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Been busy with some technical stuff for the blog. Will be posting more soon.

• tastewar points out an item on boingboing about Raymond Scott, composer/musician/engineer/inventor, born 100 years ago.
• NPR has a spot about an effort to preserve the boyhood home of Superman co-creator Jerry Siegel. Note that Stephen Colbert is involved.

Actress Anita Page died last Saturday. An obituary is here, and you can see some of her being brash, bold, and brassy, in The Broadway Melody of 1929, by clicking here.

Of the numerous Doug Pratt’s out there, the best known is the Doug Pratt who edits and publishes The DVD Newsletter, which he started as The LaserDisc Newsletter. When I first got on the Net from home, almost fifteen years ago, I was on Usenet a lot, and I posted comments to LaserDisc newsgroups. Because I was very knowledgeable about the format, everybody assumed I was Doug, so I added a disclaimer insisting I wasn’t him.

Doug can be heard in a recent 90-minute conversation on Blog Talk Radio, at this link. Maybe later the host can figure out how to level-match the loudness of the phone calls.

There are lots of tributes to voiceover man Don LaFontaine, who was far from the end of his career when he died, but that won’t stop me from doing one myself. I’ll embed this video, and YouTube will toss in a playlist of hopefully related clips.