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Is baking with olive oil trendy? I’m coming across the most amazing recipes this fall that use olive oil instead of butter or vegetable oil. First, you must go make Fine Cooking’s Olive Oil Pumpkin Bread. I’ve been looking for a standby pumpkin bread recipe for years, and this is it. I’ve made it three [...] Did you know there are Christmas decorations hanging above the ruined streets of Haiti? That is what I learned this morning while reading the most recent entry from my friend and colleague Cindy’s blog, Dispatches from Haiti. Cindy is in Haiti for four weeks working as a communications officer for a not-for-profit called HelpAge. [...] I’ve mentioned I love an internet quiz. What I really love is an intelligent internet quiz, like this one from Pew Internet & American Life on Internet “typology” called Where Do You Fit? I took an older version of this quiz about a year ago, but by the time this blog started it was old [...] I know I’m not (thanks for the genes, Dad). I spent the first three weeks at my current job with a broken spell checker, and I can feel the horror of that discovery. Despite my certain answer to the question, I couldn’t resist this quiz I ran across while looking for business writing guides (via [...] I ran across this Virginia Quarterly Review article Friday night (via kottke.org) about a tiny town in Argentina with a large albino population. Even though I was dead tired and the article was quite long, I read the whole thing, riveted to my chair. It wasn’t just my recent trip to Argentina that drew me [...] They are few and far between, but good librarian jokes do make it into the comics. Pearls Before Swine, Dilbert, and Frazz have had a few good runs, and there’s always Unshelved. I’m unfamiliar with the web comic xkcd, but Advantages to Dating Librarians has been circulating the library blogosphere for a few days, and [...] Wow – Allegra has been posting like crazy. I’m still here though, and I thought I’d get in on the fun by sharing some enjoyable links: A thorough amalgamation of Summer reading lists. For Harry Potter fans: Platform 9 ¾ at the real King’s Cross Station. A blog of notable women of the past. Enjoy! [...] |
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