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Deal of the Day from Organic Bouquet:

Free vase and gourmet organic chocolate with purchase of Valentine's Day Rose Bouquets

How are those resolutions going?

Fit yet?

Get 15% off your entire order until 1.31.09 (online only) at DicksSportingGoods.com

Chinese New Year

The Year of the Ox......supposedly the mask brings luck....need luck?

Chinese New Year Festival Mask

Gratuitous Cute Animal Photo with Hat

Ferrets have been domesticated for thousands of years; in fact, on the walls of some Egyptian tombs there are pictures of ferret-like creatures on leashes.

Except now they have cooler hats............

More Ferret Fun Facts and Hats

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RIP Andrew Wyeth

From Andrew Wyeth's obituary in the NYT:

“In today’s scrambled-egg school of art, Wyeth stands out as a wild-eyed radical,” one journalist wrote in 1963, speaking for the masses. “For the people he paints wear their noses in the usual place, and the weathered barns and bare-limbed trees in his starkly simple landscapes are more real than reality.”“In today’s scrambled-egg school of art, Wyeth stands out as a wild-eyed radical,” one journalist wrote in 1963, speaking for the masses. “For the people he paints wear their noses in the usual place, and the weathered barns and bare-limbed trees in his starkly simple landscapes are more real than reality.”

Learn more about Wyeth-style Americana.

We Hold These Truths To Be Self Evident: Everyone Loves a Baby Aardvark

Honestly this started out as an excuse to use this incredibly cute picture of Amani, a newborn aardvark at the Detroit Zoo:

 

But then being the curious and clever lot that we are - we also found this incredibly cool, not to mention relevant book:

Aristotle and an Aardvark Go To Washington: Understanding Political Doublespeak Through Philosophy and Jokes

Happy Birthday Wikipedia!

 

Little Wiki is 8 years old tomorrow!

It is probable that the idea of an encyclopaedia may undergo very considerable extension and elaboration in the near future. Its full possibilities have still to be realized. … There is no practical obstacle whatever now to the creation of an efficient index to all human knowledge, ideas and achievements, to the creation, that is, of a complete planetary memory for all mankind.

—H.G. Wells, 1937, World Brain

How Wikipedia Works

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Got Change?

Need a soundtrack for your viewing party next Tuesday?

Barack Obama's campaign for president was a grassroots movement powered by passionate and diverse Americans who demanded change. This DVD is a collection of speeches by Obama as well as by Oprah, Caroline Kennedy, Stevie Wonder and Michele Obama. Everywhere Obama goes he draws huge crowds that cut across ethnic, religious, racial, class, gender and ideological lines hungry for his message of change, hope and inspiration.

I want one too

I have decided not to wait for the coffee grinding app.

Let's Get It On....Happy Birthday Motown Records

Today is the birthday of Motown Records....created in 1959

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