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Gleans at 3:10 PM MT, 12/10

Ordinary Reading Assignment for Saturday, December 19, 2009

Bolton and Wodehouse and Kern: The Men Who Made Musical Comedy by Lee Davis (Hardcover - Nov 1993) - http://www.amazon.com/Bolton-Wodehouse-Kern-Musical-Comedy/dp/0870081454/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1261260096&sr=8-1

P. G. Wodehouse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hyperlinked encyclopedic article about the English writer including his life, writings, characters and screen adaptations of his works. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P.G.Wodehouse

Anything Goes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to Musical numbers‎: Sung later in the musical, near the Act I Finale. ... Anything Goes, Sung by Reno before the Act I Finale when she considers ... - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anything_Goes

Cole Porter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1919–1954) «start: (1919)–end+1: (1955)»"Marriage: Linda Lee Thomas to Cole Porter" Location: (linkback: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cole_Porter ) ... - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cole_Porter

Cole Porter: Selected Lyrics (American Poets Project) by Cole Porter and Robert Kimball (Hardcover - April 6, 2006) - http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=library+of+america+lyrics+of+Cole+Porter&x=0&y=0

gleans at 6:20 AM MT, 12/15

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/15/science/15books.html?r=1 - A new book is a tribute to a Microsoft researcher, lost at sea in 2007, who argued that computing was transforming science.

From strange signs and bizarre pictures to quirky news and features, we bring you the most interesting and funny articles and galleries on all things travel. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/weird-wide-world/?utmsource=tmg&utm_medium=TD_www&utm_campaign=travel1512am

Jude Law described director Guy Ritchie as like a father to two wayward sons as he attended the world premiere of Sherlock Holmes, in which Law stars alongside Robert Downey Jr.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/6812722/Sherlock-Holmes-Jude-Law-and-Robert-Downey-Jr-wayward-sons-to-Guy-Ritchie.html

Marissa Mayer: An omnivorous Google is coming
Marissa Mayer, Google's vice president for search products and user experience, shares her unparalleled insights into the future of internet search engines.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/6810021/Marissa-Mayer-An-omnivorous-Google-is-coming.html

Wine tastes better if a room is backlit with red or blue ambient lights, a psychologist has found.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/6810671/Wine-tastes-better-in-blue-or-red-lit-rooms.html

Will next year finally see the much-heralded mass migration from paper to e-books? ... http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/sciencemedicine/story/A71EF2DD1BB4BBBC86257675000176A0?OpenDocumenthttp://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1946348,00.html?xid=rss-topstories - Searches on Google for popular news topics often turn up stories from a little-known website ahead of stories from major media sites. Is this another case of David whipping Goliath, or is it just the weird science of search-engine optimization? <== Cyril likes examiner.com

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/weird-wide-world/?utm_source=tmg&utm_medium=TD_www&utm_campaign=travel1312 <== recommended

The wealth of media in modern life means the average person is bombarded with enough information every day to overload a laptop computer, a study has found.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/6801633/Modern-life-causes-brain-overload-study-finds.html

Ambrose Bierce's Write It Right: The Celebrated Cynic's Language Peeves Deciphered, Appraised, and Annotated for 21st-Century Readers by Ambrose Bierce - http://www.powells.com/review/2009_12_13.html?utm_source=overview&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss_overview&utm_content=Ambrose%20Bierce's%20Write%20It%20Right%3A%20The%20Celebrated%20Cynic's%20Language%20Peeves%20Deciphered%2C%20Appraised%2C%20and%20Annotated%20for%2021st-Century%20Readers&PID=18