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From our bookshelves, iPods and laptops to your Thursday morning breakfast table, here are our recommendations for the best of recent culture.

FOUND Magazine
(foundmagazine.com)
Ever find an old note in a library book or a strange Polaroid at a garage sale? The guys behind FOUND Magazine thrive on that kind of stuff, compiling these small scraps, ranging from the bizarre and hilarious to sad and undecipherable, into books as well as magazines available through back order. Their Web site includes a "Find of the Day." If you wonder what they do with all the R-rated stuff, there's also Dirty FOUND, a separate magazine for racier finds.
- Grace Duggan

Barenaked for the Holidays
Barenaked Ladies
While it may be a little too chilly to bare it all during the Middlebury holiday season, The Barenaked Ladies' Christmas disc is sure to give you that warm, cozy feeling. No, that tingle is not only from the eggnog, it's also from the cheer and goodwill packed into the pop of the band's renditions of secular and sanctified classics.
- Melissa Marshall

Cool Hunting Holiday Gift Guide
This trendy website (www.coolhunting.com), which is run by some self-important New Yorker, offers a nifty gift guide for the artistically inclined. Where else could you find out about cigarette pack-sized editions of classic literature (pictured above), or a $270 antler lamp, for that family member or aloof hipster who has everything?
- Andrew Throdahl