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Dave Barry’s year in review: 2009 - Dave Barry - MiamiHerald.com Source: www.miamiherald.com It was a year of Hope — at first in the sense of “I feel hopeful!” and later in the sense of “I hope this year ends soon!”
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Lullaby Source: zenviolence.com This short lullaby from Ralph Vaughan Williams’ “Hodie” has been for many years my favorite holiday musical passage. I hope that in your own way, physical or mental, you will find something of the same magical inspiration tonight. Merry Christmas.
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Architecture - Diller Scofidio and Renfro Have Inflatable Plans at Hirshhorn - NYTimes.com Source: www.nytimes.com Richard Koshalek, the newly appointed director of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, plans to erect a 145-foot-tall inflatable meeting hall on the National Mall. For the vitality of DC culture, I really want to see this succeed. But for a good laugh, as long as no one...
Dec 16th
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Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis Source: www.funnyordie.com Episode 7: Zach sits down with the host of the Tonight Show, Conan O’Brien, and his announcer, Andy Richter.
Dec 10th
Cheating? Hello, you’ve got e-trail Source: www.washingtonpost.com Technological gains may render one person extinct in adultery: The blindsided dupe I ♥ technology.
Dec 9th
Living Stories Source: www.livingstories.googlelabs.com The Living Stories project is an experiment in presenting news, one designed specifically for the online environment. The project was developed by Google in collaboration with two of the country’s leading newspapers, The New York Times and The Washington Post.
Dec 9th
Fa La La Your La - Clips - South Park Studios Source: www.southparkstudios… South Park Elementary finally presents the happy, non-offensive, non-denominational school play, with compositions by Phillip Glass. Priceless. After Parker/Stone’s reliably anti-PC invective about atheism-ism at Christmastime, Philip Glass shows up (albeit drawn more like Leonard Nimoy than the...
Dec 7th
Happy holidays from Gmail Source: services.google.com 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 because they aren’t online.
Dec 4th
A member of a musical dynasty writes a postcard about the past — latimes.com Source: www.latimes.com Thomas Newman visits a storm drain culvert while exploring Rustic Canyon, where he recorded the sounds used in “It Got Dark.” The work also includes canyon residents’ reminiscences. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times / November 17, 2009) Leonard Slatkin (whose parents...
Dec 3rd