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Today is the 71st anniversary of the Hindenburg disaster and I'm going to admit - while it was a horrific event, the videos from that day have always fascinated me. The size of the blimp and the way it peels apart as it bursts into flames is a spectacular sight.

Here's a video report from the day:

I won't detail the story, since everybody has at least a vague idea of what happened that day (but here's the Wikipedia page, just in case.)

Here's the first edition of what I'm going to cleverly call New(s) Media. It should be a daily update of something I have found interesting while trolling around the internet.

If you have your own collection of the cool, smart, funny or funny-looking stuff on the internet, feel free to add it here. With 262 Quadrillion* internet pages out there I can always use another pair of eyes.

First up - A New York Times multimedia piece on Fold-Ins, which is the lost art of folding a page over itself to reveal the true image. Al Jaffee of Mad Magazine was great at it, and NYT.com has an incredible multimedia piece displaying his work.

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Nease high school boys won 3 to 1 in the Class 4A Boys Final Championship soccer game against Bishop Moore High at home on Friday, February 8, 2008.

Stay tuned for more information and click here and here for the complete photo galleries.

My family always had a real Christmas tree - no exceptions.

Sure, real trees can be a bit of a pain, but they always make for good memories. For starters, my family is from Pennsylvania. My mother and father moved to Greenville, South Carolina, right before I was born. In our part of PA, the tradition is to put your tree up the week leading up to Christmas Eve. In our part of SC, it seems like the tree has to be up Thanksgiving afternoon.

That being said, we were always the transplanted (no pun intended) Yankees standing at the Christmas tree farm 3 days before Christmas Eve. Of course, all the great/good/decent/still living trees has been chosen already, and we often settled for a very "Charlie Brown" sort of thing.

Here they are! Click "Printer Friendly Version" at the bottom for a copy to carry with you.

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I'm originally from Philadelphia and thusly the appreciation for a great cheese steak is part of my genetic make-up. However, nobody "down here" seems to get it. 

There is never enough meat, and the rolls are either too small, too thick or too not greasy. You see, in my opinion, three things make an authentic cheese steak:

1) Meat

2) Cheese

3) Grease

Combine copious amounts of all three, and you have yourself one of life's greatest pleasures. 

In last week's TU (I think it was the Friday paper), they claimed that a place at the beach had authentic cheese steaks. Any merit to that? Any fellow "City-of-Brotherly-Loveians" willing to testify?

Have you ever been enjoying a meal at a fine restaurant (or slopping your way through a burger and fries) and wondered what was happening behind the kitchen's swinging doors?

Well, we have compiled a list of all the restaurant violations from every establishment in Northeast Florida, which means that your favorite haunt is definitely listed. Just to whet your appetite- one Beaches eatery had 40 violations earlier this year.

Ready to peek behind those doors?

Just drag that mouse of yours to the "News" link in the black menu bar at the top of the page and you'll see "Restaurant Violations" appear just underneath. Click on that and you'll be there!