End-of-week linkdump. With bonus cat picture

[yendi]

Keeping this one Farrah and MJ-free.

1. For those of you who use cosmetics, Origins accepts all empty tubes, containers, etc for recycling (regardless of brand).

2. Amazon is offering free release-day delivery of Windows 7! It's just like what they offered with Harry Potter 7, only imagine if Harry had half the pages upside down and couldn't be read in older houses.

3. Jakob Nielsen on why sites should stop password masking.

4. How a car heats up on a sunny day. For the love of whatever you believe in, people, don't leave kids or pets in cars, please!

5. Alec Baldwin on why folks shouldn't take the bait regarding the Sanford situation.

6. Allegedly, the overt racism in Transformers 2 wasn't put there by the writers. Which means that Bay bears the blame. Or that the writers are lying (and Bay still bears blame then, of course, as he could have overruled it).

7. Here's the trailer for the vampire flick Daybreakers. I reviewed Undead, the first film by the Spiering brothers, two years ago, and I'm psyched for this one.

8. Nick Mamatas explains why Battle Royale should be required reading in schools.

8.5. Bonus: Here's a picture of Max lying on a copy of the book. He's a picky reader, so this is a major endorsement.

9. How about some photos from Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland?

10. Finally, are you sick of the pop culture saturation of "Don't Stop Believin'?" Then watch this deliberately horrible (and thus wonderful) version by Ellen Page, Alia Shawkat, and Har Mar Superstar. It'll make you love the song again. Maybe.

Comments

[moop2000.livejournal.com]

But by stating that it's MJ and Farrah free, it's not longer MJ and Farrah free!!

[yendi]

As Brent Murdock says, irony can be pretty ironic sometimes.

[moop2000.livejournal.com]

True, true! :)

[emilytheslayer.livejournal.com]

3. yessssss
5. see above
8. ibid, plus everyone's talking about The Hunger Games right now, which from what I've seen is a YA almost-clone of Battle Royale. I should read it and compare.
8.5 daww!

[allah-sulu.livejournal.com]

2. Amazon is offering free release-day delivery of Windows 7! It's just like what they offered with Harry Potter 7, only imagine if Harry had half the pages upside down and couldn't be read in older houses.

   *snort*

10. Finally, are you sick of the pop culture saturation of "Don't Stop Believin'?"

    Nope; I'm blissfully unaware of it.

[ckd]

3. I like the iPhone OS approach: mask everything but the last character. That way you can go slowly and make sure you're not making errors, but you still get some amount of protection against "I saw a glimpse of your screen and it said 'secre', so I bet I know your password".

[sparkfrost.livejournal.com]

I am not actually sick of the saturation, mostly because I just rewatch the Glee video and occasionally the awesome Star Trek fanvid set to the song. But! That video was hilarious, especially Ellen Page's wildly varying voice and *so serious* facial expressions.

[rubian77.livejournal.com]

My problem with passwords isn't that I mistype them, it's that I forget them completely.

"Well, crap. If it's not 'blue,' or 'green,' or 'yellow,' then what the heck did I make this one??"


And re: Windows7 = LOL, nail on the head. XP isn't so bad as far as MS products go, but now Dell is charging $100 and up if you'd rather have XP over Vista.

[yendi]

*nod* That makes sense (I also like the MacOS Keychain option of masking or unmasking).

[yendi]

*nod* It's the expressions that make it work.

[yendi]

Heh. Yeah, I've got the same problems with passwords.

[lordrexfear.livejournal.com]

I think Alia Shawkat could make me love pretty much anything. ;)

Also, for a man who regularly states he has no interest in running for a public office in a serious manner, he seems to care a lot about defending a politician. He's from NYC and lives in LA, why the fuck does he care about North Carolina... and a Republican for that matter? Unless he's seriously considering running for governor of California or New York finally.