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The geometry of Lowell’s mills
Tony Sampas finds poetry in the geometry of Lowell’s mills.
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Citizen Journalist Video of Bin Laden Compound
Here is a video taken by a Citizen Journalist of the compound in which Osama Bin Laden was killed by American forces.
Read More »Live Tweet Thread of Bin Laden Attack
An IT contractor named Sohaib Athar unknowingly tweeted the American assault on Osama Bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan. Below is Athar’s tweet thread from the night of the attack. In order to make the text easier to understand, I reverse ordered the posts so they read from earliest to latest…
Read More »From Desert One to Abbottabad
On April 24, 1980, the world awoke to news that the a rescue mission launched by the United States to retrieve its Iranian Embassy personnel who were being held hostage in Tehran had ended in a deadly failure. While at an intermediate position known as Desert One, a series of…
Read More »“Open Court” Debuts in Quincy District Court Today
The “Open Court” project begins a pilot experiment in public access today in the busy Quincy, Massachusetts District Court. Court proceedings will be streamed live over the Web for anyone to see – in fact as I write I’m viewing/listening to the action. From an AP story: “The courtroom, which usually does…
Read More »Law Day and the death of bin Laden
Growing up in the 1960s and 70s, I always watched the network news on May 1 because that’s the day that the Soviet Union would parade its most advanced military equipment through Red Square as part of that country’s May Day celebration. To contrast the Soviet glorification of military power,…
Read More »“Meanderings” by Jim Peters
Frequent contributor Jim Peters shared some thoughts with us over the weekend: I have been reading a bit of Robert Burns, the Scottish poet, and I really enjoy reading a poem he dedicated to a louse on a lady’s bonnet at church. He uses most of the poem to describe…
Read More »Lowell Sustainability Photo Contest
What part of Lowell do you want to pass on to future generations? That’s the question that the city’s just-announced photo contest asks: Nearly ten years ago, the City of Lowell created a citywide Master Plan, thereby establishing a shared and comprehensive framework for long range development. This year the…
Read More »Obama Speech, Bin Laden Killed
President Obama informs the nation that American forces killed Osama Bin Laden:
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