Everything And Nothing

E&N Notebook, Thursday, April 21

• Move over, man in the moon. Now there's more to see...thanks to the first detailed lunar-surface map.
• A lovely lullaby CD created to help some kids who really need it
• The science of tornadoes
• Magic Fudge
• Enter The Age of Man
• In case you ever wondered what a "real estate novelist" is while singing Piano Man badly too
• The cast of Dr. Who reads celebrity tweets
• What makes music expressive?

E&N Notebook, Friday, April 8, 2011

 

• Spring is Fireball season
• "Glory Days": A Playlist for The Opening of Baseball Season 
• Sitting down with Frank Gehry 
• How to think like Shakespeare 
• Watch the ENTIRE recent NYC LCD Soundsytem concert on YouTube for FREE 
• The future of libraries in the e-book age 
• Richard Branson launches Virgin Oceanic: deep-sea exploring submarines

E&N Notebook, Wednesday, March 30, 2011

 

• It's time to talk to your kids... about Crossroads!
• MIT neuroscientists explain 'Proustian effect' 
• Free Grateful Dead concert archive 
• iPhone: The World's Most Popular Camera (via @rM1L)
• Free admissions to national parks in April 
• Books Will Survive The 'Use And Abuse of Literature'
• Enhancing music albums for the ipad 
• Friends don't let friends use IE6 
• NASA nixes James Cameron Mars 3D camera 
• A first look inside the Virgin Galactic spaceship

E&N Notebook, Saturday, March 26, 2011

• Jazz gets its own stamp
• NASA is looking for a few good high school kids
• Elizabeth Taylor was 15 minutes late for her own funeral (a request she had outlined in her will)
• What are your favorite one-dish recipes?
• Last Oprah episode to air May 25
• 15 facts about Starbucks that will blow your mind
• Coffee drinkers go mobile at Starbucks
• First woman running air campaign
• Elizabeth Dole on women taking voting for granted
• The New York Philharmonic opens its digital archives
• David Lynch directs Duran Duran concert in L.A.

E&N Notebook, Friday, March 25, 2011

See all of my other pics from Savannah here.

• All-Time Greatest Toys (Baby Alive!)
• Transit schedules through Foursquare 
• Tommy Lee's Travel Show for Syfy  (When Larry the Cable Guy got hired by The History Channel, Tommy decided to get it on the TV action!)
• Delta lets you check in on Facebook 
• WTF?! 
• Most Americans have regrets about romance 
• Google launches quarterly magazine 
• April is Grilled Cheese Month. Plan now for your celebration!

E&N Notebook, Feb. 23, 2011

 

• I heart Maira Kalman! (And she has two new books out, 13 Words and And the Pursuit of Happiness. Yeah!)
• Barcode to Bibliography - Remember all those hours you used to spend typing up bibliographies?! Sheesh. Kids today...
• Humanity's Endless Quest to Invent a Death Ray: A History 
• A shockingly short history of Hello 
• Smithsonian holds vote on video games for exhibit 
• Blogs wane as young drift to sites like Facebook, Twitter
• Old corks can get a new life! 
• Speaking of cork...did you know that the New York Jets are making wine?

E&N Notebook, Sunday, Feb. 13, 2011

• NPR Valentines
• 7 free Valentine's Day music playlists
• Valentine's DIY and downloadables

 

My last Valentine's cupcakes, most likely. My son's fifth grade party is tomorrow, but, as I recall, middle school was more buy-someone-a-flower-white-means-friendship than cupcakes.

Mmmmm cupcakes! ;)

I hope you and yours have a wonderful Valentine's Day!

E&N Notebook, Friday, Feb. 4

 

• Super Bowl Tech 
• More than 75,000 applicants applied to work at Google during the week after the company's announcement that it will bolster its staff by more than 6,000 in 2011. 
• NASA scientists have identified what they believe to be more than 1,200 new planets, some the size of Earth
• Smaller New Orleans After Katrina, Census Shows - Results of the 2010 census show that the population of New Orleans is 29 percent smaller than it was a decade earlier. 
• Bring your ipad to the big game
• Score: Super Bowl Party Recipe Roundup
• White House hosting a Super Bowl Party
• How An Accidental "Reply All" Email Inspired One Of This Year's Super Bowl Ads
• 7 People Injured, 1 Critically, By Ice Falling From Cowboys Stadium Roof
• The Super Bowl may harm your masculinity
• Designers & Books (50 designers share the books that inspire them)
• The Super Bowl becomes Four Square's first "promoted venue" (and you don't have to be in Dallas to get your Super Bowl badge!)
• How much is the Super Bowl worth?
• Black Eyed Peas keeping Super Bowl playlist super quiet
• Super Bowl playlist
   

E&N Notebook, Thursday, Feb.3

 

• Farrah Fawcett goes to the Smithsonian (or her red swimsuit, at least)
• Code of Best Practices for Fair Use of Poetry (Best practices? Best practices? Where art thou?) 
• How supermarkets play shoppers for suckers 
• Visual search engine Qwiki now available 
• Baby, it's cold outside. Donate used jackets and hats - or organize a coat drive 
• ZombieFit... fitness to survive the apocalypse
• Remember those really ugly photo cutouts you can put on cakes? Well, now you can put them on pizza too! 
• There's now scientific evidence that screw-cap wines taste just as good as corked wines: In an Oregon State University study, the majority of taste testers couldn't tell a difference between the two. (But then, logically, they could taste just as bad as corked wines too, though, right? Regardless, my penchat for Red Tree pinot grigio is now justified!)
• Marky Ramone says The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and Frank Sinatra are the secret to his pasta sauce (but I still prefer The Gipsy Kings while cooking). "The ingredients can be found on the label, but the real secret is the music I listen to while I'm cooking."

E&N Notebook, Jan. 27, 2010

 

• Kindle singles (including TEDBooks) 
• The Journal of Universal Rejection (It's not you, it's them!) 
• "Bohemian Rhapsody"... on the ukelele 
• Vintage Coffee Bean Bag Chairs 
• The cost-benefit analysis of football injuries 
• Do Nothing for Two Minutes  (I failed.)
• Saints tag available in Mississippi March 1 
• Beyond the Still: The Largest Online Collaborative Film Contest 
• When Strangers Click (HBO is premiering When Strangers Click—a documentary from Food Inc. Robert Kenner about the online search for human connection—on, of course, Valentine’s Day.)