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[?]Submitted by Gaming Briefs and Nostalgia Bits
The latest possible decline:
NEW YORK (AP) - U.S. video game retail sales dropped 13 percent in January, another down month for the industry after a difficult 2009.
In all, Americans spent nearly $1.2 billion on video game systems, software and accessories during the month, market researcher […]
Charles and Emma
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[?]Submitted by Book Nut
The Darwins’ Leap of Faith
by Deborah Heligman
ages: 12+
First sentence: “In the summer of 1838, in his rented rooms on Great Marlborough Street, London, Charles Darwin drew a line down the middle of a piece of scrap paper.”
Support your local independent bookstore: buy it there!
I’ve read a couple of […]
Coltrane’s Interplay Box
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[?]Submitted by Jazz Note SDP
The three box sets of John’s Coltrane’s Prestige recordings are treasure troves for jazz fans. The largest and best by far is Fearless Leader. If you have that one, you have most of Trane’s early albums as leader. Side Steps and Interplay contain Trane’s […]
National Weather Service
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[?]Submitted by CARPE DIEM
Two-week Snow Movie, January 28 to February 11, hour-by-hour.
More here.
Pyle’s Summer School
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[?]Submitted by Gurney Journey
In the summers of 1898 and 1899, Howard Pyle had an old mill converted into a studio for his students from the Drexel Institute. After establishing his own art school, Pyle continued the arrangement in 1900, 1901, 1902, and 1903. N. C. Wyeth spent the last summer there […]
Eskimo Kiss
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[?]Submitted by BRENDA YORK’S PAINTING A DAY
40×30″ oil on canvas, email me for more information
For my newest series, Moonstruck Chronicles, I found plenty of inspiration in all the hoopla surrounding Valentines Day. I explored the persuasion, the wooing, the seduction, the moment the earth shifts and then the aftermath: […]
Funny Valentine
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[?]Submitted by A Painting for You!
OK, gents, The Art Love Doctor is IN! You’re pressed for time and short on ideas for buying that perfect Valentine’s Day gift for your lady. Somewhere in the recesses of your mind, a slide from that art appreciation class you took as an elective in […]
Goodbye Testicles
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[?]Submitted by YOUR NEW REALITY
I’ve changed my mind. I will pay to read Rupert Murdoch newspapers online, but only if they consistently come up with stories of such a high quality as this one :
From The Sun :
The lad hallucinated for 18 hours and mutilated himself because he believed centipedes […]
Dynamic Duo
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[?]Submitted by Art Blog By Bob
Music and art have long been a magical pairing. Finding the right soundtrack for a painting requires as much finesse as finding the right wine for that special meal. Russian-born, Canadian artist San Base takes that dynamic duo one step further by adding cutting-edge computer technology […]
Modern Warfare 2: Typical Game Flow Chart
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[?] Submitted by videogame2play.com
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Gamespy recently published this spot on example of a typical online game of Modern Warfare 2 using a flow chart.
Storm Glass
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[?]Submitted by Book Nut
by Maria V. Snyder
ages: 14+
First sentence; “The hot air pressed against my face as I entered the glass factory.”
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Four years after Opal helped Yelena capture the Warpers in Fire Study, she’s still dealing with the aftermath. She’s a student at the Keep, […]
Graphic Novel Adventures
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[?]Submitted by Book Nut
Frankie Pickle and the Closet of Doom
by Eric Wight
ages: 8+
First sentence:”I’ve been called a lot of names: treasure seeker, relic hunter, grave robber.”
Support your local independent bookstore: buy it there!
Frankie Pickle (aka Franklin Lorenzo Piccolini) is just your average adventurer. Rescuing cities from destruction by your evil robots. […]
Rabbit Rabbit Rabbit
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[?]Submitted by Barry’s Wine Notes & Memories
Sometimes everything goes wrong all at once. I hadn’t played soccer for 8 weeks (injury, holiday and weather)..and my camera had left me in the lurch while on holiday.
All the recent posts had photos I took before it was sent for repair. Two weeks later..it […]
The Two-Streams Hypothesis
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[?]Submitted by Gurney Journey
In the last two decades, new scanning technology has given us a better idea of what is happening in the brain as we process visual information.
One of the discoveries that has come out of these new data is the realization that that visual processing divides into two streams, […]
Lovejoy And The Devil Of Delight
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[?]Submitted by BRENDA YORK’S PAINTING A DAY
24×36″ oil on canvas, email me for more information
One more from my Valentines Day series. Loved painting these two lovers…sometimes I feel like I’m just “the hand” that holds the brush, that pushes the paint around, that becomes these colorful and quirky little people. Not […]
Sophie Sheep
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[?]Submitted by Animal Place Sanctuary
Sophie is a 6-yr-old sheep and proud of it. Rescued as a bummer lamb from a farm, along with two other lambkins, Sophie has lived her whole life at the sanctuary. Lucky sheep!
Here are a couple shots of Miss Sophie.
Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold, part three
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[?]Submitted by Gaming Briefs and Nostalgia Bits
Now comes the third part of this old dandy, in another eleven parts:
There don’t seem to be any crates that need to be shot to open in this episode, but there are at least 3 new enemies featured: a tall green alien, a liquid-based monster, […]
Library Loot 2010-06
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[?]Submitted by Book Nut
It’s a smallish pile of loot this week. I thought I had more holds coming in, and both M and I are in the mood for fluffy romances, but I didn’t see any that caught my eye. What I really need to do is hit the bookstore and […]
Wayne Shorter’s Footprints & Aung San Suu Kyi
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[?]Submitted by Jazz Note SDP
Last Sunday I had the chance to roam around Sioux Falls, and stopped at the Last Chance CD Shop. Or was it the Last Stop? Anyway, it was one of those rare places trading in used pieces of circular plastic pregnant with signal: CDs, DVDs, […]
Eggplant Manicotti
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[?]Submitted by Chef Tom Cooks !
2 medium eggplants, peeled
18 oz Ricotta cheese
2 tablespoons olive oil
2 cups tomato sauce
1/2 cup heavy cream
1/2 tsp salt
Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
Peel eggplant and slice into 12 pieces, 1/4-inch thick. Slice from top to bottom. Lay slices on a paper towel and sprinkle salt on […]
Lines and Colors Exhibition Review
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[?]Submitted by Gurney Journey
I’m honored that the art blog Lines and Colors has done a thoughtful review of the Dinotopia exhibition at the Delaware Art Museum.
As many people know, traveling to the exhibit has been as difficult as getting to Shangri-La, with all the record-breaking blizzards we’ve been having. But we […]
Dinotopia in China
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[?]Submitted by Gurney Journey
Fantasy Art Magazine, the leading professional magazine in China for the imaginative arts, has just published a 10-page portfolio of Dinotopia artwork.
The recent book Journey to Chandara, features some of China’s exciting dinosaur discoveries, such as the Microraptor from the Liaoning province, and great discoveries from the Gobi […]
Mouth Shorthand
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[?]Submitted by Gurney Journey
Here’s a mouth drawn in the style of American cartoonist Milt Caniff. According to artist and comics historian Ron Harris, “Drawing the lips too round or too full can detract from the “man’s man” look realistic artists usually strive for. Impressionists Noel Sickles and Milton Caniff circumvented […]
How I Met Your Mother
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[?]Submitted by Art Blog By Bob
I can’t think of any artist who suffered as much in his life as Arshile Gorky. Fleeing the ethnic cleansing of Armenians by Turkish troops, he watched his mother starve to death in 1919 surrounded by fellow refugees. Upon coming to America, he shed his birth […]
Mystery Mask
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[?]Submitted by Gurney Journey
Can you guess which artist had this face?
To find out the answer, follow this link to the amazing blog that’s all about this great imagemaker.
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