Darn! Too bad I just saw this and it is in 45 minutes:
MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
At noon today! Patti Smith will perform a 15-minute acoustic set in honor of Jean Genet's 100th birthday. http://j.mp/hhNF8
nola blog recommended by maud
RIP roaring

Captain Beefheart

Blake Edwards

Bob Feller

about.me just got some funding, and already has several hundred thousand users. The idea is just to be a place for short personal biographies and links to all your other sites / facebook / twitter / etc... Sort of a business card for the web. Super simple idea, but I think they are doing it right and might succeed. So I'm mentioning it because it's free to sign up and you can probably still get your own name at this point (like http://about.me/yourname). If it turns out to be a bust you won't have lost anything. (I was always mad I was too late to get jimbassett@gmail.com)
America, fuck yeah!
alternative kitchen garden a-z
Why foie gras in not unethical. Not sure everyone would agree, or that this closes the question, but from the best producers it's at least not as bad as you probably think. Phew.


Dyker Heights Christmas Lights 2010
The huge flight of 407 eagles smashed the old record of 245 set two years ago at Hawk Mountain Sanctuary, which has kept an annual tally of migrating hawks, eagles and falcons since its founding 76 years ago as the world's first refuge for birds of prey.

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Microsoft is releasing Windows Media Player plug in for FireFox which will play H.264 video. Works on Windows 7. For modern browsers, this leaves only FireFox on Mac and Opera without H.264 support and neither of those browsers have a ton of users.
pretty sure everything thats wrong with the world can be summed up by this.
boxed wines
JimB: Ever played with dd-wrt? I'm planning to get my feet wet soon.
the quaids whack-o stars
wine of st martins day
Complete map of optimal tic- tac-toe moves. (Click on the map for full size version.) Felix Salmon calls it "a funny, perfect, free, nerdy, gorgeous Sol Lewitt".
you wont have richard holbrooke to kick around anymore.
havent heard of much less seen most of these movies in the nyker top 25 of 2010. didnt know shutter island was any good. it seemed to float by unnoticed.

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