February 8, 2006

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‘Curious George’ Collaborator Found Dead, Murder Suspected
Alan Shalleck, 76, who worked as a co-writer of Curious George books and producer of more than 100 tie-in cartoons, was found dead yesterday in his driveway at a Boynton Beach, Fla., senior-citizen retirement village.

Yow. This is big news for book-lovers.

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It took about three weeks for Google to reindex my site after I migrated from Blogger to Wordpress and moved everything from wfzimmerman.com to nimblebooks.com.

Now that Google has caught up, I am seeing a healthy increase in CPM as Google searchers are going directly to the right page, instead of being redirected to an index page.

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Corbis gallery of Da Vinci pix

Some amazing shots here. The Hanks head shots are stunning.

corbis hanks headshot

(C) Corbis.

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Interview | George R. R. Martin
whatever lurks in the north, we’re about to find out.

Ah: The Winds of Winter.

This interview actually came out in 2001, but for some reason it showed up on my Google Alert today.

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