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OpenID??
Does anyone understand how to use OpenID? A friend of mine has traveled to Thailand and has a Google blog ... or perhaps it's blogger.com ... I find it confusing. Anyway, I'd like to post comments to her blog, but don't want to bother joining whatever blog site it is. The good thing is that the blog site says that I can post with my LJ ID. The ( Read more... ) -
The Art of Urban Blight
Through a link from cynodd's mother, I found this photo exhibition in Time Magazine Online entitled "Detroit's Beautiful, Horrible Decline." It's from a series by 2 French photographers, Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre, entitled The Ruins of Detroit (click on the arrow to the bottom left to scroll through the pictures on their site ( Read more... ) -
What You Will
This should be the last post about my recent trip to London. As I mentioned in an earlier post, I visited Westminster Abbey. Photographs were not allowed inside and I'd previously taken some photos of the outside on another trip, so I only took one on my visit there this time. It would probably be better to post this on Monday or to have posted ( Read more... ) -
Small World?
Hamlet closed with its last performance last night. I thought I'd try to see whether I could get a return ticket because...why not? However, I later heard that people had lined up for return tickets beginning the night before, so it's not surprising that I didn't get one when I went to the theatre only 45 minutes before the show was due to start ( Read more... ) -
a confession...
As I'm spending this evening in a hotel room, I thought I'd take some time to write about my trip to London, so far. I'm here to see Hamlet and Twelfth Night. On arriving Wednesday morning, my main goal was to make sure I was rested enough to enjoy the performance of Hamlet last night. Fortunately, even though I arrived at the hotel hours before ( Read more... ) -
A Series of Unfortunate Events
Never visit Zingerman's Bakehouse when you're hungry. I went there on my way home today to find a cake for a Christmas dessert (I settled on a Buche de Noel) and also ended up buying a pan of cinnamon rolls, an over-the-moon pie (sort-of an expensive Ding Dong - $4 each), and a tin of their "Fancy Schmancy" cookies for my Grandmother. ( Read more... ) -
So _that's_ what this song is about! LOL
This is for anyone who thought this was one of the most awesome videos ever back in the 80's.
Take On Me: Literal Video Version
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Plagiarism?
As I was driving home today, I heard a story on NPR about how Coldplay is being sued by guitarist Joe Satriani for copying their Viva La Vida from his If I Could Fly. They said there was a YouTube video demonstrating the similarities between Coldplay's Viva La Vida and Satriani's If I Could Fly, which is purely instrumental. Actually, I found 2 ( Read more... ) -
All good things...
Unfortunately, I've been out of touch with my LJ recently. (I was sick at a time when work was extremely busy, but am better now.) So, I missed last week's excellent news that The Lexicon: An Unauthorized Guide to Harry Potter Fiction will be published next month. It seems that with a lot of hard work and determination, Steve Vander Ark has ( Read more... )
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