No joke, this is the film I'm most looking forward to at the moment: The New World (imdb) — I've recently seen all of Terrence Malick's films; they're visually stunning
Improve your searches with this awesome resource: the Google cheat sheet
Matthew Baldwin's guide to Star Wars: how to watch The Phantom Menace
Man moves train with right ear [via mimi]
AskMe: How do you cultivate gratitude? — an attempt to appreciate at what we have, how fortunate we are; also a query about how to avoid dissatisfaction
Flowchart of generic James Bond movie (and the handy flowchart for the opening short-story scene) [via making light]
Author interviews by Don Swaim, including talks with Edward Abbey (for Paul J.), Robertson Davies (for Joel), John Irving (for Kris), and hundreds of others (no Patrick O'Brian though) [via mefi]
I should have made a career out of animal intelligence. (I should at least start that damn weblog.) Prairie dogs speak — scientists can discern twenty discrete 'words', including adjectives
Two fun book items from Amazon: The Batman Handbook: The Ultimate Training Manual and the Penguin Classics Library Complete Collection, which contains 1082 volumes
Flash-based fun (?): peel the potato game [via robotwisdom]
from defective yeti: it's Business Time — "I was in the car this evening listening to 103.7 The Mountain, and they played a song so funny that it had me laughing out loud."
Mom has a great weblog entry up: Live like you were dying, which includes remembrances of Dad's final months
Great entry at Alas, a Blog: What feminists demanded in 1967, reproducing NOW's Bill of Rights from its first national conference (I have real problems with article four — I think tax subsidies for children are wrong)
The force behind Star Wars, a 1977 interview with George Lucas, puts a lie to some of the modern Lucas myths. For example: "[The prequels are] about Ben and Luke's father and Vader when they are young Jedi knights. But Vader kills Luke's father, then Ben and Vader have a confrontation, just like they have in Star Wars, and Ben almost kills Vader. As a matter of fact, he falls into a volcanic pit and gets fried and is one destroyed being." [via kottke]
Zork wiki: you are likely to be eaten by a grue
Photoshopped Spider-Man comics — some of these are really very funny [via nate]
My public fitness log — help keep me accountable on my quest for fitness
Harry and the Potters — "We play songs about books" (check out Save Ginny Weasley [via mefi]
Ragtime nickolodeons, callipoes, and player pianos
Fitness in six minutes a week: a few intense sprints are as good as an hour of jogging, study shows [via Jason Gingerich]
Personal mantras, words to live by (do you have a personal mantra?)
Andrew Cooke's diary — Cooke is a mefite who always has something interesting to say
Hilarious: revised Revenge of the Sith script — missing only the "Obiwan could leap over Maul in ep1, but now Anakin can't leap over Obiwan" paradox
Wing girls, the girlfriend-getters [via mefi]
Yale grades portray Kerry as a lackluster student — in fact, he basically earned the same grades as Bush
Dave's feeding me animal intelligence links now, which is great: Dolphins use sponges as tools
Elf-booty got soul! Lords of the Rhymes: "We put hobbit rap back on the map" Heh [via ml]
I used to be a Neocon, which reminds me of a great bumper-sticker I saw recently: Who would Jesus bomb? [via kottke]
Forget MacRumors — their new format sucks — and try MacObserver instead. (It's true: Apple moving to Intel.) It's time for that semi-annual morning of excitement for Mac fans: Apple's WWDC 2005 Keynote Coverage — the fun begins at 10am Pacific
Flickr Birdwatchers Guide, a great use for Flickr (about which I've always been ambivalent)
OTTER, a tool for cataloging old-time radio programs
H-I-T-L-E-R, rap star (video): "...now the SS on my uniform stands for super-smooth..." [via rivets]
