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Morning Coffee (1/5/11)

Good morning! Wednesday! We're halfway through the week. Thank goodness. For those of you into TV, the TCA press tour starts today, so get ready for Twitter to explode. (Speaking of TV, Ausiello's new site has debuted.)

The Internet has been won for, like, EVER: James Van Der Memes

David Tennant (who played the Doctor on Doctor Who) is marrying the daughter of Peter Davison (who played the Doctor on Doctor Who). Less creepy than it sounds, although she (sorry, her name is Georgia Moffett) also played Tennant's daughter in one episode.

NPR has a new song from R.E.M. I really like it.

A medieval city discovered under Oxford

This year I swear I'm going to get into the big bag of salad habit.

Were the Arkansas bird deaths caused by . . . fireworks? Um, really? There are fireworks all the time. Usually birds seem to deal with them fine, right?

News to make you feel like a failure: a 10-year-old discovered a supernova.

The 7 Most Essential Pots and Pans

Russia: less fond of Tolstoy than you might think.

How Mood Rings Work

Nazi-era graves to be dug up in Austria

TWoP's Golden Globes picks

Paying taxes in gold and silver? Really, people? How exactly would that work?

Here are the Producers Guild Award nominations, if you care. They look more or less exactly as you'd expect.

Forever Young Adult makes resolutions on behalf of YA writers.