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The New York Times has released its “Books of the Year” List. The Travel list is diverse and well-chosen:
Interstate 69 Matt Dellinger
Venice:Pure City Peter Ackroyd
All Over the Map Laura Fraser
The Black Nile Dan Morrison
Delhi: Advenures in a Megacity
Margaret Bald
Long Way Home:On the Trail of Steinbeck's America
Metrobits.org has assmbled a comprehensive collection of metro logos from around the world. At last check their tally was 169 individual logos. But that’s not all, Metrobits has everything you ever wanted to know about metros everywhere.
The First Amendment Project is a nonprofit advocacy organization dedicated to protecting and promoting freedom of information, expression, and petition. For nearly ten years, FAP has provided advice, educational materials, and legal representation to its core constituency of activists, journalists, and artists in service of these fundamental liberties.
First Amendment Project (FAP) is hosting an auction with a literary bent! This is an auction like no other auction.
Thirty prominent authors, representing a variety of literary genres, are offering the winning 
bidders the chance to have their names included in works of fiction in a charity auction launching on eBay on November 26, 2010. Participating authors include Jenji Kohan, the creator of the Showtime series “Weeds”,Andrew Sean Greer, Ayelet Waldman, Ben Katchor, Chris Ware, Dan Chaon, Dan Gutman, Dave Eggers, Derek Haas, Elinor Lipman, Francine Prose, Jane Smiley, Janet Burroway, Joshua Ferris, Kevin J. Anderson & Rebecca Moesta, Lorrie Moore, Margot Livesey, Mona Simpson, Nami Mun, Patrick DeWitt, Phillip Margolin, Rick Moody, Robert Mailer Anderson, Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum, Stacey D’Erasmo, Stuart Woods, Suzanne Brockmann, T Campbell, Thomas Perry, Vendela Vida and Walter Kirn. In addition, authors Laura Benedict and Lisa See are offering “book club packages,” in which they supply multiple copies of one of their books and make a telephone call to the group.
http://3.ly/fapauction include the chance to be an FBI agent or a stripper with a heart of gold in the next entry in Suzanne Brockmann’s Troubleshooters series; a villain or a victim in Thomas Perry’s next entry in the Jane Whitefield series, a wounded World War I soldier or drunken Bohemian in Andrew Sean Greer’s next novel, as a character in a new musical 
by Janet Burroway, or a character in a cartoon series by Ben Katchor, Chris Ware or T Campbell. Young adult authors Dan Gutman and Kevin J. Anderson are offering character names in the next entries in their Baseball Card Adventures and Star Challengers series, respectively.
This is the third character name auction for First Amendment Project. The first two auctions, held in 2005 and 2006, earned over $170,000 for the organization.
The auction is a benefit for First Amendment Project, the Oakland, CA-based nonprofit organization that provides free legal services on public interest free speech and free press issues.
In addition to the character name, the winning bidder in the “Weeds” auction will receive a signed copy of the pilot script, the box set of DVDs of the first five seasons of the series and a “Weeds” baseball cap.
Located in Old City, Philadelphia, the most historic aquare mile in the United States, Artists’ House gallery is presenting “Small Works 2010”. The show, which runs from tonight through December 24th, features some of Philly’s hottest painters.
Our favorite featured artists are Robert Sampson and Patrick Crofton.
Bucks County, Pennsylvania is a wonderful place to visit even in the Winter. And the best place to visit is the historic, old village of Newtown. The cozy little borough’s newest art gallery, Countryside-Radhouse is the place see this December, when they present a solo show by Newtown’s favorite artist, Bonnie Butler.
The opening reception will be held on Friday December 3rd from 6:30 to 11pm.
In Tromsø, Norway – 215 miles north of the Arctic Circle – the sun has gone down for the last time this year. The sun will remain below the horizon during the “Polar Night” from November 26 until January 15, 2011. To mark the beginning of the ‘Mørketid’ as the period without daylight is called, hundreds of local kindergarten kids each brought a homemade candle to the city square where they were all lit.
On the plus side, this is one of the best places in the world to view the Aurora Borealis.
Boasting a collection of 230 rare and vintage autos, the Louwman Nationaal Automobiel Museum was officially inaugurated this past July in the Hague by Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands.
Designed by Michael Graves, the 185,000 square-foot museum is anchored by an impressive cathedral-like gallery with a lofty ceiling.
The museum collection dates back to 1934 when the Louwman family began the collection with a 1914 Dodge.
The vehicles are diveided into galleries for the “Dawn of Motoring”, “Motoring”, “Racing” and “Luxury”.
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