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Recent Links

• Video: Imaginative Kid
  This adorable French girl spins an incredibly long and detailed story that starts with Winnie the Pooh and Tigger and some baby monkeys, and ends with Hippos and Mammoths and ghosts and witches.
• Trek On
  "Someday George Lucas will die, and the same thing can happen with Star Wars."
• Trailer: Star Trek
  Okay, like any good Trekkie, I've got some concerns about how the new film slots into continuity, but after this trailer, I'm ready to let all that slide. The opening scene alone is worth the price of admission.
• Trailer: Watchmen
  Lots of controversy over Snyder supposedly changing the ending, but he earned a LOT of credit with me for the way he adapted 300, so I'm inclined to cut him some slack. Oh, and the trailer is amazing.
• Trailer: Transporter 3
  It's cheesy, I know, but I absolutely loved the first two, and I'm super excited about this one, too.
• Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex
  The infamous essay on the infeasibility of Superman sleeping with Lois Lane. This has been out of print for some time now, but Larry Niven put it up on his site.
• A clip from the Firefly Blu-ray reunion featurette.
  Joss and some of the cast discuss his ideas for Monster Cattle. I miss Firefly.
• Make Cake in a Mug
  Instructions on how to bake a mini-cake in a mug using your microwave and hot cocoa mix in just a few minutes.
• WW II vet held in Nazi slave camp breaks silence: 'Let it be known'
  "The soldiers, working 12-hour days, were used by the German army to dig tunnels and hide equipment in the final weeks of the war. Less than half of the soldiers survived their captivity and a subsequent death march."
• Video: Speak, the Hungarian Rapper
  This guy is awesome. He's so serious, and you can tell he thinks he's a complete badass - but the whole thing just flops and feels like an awful joke. "Yeah, c'mon."