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December 2009 Archives
6:43 PM Tue, Dec 29, 2009 | Permalink |
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JibJab wraps up the year in short order: Never a Year Like '09. Perfect for vacation blogging.......
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11:12 AM Sun, Dec 27, 2009 | Permalink |
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Red is coming, 2007 by Czech artist Kristof Kintera . Other views. Via VVORK mp3s: John Lennon - Fulfilling The Fantasies. Outtakes from Double Fantasy. blogs: Wonderfully written Pee and Sympathy: True Stories from an RN is improbably touted......
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9:08 AM Sat, Dec 26, 2009 | Permalink |
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Among sports writers, writing about Tiger Woods' lifestyle lately has sometimes seemed awkward. Those who insisted "his personal life is personal, I'm just writing about golf and business" often showed a whiff of "me, too so what can I say"......
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11:12 PM Thu, Dec 24, 2009 | Permalink |
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Merry Christmas, and joy to you.......
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11:19 AM Wed, Dec 23, 2009 | Permalink |
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N.Y. Daily News photo /Beatrice Peltre Gingerbread Buche de Noel: "The quintessential Christmas dessert is a showstopper that's worth the extra effort it takes to make a cake from scratch, plus buttercream, plus meringue mushrooms. The Wednesday Food sections......
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2:18 AM Wed, Dec 23, 2009 | Permalink |
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O Come, O Come Emmanuel by Lone Spring Arts. Ignore the fog. The men's and women's voices blend powerfully in this stark performance. Wikipedia: "It is believed that the traditional music stems from a 15th Century French processional for......
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10:56 AM Tue, Dec 22, 2009 | Permalink |
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Sunday, during a break in the Pats lurching over Buffalo, Christmas Eve dinner came up. We're not Italian. I didn't even know about the Feast of the Seven Fishes till I was middle-aged. The closest we ever came to a......
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11:33 AM Mon, Dec 21, 2009 | Permalink |
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☃ Unicode Holiday Xmas Tree This is mindless fun. Unicode is a character set that assigns a unique number to each character in each of the major languages of the world including musical notation and common images; it shares some......
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7:20 AM Sun, Dec 20, 2009 | Permalink |
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Gourmet's Favorite Cookie Recipes: 1941-2008. Retested but unchanged. The Brown Butter cookies above, from 1961, call for 2/3 cup sugar and 1 tablespoon vanilla sugar. That's made from a vanilla bean that sits in sugar for a while. Don't......
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11:08 AM Sat, Dec 19, 2009 | Permalink |
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AP Live feed: Snow at the White House. It's like watching gray paint dry. (This is a random screenshot; sometimes the camera zooms in and there's more contrast.)......
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3:34 AM Sat, Dec 19, 2009 | Permalink |
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Checking in on more newspaper food sections tonight, I see the Hattiesburg (Miss.) American's Recipes for Christmas dinner: Tartar Sauce, Potato Soup in a Jar, Cranberry Jam. This is Christmas dinner? Where do you put the tartar sauce?......
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11:59 AM Thu, Dec 17, 2009 | Permalink |
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Providence Journal / Sandor Bodo Frutti di Mare piles shrimp, clams, scallops and lobster over linguini. Providence Journal: Gail Ciampa is all over this one. Tradition endures of serving seven fish dishes on Christmas Eve includes Broiled Smelts, Baccala......
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9:18 AM Thu, Dec 17, 2009 | Permalink |
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Providence Journal / Frieda Squires Chef Kevin Thiele, of One Bellevue at the Hotel Viking, in Newport, suggests serving this Herb and Sea Salt-Crusted Bone-In Rib Roast with Truffled Steak Fries and Creamed Spinach. Wednesday is Food-section day throughout......
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10:41 PM Wed, Dec 16, 2009 | Permalink |
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Velvet Underground LIVE from the NYPL, December 8, 2009. mp3. Yes, the New York Public Library, flanked by lions named Patience and Fortitude. This is a retrospective interview, not a concert. The Rumpus: The Velvet Underground's Not-Quite-a-Reunion Reunion: Soon the......
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1:16 AM Wed, Dec 16, 2009 | Permalink |
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N.Y. Times photo Wen-Wen Lam of LinkedIn may be at a party in San Francisco, but her attention is not. We can't see the forest for the T-Mobiles As we consume Apples and BlackBerrys, natural world beats a sensory......
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2:04 AM Tue, Dec 15, 2009 | Permalink |
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Just a few years ago we were in awe of programmed Christmas lights. Now an 8-year-old can do it. Maybe. Christmas Light Hero. The blurb at YouTube: What do you get when you mix a Christmas Light show with Guitar......
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3:40 AM Mon, Dec 14, 2009 | Permalink |
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In what world is this a good idea? Blippy is a fun and easy way to see and discuss the things people are buying. Automatically share your favorite purchases from iTunes, Amazon, Zappos, Visa, MasterCard, and more. Broadcast everything you......
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11:51 AM Sat, Dec 12, 2009 | Permalink |
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Fimoculous.com "aggregates all of the lists related to 2009." Among them, many best books, songs and cds, movies and gadgets recommendations from various named sources; last year's lists and others back to 2001 are linked at the bottom of the......
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10:27 PM Thu, Dec 10, 2009 | Permalink |
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Talking Heads - Saratoga Springs 1983 Live at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, NY, August 5, 1983. Very good soundboard. (This show has also been listed as August 3, 1983.) David Byrne, Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth met......
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1:55 AM Thu, Dec 10, 2009 | Permalink |
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Monday night, more than 440 theaters nationwide will screen a documentary about Doctors Without Borders, an "international medical humanitarian organization created by doctors and journalists in France in 1971" as Médecins Sans Frontières. These doctors go where the need is......
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7:03 PM Tue, Dec 08, 2009 | Permalink |
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This is Part 2 of our survey of Food Editors' holiday cookie recipe choices. Here's Part 1. Providence Journal Food Editor Gail Ciampa's personal bake-off has ended with a platter full of tested cookie recipes, far right: Cranberry Pistachio Biscotti,......
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10:56 PM Mon, Dec 07, 2009 | Permalink |
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MIT wins Defense Department balloon hunt, a test of social networking savvy. WaPo. MIT Team Wins DARPA Network Challenge. Information Week: Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers took less than nine hours to find 10 weather balloons that the Defense Advanced......
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8:25 PM Fri, Dec 04, 2009 | Permalink |
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This is Part 1 of our survey of Food Editors' holiday cookie recipe choices. Here's Part 2. A reader requested that I survey the food sections for cookies as I do for holiday dinner recipes. Here's the first installment. This......
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11:18 PM Thu, Dec 03, 2009 | Permalink |
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Happy holidays from Gmail Sure, email is great, but there's something uniquely heartwarming about the kind of card that comes in the actual mail -- especially for folks who don't hear from us as often as they should, simply......
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11:44 AM Thu, Dec 03, 2009 | Permalink |
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Aftermath: Asian carp: State's fish kill in Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal yields only 1 Asian carp. Chicago Tribune. Killer carp: In hiding or just a big fish tale? Detroit Free Press: The discovery of one dead carp may not......
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1:45 AM Wed, Dec 02, 2009 | Permalink |
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My colleague Beth Heaney has only one specialty cookie, passed down from her grandmother via her Aunt Anna. She says they're such a tradition in her family that if she showed up for a holiday without them, "Everyone would......
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9:34 AM Tue, Dec 01, 2009 | Permalink |
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"This Propp set (c. 1923) includes figural lamps from Japan, including (from left to right): a monkey, fish, strawberry, pine cone, banana, frog, Santa, and a dove. All these lamps have carbon filaments. The red sockets on the festoon......
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12:22 AM Tue, Dec 01, 2009 | Permalink |
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Rosanne Cash - Brooklyn 2009 Live at St Ann's Warehouse, Brooklyn, NY, October 9, 2009. Very good soundboard. A crisp and clear recording, this is truly heartfelt by the numbers and thanks to Evil Dr Louie for sharing the lossless......
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