Free: Better Christmas gift tags to print

Many sites offer free printable tags, although not a lot are drop-dead gorgeous and many are kitschy or worse. The Santas above are simple and well-formatted, freeprintablegifttags.net doesn't want your email address and only makes you promise you won't...

Al Franken up in Minn. Senate recount; news site lets readers judge ballots

Democrat Al Franken leads by 251 votes over Republican Sen. Norm Coleman on this leg of the Senate race recount, says the Minnesota Star-Tribune. Political statistician (math geek) Nate Silver at fivethirtyeight Franken is Winning, and Coleman Knows It 3....

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Voice of the Star Trek computer, Majel Roddenberry, dies at 76

StarTrek.com Majel and Gene Roddenberry. Star Trek Universe Loses Majel Barrett Roddenberry. The actress, widow of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, played Nurse Christine Chapel in the original "Star Trek," and Lwaxana Troi (free-spirited mother of Counselor Deanna Troi)...

Christmas cookie recipe: Cut to the chocolate

The Baltimore Sun originally published the story (Revisiting our favorite holiday cookie recipes), but the Orlando Sentinel published the photos, and that's what sold me. It's a soft sugar cookie iced with melted chocolate chips. Suzanne Laubheimer's Version of the...

Free audio book: '33 1/3: Bob Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited'

Download 33 1/3: Bob Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited (Free Version) (Unabridged) by Mark Polizzotti; free audio book at Audible.com You can download and burn it to CD for the Dylan freak in the family, perhaps wrapping it along with a...

House Cybersecurity chair Langevin taking questions online

At tech news site and programmers' haven Slashdot, Robin Miller, Editor in Chief of SourceForge, which owns Slashdot, passed on an invitation from Congressman Jim Langevin's office: Slashdot | Ask Cybersecurity Commission Chairman Jim Langevin About US Cybersecurity Plans US...

Free mp3s: Burn a CD of 'The Messiah' as a frugal gift

Updated Wednesday, 3:12 a.m. Handel's Messiah - Boston 2008. Handel and Haydn Society, Boston 2008 [no label, 3CD]. Live at the Symphony Hall, Boston, Mass., December 7, 2008. Very good FM broadcast. As blogger Shelley Powers noted in comments below,...

Shop: 2008 tech, shipping deadlines, small gifts, Freecycle

Holiday Gift Guide: Electronics edition, at the Atlantic, begins, Well, it's hard to find cheap steals in electronics, so I'll just go ahead and recommend them, and you can view it as a nostalgic symbol of better times I think...

Antique Christmas recordings; Dream playback is coming; 2008 ideas

Saying, "I released VOCP 10 years ago and each year as we get closer to the Christmas holidays I get overwhelmed with requests for it. The disc is out of print and I have no copies left so I've...