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Ease into the weekend with one of my all-time favorite Mos Def songs, Umi Says...just incredibly cool and wise and beautiful.

The WOW Suite, W Hotel Hollywood Hudson, who is six, loves hotels. It started in London, when we stayed there a couple of years ago at a hotel on Curzon Street called the Washington Mayfair. He loved the room, he loved the elevator, the doorman, the front desk, the location - everything about it. Recently, we needed to drive into Hollywood from Topanga and Hudson wanted to try out the wifi on the netbook Santa generously brought him at Christmas. We thought about where to go - Starbucks seemed too obvious - and Charong suggested the new W Hotel on Hollywood Boulevard. (We used to live not too far away in Laurel Canyon.) So along with our two year old daughter, Paradise, we all visited the spacious and very cool bar/lounge/lobby area of the W, which features a wide circular staircase and vast Swarovski crystal chandelier, a "bridge" suspended by (I'm guessing) steel wires and a kind of Moroccan-inspired lounging area with plenty of cushions. Hudson got to u

Photo credit: David Jenkins World Wildlife Fund Canada Happy Valentine's Day to everyone! If you haven't sent a card yet, it's not too late - try the World Wildlife Fund's free Valentine WWF E-cards. And please donate to the WWF , I've been a fan since I was a child.

See below for links to each of the four parts on IMDb If you enjoyed David Fincher's The Social Network as much as I did, you should check out IMDb's online streaming presentation of the 93-minute making-of documentary, How Did They Ever Make A Movie Of Facebook? It's the same documentary that's available on the Two-Disc DVD of The Social Network , but maybe you streamed the movie - or got a screener copy as I did (the awards screeners don't usually come with all the accessories). IMDb has split the documentary into four parts, each with a different url: Part One: Commencement Part Two: Boston Part Three: Los Angeles Part Four: The Lot Keep a note of these links, as there doesn't appear to be an automatic link to the next part of the documentary when one part ends. If you liked the movie, you should also check out the book on which Aaron Sorkin's excellent screenplay is based, The Accidental Billionaires by Ben Mezrich - or the rathe

Our six year old son, Hudson, wanted me to add the Fish widget to this blog, because he has it on his! So now you can feed the fish (just click your mouse over them) at the bottom of the left hand sidebar:)