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Top Five Most Destroyed Canadian Cities In The Marvel Universe [via]
Sam Worthington now admits he also sucked in Clash of the Titans. Well, it’s something, at least.
New York Times Crossword Puzzlemaster Schooled on Definition of â€˜Illinâ€™. Crossword to your mother. [via]
“Back in 2005 I did an evil, evil thing.” College professor seeds Internet with fake term paper to catch plagiarists
And finally, Maureen McHugh on zombies:

Zombies, of course, are the opposite [of vampires]. They lack individuality. They are mindless, ugly, hungry. In a world where everything is ecologically interconnected they are outside nature, and therefore something that we can kill without concern or discrimination. And yet they are us, transformed into trash. Zombies, in one sense, are the ultimate ecological disaster.

Studios to start charging for 3-D glasses? Even with the movies that I thought made genuinely good use of 3-D — Avatar, The Cave of Forgotten Dreams — I could have ultimately done without it.
McG wants to use your Facebook profile in his new show. The only good thing about this is that it seems like it’s opt-in…for now.
Though maybe it’s time to look again at Thud’s reasons for leaving Facebook. I send my Twitter feed there, though mostly because I have friends who claim to not like or be confused by Twitter. (This in itself confuses me, since it’s always seemed like the much less complicated and much more straightforward service.) But I mostly use Facebook as nothing more than a Scrabble delivery system, and every time their privacy policy changes (which is like every other week), I sidle a few steps closer to the door.
Frank Sinatra on crossword puzzles
And finally, Iâ€™ll takeâ€¦..Who is David Bowie for $500 Alex…

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