• And the music industry wonders why all of its customers despise them so? If this isn’t an indicator, I don’t know what would be. To say this is ridiculous and completely out of line would be to say that the sun ain’t particularly hot. The music industry is just plain screwed. Put a fork in it. They’re a bunch of morons so entrenched in raking in as much cash through any and all means possible that they don’t realize that their customers are getting tired of being financially raped.
• Speaking of the music industry, the RIAA has done it, yet again.
• Medium gets a renewal for next season. Excellent news. It’s one of those shows that kind of flies below the radar, that constantly turns out one great episode after the next.
• Speaking of renewals, Lost has been slated to run for three more seasons of 16 episodes each, to air in uninterrupted runs. This is the episodic equivalent of 2 seasons worth or episodes spread across 3 years, with a painful 8 month break between each. Still, a show like this truly will be better if they have their end game in mind to work towards.
• Spider-Man 3 clocked in with some HUGE numbers. I was expecting a big opening, but this is bigger than even I was guessing. $151 million domestic on a normal 3 day weekend. That’s insane. Particularly for a movie that’s not particularly spectacular.
• I would think twice about leaving the parking brake disengaged.
• Here’s a law suit I’d expect to see on Boston Legal.
• EEEEEEEEEEEEK! Would that I could unread that.
• A good list of features that Google’s online apps could really use. I have been pestering them via feature requests for sorting in GMail ever since I got an account shortly after the app launched. And yeah, I’ve always been amused that Google’s excellent Reader app has no search function (for crying out loud, you people are Google, king of the search!)
• “We can do that.”

Random Fact Of The Day: The ‘Hundred Years War’ lasted 116 years.

Dialog Of The Day: “This is a story about a man named Harold Crick and his wristwatch. Harold Crick was a man of infinite numbers, endless calculations, and remarkably few words. And his wristwatch said even less. Every weekday, for twelve years, Harold would brush each of his thirty-two teeth seventy-six times. Thirty-eight times back and forth, thirty-eight times up and down. Every weekday, for twelve years, Harold would tie his tie in a single Windsor knot instead of the double, thereby saving up to forty-three seconds. His wristwatch thought the single Windsor made his neck look fat, but said nothing.” (Karen Eiffel, played by Emma Thompson in Stranger Than Fiction)

Video Of The Day: Now here’s a very cool domino video