can Twitter predict box office?; reality shows hit a new low; buy your way into X-Men; and more: leftover links

Every week my browser gets cluttered up with tabs for stuff that I stumble across and figure I might be able to use as a Question of the Day or a WTF Thought for the Day or grist for some other post. And inevitably, I end the week with most of that material unused. But there’s no reason to let this stuff go to waste: I can still share it with you, for your amusement, and start the new week with a clean slate.

Herewith this week’s leftover links, in no particular order:
Twitter: A new box-office oracle?

NY Times’ Ethicist Approves of Illegal Downloading an eBook

ABC orders game show set on skyscraper

Kal Penn Quits White House Gig

‘Hoodwinked 2’ Delay Costs the Weinstein Company a Lawsuit

Buy Your Way Into the X-Men

New signs surface of film credit abuse

Apple sells 300,000 iPads on 1st day

Branding Comes Early in Filmmaking Process

“Titans” director underwhelmed by 3D conversion

Catholic actor booted from ABC show for refusing sex scenes

Where are the modern-day ‘Runaways’?

‘V,’ ‘Heroes’ among bubble shows