1. No Country for Old Typewriters: A Well-Used One Heads to Auction  permalink

No Country for Old Typewriters: A Well-Used One Heads to Auction
PATRICIA COHEN / NYT

After five million or so words, Cormac McCarthy bids farewell to his portable Olivetti.

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2. Web-Based Productivity Suite Zoho Launches Full Integration With Google Docs  permalink

Web-Based Productivity Suite Zoho Launches Full Integration With Google Docs
Leena Rao / TechCrunch

Zoho is undoubtedly the lesser known name and an underdog in the productivity suite race with Google and Microsoft. But the startup has a compelling strategy: Zoho continuously launches integrations with its competitors and also iterates on it product to offer new and innovative products. Previously, Zoho has launched various integrations with ...

3. My Own Private Library  permalink

Liz B / A Chair

In December, 2007 and again in April, 2009 I did some guest blogging at ForeWord Magazine's ShelfSpace Blog . While ForeWord Magazine is going strong, they have discontinued doing that guest blogging. So, I am going to rerun those posts here at Tea Cozy. Any edits to remove confusion about things like dates is in brackets. My Own Private Library ...

4. Chelsea  permalink

Chelsea
Joeholmes / Joe

V © 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 joseph o. holmes v portfolio site v news blog v faq v about, archives, links v tools v email v

5. Game Destroyers  permalink

The Web Comic List

Comic 698 is up, we're moving on already. It was not easy fitting this much text onto this annoying layout... All material not © Capcom, GameTek, Jaleco, Konami, Nintendo, SNK, SquareSoft, SunSoft, Taito, Technos, Tecmo, Ultra, Kemco, or any other video game company that I may have forgotten, © Alex Puotinen, 2003-2009.

6. The Wannabe Pirates  permalink

The Web Comic List

In preparation for the return of Captain Flemm and his crew, we’ve polished up the ol’ website! Finally got around to updating everything and hopefully everything will work like it’s supposed to!

7. Chinese News Speculates about the 'Tiger Woods Incident'  permalink

Chinese News Speculates about the 'Tiger Woods Incident'
ScienceBlogs

tags: Tiger Woods , Chinese News , Apple-1 News , Taiwan , animation , streaming video This video is an interesting news report from Apple-1 News in Taiwan regarding what really happened to cause Tiger Woods to drive into a tree after bouncing off a fire hydrant in front of his Florida home. Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on ...

8. Two Bank speeches and a new job  permalink

Two Bank speeches and a new job
David Smith / David Smith

Two interesting speeches from MPC members. Spencer Dale, its chief economist, voted against the extension of quantitative easing last month. He thinks the economy has turned the corner into growth and acknowledges the possibility that Mervyn King might have to...

9. TECH STOCKS: Losses Hit Tech Stocks; Amazon Soars To New High  permalink

TECH STOCKS: Losses Hit Tech Stocks; Amazon Soars To New High
Money.cnn.com

Technology stocks had a hard time sustaining upward momentum Monday, as the market assessed a mixed report on the state of semiconductor sales and the early results from the first weekend of holiday shopping in the U.S.

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10. Guest blog: Why it took me years to read ‘Angela’s Ashes’  permalink

Books

I could tell I was on the flight to Washington, DC because everybody was reading. “Poli sci dorks,” my brother would say of the demographics of my adopted city, and I had to admit, as I buckled my seatbelt and cracked open my ...

11. A Country Called Amreeka  permalink

A Country Called Amreeka
Books

There is a scene in A Country Called Amreeka by Alia Malek that seems to be playing on repeat. We’ve been watching it for weeks, as pundits pick apart the background, psychology, and religiosity of Army Maj. Nadal Hasan, who murdered 13 soldiers at Fort Hood, Texas, last month. Hasan ...

12. Hey, this subway *IS* a porno!  permalink

Hey, this subway *IS* a porno!
Rake / Rake

Sadly, YPTR has been re-captured and assigned to more corporate drudgery. [Insert boilerplate re: "In this economy, you feel lucky just to..."] This time, I have three-and-a-half walls to my cubicle, and they're paying me pretty good cake. But RP is going to suck more than usual, you are warned. Now here's the Mountain Goats:

13. Buffstuff.de  permalink

Buffstuff.de
Mashups via Programmable Web

A media observer for street art and graffiti. Integrates images and videos from Flickr, Photobucket, Vimeo, YouTube, Zoomr and other sites. Date Updated: 2009-12-02 Developer: buffstuff Tags: Graffiti , photo , streetart , video APIs: Flickr , Google Search , Google Translate , Issuu Search , Photobucket , Smugmug , Vimeo , YouTube , Zooomr

14. Eatery Search  permalink

Eatery Search
Mashups via Programmable Web

Mashes Google Maps with open data from Factual to show restaurants and their health code ratings. Code available on GitHub. Date Updated: 2009-12-02 Tags: food , mapping , restaurants APIs: Factual , Google Maps

15. Yamatour 2009: Yamato Museum  permalink

Yamatour 2009: Yamato Museum
Www.starblazers.com

A twenty minute train ride south of Hiroshima lies the port city of Kure, a home base for the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force. This is possible because of a naval infrastructure that goes back to World War II; it was the building sight of history's largest battleship, the Yamato.

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16. Really?  permalink

Really?
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch

Dana Hanna updates his Facebook and Twitter, at the altar. Without his bride Tracy knowing he was going to do it. I'm sure she was thrilled: I surprised not only my guests, but also Tracy by pulling out my phone and posting on Facebook and Twitter from the altar during out wedding. I had her phone ready in my pocket, so when she asked for it I ...

17. Helen at war  permalink

Helen at war
Sam / [daily dose of imagery]

Another photo from the long nights at work. Helen is an excellent 3D modeler/animator/compositor and is very focused at her work. She's been working 14-18 hour shifts in the last few weeks, every day including weekends. But here, she's...

18. Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood 34  permalink

Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood 34
Epi / Sea Slugs! Anime Blog

Span id=”more-9018″ Summary: The episode starts off with Ed getting his arm repaired at the mechanic/doctor’s office in Fort Briggs. Apparently he was getting frostbite, which was why his arm wasn’t working well. As all of this is being explained to him, Buccaneer runs in complaining that he can’t get Al’s ...

19. Desert tracks #3  permalink

Djn1 / C h r o m a s i a

This is probably the last of the shots I'll be posting from my recent trip to the desert near Dubai and while it doesn't portray the same sense of scale as my previous two 'desert tracks' images, I am pleased with it. Like desert tracks #2 , this one was also processed almost entirely in Camera Raw (with just some minor cloning and sharpening in ...

20. Books of The Times: A Springsteen Band Mate Tells Stories, True or Imagined, Out of E Street  permalink

Books of The Times: A Springsteen Band Mate Tells Stories, True or Imagined, Out of E Street
DWIGHT GARNER / NYT

There’s not much that’s positive to say about this memoir from Clarence Clemons, Bruce Springsteen’s colossal saxophone player.