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RosieLass
Doriath
Aug 1 2007, 10:06pm
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but check out the latest "Stuff on My Cat" contest, cats taking baths.
http://www.stuffonmycat.com/...php?itemid=4292#more
Oh Moon, lovely moon, with thy beautiful face,
Careering throughout the boundaries of space,
Whenever I see thee, I think in my mind,
Shall I ever, oh ever, behold thy behind.
--Edmund Gosse's house maid
http://mallika.vox.com/
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a.s.
Doriath
Aug 1 2007, 10:25pm
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Not "new", but I've been visiting it frequently lately, just...listening to and reading old songs!
Folk Music of England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales and America
http://www.contemplator.com/folk.html
a.s.
"an seileachan"
"The success of love is in the loving - it is not in the result of loving. Of course it is natural in love to want the best for the other person, but whether it turns out that way or not does not determine the value of what we have done."
~~Mother Theresa
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Curious
Gondolin
Aug 1 2007, 11:07pm
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I love the sports economics website
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The Wages of Win Journal ( http://dberri.wordpress.com/ ). It focuses in particular on the NBA. David Berri is a sports economist who isn't afraid to make bold and unconventional statements about the NBA, and a few about other sports as well.
I also like the TrueHoop blog on espn.com: http://myespn.go.com/nba/truehoop
In general I find espn.com far and away the best sports website. I even coughed up the money for insider status. I particularly like John Hollinger on the NBA, Henry Abbots' TrueHoop, Bill Simmons (The Sports Guy), and Gregg Easterbrook on the NFL (Tuesday Morning Quarterback).
These are not obscure websites, but I regularly check out the top stories on Google News, and the list of most popular stories on the New York Times website.
I also check out Blog-a-Bull ( http://www.blogabull.com/ ) and the Chicago Tribune and Sun-Times websites for news about my local teams.
I also check out rottentomatoes.com, metacritic.com, boxofficemojo.com, aintitcool.com and imdb.com for information about movies and, in the case of metacritic, about books and TV as well.
There are other sites I have visited in the past, but these days, if I'm on the web but not here, I'm probably checking out one of the sites I've listed above.
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a.s.
Doriath
Aug 2 2007, 3:02am
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"an seileachan"
"The success of love is in the loving - it is not in the result of loving. Of course it is natural in love to want the best for the other person, but whether it turns out that way or not does not determine the value of what we have done."
~~Mother Theresa
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GreenHeart
Ossiriand
Aug 3 2007, 1:09am
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I was going to post this, too. I am completely hooked on this site. Meow! =^..^=
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grammaboodawg
Elvenhome
Aug 3 2007, 2:44pm
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Library Of Congress Online Catalog
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Action-packed and full of possibilities! ;P
 
Trust him... The Hobbit is coming!
"Barney Snow was here." ~Hug like a hobbit!~ "In my heaven..."
TORn's Observations Lists
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Owlyross
Nargothrond
Aug 3 2007, 2:47pm
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Well, Rugby to be fair...
My local team's website
http://www.leicestertigers.com/
And the website for this year's Rugby World Cup
http://www.rugbyworldcup.com/
Less than a month to go!
"Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both."
Benjamin Franklin
The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
Horace Walpole (1717 - 1797)
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Patty
Elvenhome
Aug 6 2007, 1:58pm
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I never knew my paternal grandfather. I would imagine he is probably dead now, but I just found his last known address among some papers I've been looking through so I thought I'd try to find his info.
Riding with the Rohirrim!
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Annael
Elvenhome
Aug 6 2007, 2:52pm
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You can find his blog here.
This is the blog of a man who was raised as a very conservative Southern Baptist, became a minister himself, then had a crisis of faith and found his way back to God through liberal theology. He remains a Baptist minister, but his ideas have broadened considerably. I like him because he sees all points of view and doesn't judge people.
He's also funny. I found the blog while looking for ways to deal with raccoons; he has an hilarious series about his own experience with a raccoon family living in his chimney. (He finally got them to move out by broadcasting Rush Limbaugh at them.)
Here he is talking about myths:
Don't be so quick to dismiss myth as unworthy of your devotion. There is the popular way of using the word myth to describe things that are thought to be true but are not. That's really not what myth means. Read Joseph Campbell. Myths are the dreams of humanity. They survive by a kind of natural selection process. Myths address the issues that matter most to us and communicate their ideas across ages and cultures.
In truth, everything humans say is myth. You don't even know the truth of your own life. Your memories are fading quickly. What happened yesterday is already nothing more than your incomplete interpretation of events. We live mired in three dimensions, and everything we say is warped from the moment it leaves our lips. Who knows what reality is?
Think of myth as the longing that we all share. Who cares if the creation story from Genesis is scientifically true. Do you think science can describe reality any better? Or do you think that the shattering reality of Truth/God might be so far beyond us that everything we have said and will say can only be considered children's stories? That's what I think.
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy
NARF and member of Deplorable Cultus since 1967
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Kethry
Menegroth
Aug 6 2007, 11:51pm
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Schlock Mercenary and the accompanying blogs by the author and his wife. A comic that I liked enough to read the extensive archives twice. The blogs, because Howard and his wife write very well. They've been added to my daily reading list.
A bright fire was on the hearth, but the sun was warm, and the wind was in the South. Everything looked fresh, and the new green of Spring was shimmering in the fields and on the tips of the trees' fingers.
~ The Shadow of the Past, Book 1
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Curious
Gondolin
Aug 7 2007, 10:28am
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Baseball-reference.com is a little too intense for me.
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I'm not really a numbers person, so I prefer reading the written commentary on the numbers. But I've never been a huge baseball fan, either. I follow the local teams when they are doing well, but not like I follow basketball.
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