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Conan's perfect swan song: 'Freebird' with a little help from his friends
...To all the people watching, I can never thank you enough for your kindness to me and I'll think about it for the rest of my life. All I ask of you is one thing: please don't be cynical. I...
January 23, 2010 9:35 am
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Book comes with its own video trailer
Raj Patel: The Value of Nothing is a new species -- a video preview of a book. Author Patel illustrates his premises with photos, graphics and news footage, and, at that YouTube link, you can read the first chapter...
January 22, 2010 4:38 pm
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Sculpture places itself for sale on eBay every 7 days
A Tool to Deceive and Slaughter (2009) - Caleb Larsen, the scuplture at right, is on eBay. The product description is followed by legal terms of the sale. They begin, A. Artist has created a work of art titled "A...
January 21, 2010 10:51 pm
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A little humor about airport security from the Canadians
A send-up of airport security from CBC TV's Rick Mercer Report: RMR: A Message From Transport Canada. "Please arrive three days prior to your flight."...
January 21, 2010 11:12 am
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1972 children's book online: '2010: Living in the Future'
2010: Living In the Future | the book. Dan Sinker, who teaches journalism at Columbia College Chicago, bought the children's book as a library discard in the '80s, and is putting it online, a few pages a day of...
January 20, 2010 12:42 pm
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Bobby Charles died -- you know his music if not his name
I'm late with this, but New Orleans Home of the Groove: Bobby Charles Must Be In A Good Place Now. . . I was saddened to learn Thursday of the passing of Robert Charles Guidry, a/k/a Bobby Charles, without a...
January 20, 2010 12:10 am
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New portrait of Edgar Allan Poe emerges (he turns 201 today)
BALTIMORE (AP) -- Edgar Allan Poe's fertile imagination has endured for more than 150 years -- and so has his pale, death-haunted image, with his sunken eyes, a trim mustache and unruly mop of curly hair. However, scholars say...
January 19, 2010 6:25 am
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'Mythbusters' marathon all day Monday on Discovery channel
Set your DVR: Mythbusters' scientists/special-effects experts are hip Mr. Wizards for whom no old saw, urban myth or old wive's tale is too weird, dangerous or gross that an experiment can't be designed to test its truth. (Stern "Do not...
January 17, 2010 3:08 pm
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