• The Ten Worst Digital Products of the Year
• The trailer for In My Country. It shows the entire movie in condensed form, like those "Titanic with bunnies" cartoons.
• Hunting for llama in Wisconsin. "John M. Burger was charged with trespassing and a misdemeanor count of mistreatment of animals after he killed a llama named Snicker Doodle Silk"
• Who decided that red means "stop" and green means "go"? Apparently it was pre-auto. The railroads first started using red for stop in the 1830s. They used white for go in those days, but that had some disastrous consequences, and had to be changed. When the first electric traffic signals were installed in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1914, the conventions had already developed, and those first signals used red and green indications. The first modern automatic traffic signals used red, yellow, and green; and that stuck.
• Here is the first official trailer for FRANK MILLER'S SIN CITY, directed by Robert Rodriguez.
• More and more people are getting their news from the internet.
  • In the past two years, the number of people getting their news from the internet has increased, while EVERY OTHER MEDIUM has decreased, with national network television and public television taking the biggest hits.
  • The #1 and #2 sources are local TV news and local newspapers, cable news has passed network news in the #3 spot by declining less rapidly.
  • Network news has shown a calamitous drop when looked at over a longer period of time, which reflects the loss to both cable and the internet. As recently as 1995, 62 of every 100 of Americans got news from the nightly network broadcasts almost every day. Today it is 36 of 100. Of every 100 Americans, Nightly Network News has lost 3 of them every year, year after year for nine years. And the rate of decline has not slowed at all. It continues to deteriorate at the same rate - three per year - between 2002 and 2004. In other words, the networks have lost nearly half of their viewership in the past decade. I suppose this is revolutionary. It must be about the same slope as the decline in horse-drawn buggies after the invention of the car.
• Video interview - writer James Herzfeld mentions that he just turned in a draft for Toy Story 3.
• Actor Josh Brolin was cited for misdemeanor domestic battery over the weekend after his wife, actress Diane Lane, called the police during an argument at the couple's home.
• If only the guy from Spinal Tap had had The Bulge - Package Appearance Enhancer
• San Antonio strippers will have to wear permits
• Just letters. VERY ADDICTING! Imaging trying to write a message with refrigerator magnets, only a hundred other people are trying to do the same thing on the same fridge, and you can't see them.
• The parent of the Carl's Jr. and Hardee's burger chains is cashing in on consumer backlash against healthier fast-food fare with .
  new premium burgers that make Big Macs look like rabbit food.: "Carl's Jr. on Wednesday introduced the Breakfast Burger, a hamburger topped with a fried egg, hash browns, bacon and cheese, that weighs in at 830 calories and 46 grams of fat. Hardee's, meanwhile, last month added the Monster Thickburger to its menu. With two one-third-pound beef patties, four strips of bacon, and three slices of cheese, the burger has 1,417 calories and a whopping 107 grams of fat. "
• iBod - Portable Player Nude Photos free from Playboy
• 850 pictures of Adriana Lima
• HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE extravaganza! An early review, preproduction art and behind the scenes footage!!!
• If it starts clouding over when you're playing golf on Saturn, seek immediate shelter, because lightning on Saturn is '1 million times stronger' than on Earth
• Buy this Cleveland house and re-live Ralphy's adventures in the original house from the movie 'A Christmas Story'. Caution to buyers: you'll poke your eyes out.
• Headline of the day goes to ABC News: Santa Cited for Marijuana Possession
• The 25 Dumbest Quotes of 2004
• The History Channel's evolution of the Christmas tree
• The Border Brass present A Tijuana Christmas
• The ultimate Christmas gift for the wise men among you - MYRRH . I'm still trying to put together my world myrrh monopoly, but it turns out Microsoft already owns 92% of the world's myrrh.
• Weekly World News says: "Al Qaeda is planning to stash midget suicide bombers in overhead compartments in the cabins of airplanes! "
• Seinfled's permanent contribution to our culture: Fooey to the World: Festivus Is Come!
• Some pics from Alone in the Dark, a movie-from-videogame adaptation. And we know how good those always are.
• The Amazing Movie Generator! This is a lot of fun, but turn off your sound. It is very loud, and the sound is completely unnecessary.
• FilmJerk's Early Report for December 19th.
• FilmJerk reviews the screenplay for the remake of The Bad News Bears
• The trailer for Bomb the System: "'Bomb the System' is the first feature in over 20 years to delve into the world of graffiti art. The film, shot entirely on the streets of New York City, is the feature debut of 23-year-old writer/director Adam Bhala Lough. Mark Webber ('People I Know,' 'Storytelling,' 'The Laramie Project') leads a talented young ensemble cast as Blest, a 19-year-old graffiti writer fresh out of high school with no ambition for the future. New York City is Blest's playground. He spends his days stealing spray paint from local hardware stores - and his nights getting high and 'bombing' the streets with his graffiti crew. He is the most wanted writer on the NYPD Vandal Squad's hit list, and at the same time, is attracting attention from the local gallery scene. But things quickly turn ugly when 15-year-old Lune, the youngest member of Blest's crew, is arrested and brutalized by the NYPD. The crew retaliates by waging an all out 'graffiti war' against the city: a war that ends up costing more than one life in the end. 'Bomb the System' is a true New York story - a cinematic poem dedicated to the art of graffiti, and to the city where it all began more than two decades ago."
• Marge Simpson takes a shot at Posh and Beckham in her annual Christmas speech. My favorite quote comes from Marge's address to the Queen about the partnership between America and Britain: "You're like Mini Me to our Dr Evil - helping out in all our zany schemes to take over the world."

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