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January 10, 2008

Web escapes: Jazzed Dylan, history blog awards, Audubon's birds, righteous Barney Frank, Expo design, the weekend's NFL TV schedule

Idiomatic tribute: Jewels And Binoculars: The Music Of Bob Dylan. Live in Antwerp, 2005. Michael Moore, Lindsey Horner, Michael Vatcher.

At BigO, Singapore:

More like a chamber trio for late night listening, for those who think they know their Dylan, the rasping singer will never be the same again. For jazz fans, with smouldering tracks that seem to build and build, this will be a delight.

(BigO is down as I type this. I hope it will be back up when you click.)

Best history blogs:
Correction: As commenter Sharon notes, I managed to get the news right and the year wrong. These are the 2007 Cliopatra awards, announced yesterday at the American Historical Association convention in Washington, D.C.

When bearing down to get the links, I inadvertently scrolled farther down the page to The 2006 Cliopatria Awards. Neverthless, what's below remains true.

If you're tired of Reddit's Ron Paul fanatics and the escalating political noise, you might want to sink into something like Axis of Evel Knievel by David Noon of the University of Alasked. Judges named it Best Individual Blog:

Recently using an "on this awful day in history" format to highlight eclectic examples of the unforgivable, Axis of Evel Knieval employs its acidic wit with forensic precision.

He memorizes all the dates so you don't have to.

Birdwatching: John James Audubon's ''The Birds of America" is online, with Audubon's original text and plates. This is the same title that the Providence Athenaeum went to court for the right to sell in 2005: Athenaeum's Birds sell at Christie's auction: 5 minutes, $5 million.

What are we fighting for? Rep. Barney Frank: Refight the Nineties? Barney to Barack:

I think the best way to summarize my concern is that if you tell people that we should not be willing to refight the battles of the nineties -- including many very important ones that we are far from having won -- and if you tell people to refuse partisanship, you may be inviting people to leave the battlefield to those with whom we have the biggest differences.

(If the race wasn’t about gender already, it certainly is now -- NYT)

"The motif of folk-art paper cut-outs": A rendering of the Polish Pavilion, designed for the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai, from the always interesting BLDGBLOG: Incision Skin

Couch schedule: This weekend's NFL playoffs schedule:

Sat., 4:30 p.m., FOX
Seattle at Green Bay

Sat., 8 p.m., CBS
Jacksonville at New England

Sun., 1 p.m., CBS
San Diego at Indianapolis

Sun., 4:30 p.m., FOX
NY Giants at Dallas

The Web loves lists: 50 things I've learned in 50 years, a partial list in no particular order. Eric Zorn at the Chicago Tribune. Give it to somebody just starting out.

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Posted by: sharon on January 10, 2008 3:39 PM