November 2008
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“No human counsel hath devised, nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great...”
– Part of the speech Abraham Lincoln gave as he established Thanksgiving as a national annual holiday. [via NPS Source Book]
I was listening to On the Media today and the well known phrase “Music has charms to soothe a savage breast” was mentioned. Wait a second, it’s supposed to be “savage beast”…right?
Wrong.
Turns out that the phrase comes from the 1697 William Congreve play The Mourning Bride. The same fellow also penned “Heaven has no rage like love to hatred...
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I like stupid music. Parry Gripp’s stupid...
Comics.com is now free!
“Finally, a newspaper syndicate gets it right. United Features has taken a nod from the webcomics world and made a move in response to the declining sales of newspapers by offering all of its content (including years of archives) at comics.com online for free. And not just that, but its RSS feeds which once only contained links, now contain the cartoons themselves.” [via Drawn!]
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I was surprised to learn today that author Michael Crichton died of cancer today. He has always been one of my favorite fiction writers…and his non-fiction book Travels was one of my favorite reads.
Also, it appears that Russia’s President isn’t all too happy with our country at the moment. That can’t be good. Someone get James Bond on the phone…