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I’ve been playing around with the traffic-monitoring service SiteMeter, using it to track traffic here and attempt to figure out what I’m doing right, what I’m doing wrong, and see if maybe I can boost traffic somehow. One of the neat features it offers is a visual representation of where on the planet site visitors … more…
From The Daily Mail (quite a while ago, actually): Orphaned hedgehogs adopt cleaning brush as their mother Four tiny orphaned hedgehogs are snuggling up to the bristles of a cleaning brush – because they think it’s their mother. The four inch long creatures are being hand-reared by staff at the New Forest Otter, Owl and … more…
I’ll be appearing on a panel discussion about women film bloggers at New York University’s Fusion Film Festival next week, on Thursday, February 26th from 4 to 5:30pm. The panel is called “SMART TALK: Women & Film in the Blogosphere,” and will take place at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, 721 Broadway, on the … more…
Short, succinct, hilarious. The man is a genius: (Follow Cleese on Twitter!)
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… I saw this at the Tribeca Film Festival last year — in 2D, and it was titled simply Terra then — and I quite liked it. It flips some conventions of cinematic science fiction around: the humans are the aliens, for one, which is a refreshing change. … more…
More illustrated than animated, more *Maus* than Mouse…
This suggestion for a QOTD came in from reader Patrick before I posted yesterday’s trailer for Law and Order: UK. But that coincidence only reinforces the necessity of the question itself. The question: What is the enduring appeal of the Law and Order franchise? I think it’s an especially interesting question to ask because L&O … more…
More pix from my London trip. Author Douglas Adams [Amazon U.S.] [Amazon U.K.] is buried in the new section of Highgate Cemetery, in North London (that’s the section you don’t need to take a tour to visit, though you do need to pay a fee). His grave is simple and tucked unobtrusively into one corner: … more…
First came the news of the new book Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Now we learn, via the Guardian, of a new movie: Pride and Predator: Will Clark, best known for his award-winning gothic comedy short The Amazing Trousers, will direct the film, which is being produced by Rocket partners Steve Hamilton Shaw and David … more…
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