Some great stuff. My favorite:

Bruce Timm - H.P.Lovecraft

This website, now in its ninth incarnation since being launched in 06.1998, is an extension of a personal art collection of various artists interpreting their favourite literary figure/author/character that has been accumulated since 03.1998.

http://digitalmedusa.com/sgettis/word/

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Interesting article about gender inequality.

Culture is not about men against women. By and large, cultural progress emerged from groups of men working with and against other men. While women concentrated on the close relationships that enabled the species to survive, men created the bigger networks of shallow relationships, less necessary for survival but eventually enabling culture to flourish. The gradual creation of wealth, knowledge, and power in the men’s sphere was the source of gender inequality. Men created the big social structures that comprise society, and men still are mainly responsible for this, even though we now see that women can perform perfectly well in these large systems.

http://tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/08/20/is-there-anything-good-about-men-and-other-tricky-questions/index.html?hp

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You ever read a story and think “That has to have been from 40 years ago, not last year”?

The nooses were hung after a Black student asked permission to sit under a tree that had been reserved by tradition for white students only. In response to the three nooses, nearly every Black student in the school stood under the tree in a spontaneous and powerful act of nonviolent protest. The town’s district attorney quickly arrived, flanked by police officers, and told the Black students to stop making such a big deal over the nooses, which school officials termed to be a “harmless prank.” Walters spoke in a school assembly, which like the schoolyard where all of this had begun was divided by race, with the Black students on one side and the white students on the other. Directing his remarks to the Black students, District Attorney Reed Walters said, “I can make your lives disappear with a stroke of a pen.”

http://www.slepton.com/slepton/viewcontent.pl?id=693

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I really want to see this movie.

‘Superbad’ boys Jonah Hill and Michael Cera keep our Unscripted audio editors busy while debating the great topics of our time: sandwiches, high school dating tips and how to join the Judd Apatow club.

http://movies.aol.com/celebrity-interview-unscripted/superbad-jonah-hill-michael-cera

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Sounds right to me.

All of which explains the new print ad I saw for Diet Coke, which was simply a picture of a can of Diet Coke and the words “99 Percent Water.” The implication is that if Diet Coke and water are almost the same thing, but Diet Coke tastes better, you might as well drink Diet Coke. Which is a pretty sensible point of view, as long as the 1% that is not water isn’t hurting you.

http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/08/20/diet-coke-is-99-water-and-that-is-now-a-good-thing/

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Even the porn sites are getting funded!

Zivity, an innovative social media platform for models, photographers, and fans of female pin-up photography, today announced that it has raised $1 million in Series A financing from private investors.

http://zivity.com/

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The poster made me want to see this, but the trailer made me want to see this NOW. It looks great.

Steve Carell is bounding back after the drubbing he took over Evan Almighty with Dan in Real Life, a decidedly smaller-scale comedy. This one is more of a romantic comedy, involving a love triangle of Carell, Juliette Binoche and Dane Cook. Carell plays a widowed father of three who writes a parenting column and tries to put his life back together.

http://www.moviemarketingmadness.com/blog/2007/08/10/dan-in-real-life-trailer-and-poster/

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I love the fact that homemade videos that should be seen only by friends and people watching cable tv at 3 AM emd on the internet on even on iTunes.

It is the Patrice Oneal Show’s most desperate of hours. The combination of low viewership and executive pressure has caused the cast to perform a last ditch effort for better ratings… knocking out a dyke every hour on the hour until the show becomes a hit.

http://www.patriceoneal.com/

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The Onion has an interview with Joss Whedon where he talks about a few interesting things, including the upcoming Angel comic.

AVC: Did the show (Angel) getting cancelled affect the plotline you had in mind?

JW: I never would have killed Wesley if we hadn’t been cancelled. [Laughs.] I decided how I wanted to end the season before we were cancelled, and I wanted to end it exactly that way while it was still in question. Which was, we’re going out in mid-battle, because if we come back, we have something to come back from. If we don’t come back, then this is how I want it.

With Buffy, I needed closure, because she, poor girl, had earned it. Buffy is about growing up. Angel is really about already having grown up, dealing with what you’ve done, and redemption. Redemption is something you fight for every day, so I wanted him to go out fighting. People kept calling it a cliffhanger. I was like, “Are you mad, sir? Don’t you see that that is the final statement?” And then they would say “Shut up.”

Jhttp://www.avclub.com/content/interview/joss_whedon/1

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The article says its a game themed hotel, buts really more of a Japanese pop style on top of a vague geek feel. Adding a Wii and a projector to a room doesn’t make it a game theme.

When news of a new Joie de Vivre video game-themed hotel hit the internet this spring geeks everywhere freaked out. Everyone began to wonder: What will it look like? How much will it cost? What games will it feature? We have the honor of working blocks away from San Francisco’s newly renovated Hotel Tomo so we headed over for an up-close look at their eccentric accommodations.

http://geeksugar.com/497822

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