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They shoot pictures, don’t they?: A subset of their top 1000 greatest films.

Portland Phoenix: For 2005, my annual task of reviewing the past year has been complicated by an old adage: oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive. Here I sit, tangled in a web that many people began weaving way back when the Gipper was protecting us against deadly pollutants [...]

The Guardian: Bad news for quizzers: the 101st annual quiz from King William’s College isn’t any easier than the previous 100.

Security Focus: Damien Miller: “We also implemented self re-execution at the c2k4 Hackathon. This changes sshd so that instead of forking to accept a new connection, it executes a separate sshd process to handle it. This ensures that any run-time randomizations are reapplied to each new connection, including ProPolice/SSP stack canary values, shared library randomizations, [...]

Prairie Public.Org::: The best most people can do is an outdoor or attic mounting. You can buy outdoor antennas made for FM, but TV antennas work very well.

rogerebert.com: Crash, Syriana, Munich, Junebug, Brokeback Mountain, Me and You and Everyone we Know, Nine Lives, King Kong, Yes, Millions. Also rans: The Best of Youth, Broken Flowers, Cinderella Man: Downfall, Duane Hopwood, Good Night, and Good Luck, Match Point, North Country, The New World, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, Pride & Prejudice, The [...]

The Onion: The Information Age was dealt a stunning blow Monday, when a factual error was discovered on the Internet. The error was found on TedsUltimateBradyBunch.com, a Brady Bunch fan site that incorrectly listed the show’s debut year as 1968, not 1969.

SitePoint: “For years, Web typography involved little more than choosing a typeface and font size. Unstyled Times New Roman was the norm, and the integration of established typographical techniques and rules was unimagined.”

Google: “The Google Homepage API provides a way to put third party content onto the Google homepage. The main use of the Googe Homepage API is to create modules that users can add to their Google personalized homepages.”

Cyber-heritage: Featuring technical cutaway drawings of submarines, ships, aircraft and arms, plus contemporary photos of and on mostly “S” Class Royal Naval Submarines

Science Blog: “Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory have found massive amounts of lead in bone fragments belonging to Ludwig von Beethoven, confirming the cause of his years of chronic debilitating illness. Beethoven experienced a change of personality and abdominal illness in his late teens and early 20s that persisted throughout [...]

Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox: “Eyetracking data show that users are easily distracted when watching video on websites, especially when the video shows a talking head and is optimized for broadcast rather than online viewing.”

drdoc on-line: “With ideal therapy, advanced disease and progression is reduced, through modification of the disease process and prevention of advanced spinal deformity, through education, regarding exercises and posture.”

WebReference.com: Part 1 and Part 2: How to navigate through an XML document using XPath patterns How to build powerful expressions using XPath patterns and functions What technologies come together to support linking in XML How to reference document fragments with XPointer How to link XML documents with XLink

The Adventures of Teapot the Cat: Yi Tien Electronics today announced a breakthrough news delivery system for the restroom. At a press conference, Yi Tien Electronics unveiled the rsstroom reader™, an rss reader for the restroom which prints directly to toilet tissue through RapidResolution® inkjet technology. Complete with wireless connectivity, the rsstroom reader™ will print [...]

Nanovirus: For thousands of years humanity had celebrated the beginning of days getting longer in a peaceful and celebratory manner: No longer. There is a war on. Historians generally agree that the Cult of Christ started the War on Solstice. They began by coopting the symbols of this most ancient of celebrations: holly, evergreen trees [...]

SpaceRef: After some 400 years of relative stability, Earth’s North Magnetic Pole has moved nearly 1,100 kilometers out into the Arctic Ocean during the last century and at its present rate could move from northern Canada to Siberia within the next half-century.

“Survey most nations and most ages. Examine the religious principles, which have, in fact, prevailed in the world. You will scarcely be persuaded, that they are any thing but sick men’s dreams: Or perhaps will regard them more as the playsome whimsies of monkies in human shape, than the serious, positive, dogmatical asseverations of a [...]

Guardian Unlimited Books: “The crimes of the United States have been systematic, constant, vicious, remorseless, but very few people have actually talked about them. You have to hand it to America. It has exercised a quite clinical manipulation of power worldwide while masquerading as a force for universal good. It’s a brilliant, even witty, highly [...]