That time of the year = time for me to see the occasional "husband leads his wife outside to show her a holiday surpise gift of a car with a big bow on it.". There are more and more variations on the theme but each one causes the same reaction in me, viz., if someone buys me a car as a surprise, it better be someone whose finances are not ( Read more... )

So, I figured it was possible that NPR is having me on, and they might even put up a fake website to back up the joke, but I don't think that they're in cahoots with imdb.

The fake trailer in the NPR story (at 1:15 or so) is particularly lovely.

( Through the looking-glass, and what S. knit there. )

When flat games get flatter:

http://www.tetris1d.org/

http://www.newyorker.com/shouts/content/?040301sh_shouts