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Tooting the family horn
There's an article in the NY Times about the Black List, a list of top Hollywood screenplays currently in the pipeline. It's just a little thing, but... in the second paragraph, we find the following text:
Atop the 2007 list of 130 screenplays, which the list’s author, Franklin Leonard issued on Friday : "Recount," by Danny Strong, about the 2000 ( Read more... ) -
CT Ren Faire photos
bratling has posted his photos from Connecticut Faire, taken third weekend. Includes images from Court, the first street dance set, and the Winnifred/Eyah fight, as well as some miscellaneous street shots.
It also includes possibly my favorite photo of Morgan to date, in which unpleasant mojo seems moments away:
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Music recommendations!
Alright all,
I am seriously jonesing for a new music fix, and I have no leads.
Help!
What is the coolest music you know, that I might not know already?
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Earlier, kaige_of_ct posted this, and the more I look at it, the more fun it is. It's an optical illusion featuring a silhouette of a woman spinning in circles, and the question is, which way is she spinning ( Read more... ) -
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I have just discovered Bobby McFerrin ( Read more... ) -
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Just now I discovered, in the process of playing through one of those memes that passes by sometimes, that "Zanne needs" is a successful Googlewhack (two words that return exactly one result on Google). I am highly amused ( Read more... ) -
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Apparently, years after the first time I waxed rhapsodic about it, listening to the dance remix of the Hamster Dance can still pull me straight from a mild vegetative state into 3 minutes and 33 seconds of ecstatic cardio ( Read more... ) -
Public Service Announcement
J.K. Rowling has said a few words in follow-up to the final Harry Potter book. I am foolishly relieved about this, because I was pretty disappointed to think we'd never get the answers to these last questions. Apparently, I wasn't the only one.
Click this link only if you have already finished reading The Book. -
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Now that I've been made aware of it, I keep noticing more evidence of people's complicated relationship with monkeys.
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more from the physics teacher
And now, just for the sake of follow-up, and because I find the saga amusing:
The public response to the previously mentioned global warming YouTube video was sufficiently vehement that it drove the maker into donning silly hats out of sheer frustration:
Then follows a second follow-up video, in which he attempts to respond to the two-thousand- ( Read more... )