall in the Indonesian capital, police admitted Thursday.

Jailed Bali bomber gets coffee at
Starbucks (Reuters)

Jailed Bali bomber gets coffee at
Starbucks (Reuters) 09/02/2004 02:15 AM
Reuters - A Bali bomber serving a life term for his role in the nightclub blasts that killed 202 people was treated by police to an outing at a ritzy shopping mall in the Indonesian capital, police admit.

Ravenous burglar arrested in Seattle
(Reuters)

Ravenous burglar arrested in Seattle
(Reuters) 08/12/2004 12:54 AM
Reuters - A hungry burglar more interested in food than glittering jewellery broke into nearly a dozen Seattle homes in the last week to gobble down vast quantities of food before being arrested, police say.

Starbucks brings frappuccino to
coffee-proud Paris (Reuters)

Starbucks brings frappuccino to
coffee-proud Paris (Reuters) 01/16/2004 10:56 AM
Reuters - U.S. coffee chain Starbucks has nudged its way onto the French cafe scene, opening its first Parisian branch in an attempt to win over a sceptical, espresso-proud nation with American-style latte and brownies.

World's largest book unveiled in Seattle
(Reuters)

World's largest book unveiled in Seattle
(Reuters) 12/29/2003 11:41 PM
Reuters - How about a little light reading?

Home State of Rainy Seattle Declares
Drought (Reuters)

Home State of Rainy Seattle Declares
Drought (Reuters) 03/14/2005 06:13 PM
Reuters - With snowpacks at a quarter of normal levels and sunny, warm days well ahead of the summer months, the home state of the "rainy city" of Seattle declared a drought emergency on Thursday.

Gardens cool and trendy now

Gardens cool and trendy now 05/07/2004 11:58 AM

"The Blog Generation Takes Up Its Trowels" is a NY Times article on young urban gardners, many of whom are artists. The article describes, "a passion that is blossoming among a certain segment of culturally plugged-in urban 20-somethings and early-30-somethings. They may not own backyards, but they are determined to make things grow." Why that sounds just like me! Alas, I found the article annoying and hipstery, but I'm happy that more people are discoverying the joys of gardening.

Also, what? "The Blog Generation"? Egad.

Victory Gardens set to purchase Biograph

Victory Gardens set to purchase Biograph 07/22/2004 01:13 AM
Chicagotribune.com - Tue Jul 20, 02:02 pm GMT

Victory Garden Contest Looks For Top
Kid's Gardens

Victory Garden Contest Looks For Top
Kid's Gardens 08/13/2004 09:07 AM
The Victory Garden TV show and web site wants kids to get growing. That's why they've created the "Fast Food From The Garden contest." The winner of the contest will have their garden appear on another PBS show, ZOOM! Imagine sharing your garden with kids all over the country!

Water-Wise Plants for California Gardens

Water-Wise Plants for California Gardens 12/02/2003 01:16 AM
The California fires of 2003 have inspired a lot of Web resources, including a guide to water-saving, fire resistant plants. You can find it at http://bewaterwise.com/. Click straight to the Southern California Heritage Gardening Guide for a guide to over...

Tracking kids by Bluetooth at Tivoli
Gardens

Tracking kids by Bluetooth at Tivoli
Gardens 04/27/2004 07:27 AM
infoSync Apr 27 2004 10:41AM GMT

White House Gardens Opened to the Public
(AP)

White House Gardens Opened to the Public
(AP) 04/16/2004 02:18 PM
AP - First lady Laura Bush, showing off the White House gardens Friday, recounted the heartbreak she felt walking through them after the Sept. 11 attacks and the comfort they provided later. The gardens are open to the public this weekend.

Site Launched for Better Homes and
Gardens New Home Give-Away

Site Launched for Better Homes and
Gardens New Home Give-Away 02/01/2005 08:51 PM
Big changes are needed in American home design, according to Better Homes and Gardens survey of nearly 60,000 Americans. The survey identified key factors as vital to the future of American homebuilding, and based on this, Better Homes and Gardens will design and build the Better Home Better Living House which will be featured in the magazine and on its website throughout 2005. The project house and its contents, a $500,000 value, will be given away in a nationwide sweepstakes through the magazine's website at www.WinAmericasHome.com

Early web folk art

Early web folk art 03/11/2003 09:43 AM
A student of Clay's is compiling a catalog of "early popular web culture" and she needs our help (via bb). Let's reminisce... Here's a few things

Jobs for PHP Folk

Jobs for PHP Folk 01/15/2003 12:51 PM
Jobs for PHP Folk Well I guess if any of us PHP folk want to get a job of the type that our Mom warned us about then we know the tools we need. [_Go_]

"Latino Folk Art"

"Latino Folk Art" 03/24/2005 11:32 PM

Concrete Folk Art

Concrete Folk Art 12/24/2004 12:21 PM
Fred Smith's Concrete Park near Phillips, Wisconsin. "Born in 1886, a tavern owner and former lumberjack, Fred Smith began building sculptures in 1948, in his 60s. He created more than 200 concrete sculptures and covered them with broken beer bottle glass from his tavern. Said Fred, 'nobody knows why I made them, not even me.' " [more inside]

41 Arrested in Police Sweep Through
Nickerson Gardens (Los Angeles Times)

41 Arrested in Police Sweep Through
Nickerson Gardens (Los Angeles Times) 01/22/2004 10:26 AM
Los Angeles Times - More than 400 heavily armed Los Angeles police officers and FBI agents broke down doors and rousted residents of the state's largest public housing project before dawn Wednesday, arresting 41 alleged gang members who authorities say dealt in violence and crack cocaine throughout South Los Angeles.

Enterprise folk like music?

Enterprise folk like music? 08/11/2004 02:01 PM

Erioc Norlin has this "A Super-cool Identity Application".

In it - it surmises that business folk - who walk into a conference room - will have thier identities senses by Bluetooth and.....

So dude - I love yah - right? You knwo taht - right? But (for me) teh Bluetooth sensing of my Identity in a work environment will load up my relevant docs, spreadsheets, meeting notes, agenda and presentation - automatically.

I mean I love it when enterprise folks reach over - and try to act human - but let's face it - there's PLENTY of things to do with identity in the workplace - and having customized favorite music play - in a conference room - ain't gonna happen real soon.

Here's Eric's post....

A Super-cool Identity Application

Imagine:

you walk into a conference room; dial into a con call on the polycomm; the polycomm senses your bluetooth phone and (using a discovery service) looks at your personal attribute known as "music preferences"; thus your current favorite music (by how often you listen to it) is downloaded from your "federated" mp3 player -- and the hold music while you wait for your fellow con-callers is *your* favorite music.

sound a bit advanced? actually, you could (technically) do this right now with the Liberty Alliance specifications...

[Eric Norlin's Weblog]

Rural Folk May Yet Get Broadband

Rural Folk May Yet Get Broadband 04/17/2004 04:51 AM
In the latest effort to bring high-speed Internet access to rural areas, the FCC proposes letting wireless service providers share airwaves currently used by satellites and radar. Satellite companies hasten to protect their slice of the spectrum. By Elisa Batista.

Experience Working with HCI Folk

Experience Working with HCI Folk 08/20/2002 05:48 PM

Midwest Company Transforms Commercial
Roofs Into Money Saving Gardens.

Midwest Company Transforms Commercial
Roofs Into Money Saving Gardens. 08/27/2004 01:33 PM
Green Roof Blocks, a new company based in St. Louis, MO., has created an easy to install green roof system that reduces energy costs and increases the life of a commercial roof by up to four times. [PRWEB Aug 25, 2004]

Pearls of wisdom from ordinary folk

Pearls of wisdom from ordinary folk 09/13/2004 05:03 PM
PageWise offers tips and little essays in simple language: Organize your work desk and files, Care for someone with Alzheimer's, Reduce holiday stress, Parenting advice that really works(!), Fix cooking mistakes, The basics of clothing stain removal. It's a cheap shot, but I particularly liked "Help you child in improving their writing skills". But why wouldn't they build in a search feature? I had to google to find again the article on restraining the elderly. (And what's the deal with the similar WebGuru?).

Korean Psych And Acid Folk

Korean Psych And Acid Folk 07/08/2004 08:53 PM
Korean Psych And Acid Folk • An introduction to the late-60s/early-70s experimental music of Korea. Bonus: be among the few Westerners to hear these ultra-rare tracks by the Pe arl Sisters with songwriting contributions from a man known as the "godfather of Korean rock and roll", Shin Joong-Hyun, who is credited with influencing Korea's heavier rock scene of the last two decades.

Folk Process defined and expanded upon

Folk Process defined and expanded upon 07/29/2004 05:05 AM
Hot on the heels of the attack on Woody Guthrie's memory (in the form of a lawsuit against political parodists who used his "This Land is Your Land" as part of a Flash movie) is this wonderful piece on what Pete Seeger called "the folk process" -- the way that traditional art has been made by ripping, mixing and burning the art that preceded it.

Guthrie may be right that Pete Seeger was the first to coin the term "folk process", but the process of oral song-transmission through through variation and selection was being analyzed even before Pete Seeger's birth in 1919. And the process itself has been operating as long as there have been songs. The folk process was described, though not so named, by Cecil Sharp in 1907: "[Development of a folk song] involves the three principles of continuity, variation, and selection."

Link

Ordinary Folk Honor Reagan at U.S.
Capitol

Ordinary Folk Honor Reagan at U.S.
Capitol 06/10/2004 05:54 PM
Reuters via Wired News Jun 10 2004 10:17PM GMT

Fake album folk-art (and who is
Mingering Mike?)

Fake album folk-art (and who is
Mingering Mike?) 01/16/2004 11:35 AM
A participant in the soulstrut hip-hop/vinyl/dj culture discussion boards stumbled on an amazing find at a flea market -- a collection of hand-drawn "imaginary record covers". Homegrown funky folk art: Howard Finster meets Motown.

"About 35 or 40 hand-drawn and hand-painted album covers made between 1969 and 1976, some complete with fake cardboard records inside them. Apparently some guy who called himself 'Mingering Mike' put together all of these albums as if he were the musician.

"The covers are complete with hand-drawn barcodes, track listings, lyrics, drawings of the band(s), and in some cases, liner notes. He did soul and funk albums and blaxploitation soundtracks (for movies that never existed), and even a christmas album!"

Link (Thanks, Riana)

Online Archive of American Folk Medicine

Online Archive of American Folk Medicine 03/26/2005 07:17 AM
University of California-Los Angeles: Online Archive of American Folk
Medicine
http://www.folkmed.ucla.edu/
The Archive of American Folk Medicine is the result of more than 50 years of work by UCLA-associated folklorists who "documented beliefs and practices relating to folk medicine and alternative healthcare. In order to make the data more readily available to the worldwide community of researchers and medical practitioners, the Online Archive of American Folk Medicine was established in 1996 under the direction of Dr. Michael Owen Jones, a professor of folklore and history at UCLA." The Archive draws from over 3,200 published works, and is intended to serve folklorists, sociologists, and historians. The website provides basic and advanced search options; and records include brief entries for Citation, Condition, Belief, Method of Treatment, and more. Users should be aware that the Archive website has not been updated in several years but it remains a valuable resource for researchers and others interested in folk medicine. This has been added to Healthcare Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Healthcare Rersources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. [From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2004. http://scout.wisc.edu/]

Veteran Tabor wins top folk prize

Veteran Tabor wins top folk prize 02/10/2004 02:55 AM
Veteran folk artist June Tabor is named folk singer of the year at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards in London.

Folk street-art in discarded urban space

Folk street-art in discarded urban space 02/10/2004 04:49 AM
BoingBoing reader Heidi says,

"Rob Walker writes about the North Claiborne area of New Orleans, where a community still uses an area as public space -- even though it's now under a freeway. Some of the highway support columns are painted with murals, but the most interesting column is plastered with newspaper obituaries of neighborhood residents. Photos are included in the essay."

Link

peterme.com: Mob indexing? Folk
categorization? Social tagging?

peterme.com: Mob indexing? Folk
categorization? Social tagging? 01/04/2005 09:18 AM
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Japanese Folk Singer Wins Parliament
Seat (AP)

Japanese Folk Singer Wins Parliament
Seat (AP) 07/11/2004 12:59 PM
AP - A peace-loving, flower-wielding Japanese folk rock star who campaigned against the war in Iraq claimed a parliamentary seat Sunday — one of the more unorthodox victories for Japan's largest opposition party in the national elections.

tell, tell, you smell....

tell, tell, you smell.... 07/01/2004 02:17 PM
Stasi, meet Highway Watch: The Department of Homeland Security this year gave $19.3 million to the American Trucking Associations, which is based So far, 10,000 truckers have signed on to become amateur sleuths. Over the next year, the goal is to add tollbooth workers, rest-stop employees and construction crews, creating a corps of 400,000 people drawn from every state. A child of Operation TIPS, of course.
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