Stop unwanted catalogs that you receive in the mail

Recently, my wife and I found ourselves receiving huge numbers of mail-order catalogs, sometimes as many as twenty in a single day, and decided we were tired of sending them all to our landfill or the recycling center. That’s when we discovered Catalog Choice. This useful web site allows you to identify the catalogs you [...]

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A Visit from Saint Nicholas in the Ernest Hemingway Manner

James Thurber wrote “A Visit from Saint Nicholas IN THE ERNEST HEMINGWAY MANNER”, which appeared in The New Yorker, on December 24, 1927. You can read more about it here.
Some other links you might enjoy:

James Thurber Wikipedia entry
The history of “A Visit from Saint Nicholas”

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It was the night before Christmas. The house was very quiet. [...]

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My Favorite Free On-line Games at Kongregate.com

Kongregate.com provides a wealth of free, online games in a variety of genres. The list below describes some of my favorites — the games I find myself playing again and again.

Balloon Invasion — Defend your territory from the invasion! Win battles, gain experience, level up and use your commander points to upgrade your arsenal.

Dolphin [...]

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My Favorite Free On-line Games at Kongregate.com

Kongregate.com provides a wealth of free, online games in a variety of genres. The list below describes some of my favorites — the games I find myself playing again and again.

Balloon Invasion — Defend your territory from the invasion! Win battles, gain experience, level up and use your commander points to upgrade your arsenal.

Dolphin [...]

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The 21st century ice age begins – part 5

The 14.5-inch snowfall Sunday in Portland, Maine, surpassed the old record for Dec. 21 of 12.4 inches, set in 1933. On the other side of the country, a total of 11 to 13 inches in Portland, Ore., was the biggest snowfall since January 1980. Depending on how much more fell Monday as the snow trailed [...]

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My Favorite Firefox Add-ons and Extensions

Like most users of the Firefox browser, I find myself using Firefox primarily because of its support for browser add-ons (also called “extensions.”) These easy-to-install enhancements add all kinds of rich and useful functions to the standard Firefox browser.
If you’ve never installed Firefox add-ons before, they’re extremely easy to download, install, and manage, because [...]

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In Decatur Metro – Decatur’s best "newspaper"

The December 20, 2008 edition of In Decatur Metro, which consists of recent blog postings from the inDecatur and Decatur Metro blogs in newspaper format, is now available here.
URL: http://leecoursey.org/pdf/indecaturmetro_20081220.pdf
Note that you can click on article titles and other links within the PDF to navigate to the corresponding web page.

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How to get yourself set up on Twitter (and why)

If you’ve mastered Facebook or MySpace (and even if you haven’t), it’s time to step up to the next, more interactive level of online social interaction: Twitter.
WHAT IS TWITTER?
For those of you who don’t know this already, Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service, that allows its users to send and read [...]

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Make that year-end charitable donation via Google Checkout

Charitable donations at year-end provide you with a great way to do some good in the world while also creating a nice income tax deduction for yourself.
To help make the world a better place while avoiding identity and credit card theft, you can make your charitable deduction to many charities through the Google Checkout service:  [...]

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The Soup – Spaghetti Cat

A classic clip from a 2008 episode of The Soup, the best show on television:

link: YouTube – Spaghetti Cat

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