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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.)

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

New York’s renowned Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum has digitized a bunch of its out-of-print publications and made them available on its website–for free! Many of the books are exhibition catalogs from the ’50s and ’60s, but there are several fairly recent publications as well. The books can be accessed in multiple formats via the Internet [...]

Crossword puzzle dictionaries are a staple in most reference collections.  Two of the most popular are the Random House Webster’s Crossword Puzzle Dictionary (Random House Reference, 2006) and The American Heritage Crossword Puzzle Dictionary (Houghton Mifflin, 2003).  As helpful as they are, they don’t always have the answer to every cruciverbalist’s query.  OneAcross.com is the [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

For over 55 years Santa has been tracked in the US.  Now there is a web site, noradsanta.org. which shows where Santa is located beginning in the morning of Christmas Eve.  As I write this Santa has been to Australia and his next stop is Fuji Japan.  The site also has information about Santa  – [...]

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) [...]

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 [...]

Reviews of new magazines that ultimately will be included in the next edition of Magazines for Libraries are now available online.  Here is the link where you sign up for the reviews:  http://www.serialssolutions.com/magazines-for-libraries.

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 [...]

With Thankgiving on Thursday no doubt there are a few nervous cooks who have NEVER COOKED A TURKEY!  If you know of someone who needs assistance, Butterball.com is the site.  First there is the Holiday Planning Guide – fresh or frozen turkey, how long to thaw, how many pounds, the method of cooking, how long [...]

The following is from the blog “Table Hopping” written by Steve Barnes.  It appears in the Times Union (Albany NY). Table Hopping Eat, drink and be candid By Steve Barnes | E-mail | About Table Hopping Thanksgiving by the numbers November 17, 2011 at 11:26 am by Steve Barnes, senior writer Some stats, courtesy the [...]

The Feline Health Center is one many useful websites produced by Cornell University.  A general information page gives cat owners ideas about choosing and caring for a cat, health hazards, etc. There is additional information on aging, cancer and other health issues, behavior, spaying and neutering and of course nutrition and weight control.  Both online [...]

The Wirecutter.com is a new site with the sub-title “the list of best gadgets.”  Brian Lam launched the site in September after stepping down from Gizmodo.com in June where he had been editorial director. The site has evaluations and recommendations of smart phones, cameras, laptops, televisions, tablets, wireless speakers, e-book readers, etc. that are all [...]

The New York Times had an article in yesterday’s paper about the major advertising campaign by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt for the new 5th edition of the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language. Even with the demise of print reference sources, the publisher is making a huge effort to convince the public that they still [...]

The 125th anniversary of the Statue of Liberty was last Friday, October 28 and a part of the celebration on Liberty Island was 125  people from 46 countries taking the citizenship oath and becoming citizens of the US.  Another exciting event was the launching of four webcams -  the torch, harbor, crown and Lady Liberty [...]