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.
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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' [...]
