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December 7, 2008 - December 13, 2008 Archives

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Christmas music blogs dig up rare, obscure and best forgotten mp3s

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Tiptoeing gingerly through the wilds of music blogs... Distinctly Jamaican Sounds' Yes, Virginia, There Is A Reggae Santa Claus! blesses you with a Christmas mix, thoroughly annotated and ending with, I want to thank everyone ahead of time for your......

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 Tags  blogs   Christmas   Christmas music   music  

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Watergate researcher, journalist blogger, friend Liz Donovan dies

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Liz Donovan's Facebook profile photo; tributes are building there. Miami Herald obit: Liz Donovan, researcher on Watergate, dies. She was 63. When we first met online, this blog was a handmade html page, and Liz was writing WeBlog at......

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 Tags  1968   bloggers   Elisabeth Donovan   Liz Donovan   obit  

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Can a laptop and the Web replace cable TV?

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NYT illustration NBC's The Office on a laptop. The New York Times: "At ABC, 8 percent of viewers they track -- or about one out of every 12 people -- watch network shows solely online." Ditching cable for free......

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 Tags  cable TV   frugal  

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Daily Routines: Few night owls in this famous bunch

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Daily Routines is a blog about "How writers, artists, and other interesting people organize their days." Hemingway, Toni Morrison, George W. Bush, Thomas Friedman, Emily Post, Jacques Barzun -- they're all a bunch of early birds, rising at dawn. Only......

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 Tags  artists   writers  

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Dropping in on the sky

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M45: The Pleiades Star Cluster Credit & Copyright: Phillip L. Jones VisualUniverse.org Yesterday's Astronomy Picture of the Day (NASA) Explanation: Perhaps the most famous star cluster on the sky, the Pleiades can be seen without binoculars from even the......

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 Tags  astronomy   photos  

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Here's some of Dave McKenna's jazz memorial Sunday in Woonsocket

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Dave McKenna Memorial - Woonsocket R.I. Part 1 "Make Someone Happy," Dec. 7, 2008. Woonsocket-born jazz pianist Dave McKenna died Oct. 18. Friends, fans and fellow musicians gathered Sunday at St. Ann Arts and Cultural Center in his hometown......

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Update: Fashion designers sketch Inaugural frocks for Michelle Obama

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Update: Since I posted this late last night, I've been seeing lots of hits from Michelle Obama Watch, a site I was unaware of. It's a smart, newsy and lively blog, and deserves a look if you're interested in tracking......

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400+ photos fill legendary photographer's book about 'The Godfather'

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How they shot The Godfather, Daily Mail (UK). The headline doesn't really seem to go with the story, which is Mario Puzo's account of writing The Godfather and of others trying to cast the movie, excerpted from 1972's The Godfather......

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 Tags  Andy Warhol   books   John Kennedy   Marlon Brando   photos   Rene Magritte   Robert Kennedy  

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Sugarplums without plums: 3 recipes and a vision

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The children were nestled all snug in their beds, While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads; --Clement Clarke Moore, A Visit from Saint Nicholas, 1823aka 'Twas the Night Before Christmas, after the poem's first line Sugarplums aren't made......

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 Tags  A Visit from Saint Nicholas   Clement Moore   holiday recipes   holidays   recipes  

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