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We love the blue hues of this photo by agent69akasexy. Add to that the drama of the clouds in the sky and you have a a great photo.

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--Headline on WBZ: "Storm Fails to Break December Storm Record." While we don't want to be too hard on our local weatherheads, shouldn't that really read "Weatherheads Fail to Predict Size of Storm"? [WBZ]

--Why merge the blotter with snow emergency announcements? 2007 appears to be ending quietly, blotter-wise, and, if the incoming storm is going to be as bad as the weatherheads say it is, someone's gonna get arrested for a parking-related problem.

Snow emergencies have been declared in Boston, Cambridge, and Somerville. Here's the dirt on parking and getting around:

How can you not love John Williams? He has given us some of the most memorable, mesmerizing film scores in cinematic history. Superman, E.T., Raiders of the Lost Ark! Films that are forever captured in multiple generations' minds and memories - and Bostonians can proudly puff out our chests and note that, given his longstanding ties to the Boston Pops, he is totally ours. So we wouldn't be surprised to know that there was a...

Update: Another manhole-related accident happened this morning in Brighton on Nonantum Road. Now the state is going to inspect manholes and storm grates. If you think you see a potential manhole attack, dial #321 on a mobile or 888-359-9595. OK, manholes! We've had it with you! Go back to wherever it is you came from, and leave us alone! Really, it feels like manholes have been possessed and are rising from the earth to wreak...

Even though the Devern Hansack experiment went horribly wrong Saturday night, the Sox had no choice but to go to the Pawtucket well again Sunday. So they brought up lefty Kason Gabbard to start Sunday's rain-delayed tilt with the Braves. And it went as well as we possibly could have hoped. Gabbard cooled off the Atlanta bats, which were still steaming from Saturday's 14-run nightcap, to the tune of five innings pitched, six hits, two...

The chatter is swelling this week about St. Patrick's Day. On a sunny day with temperatures nearing 70 around Boston it is a wonderful day to think about the parade in South Boston on Saturday. Unfortunately the weather isn't looking so hot for the end of this week – so we've got to plan on how we're going to wear our green (if it's going to be a rain slicker or winter parka - the t-shirt won't likely cut it). Wearing green on St. Patrick's Day is often more wide spread in the office than wearing your red and green on the day of the office Christmas (or politically correct, Holiday) party. For the last year the Green Streets Initiative has been giving commuters in Cambridge a reason to wear their green at least once a month – the environment.

The Cambridge Green Streets Initiative is a grassroots group of people who live, work, or send kids to school in Cambridge. We are interested in reducing the use and impact of automobiles in Cambridge and encouraging the use of alternative transportation. We have started a movement to make the last Friday of every month a Walk/Ride Day. Walk, cycle, scooter, bus, train, stilt, pogo-stick – or whatever! – to school or work, but leave your car behind.

The first year anniversary of the Walk/Ride Day is scheduled for March 30, 2007, but there's no reason not to give it the St. Paddy's Day preview this week. Park the car and walk, bike, or take the T to work. And wear your green. When someone asks you if you're sporting the green to honor your Irish heritage you can get all high and mighty and tell them that no, in fact, it's green to support the environment and today's carbon emissions weren't your fault.

At first it seemed like it was just a ploy for sweeps. Deemed the first big snow storm of the season initial reports had upwards of eight inches falling on Boston. Local TV news stations have fired up the severe weather graphics, pulled in their storm teams, and gone to almost all weather all the time. The National Weather Service even issued a winter storm warning for the next 24 hours:... Winter Storm Warning...

Bostonist became somewhat obsessed with the Boston Strangler case after reading A Rose for Mary which chronicles the case from start to finish with such detail that you are instantly taken back to that frightening time here in the city. Written by local journalist and nephew of one of the Strangler victims, Casey Sherman, the book definitely led Bostonist to question if Albert DeSalvo was indeed the Strangler as he confessed to being. When we heard about the new book from author Sebastian Junger, A Death in Belmont, Bostonist instantly thought of Sherman’s tale. Junger, who's most well known for the book about the Gloucester fisherman, A Perfect Storm, has decided to use his family’s own personal encounter with the Boston Strangler and base his latest non-fiction novel upon it.

“I am your father,” a motion-sensing robot told Bostonist the other day. That bot and the rest of the Star Wars exhibit makes the jump from the Museum of Science into hyperspace on April 30th. Sure the Storm Troopers marching through Southie last weekend were great, we thought a day at the MoS would be better - and really let us experience the movies. Beyond motion-sensing, talking robots were models and costumes from the prequel and original trilogies, hands-on activities demonstrating principles behind hovercrafts and robot design, and, of course, an abundance of C-3PO muttering silly British things. While Bostonist has been a bit of a Star Wars geek for ages, the experience on the whole was a little underwhelming. The behind-the-scenes parts were swell, we marveled how actors must have all been sporting the Mick Jagger skinny in the late 70’s, judging from the costumes. “Technology” from Star Wars as current-day innovations was good in theory but robot displays left something to be desired. For example, Bostonist was wowed by a video clip of two teams of little dog robots playing soccer, but the real-life dog robot that followed the clip let out two pitiful barks and pushed a ball with its paw – it was nothing short of lame.

After seriously almost being knocked over in the wind tunnel in front of the John Hancock tower this lovely Tuesday morning, Bostonist just wants you all to be careful out there. After pummeling our newest friends in Florida yesterday, Hurricane Wilma has decided to pay us a visit up north and brought some of her friends. Similar to "The Perfect Storm" of 1991, which had three storms combining into one big massive one, the storm...