Chocolate has more holidays than any other candy. Can’t argue with that, heh.
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Need a reason to celebrate your favorite candy item? Check out this list of fun candy holidays.
Sysloggin' one day at a time.
By Jim
Chocolate has more holidays than any other candy. Can’t argue with that, heh.
Candy USA!
Need a reason to celebrate your favorite candy item? Check out this list of fun candy holidays.
By Jim
By Jim
BBC NEWS | UK | 1914 ‘football truce’ anniversary
This Christmas is the 90th anniversary of the World War I truce when British troops took on the Germans at football.
The soldiers sang Christmas carols before leaving their trenches to play a match in sub-zero temperatures in no-man’s land near Armentieres, France.
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Salon Arts & Entertainment | “Star Wars” despots vs. “Star Trek” populists, by David Brin
Anyway, I make a good living writing science-fiction novels and movies. So “Star Wars” ought to be a great busman’s holiday, right?
One of the problems with so-called light entertainment today is that somehow, amid all the gaudy special effects, people tend to lose track of simple things, like story and meaning. They stop noticing the moral lessons the director is trying to push. Yet these things matter.
By now it’s grown clear that George Lucas has an agenda, one that he takes very seriously. After four “Star Wars” films, alarm bells should have gone off, even among those who don’t look for morals in movies. When the chief feature distinguishing “good” from “evil” is how pretty the characters are, it’s a clue that maybe the whole saga deserves a second look.
By Jim
Excerpt:
Poynter Online – What Journalists Can Learn From Bloggers
Blogging isn’t just a Wild-West free-for-all of publishing with no rules or ethical guidelines. Bloggers are making up the rules of their emerging and increasingly powerful medium as they go, and they do indeed have ideas to offer those practicing traditional journalism.