These are our kind of filmmakers

2005 Liberty Film Festival was held this October 21-23, 2005 in West Hollywood. Just reviewing the list of films will make you feel better. (expands on post from Tobermory).

Not a particularly great list, but interesting...

Total Film (a British film site/mag) has put together a book of the 100 Greatest Movies Of All Time. (expands on a link from Tobermory).

The best sports column I've read in years

CECIL HURT: Alabama, at this moment in history, is still Alabama (sorry (simple) registration required).

Solar power goodness.

UCLA engineers pioneer affordable alternative energy-solar energy cells made of everyday plastic

Several interesting lists - don't accept all the findings, but good stuff.

CNN/Money: Best places to live

Ahead of the curve yet again.

Young men lead audience flight from struggling US cinemas: survey

Great Window Shopping

Cribcandy - a thumbnail bookmark blog with the best stuff for your home

A Sports Hernia (see Donovan McNabb) is a "Groin Pull Gone Too Far"

Fixing A Sports Hernia

14 Great Books Online

Turning the Pages™, the British Library

Newt weighs in.

Newt Gingrich was a great backbencher in the 80's and helped change America (mostly for the better) with the "Contract with America" congressional victory in 1994. He picked the wrong fights when he got in charge & he should have held off on the book deal, but he knows what he's talking about. (Unfortunately he does still believe government can solve problems.) Nonetheless he seems quite reasonable these days and voices my thinking on Bush's nomination of Miers quite succinctly. There is no way Bush will nominate a "Souter" - Newt G.

Okay, I may have to come out of retirement.

Europe's top chessboxer packs a punch

Okay Firefly/Serenity Friends (& Freaks)

The first nine minutes, free & legal.Vividas Streaming Page

I love geeks, particularly science+history geeks

MIT:2.009 Product Engineering Processes: Archimedes Death Ray: Idea Feasibility Testing

My favorite poet

Recordings of Dylan Thomas reading his works and those of others (you have to sit through an ad at Salon.com but it is well worth it.

Update: An Salon-free link to my favorite poem: Do not go gentle into that good night.

Our rights are deteriorating before our eyes.

The evil of government bureaucracy & secrecy knows no party lines - DenverPost.com.

A good space roundup

Boing Boing: Not a slow news week for space

One of our House Favorites

The Gashlycrumb Tinies

We've all heard of being attracted to men in uniform...

Here is an obsessive post of women in uniform by someone at an odd place called - Iran Defence Forum. Tobermory with a shotgun. That is an impressive (and scary) sight.
found while visiting a site gone by memepool.

Adding a new Hero to the pantheon

Don Kirlin - Building Your Own Air Force, One Mig at a Time - Wired.

Somehow this sad excuse for a fanpage is still on the interwebs:

Farscape Links - I canceled my account & moved away over three years ago...

The finest of MST3K obsession I've seen in quite a while

Movie Poster Index and the website it's on.