NPR: Hollywood Needs More Women
Out of last year's biggest movies, 28 percent of the speaking characters were female. That's down from a third, five years ago. Those numbers are from the Annenberg School at the University of Southern California.

I was curious about this, so I randomly picked the first 21 movies of the box office for Friday, July 12 ( Read more... )

Since it came up in chat the other night, I dug up the earliest known version of Greensleeves, from 1584. (According to Wiki, a reference to the song appears in 1580 as "A New Northern Dittye of the Lady Greene Sleeves" registered at the London Stationer's Company, but this is the earliest version of the lyrics ( Read more... )