- Georgia Considers Replacing Firefighters with Free Prison Laborers. Oh yeah, that sounds like a great idea… [via]
- Nobody was more surprised than me when I discovered The Human Centipede wasn’t really as bad as it seemed on paper. It’s not, y’know, a good movie, but it’s got a genuinely creepy lead performance and some decent B-movie horror scares. A sequel, though, just seems like gilding the lily…then surgically attaching it to two other gilded lilies.
- I’m not sure saying that Arthur Conan Doyle would have preferred his first book to remain out of print holds a lot of weight. He often said much the same thing about Sherlock Holmes.
- Meanwhile, though, the top 10 books lost to time.
- And finally, via John Carroll, what sounds like smart advice to me: date a girl who reads.