• So great to have Veronica Mars back on the air again yesterday! And it was yet another excellent episode. It’ll be sad if the next 4 are the last new episodes of the series. Ditto for yesterday’s Gilmore Girls episode. They are actually laying some groundwork for story to follow the end of this season, so perhaps the unofficial rumors of season 8 are true. Then again, I’m sure they’d lay a little groundwork either way, just to be safe.
• Wow, check out this unusual armed burglary story. Good for her (though sure not a good thing for her to have to do).
• For those of you wondering (the few-to-none of you that noticed) about the hex code on the banner at the top of this site currently, here’s an article relating to it. I was watching the whole thing happen and changed my slogan line to the code for the heck of it. The initial posting about it skyrocketted in record time on DIGG’s site. Then everything hit the wall when they pulled it. It was absolutely fascinating to watch as it happened. Surely it sent the admins at DIGG scrambling. They surely expected some backlash, but the staggering speed and immensity of the response was amazing. I’m not quite sure I’ve seen something so strangly cool happen in such context. As so many others have already done, I’ll quote the Joss Whedon line, “They can’t stop the signal…“
• The 10 most ridiculous lawsuits of all time
• A good collection of photos from the Oakland freeway collapse
• Added Wind Chill (8), Next (8) and Year Of The Dog (9) to the 2007 Film Order list

Random Fact Of The Day: Peter the Great had the head of his wife’s lover cut off and put into a jar of preserving alcohol, which he then ordered to be placed by her bed.

Dialog Of The Day: “Well, I wouldn’t argue that that was a no-holds-barred, adrenalin fuelled thrill ride, but there is no way you can perpetrate that amount of carnage and mayhem and not incur a considerable amount of paperwork.” (Nicholas Angel, played by the great Simon Pegg in Hot Fuzz)

Video Of The Day: This dude burned off all his luck in one shot