Link Dump Times 9

1. Just One Club Card. Print out one sheet to carry with all of your assorted store club card info (Shaw's, CVS, Kroger, etc).

2. A list of experts who have given up on Wikipedia. Stored at Wikipedia itself, of course.

3. Verizon attempts to fuck the Constitution sideways. We're not violating privacy; we're practicing free speech!

4. Target recalls store-brand risotto due to salmonella.

5. Continuing research on how we perceive faces as opposed to other objects. As someone with moderate Prosopagnosia, I find this stuff fascinating.

6. A Sporkife! Although it's far from perfect -- it needs a longer handle, for one thing, and I'd prefer something that didn't require reversing.

7. For those interested in the Cat Captcha stuff, boutell's been covering it extensively in his LJ.

8. That post from this weekend showing the new Supergirl Action Figure (for a definition of action that includes "things normally associated with Jenna Jameson) is up to 53 comments. I think that's the most comments I've ever gotten for so little writing (as compared to the whopping two comments last night's three-thousand word review generated).

9. One-minute clips of the new Adult Swim shows.

Darth Flashdrive!

Four Star Wars flashdrives! Vader, Chewy, R2D2, and a Stromtrooper! I so need these.

Top ten video game console flops

This list is supposedly the top ten worst-selling video game systems of all time, but (as the opening paragraph acknowledges), it's more a listing of high-profile flops.

I've owned three of these: The Jaguar, The TurboGrafx-16, and the Dreamcast, and I only regret the Jaguar (which simply never blew me away, game-wise). The other two kicked ass and took names.

Also, if I'd had more money at the time, I'd definitely have owned a Saturn, as well.

The Departed

shadesong and I watched The Departed over the last two nights (because it's hella long).

Wow.

After all the hype, I figured I might be disappointed. I wasn't. Just an amazing movie, with amazing performances by all of the leads (none of whom were nominated? I mean, I liked Wahlberg, but he's far from the the best thing about this movie). I haven't seen Infernal Affairs, as I got burnt out on Hong Kong crime flicks a few years ago and haven't had a chance to catch up on them, but I think Scorsese did a great job of putting his own stamp on the plotline. This almost makes up for his work in Shark Tale.

Not a kidsafe movie (the characters in this movie say "fuck" almost as much as I do) or one for those who can't handle violence, but an incredible movie nonetheless.

Yes!

From the latest Programming Insider:

"Si Fi Channel has announced a new themed block called Ani-Monday, which will feature a collection of movies, series and shorts from Starz Media’s Anime distribution arm. It premieres on Monday, June 11 and airs from 11 p.m. to 1 a.m. Sci Fi’s Ani-Monday will feature the premiere of Ghost in the Shell: Solid State Society, plus feature films like Ninja Scroll, Blackjack and Blood, The Last Vampire, Read or Die."

(Emphasis mine)