( Another eclipse animation, and some video )

This has been making the rounds for at least a few days, and for all I know everyone who might read this has already been inundated with it over the last couple of weeks, but it seems particularly appropriate for today: The Old Negro Space Program: Not a Film By Ken Burns.

Enough with DC's comics; it's time to throw out some Marvel links:

• Jim Henley presents The Greatest Spider-Man Stories Ever Told!
• For X-Men fans, a pair of amusing flash movies.

Yahoo! has the trailer for A Scanner Darkly. Philip K. Dick. Richard Linklater. The production design of that a-ha video. I can't wait!

(Via Avedon Carol.)

Via sdowens, a shocking depiction of the seedy underbelly of American life. Don't don't do it.

The JibJab/Woody Guthrie copyright battle deepens: the Electronic Freedom Foundation provides sonic evidence that Guthrie himself may have ripped off the Carter Family. Jesse Walker then points out that the Carter Family claimed ownership of a number of traditional folksongsI'm waiting for someone to rework "The Lemon Song," and for the Led ( Read more... )

I'm sure that by now everyone has seen the jibjab Flash animation of George Bush and John Kerry singing "This Land Is My Land." Well, according to No Rock & Roll Fun, its makers are being sued for breach of copyright. This brings up the vexing question: "This Land Is My Land" isn't public domain yet? And the vexing answer: anything younger than ( Read more... )

I meant, but forgot, to pack my Buffy/Angel fanvid cd-rom for the Chicago meet, so I'm burning another one tonight. Unfortunately, a couple of my favorites are no longer online, so I'm issuing here a plea that if anyone out there has a copy of either JSlayerUK's "Theme From Shaft" or JainieG's "Her Platinum Baby" lying around, I'd be forever ( Read more... )

Gary Farber points to a church whose reenactment of the Stations of the Cross included whipping the Easter Bunny. I don't know that there are any members of the clergy among my readership, but if there are, please tell me you don't do this. (Actually, I would be very surprised to learn that the member of the clergy among my readership even sponsors ( Read more... )

Attention: if there is a power outage while you are driving, and the stoplights aren't getting their required electricity, please note that you should treat every stoplight as though it is a stopsign. And if you choose instead to run right through them, you definitely shouldn't get on my ass just because I do ( Read more... )