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OurTunes: Reader Matt Ramos writes,

I found mp3s of Handel's Messiah and Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Ballet at the Peabody Institute's web site.

On the Morning News I followed the link to a video of the amazing Time Fountain, in which dripping water moves in slow motion. (screenshot at right)

I then searched for more info on the music used in the video and ended up at the Peabody Institute.

It's amazing where links and searches will take you.

Matt

http://www.peabody.jhu.edu/743
http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/headlines/2006/December/08/
http://cre.ations.net/creation/the-time-fountain

Thanks, Matt!

There are more Santa's Boots at BigO:

Christmas Twist - Syd Straw & Los Lobos
Happy Christmas (War is Over) - John Hiatt & Los Lobos
Angels We Have Heard on High - Christmas Heritage Band
Dradle, Dradle - Chris Isaak

And a 1970 Derek And The Dominos concert: Live at the Music Hall, Cincinnati, November 26, 1970. (If you're drawing a blank, it's Eric Clapton and friends.)

And Randy Newman, San Francisco 1972.

And Bill Marsland comes back with some more: holiday links:

Thanks for the "Lovely Mrs. Davis" link. That was fun.

I've found some other places for holiday music and fun you might want to share.

First, a clever little holiday 'toon version of White Christmas at http://badaboo.free.fr/merryxmas.swf which takes about 2 minutes to watch.

I found the link at http://bongobells.blogspot.com/ and they warn:

"Santa and his Reindeer Sing White Christmas. You are just one click away from a very cute Christmas diversion; if you are at the office take a two minute break and invite cubicle mates over for some entertainment."

Look around bongobells to find a copy of a Robert Goulet Holiday album, several Christmas swing .zip files and the treasure chest find, a link to a list of links by http://easydreamer.blogspot.com/2006/11/christmas-audio-2006.html

Craigslist's "for us, by us" baffles Wall Street: This is a hoot. Just An Online Minute... Stunning Wall Street, Shunning Profits. The perp is Jim Buckmaster of Craigslist. Wendy Davis of MediaPost writes,

IN WHAT TURNED OUT TO be a culture clash of near-epic proportions, Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster spoke to the investment community this morning at the UBS global media conference in New York. UBS analyst Ben Schachter asked Buckmaster a standard financial world question: How does the site plan to maximize revenue?

The CEO of the online classifieds site answered as follows: "That definitely is not part of the equation. It's not part of the goal."

"I think a lot of people are catching their breath right now," responded Schachter, as the crowd absorbed Buckmaster's remarks.

Buckmaster, on stage in jeans and a blazer, insisted that the company--which has emerged as a significant threat to newspapers and other companies that sell classified ads--doesn't especially want to make money....

The photo is of Buckmaster in Providence last year, when he dropped by the Journal to be interviewed by a few of us and photographed by Kris Craig. The San Franciscan was surprised that he couldn't stop at any corner here and pick up a wi-fi signal.

Taste: How Art Can Be Good Paul Graham, author of Hackers and Painters. "For us by us" again:

What counts as a trick? Roughly, it's something done with contempt for the audience. For example, the guys designing Ferraris in the 1950s were probably designing cars that they themselves admired. Whereas I suspect over at General Motors the marketing people are telling the designers, "Most people who buy SUVs do it to seem manly, not to drive off-road. So don't worry about the suspension; just make that sucker as big and tough-looking as you can."

Grow your own furniture: How to help nature make you a three-legged stool. For the patient.

In about five years the frame should be sufficiently robust to allow you to harvest it and to add the top of your choice.

Tech magic: How to Turn an Ordinary Photo Into an Extraordinary Photo. Another useful Photoshop how-to. Worth looking at even if you don't know how to do anything but resize a photo.

Basement Congressman: On the Hill, the sound of silence: John Sweeney, still reeling from re-election loss to Kirsten Gillibrand, fails to show for votes.

WASHINGTON -- Since losing re-election last month, Rep. John Sweeney (R-N.Y.) has played hooky in Congress, skipping votes, dodging reporters and avoiding his new make-shift office in a basement cubicle set up for lame ducks.

Sweeney's friends and colleagues Capitol Hill say the Republican from Clifton Park is still stunned about the outcome of the Nov. 7 election when he lost to Democratic challenger Kirsten Gillibrand.

Rep. Pete Sessions, R-Texas, a close friend of Sweeney's, says the four-term Republican is "frustrated and angry" and feels he was unfairly attacked a week before the election after the Times Union and other newspapers disclosed that police had investigated a domestic dispute between Sweeney and his wife on Dec. 2, 2005....

Strange:

Sweeney believes he picked up "a bug" during congressional trips to Iraq and Afghanistan, according to Sessions.

"A bug got into his system and lodged in his brain," Sessions said. "It caused unimaginable pain and stress."

Stranger:

He said he had offered Sweeney a phone and a bed in his own office last week, in case he doesn't like the make-shift temporary basement cubicles near the cafeteria storeroom where House members who lost elections were moved from their grand office suites.

If you lose, you're banished to the basement to finish out your term? Isn't that a bit harsh?