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• Ad Nauseam - Why one actor suddenly pops up in ad after ad after ad :: Joel Moore, that guy in all the commercials (and now the movie “Dodgeball”)

• FILM FREAK CENTRAL :: Reviews, Interviews, Reporting

• Michael McFadyen’s Scuba Diving - Loss of Two Divers at Sea :: The real story behind the harrowing film “Open Water”

• 24fps | Serious Cinephilia :: Contemporary world cinema, classic fare (unheralded and renowned alike), the festival circuit, authorship issues, theory, journalism, and cinephilia.

• Radio Paradise :: Eclectic online rock radio

• Google Holiday Logos :: All the Google logos

• Internet Archive: Audio Archive: Search Results for naropa :: Recordings by Burroughs, Ginsberg, Waldman, Mayers, etc…

• Hijacking Harry Potter, Quidditch Broom and All :: Same visuals, whole new soundtrack and dialogue.

• GarageBand.com :: Discovering, rating, exposing the best in independent music.

• SomaFM: Listener Supported, Commercial Free Internet Radio :: listener-supported, commercial-free, underground/alternative radio

• The New Atlantis - Memory and the Movies - James Bowman :: There are at least two good reasons why Hollywood is so fond of movies about memory loss…

• G-Mailto :: Associate mailto links with gmail (if you are really dedicated)

• :::…Lebowski Fest…::: :: Dude…

• AtomFilms: Instant Entertainment :: Original short films and animations online

• Hidden Features :: Find the Easter Eggs on many popular DVDs

• A Very Muscular Baby Offers Hope Against Diseases :: the New York Times on ‘SuperBoy’

• The Chronicle: 1/9/2004: No Mark of Distinction :: Some publishers and scholars want to purge the colon…’ Reminds me of a Reagan joke…

• Language Log: Egg corns: folk etymology, malapropism, mondegreen, ??? :: The birth of the ‘eggcorn’

• WORDLAB | The Free Business Naming and Branding Community :: Quarks, Snarks, Koans and more

• Language Log: Eggcorn terminology :: More on eggcorns

• Testimony: Evidence and Responsibility :: PhD Dissertation by Matt Weiner

• Books Made Into Movies @ Unverse :: ‘Some good books that have been made into acceptable films (or good movies from acceptable books)’

There have been very few wildfires this year in the Interior, but with all the hot weather they were bound to start kicking up sooner or later!

From his porch above Fairbanks, my boss took this picture of the smoke plume from a fire near Chicken, Alaska (and I am using it here with no permission whatsoever).

Most of Alaska is in a state of “extreme high danger” from wildfires… I remember very clearly when I was in high school and one of the biggest fires ever swept though just behind our subdivision while I was on the roof of our house ducking ashes and cinders while hosing down the shingles. Eventually I was forced to leave (that was when my car got struck by lightning, a story for another time) to a school 20 miles away. All of our homes were spared.

• Blosxom Notes and Related Information :: Very well annotated Blosxom (perl) code

• Cones, Curves, Shells, Towers: He Made Paper Jump to Life :: David Huffmann, mathematics, origami, and paper sculpture

• The Unquiet Grave :: Tony Tost. One of the few serious, consistently worthwhile poetry blogs

• THE FILM JOURNAL…Dedicated to serious film writing

• Live Action Roleplayers Association :: Live the dream…

• A few Words on Reviewing :: by Nathan Cohen

• Metacrap :: Corey Doctorow on the ‘pipe-dream’ of metadata and the semantic web

• “A Guide to Narratological Film Analysis”: http://www.uni-koeln.de/~ame02/pppf.htm :: Manfred Jahn

• CultureDose Guide to Writing Movie Reviews :: Actually a decent article on the process of reviewing

• slant // magazine.com: 100 Essential Films

• Henry Sheehan | film criticism, film reviews and commentary :: and essays, news, interviews

• Outshine: phpBB Blog :: A simple blog tool for phpBB

• FitDay :: Track food, exercise, weight loss, etc.

• Lollapalooza Canceled :: Maybe if they brought some of the alt-rock bands worth listening to…

• The Straight Dope :: Has a guy been stuck in the Paris airport since 1988 for lack of the right papers?

• Nihilistic Tendencies in Psychology and the Phenomenology of Off-Color Jokes :: Skim it or read it thoroughly, your choice. Thanks Rosie!

• W3C QA - List of valid DTDs you can use in your document.

• Joi Ito’s Web: Ray Bradbury’s Bizarre Complaint :: Ray Bradbury is stupid. Just ask Joi Ito, literary wonder.

• Roger Ebert’s Glossary of Movie terms :: From ‘Ali MacGraw’s Disease’ to ‘Z’

• SI.com - Scorecard Daily :: Fun new Sport Illustrated online section