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The history of a popular holiday song

About the history of and differences between Judy Garland and Frank Sinatra’s versions of “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas”.

YouTube - Shatner comments on the new Star Trek XI trailer

YouTube - Shatner comments on the new Star Trek XI trailer

JeffBridges.com - Ironman book

JeffBridges.com - Ironman book

Photos taken by Jeff Bridges on the set of Iron Man.

If You Liked This, You're Sure to Love That

If You Liked This, You’re Sure to Love That

Great New York Times article about the million dollar Netflix recommendations prize. Cult movies seem to cause a big roadblock with predictions. Some people love them for no apparent reason, some people hate them when you think they wouldn’t.

TypePad and (Finally) OpenID

Six Apart has finally released good OpenID support for TypePad. This means that if you’d like to comment here, you can sign in using any other account you’d like rather than having to create and remember a password with TypePad. When commenting, choose “Sign in with…” and select “OpenID”. Then, just enter in most any other blog or account you have, like the address to your LiveJournal, Vox page, openid.aol.com/yourAOLscreenName, etc. They seem to have some other nice comment tracking features I haven’t played with yet, too.

Also they seem to have figured out how to pass OpenIDs through domain mapping transparently, so I can use david.ely.fm as my OpenID and it figures out for itself that it’s a TypePad-authenticated OpenID. Neat.

$3.99

Marvel’s February solicitations are out. While the content of the book is still “classified” until after Secret Invasion 8, you’ll notice that Brian Michael Bendis’s new series Dark Avengers is priced at $3.99 for a 32 page comic. The first issue will also cost $3.99, but I was hoping that the price bump was due to the first issue being over-sized or something. Nope. They’re just raising the price a dollar.

I’ve read everything Brian Michael Bendis has written for years, from Alias to Ultimate Spider-Man to Powers, but this is the line for me.

Other Marvel books that will cost you an extra dollar in February but won’t have extra pages:

• Dark Tower: Guide to Gilead
• Ultimate Fantastic Four 60
• Ultimate X-Men 100
• Franklin Richards: It’s Reigning Cats and Dogs
• Hulk 10
• X-Men Origins: Sabretooth
• X-Men: The Life and Times of Lucas Bishop
• X-Men: First Class Finals 1 of 4
• Punisher: Frank Castle 67
• Models, Inc. 1 of 4
• Plus 14 mini-series issues that have either been $3.99 all along or have raised in price.

Saved by Zero Backlash

Saved by Zero Backlash

I hate that ad so much. That terrible song sticks in my head very easily.

Muppets at FAO Schwarz

Muppets at FAO Schwarz

Make your own Muppet. Delicious.

Charlie Brooker responds to Simon Pegg's criticisms of running zombies

Charlie Brooker responds to Simon Pegg’s criticisms of running zombies

“Face facts. It’s time to embrace diversity, Simon. Make room in your heart for all breeds of zombie.” (Scroll down a little, or read the part about President-elect Obama.)

'Renegade' joins 'Twinkle,''Rawhide,''Lancer' on list of Secret Service code names

‘Renegade’ joins ‘Twinkle,’ ‘Rawhide,’ ‘Lancer’ on list of Secret Service code names

I like that they’re alliterative.

Election maps

Election maps

As in 2004, a look at the map distorted to represent the Electoral Collage and shaded in purples to show how close the vote was in various places.

Simon Pegg on why the undead should never be allowed to run | Film | The Guardian

Simon Pegg on why the undead should never be allowed to run