The murmur of the snarkmatrix…

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The Year's Best Music
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Since 2003, I’ve made discs and MP3 playlists of my favorite music of the year to swap with friends. But this year, I just haven’t been feeling it.

I really like In Ear Park and The Walkmen’s new album, and I’ve listened to Dodos’ “Fools” a couple dozen times (my tastes are skewing folky in my dotage). And it may be too early to say, but “Single Ladies” is percussive and weird and anthemic enough to be this year’s “1 Thing.”

But mostly I’ve been tuned out. So, I ask the Snarkmatrix: What have I missed? What do I need to hear?

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Recursive Bach
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I just discovered this site, a collection of expositions of the fugues in Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier. Some of Tim Smith’s writings are pretty opaque to those of us who aren’t trained in music, but many of his comments are accessible enough. (“If you think of the subject as a dancer, then the fugal process is one of finding a suitable partner. But what if the dancer has the ability to be its own partner? Well that is stretto. And stretto is what the C Major fugue is all about.”)

And the visualizations help, although I wish they were done in Flash instead of Shockwave. But hey, it was made in 2002.

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The Endless Shipwreck
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Sarah Kerr reviews Roberto Bola

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Three-Dimensional Reading
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Card Catalogues, photo-word-art by Erica Baum. Downloadable at UbuWeb, via Al Filreis.

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* This is where it’s important to point out that legendary French anthropologist Claude L

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The Blogger I Miss Most…
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… is easily Ben Vershbow, formerly of if:book.

The only post-IFB news I can find of him is a Book Expo Canada from June. I hope he is doing something appropriately awesome.

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Boy, This "Gastrosnark" Category Sure Is Useful …
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Found on Ask MetaFilter: “When asked for dessert recommendations, my friend

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100 Notable Books
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The NYT’s annual booklist is out, in case you missed it.

(BTW, Rex’s annual list of lists is also in process.)

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Cranberry Sauce Recipe
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If you want to make your entire house smell amazing for two hours, make this. Exactly as the recipe says. It’s brilliant.

Note: The jalapenos seem like a lot at first. Just go with it. I was also tempted to put in a little more water, but I’m happy I didn’t. The recipe is perfect. Trust the recipe.

Also: My other contribution to Thanksgiving dinner is creamy potatoes au gratin. I diced the onions like a few of the other reviewers did, sprinkled over a dusting of garlic salt-and-pepper seasoning, and topped the whole with bread crumbs and a handful of shredded cheese before putting it into the oven.

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You Get Two Guesses
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Does this abstract come from The Onion or The New York Times?

Modern pentathlon has been cut from five events to four in a bid to boost its popularity and stay in the Olympics, combining shooting and running into a single event.

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