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bookofjoe: YouTube moving to 1080p HD

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 10:01:00 -0500

Wrote Cory O'Brien, "Recently YouTube announced that they would be supporting 1080p HD playback on all of their videos, and a music video that featured The Muppets singing 'Bohemian Rhapsody' was one of the first to showcase this new ability [top]."

"While it’s exciting to see what a bunch of puppets look like'" [...]

Fatuous Observations: Donuts for sissies

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 16:28:00 -0500

If you apply yourself, you can really get a lot of Christmas shopping done in one day. I guess my problem up to now is that I have never applied myself, so to speak, in the realm of Christmas shopping, so that even when I start my shopping early, I [...]

bookofjoe: Batman Reference Manual

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 16:01:00 -0500

[via MADATOMS and Milena]

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bookofjoe: Identifly

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 15:01:00 -0500

From Propaganda: "Ever put your drink down at a party to grab some food and when you turn back your glass is gone? Or you find someone nibbling on your food? Now you can mark your booty by clipping an Identifly on your stuff, glass, plate," [...]

bookofjoe: YouTube 'Feather' Beta

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 14:01:00 -0500

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Back story here.

Opt-in here.

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bookofjoe: Sweet Horseradish Pickles are the cat's meow

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:01:00 -0500

From bookofjoe's Crack Epicurean Team™, headed by the redoubtable Joe Peach, comes the find pictured above.

Wrote Joe, "I just picked up another jar (plastic container) of this most amazing... food? Sweet, not hot, but such a delicate, complex taste of horseradish (akin to a fine wine) to" [...]

Charlottesville Podcasting Network: Wake-Up Call: George Washington

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 12:24:27 -0500

Rick Moore talks with Carol Abel (editor) and Jenifer Stertzer (editor of the digital version) who are working on collecting papers of George Washington for a project called the papers of George Washington. This project has been going on since 1969. He also talks with Erica B. Mitchell [...]

Evan's Level 3 Rhino Alert: It seems like whenever I blog about ...

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 12:11:00 -0500

It seems like whenever I blog about commercials, I talk about how stupid they are. Well, here are two sets of commercials that I thoroughly enjoy:1) Sony Bravia commercials with Peyton Manning and Justin Timberlake (and others)I think these have just the right amount of random. Erin Andrews? San Diego [...]

Charlottesville Words: links for 2009-12-06

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 12:01:55 -0500

The Atlantic is Publishing Two Stories a Month — But Only for the Kindle | Wet Asphalt "Apparently, Atlantic has started buying short fiction again twice a month for release on the Internet, which would be wonderful, except it's exclusively for the Kindle. What's worse, according to the New York Times, [...]

bookofjoe: Cormac McCarthy's typewriter: Episode 2: Going, going, gone — for $254,500

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 12:01:00 -0500

That's what the machine (above) brought at auction at Christie's Friday, from an unidentified American buyer.

Estimated at $15,000 to $20,000, it obviously incited unanticipated major collecting lust.

Wrote Randy Kennedy in yesterday's New York Times "Arts, Briefly" feature, "Mr. McCarthy will not be using the opportunity to'" [...]