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If you or your patrons missed yesterday’s Super Bowl and want to see the commercials everyone’s talking about, you can stream them online–and rate your favorites–at the NFL.com website. (If you want information about the actual game, you can find it there as well.)

If you are having a Super Bowl Party and want something to fill the time when your team is losing, here is a trivia contest.  The Super Bowl Quiz has fifteen multiple choice questions.  You may answer them in order or choose them randomly.  If you answer at least ten questions you will receive a [...]

The 54th Annual GRAMMY Awards will be presented on February 12.  You can find a list of current nominees and a searchable database of past winners back to 1958, when GRAMMY’s first Record and Song of the Year was “Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu (Volare)<” at http://www.grammy.com.  There is also information about the Recording Academy’s [...]

In 2006 a student at the New England Conservatory of Music, Edward W. Guo, began scanning musical scores using the software MediaWiki.  The project, imslp.org, now has over 150,000 scores of 48,000 works of 7,000 composers.  Although the scores are supposedly in the public domain or by contemporary composers who want to share their music, [...]

The 2012 Academy Award nominations have been announced–now the handicapping for the Feb. 26 ceremony begins.  If your patrons are movie history buffs, or if you’re thinking of doing a display of past nominees, here are a few useful sites to bookmark: The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) lists of all of the nominees since the [...]

The Dartmouth Medal, RUSA’s “Oscar” for the most outstanding new reference source of the year, went to Green’s Dictionary of Slang, published by Chambers and distributed by Oxford. It was selected for its comprehensive and inclusive scholarship, providing coverage of English-language slang in the United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Australia, and other English-speaking countries. It [...]

Now that most librarians are home from ALA Midwinter, it is time to plan for the trip to Anaheim in June.  Los Angeles may be daunting to those unfamiliar with the area but mqVibe.com may help librarians choose an area of Anaheim for hotels, restaurants, etc.  Searching is first by city and then locations within [...]

Karl Pillemer, a professor of human development at Cornell University began the Legacy Project  eight  years ago.  He and his researchers have interviewed more than  1,500  people over seventy.  They were asked about life experiences, both positive and negative, and how these experiences have enriched their life.   The answers, some with video, are divided by broad topics – love and marriage, [...]

If you are contemplating a change of location for a new job or just a change of scene, you need to think about logistics.  MoversReviewed.com can help with that. The database compiles information from 80 regulatory and association sources about moving companies. Users may search by the geographic area from which they plan to move [...]

Epicurious and TasteBook have both digitized Random House cookbooks.  Cooks who already have an Epicurious recipe box may add to it through seventy-five digitized cookbooks.  The cookbooks are copied so they appear exactly as they look in hard copy.  Books cost from $10 to $25 dollars and may be previewed before purchase.  Once purchased they [...]

The things that one can find on the Web never cease to amaze. The Internet Pinball Database (IPDB) is just what you need to answer those trivia questions that pinball nerds may have. The site http://www.ipdb.org includes a glossary of pinball terms so that you can learn the difference between SS (solid state) and EM [...]

Flipboard began as an app for the iPad and now is available free for the iPhone and iPod touch.  It changes Facebook, Twitter and other social network services into pages similar to those in a magazine.  The pages “flip” from bottom to top and the content is presented in a visual pleasing format.   A number [...]

Hanukkah is here and Christmas and Kwanzaa coming. The celebrations all involve lots of food. At the same time, childhood obesity is a major problem, affecting one third of the children in the United States. Forty percent of the children in the Hispanic and African American communities are obese and overweight. First Lady Michelle Obama [...]

SpotScout.com is a concept similar to e-Bay but specifically for parking spots.  At the present time the site accepts requests only in Boston.  Searching is by address for parking in commercial garages, or in a private driveway or garage   Entering an in and out date,  time and the walking distance from the spot (5-30 minutes) [...]

Have you always wanted to do scientific research but thought that you had to be Einstein to do it? Fear not, the good people at Scientific American have opportunities for you. Just go to www.scientificamerican.com/education and you will find projects for both children and adults. Bring Science Home offers a new project for children ages [...]

For football fanatics that plan Sunday around what games are televised where, The506.com/nflmaps is a unique aid.  By midweek, prior to Sunday games,  a US map is published showing what channels are broadcasting what games and who the commentators are.  There is an update on Friday with blackout information.  Explanation of the NFL TV Rules [...]

The holidays are upon us. Both your e-mail and snail-mail boxes are full of appeals from ostensibly worthy causes in need of funding. You are thinking about helping those in need as well as about possible tax breaks. How do you know where to put your hard-earned dollars? Which charities are real and which ones [...]

Skyandtelescope.com is the web site for the magazine of the same name which has been published since 1941. The web site has “This Week’s Sky at a Glance” which is a good resource to discover what you may see in the clear night sky.  On Saturday of this week (December 10) there will be a [...]

Thanksgiving is over and Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanza are coming. Holiday parties mean lots of food and drink. It’s easy to pack on a few pounds without trying. You need to stay in shape to maintain your weight or drop the extra that sneaked up on you. As you get older, it may be harder [...]

Penguin Classics app is an annotated listing of  “the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines.” So wherever you are you may find annotations for over 1,400 classics.  Searching is by author and title with additional searching by subject, genre, time period and region.  Looking for fiction in the 20th century in Boston [...]