Neil Gaiman - How To Talk To Girls At Parties

Neil Gaiman - How To Talk To Girls At Parties

Free audio reading of his Hugo-nominated story.

Access Authenticated Feeds in Google Reader Using Yahoo Pipes

Access authenticated feeds in Google Reader using Yahoo Pipes | iNik

Useful, but not recommended for anything that really needs to be private.

Tapping into Evil: Ethan Van Scriver on Sinestro Corps

Tapping into Evil: Ethan Van Scriver on Sinestro Corps

I’m probably unhealthily excited about this one. The first back-up Sinestro Corps. story in the most recent Green Lantern was really, really good.

Cover to Cover: Déjà vu All Over Again

Cover to Cover: Déjà vu All Over Again

Guess how many comic book covers reference Michelangelo’s Pieta sculture.

Grindhouse

We went to see Grindhouse over the weekend. I loved it, but I wouldn’t recommend it to everyone. Like Robert Rodriquez’s Sin City, you get what you pay for. If you go in knowing that you’re going to see Rodriquez and Tarantino’s send-up of bad horror movies, and you like bad horror movies, you’ll probably like Grindhouse. Certainly there are some great gross-outs and they capture the mood of what they’re going for perfectly. So if that sort of thing is your bag, do go see it in the theater rather than wait for the DVD, as the scratched film concept works much better in the context of having a real big screen there.

Pearls Before Breakfast

Pearls Before Breakfast

The Washington Post had a world-famous musician playing a $3.5 million violin to play at the Metro. Guess how much money he made.

Laptops vs. Learning

Laptops vs. Learning

Hold Tight

Hold Tight

This is the song by Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich they play in the car in Grindhouse’s Death Proof. (Link opens iTunes)

Texas Ranger Earl McGraw

Texas Ranger Earl McGraw

This character appears in From Dusk Till Dawn, Kill Bill, and Grindhouse.

Give Family Members Their Own Netflix Queue

Give family members their own Netflix queue

I didn’t know about this feature until today. I kind of like DJ’ing the movies, but the idea of separate queues is clever.