Wednesday various

  • Okay, I’ll admit it: I was fooled by Improv Everywhere’s April Fool’s Day joke. Well played, sirs. [via]
  • I’m not so sure anyone should be encouraged to dress up like the characters from Watchmen, much less like Dr. Manhattan. Presumably blue body paint and Speedo are not included…?
  • Cory Doctorow on the real problem with Amazon’s Kindle [via]:

    If we want to talk about potential outcomes for Amazon, then one in which the company disappears, changes hands, or loses its mind should get far more consideration from us than the possibility that it will mastermind major technological breakthroughs in machine-speech synthesis.

  • A fascinating story about DNA evidence and, more remarkably, how Germany’s Phantom of Heilbronn serial killer…never existed [via]:

    This raised suspicions that the DNA found at all the Phantom’s crime scenes might be traced to a single innocent factory worker, probably employed to package the swabs. Cotton swabs are sterilized before being used to collect DNA samples, but while sterilizing removes bacteria, viruses and fungi, it does not destroy DNA.

  • Yahoo Movies posts 100 Movies to See Before You Die, no doubt to stir up controversy about movies included or not. Still, it seems like a pretty decent list, with a lot of very good and/or important movies. With In the Mood for Love, which I watched this past weekend — and about which more, maybe, later — I’ve seen sixty-six of these. [via]

3 thoughts on “Wednesday various”

  1. I’ve seen 76 of those movies, with most of the others on my way-too-large “to see immediately” list. But I can’t say I’m too pumped up to see “When Harry Met Sally,” though…

    But what I really want to know is what’s on the 100 Movies to See After You Die list.

  2. See now, I happen to think When Harry Met Sally is actually a really great movie, certainly one of the best of its kind — which is to say smart “meet cute” romantic comedy. I have no problem with it being on this list.

    And I think these would be the movies you see after you die. That, or Defending Your Life, both of which are really great movies.

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