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Have rented the Doctor Who DVD that includes "The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances." This way, madness and pterodactyls lie...

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Dr. Richard B. Hoover, an astrobiologist at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, says he has found conclusive evidence of alien life — fossils of bacteria found in an extremely rare class of meteorite called CI1 carbonaceous chondrites. Also, no.

California attorney general Kamala Harris has filed a brief in the federal Proposition 8 case currently before the 9th Circuit in which she asks that the court allow same-sex marriages to be performed in the state while the case is being decided.

Women seeking an abortion would have to first get an ultrasound under a measure approved on Thursday by the Texas House of Representatives.

The X-37B, a super-secret experimental Air Force space plane, launches into orbit.

The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage loan, the steady favorite of American borrowers since the 1950s, could become a luxury product, housing experts on both sides of the political aisle say.

When Sailors and her San Marcos High teammates traveled from Santa Barbara to Van Nuys to take on Sementelli and Birmingham High, it marked the first time that a varsity high school baseball game features two female starting pitchers

Play rock-scissors-paper vs a computer.

Black Sabbath's "Iron Man," as scored for cello.

Rainn Wilson stars in James Gunn's Super, an insane-looking movie about a DIY superhero. Nathan Fillion!

Christ, what an asshole.

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Having just watched the extras on Metropolitan: I thought that this was just a product of his deranged imagination- but apparently, Troma films head Lloyd Kaufman (director of The Toxic Avenger) did indeed originally play a role, before sanity prevailed and the role was recast. (Whit Stillman, whatever happened to you?)

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A wonderful article on Werner Herzog.

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An excellent analysis of the cinematic language of The Social Network.

Via redstapler: Regular Ordinary Swedish Meal Time - Spaghetti Explosion. This spoke to me on a profound yet human level; one can only imagine Bergman's version.

36 Hitchcock movie death scenes... all at once.

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Speaking of Bergman, allow me to recommend De Duva, a rather brilliant parody from 1968 (featuring the young Madeline Kahn).

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( A montage of Eleventh Doctor, done in the style of Buffy tVS credits. Could conceivably be spoilery; I don't know the 11th Dcotor stuff well enough to say. )