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 page.
Notably missing are mystery book lists. Mystery Writers' [...]
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 at RISD and went on [...]
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 greatest. While we scurry around our lives, they're in' [...]
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, Pistachio Biscochitos,' [...]
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 Research Projects Agency had placed randomly [...]
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.
So we've made it' [...]
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 sound significant. But in an e-mail, a biologist who' [...]
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 just stare at me like I forgot the'" [...]
"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 are quite rare and are not" [...]
Rosanne Cash - Brooklyn 2009
Live at St Ann's Warehouse, Brooklyn, NY, October 9, 2009. Very good soundboard.
Dealnews's reporting from Friday's online shopping front (Black Friday Cheers & Jeers 2009 ) probably presages what you're likely to encounter today on CyberMonday, aka Shopping From Work Day.
Jeers outnumbered cheers. Examples of each:
Jeers: To Roku, maker of a popular Netflix streaming box for your' [...]
Paper Cannon is a thoroughly enjoyable Flash game -- if you were any good at knock hockey on the playground, you'll love it. It's all about angles.
Aim your cannon at the one--eyed pink rabbits, bounce cannonballs off the walls, avoid the obstacles and blow' [...]
Turkey soup means two things: Simmer the carcass and/or use leftover turkey in a soup.
You can do either step without doing the other: Simmering the carcass with vegetables and spices makes turkey stock. You extract all the flavor from the bones and bits and veggies, strain and discard them.
After that, [...]
JIMI HENDRIX - NEW YORK CITY 1969
Jimi Hendrix's Gypsy Sun And Rainbows (sometimes shortened to Rainbows; also known as A Band of Gypsys) was active for just one month and played four live gigs, the most prominent being their debut at Woodstock.These recordings, compiled and [...]
Thanksgiving doesn't leave a lot of room for the surreal. Some may overimbibe, snarks may poke the black sheep of the family, the chef may drop the turkey on the floor, but there's not a lot of room for a mere dinner to deliver the sheer looniness that regifting and [...]
AP has moved 31 holiday cookie recipes -- one for each day in December -- but maybe you'd like to make some for Thanksgiving, so here they are now. It's a nice bunch this year, and includes sugar cookies to cut out in holiday shapes and pierce to hang on' [...]
This is Part 2 of our annual survey of Food Editors' Thanskgiving choices. Here's Part 1.
Baton Rouge (La.) Advocate: A few basic facts make roasting turkey simple, Basic Thanksgiving recipes good year after year
New Orleans Times-Picayune: Favorite New Orleans Thanksgiving recipes
San [...]
For Thanksgiving, the elegant Luxirare molds Silicone Plastique Food Grade Silicone Mold Putty around a real, tiny pumpkin, cuts it in half to make two molds, then presses pie-crust dough around their inside walls, pipes in pie filling, removes the outer molds and seals the edges of [...]
Bob Dylan, Must Be Santa by Hal Moore and Bill Fredericks (1960), first made popular by Mitch Miller.
Well, the last thing I remember before I stripped and kneeled
Was that trainload of fools bogged down in a magnetic field.
A gypsy with a broken flag and a [...]
Black Friday 2009 countdown: Sales, deals and tips. Doug Stanglin of USA Today blogs the roundup (so I don't have to). For instance,
Dealnews is awash with Black Friday information, including a Buying Strategy Guide.If nothing could get you into crowds like that, Dealnews is awash with online' [...]
Here's the first pass of 2009 through the nation's newspaper's Thanksgiving food sections online. I'll add more over the next few days.
Akron Beacon Journal: Holiday sides from scratch, Maple Candied Yams, Green Beans With Mushrooms, Almonds And Caramelized Onions, Fresh Cranberry-OrangeSauce
Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle: [...]
Wolfgang's Vault lets you listen free to more than 3,000 live concerts and interviews from hundreds of groups and musicians -- Bill Graham's West Coast concerts as well as, as of yesterday, 27 acts from the 1959 Newport Jazz Festival, with more to come. [...]
Long Sunday before the Pats game tonight.
I'm Belle de Jour: "Finally the anonymous sex blogger from Diary of a London Call Girl comes clean to The (London) Sunday Times: She's Dr Brooke Magnanti." Just another London student paying the rent while she finished her' [...]
Paintings by Mike Stilkey; photos by by Dave Kinsey
Mike Stilkey's Library : The Book Bench : The New Yorker:
Go to Google today and the search may already be filled out, under a special logo honoring NASA's discovery of significant water on the moon.
AP: Splash! NASA moon crash struck lots of water
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The lunar dud for space enthusiasts has' [...]Tara Bradford's Paris Parfait usually shows lush, large photos from elegant curio shops and fashionable shop windows in Paris, or perhaps lush countryside with lovely stone walls and a castle.
A field trip trip suggests there are a lot of Parisians to patronize such rarified tastes.
Trailer for the Video Art Exhibition at Gallery Z on Atwells Avenue, launching Thursday night and running through Nov. 28.
As the Electron Movers, Rhode Island's' [...]
The Detroit News has a nice clickable graphic breaking down the Cash for Clunkers trades by state: Interactive: State-by-state numbers for the'cash for clunkers' program.
That's a screenshot of Rhode Island's data at right.
Every New England state shed 4WD Ford Explorers -- [...]
The Design Inspiration collects a sample of favorite Google Doodles from Different Countries You Haven't Seen.
While enjoying this fine filtering of the Google logo database, I also learned about some new holidays, although I won't be celebrating them.
[...]
BOB DYLAN
Music From Renaldo And Clara [no label, 1CD]
Stereo film soundtrack.
Drench - the world's simplest flash game
There are no instructions, but the premise really is simple: Turn the entire board any one color within a set number of moves. Begin at the upper left square and click one of the colors on the right; all [...]
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
Intersecting swirling trails left by the earlier passage of dust devils across sand dunes, as they lifted lighter reddish-pink dust and exposed the darker material below. Also visible are darker slope streaks along dune edges, formed by a process which is still [...]
Ann Johansson for The New York Times
Léon Bing, a model for Rudy Gernreich in the '60s, in her Pasadena apartment.
Cathy Horyn, fashion critic of the Times, writes a surprisingly judgmental story (Modeling and All That Came After)' [...]
These all lead to far better visuals:
Enthused and Infused: 19 New Directions For Teapot Design at WebUrbanist. Shaped like a gun, books, a torus, swan or snail, changing color when hot, transparent, trapping tea leaves, making toast too -- these aren't the porcelain pots of Zen they used to' [...]
So, the story goes, the venerable Henry Allen, 68-year-old Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and editor at the Washington Post Style section, poet and, imho the most graceful narrative writer of our time, threw a single punch at colleague Manuel Roig-Franzia in the Washington Post newsroom [...]
We cooked Thansgiving dinner yesterday.
This was not a trial run. I just saw a good deal on frozen free-range turkeys, and swooped down the aisles in search of dressing, cranberry sauce and stock. The family comes over on Sundays to watch Patriots games, and it [...]
Photo by Sheila Lennon
Right-handed former Red Sox pitcher Dick Drago as he recounts the memorable sixth game of the 1975 World Series. You can listen to his tale below.
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GENESIS - RHODE ISLAND 1974 REVISITED
Providence 1974 [no label, 2CD, Dan Lampinski audience recording]
Live at the Palace Theater, Providence, RI, December 8, 1974.
An interesting anecdote regarding the show was posted by glampins: "Another little tidbit of info on this show from Dan" [...]
Helmet feeder attracts hummingbirds just inches from your face . Daily Mail Online, the Brits:
A new helmet with a built-in bird feeder will allow wearers to get amazing face to face contact with nature.
The flighty birds hover in front of the wearer's face for' [...]
It feels almost irresponsible to blog this, but there's postmodern horror news on Halloween.
Imagine a world of large flies hobbled by tiny banner ads tied with thread to their legs like miniature airplanes at the beach, each disoriented and lurching from shoulder to human shoulder, spreading disease in the [...]
Cake Wrecks, which shows good icing ideas gone bad, and great execution by the pros, has a Halloween collection to laugh at or emulate. You can start at the main link and keep going through some non-Halloween posts, or click the links on the photos below to go to [...]
Amazon is offering, for free, the 21-trackAmazon.com: The Orange Mountain Music Philip Glass Sampler Vol.I
Whether you're already a fan of the minimalist composer or have never heard of him, this is worth checking out.
This may be just the year for Christmas gifts of home-burned' [...]
Termites In My Basement [Hi Rez], recording for Al Basile's Soul Blue 7 CD.
Al Basile was Roomful of Blues' first trumpet player, in 1969, and his seventh album, Soul Blue 7, on which he sings and plays cornet on these songs he wrote, is something' [...]
not martha offers lovingly documented, fully illustrated instructions for a Meat Hand for your Halloween dinner.
Uncooked, some of its secrets are revealed -- onion fingernails, provolone over the fingers. Mashed potato piping is added between the fingers after cooking to make them appear [...]
One of the handiest things I ever discovered on the Web was called Library Lookup: Clicking a link on my browser's bookmarks toolbar when I was at a book's page at Amazon would open the title in my local library catalog. From there I could see [...]
