COP18@Doha, Climate Change, Global Warming; Oily, Fracking, Environment, Deforestration; Ecology, Lions

COP18@Doha

• Failed CO2 Targets: Going Through the Motions in Doha
• The Summit in Doha: Four Reasons for Hope on Climate Change
• Pledges to Fight Global Warming Inadequate, U.S. Off Track
• Ban Ki-Moon: Addressing Climate Change Is 'Responsibility' Of Developed Countries
• Doha: Climate change deal limping towards 'disappointing' conclusion--"A global climate change deal was limping towards another ‘disappointing’ conclusion last night, scientists warned, after countries failed to agree on cutting carbon emissions."

Climate Change

• Climate Science Predictions Prove Too Conservative--"Checking 20 years worth of projections shows that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has consistently underestimated the pace and impacts of global warming."
• The Kyoto Protocol: Hot air
• Carbon Dioxide Emissions Hit Record in 2011, Researchers Say NYT
• Climate "changing before our eyes"-World Meteorological Organization
• Bill O'Reilly-watching climate-change-denier is moved to tears by polar melting documentary
• About 350 Die in Philippine Typhoon, 400 Missing--Extreme weather is the 'new normal.'
• Forecasting Denial: Why Are TV Weathercasters Ignoring Climate Change?

Global Warming

• Global Warming's Terrifying New Math--"Three simple numbers that add up to global catastrophe - and that make clear who the real enemy is."
• Sea-level rise from polar ice melt finally quantified
• October Was 332nd Consecutive Globally Warm Month

Oily

• How The Big Oil Lobby Secretly Funded 2012 Election Attack Ads
• Since Election Day, Big Oil Lobby Dropped $3 Million On Ads To Protect Its Tax Loopholes
• Will Big Oil Keep Its Subsidies in a Fiscal-Cliff Deal?--"One of America's most profitable industries banks billions in subsidies—but there's little talk in Washington of putting these handouts on the chopping block."
• BP faces temporary ban from new US contracts--"BP has been temporarily suspended from new contracts with the US government, the Environmental Protection Agency has said."
• Saudi America: the dangerous fallacy of US energy independence--"What a surge in American oil production could mean for the future of renewable energy."
• Elizabeth May on Oil Monopoly in Canada
• Commentary: The Great Oil Fallacy

Fracking

• Fracking Secrets by Thousands Keep U.S. Clueless on Wells
• How the North Dakota fracking boom shook a family--"The Jorgenson family loved living on the prairie in North Dakota – until the shale gas boom started."
• Conflicts, Errors Revealed In Positive Fracking Study--"A report that shed favorable light on fracking is at the center of a controversy at the University of Texas. [A]n investigation found numerous errors and flaws in the report — and undisclosed conflicts of interest." Guess who paid for the report?
• Fracking Our Food Supply--"Are dying cattle the canaries in the coal mine? Farmers and ranchers are sounding alarms about the risks to human health of hydraulic fracturing."
• China planning 'huge fracking industry'--"Chinese plans to expand fracking for shale gas prompt fears over local water and international climate impacts."

Environment

• Germany Has Built Clean Energy Economy U.S. Rejected in 80s
• It's open season on Canada's waterways: Is your favourite lake or stream protected?
• Shanghai's Deadly Pollution Remedy--"Moving the city's factories out of view has cleared the air, but it has also carried a human toll."
• Bryan Fischer: 'Enormously insensitive' to hurt God's feelings by not using oil
• Philips revamps mainstay LED bulb: A19 LED is prettier and more efficient

Deforestration

• Amazon deforestation 'at record low'--But the destruction reached the size of the UK.
• Indonesia continues to decrease deforestation by planting 1 billion trees in 2013
• Scientists publish consensus statement on deforestation emissions

Ecology

• James Cameron releases results from his deep dive
• City birds use cigarette butts to smoke out parasites
• Google-Funded Drones To Hunt Rhino Poachers

Lions

• Why Africa's lions are rapidly disappearing--"Africa's lion population has dwindled to 32,000, a nearly 70 percent decline in the past 50 years, according to a new survey by Duke University."
• Lions are losing out on the savannahs of Africa
• DNA Reveals the Last 20 Ethiopian Lions Are Genetically Distinct

Guantánamo, War on Terror, Security Theater, Benghazi, Palestine and Israel, Drones

Guantánamo

• Close Guantánamo Prison NYT
• Retired generals urge Obama to keep Gitmo promise Salon
• GAO: Guantanamo can now be closed safely

War on Terror

• Lindsey Graham Wants the Government to Be Able to Lock You Up Forever Without a Trial
• TSA chief will be a 'no show' at congressional hearing
• Congressman's Restaurant Refused To Serve Muslim Couple

Security Theater

• Greenwald: AP's dangerous Iran hoax demands an accounting and explanation--"Evidence proves that the graph trumpeted by AP as evidence of Iran's nuclear weapons program is an obvious sham."
• Homeland Security Has Spent $430 Million on Radios Its Employees Don’t Know How to Use
• Airport Security Is Killing Us

Benghazi

• US envoy Susan Rice admits Benghazi attack error
• CNN Poll: Americans rate W.H. response to Benghazi attack and Petraeus resignation--"[A] majority of the public doesn't believe the Obama administration intentionally tried to mislead Americans on the September attack that left the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans dead."
• Republican obsession with Benghazi makes no sense--Sure it does. They're trying to throw as much shit on the wall to see which sticks.
• Report: Benghazi 'Talking Points' Watered Down By CIA, Not White House
• Jon Stewart exposes blatant hypocrisy of McCain and Graham

Palestine and Israel

• Palestinians win upgraded UN status by wide margin
• EU summons Israeli ambassador over settlement expansion concerns
• Jon Stewart Disses Media Obsessed With Winners, Losers In Gaza Conflict

Drones

• The Reaper Presidency: Obama's 300th drone strike in Pakistan
• San Diego Refuses To Answer FOIA Requests About Drones Because 'There Is Very Little Public Benefit'
• Robocod: Homeland Security adds underwater drones to their arsenal with robots based on fish
• California Eyeing Drone Surveillance
• TMZ's Possible Drone Deployment--Next on TMZ: Celebrities buy anti-aircraft ordnances.

Fiscal Cliff, Disability, Filibuster; Election Aftermath, Voter Suppression; Fucks News, Journalism; Public-Private Partnerships, Bad Companies, Workers

Fiscal Cliff

• The rich will pay more taxes, Boehner says
• G.O.P. Seeks Fallback Position on Tax Fight NYT
• The GOP’s bizarre 'doomsday plan'--It's "meant to create a doomsday scenario in the event that Republicans have to compromise on tax rates."
• Drum: The GOP Thinks You Don't Know Shit From Shinola
• Pelosi Threatens "Discharge Petition" on Middle Class Tax Cuts
• George W. Bush Gradually Becoming a Non-Person--"The Wall Street Journal editorial page... takes to pleading with President Obama not to raise taxes because it will harm growth." Tries to bolster their so-called case with a "helpful chart" that omits the presidencies of both Bushes.
• Tax Burden for Most Americans Is Lower Than in the 1980s NYT
• Keyword Salad: 'Alan Simpson,' 'Old Coots,' 'Gangnam Style,' 'Debt Reduction'
• Race to the Bottom--"States should invest in public services and education, not subsidize big business by giving them billions a year in tax breaks." NYT
• Mr. Burns issues PSA explaining the "fiscal cliff" Salon

Disability

• Senate GOP kills disabilities treaty--Lamely claims that the treay, fashioned after the American Disabilities Act would threaten US sovereignity. Some Republicans did break ranks and brought the vote up to 61, which fell short of the required two-thirds.
• What the Republican Party has become--"Senate Republicans play politics with a landmark civil rights law -- championed by Bob Dole -- and hit a new low." And on a related note, Bernie Sanders has called out Boehner for wanting to cut benefits for disabled veterans. Salon
• O'Donnell rewrites the Senate's 'day of shame'

Filibuster

• Spoiling for a filibuster fight--"[T]he Senate's Republican minority has used the filibuster to demand 60 votes, not just for some legislation, but for all of it. The group has threatened to filibuster 348 times in the six years since Democrats took the majority."
• 17 bills that likely would have passed the Senate if it didn't have the filibuster
• Reid: Filibuster Reform Is Happening Whether Republicans Like It Or Not
• Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Filibuster Reform (But Were Afraid to Ask)
• Mitch McConnell's five biggest whoppers on the filibuster

Election Aftermath

• One month later, Republicans find plenty of blame for election loss
• Yes, Half of Republicans Think ACORN, Which Doesn't Exist, Stole the Election
• Sheldon Adelson Is A Low-Information Billionaire, Apparently
• Maddow On Dick Armey Quitting Tea Party Group: GOP Seems To Be 'Imploding Since The Election'
• Right Fears 'Purge' As GOP Leadership Takes Control
• The Amazing Reformation Of Mitt And Ann Romney
• Survey Answers, Why Don't More Americans Vote?--Too busy, too jaded.

Voter Suppression

• NAACP's Ben Jealous: The Koch brothers did us a favor--"The civil rights organization's youngest president discusses voter suppression and the perils of fighting the right." Salon
• Scott Walker's Plan To Eliminate Same-Day Voter Registration Opposed By Wisconsin Poll Workers
• Florida Secretary of State Changes Mind, Will Investigate 'Unacceptable' Voting Lines

Fucks News

• Fox News Puts Karl Rove on the Bench
• Fox News chief's failed attempt to enlist Petraeus as presidential candidate
• 'Fox & Friends' Hosts: Why Weren't We Invited to the White House with MSNBC?

Journalism

• Nate Silver: Politico Covers Politics Like Sports But 'Not In An Intelligent Way At All'
• Greenwald: Progressive media claims they'll be 'tougher' on Obama now--"Given the rationale they have embraced, is there any reason to believe this will happen, or that it will matter if it does?"
• SC Governor Nikki Haley (R) censors State Newspaper

Public-Private Partnerships

• Lines Blur as Texas Gives Industries a Bonanza NYT
• Speaking Truth to #ALEC
• 10 Corporations That Still Get New Gov't Contracts, Despite Alleged Misconduct

Bad Companies

• My Sister Paid Progressive Insurance to Defend Her Killer In Court--When the corporate bottom line outweighs humanity.
• EU imposes record $1.9 billion cartel fine on Philips, five others
• Wal-Mart Nixed Paying Bangladesh Suppliers to Fight Fire
• Underwear factory fire in China kills 14
• 18th-century French chateau bulldozed 'by mistake'

Workers

• Corporate profits hit record as wages get squeezed
• Many bidders for Hostess; exec bonuses approved--And workers get an 8% paycut.
• More Americans using less of their vacation time
• Being Filthy Rich Doesn't Buy Happiness, But Raises Do
• Matt Damon Says Power to the People at 'Promised Land' Premiere

Men, Sexiest; Clothes; Grrl Power, Sexism, Abortion & Birth Control, War on Women; Law and Disorder; Pr0n, CP

Men

• It's hard dating American women
• Male lust is blind, research suggests
• French sperm count 'falls by a third'--Head for the hills.
• China's biggest problem? Too many men
• The package deal--"More actors are seen going commando and full-frontal: Is this a sign they're relinquishing their masculinity?" Salon
• Walk a Mile in Her Shoes--The international men's march to stop rape, sexual assault & gender violence
• Video: How to pick up a girl at the gym

Sexiest

• The Onion: Kim Jong-Un Named The Onion's Sexiest Man Alive For 2012
• Channing Tatum Declared Universe's Premier Sexual Being
• The Sexiest Superhero Alive Is...

Clothes

• 100 years of fashion in 100 seconds
• The Skinny on Skivvies From Kneibler to Klein, a brief history
• Iconic fashion: The bikini
• Sexiest Advertisement Ever? Vibram Five Fingers
• College Humor: Female Armor Sucks

Grrl Power

• Femen, Ukraine's Topless Warriors--"Why the group that inspired Pussy Riot's infamous 'punk prayer' could be tough to stop."
• Sweden makes my gender-free toy Christmas wish come true--"With a picture of a girl with a Nerf gun, a Swedish toy retailer is arming children with the ability to question outdated gender roles."
• 13-Year-Old Girl Asks Easy Bake Oven To End Sexist Ads :'I Want My Brother To Know That It’s Not Wrong' To Cook

Sexism

• Paying for sex: Women's groups call for EU-wide ban
• Dems, Progressives Snicker As House GOP Finally Appoints Female Committee Chair
• Saudi cleric under fire for labelling waitresses as 'prostitutes'
• 7 Ways Women and Girls Are Stereotyped, Sexualized, and Underrepresented on Screen
• Dorkly: Female Fantasy III
• Study: "Slut-shaming" won't go away Salon
• Blast from the Past: SlutWalking gets rolling after cop's loose talk about provocative clothing --You're gonna "get raped".

Abortion & Birth Control

• Ireland: Clare Daly abortion bill defeated by 101 votes to 27--The Irish Bishops, however, have said that "pregnant women must receive all treatment to save their lives, even if it results in the unintended death of an unborn child."
• New Zealand: Anti-abortion protesters 'harassing women'
• Okla. Court Says Abortion Laws Unconstitutional NYT
• Ohio Senate kills anti-abortion 'heartbeat' bill
• Mississippi's Last Abortion Clinic Might Soon Disappear
• Giving Teen Girls a Plan B--"The American Academy of Pediatrics says docs should pre-prescribe Plan B birth control to girls under 17."
• What's next for the anti-abortion movement?--"After an election night thrashing, the movement hopes to make its message more palatable to the public." Salon

War on Women

• 'Men don't have to worry about being caught': Sex mobs target Egypt's women
• Bangladesh: Wife forced to remarry husband who threw acid into her face
• Afghanistan: teenage girl killed by spurned suitors--"A 15-year-old girl had her throat cut after her father refused a marriage proposal from relatives, police have said.
• India girl 'shot by urinating man' in Delhi
• Man Admits Assault After Girl's Street Attack
• A Battle For The Stolen Childhoods Of Kenyan Girls
• Bihar village bans women from using mobiles

Law and Disorder

• Woman Steals Ex-Boyfriend's Sperm, Has Twins, Sues For Child Support--WTF.
• Swedish court frees accused rapist. "Saying no isn't enough."--It was her word against his and no other admissible evidence was available.
• Man who accused Elmo puppeteer of teen sex recants
• Court overturns sex offender's web ban, calls bans 'unreasonable'
• Chinese man sues wife for being ugly and wins
• Cop fights for vampire nudes--"The San Francisco Police Department suspended him over his supernatural nude photography. Now he's suing." Salon
• San Francisco nudity ban clears last hurdle

Pr0n

• How porn became a civil right--"We didn't always believe that Playboy was constitutionally protected. An expert explains how sexual rights evolved." Salon
• UK: David Cameron orders new curbs on internet porn
• Porn sites appear in Islamic countries' most-visited online rankings
• Study Reveals 88% of Sexual Photos and Videos Uploaded by Teens are Reposted to 'Parasite' Porn Sites
• Porn copyright troll sues Verizon, angry it won't cough up user names
• Dude shares 7 porn flicks on Bittorrent, is charged $1.5 million in federal court
• Study: Porn stars aren't "damaged"--"A report finds adult actresses are happier than the rest of us -- and that being naked might lead to self-esteem." Salon

CP

• Lawyer for Christian Alliance Fighting for Marriage Sanctity Faces Child Porn Charges
• Ohio attorney creates fake child porn for case, now must pay $300,000
• Child Porn in P2P Share Folder Is Smut Distribution, Appeals Court Says

Fiscal Cliff, Class War; Elizabeth Warren, Banks and Wall Street, International; Racism; Rmoney, PBS

Fiscal Cliff

• On the Fiscal Cliff, Republicans Got Nothin'--And according to one of them, that's just fine.
• There's Only One Relevant Question For The Republicans: 'Seriously? You're Going To Block A Tax Cut?'
• Alleging Republican 'blind eye' on defense spending, GOP senator proposes cuts--Why is military funding such a sacred cow?
• Boehner: No 'Difference' If Revenue Comes From Middle Class Or Super Rich--But it's like they don't care about the middle class anyway.
• Krugman: The Big Budget Mumble NYT
• Steele: Norquist blocking progress on debt deal--"Former RNC chair said the agreement would be done in '24 hours' if Norquist weren't involved."
• GOP's $4.6T 'fiscal cliff' counterproposal rebuffed--They, again, wanted to kill off Social Security and Medicare.
• Are Republicans Already Blowing the Next Election?
• Time magazine: the GOP is "full of it" and the press won't call them on it
• Jon Stewart: Fiscal Cliff Like An Asteroid Barreling Toward Earth That We Created And Fired At Ourselves

Class War

• How One GOP Plutocrat Helped Make 20,000 Kids Homeless--"Homelessness in New York has skyrocketed, thanks in part to years of conservative policy predicated on right-wing ideology."
• The Obscenely Rich Men Bent on Shredding the Safety Net
• Five Facts About America's Pathological Wealth Distribution

Elizabeth Warren

• Elizabeth Warren Wins Senate Banking Committee Seat: Sources
• Their Problem With Elizabeth Warren NYT
• Can Wall Street Tame Elizabeth Warren?
• As Senator, How Might Elizabeth Warren Help Your Finances?

Banks and Wall Street

• How important is the fiscal cliff for investors? Hint: Not very--But that's not stopping them from fearmongering.
• Obama Administration Sues Big Banks for Mortgage Fraud…Finally
• Wall Street Professionals Admit: Yes, Lots of Us Are Corrupt
• Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan Apparently Can't Remember Anything--"Moynihan's recently unveiled deposition in the MBIA v. Bank of America case will go down as one of the great Nixonian-stonewalling efforts ever, and one of the more entertaining reads of the year."
• Occupy Returns with a New Idea

International

• The Faustian Bargain between States and Banks--"States and banks have made a deal with the devil. Banks buy the sovereign bonds needed to prop states up in the tacit understanding that the states will bail them out in a pinch. But experts warn that this symbiotic arrangement might be putting the entire financial system at risk."
• Loss of income caused by banks as bad as a 'world war', says BoE's Andrew Haldane--" The financial crisis has been as economically devastating as a world war and may still be a burden on 'our grandchildren', a top Bank of England official has said."
• German man locked up over HVB bank allegations may have been telling truth--"Gustl Mollath was put in a psychiatric unit for claiming his wife was involved in money-laundering at the Bavarian bank. But seven years on evidence has emerged that could set him free."

Racism

• Arizona: Jan Brewer's Immigration Backlash Begins
• Judge To Birther Orly Taitz: "Evidence Is Not Stuff Printed From the Internet"
• President uses racial code to demean Romney at White House lunch--Oh noes!

Rmoney

• The Internal Polls That Made Mitt Romney Think He'd Win
• A detached Romney tends wounds in seclusion after failed White House bid
• Romney';s Five-Point Plan To Deal With The 47 Percent Gaffe

PBS

• Beyond Big Bird--"While Big Bird as a character served as a symbol in the fight to protect public broadcasting, it is now important to move past support alone and use nonprofit media to make genuine political changes in the country."
• PBS auto-tunes LeVar Burton Salon
• Patrick Stewart: Don't Support PBS Stations

Your Rights Online: Internet Freedom, Surveillance and Privacy, Passwords, Hacking, Syntax Error

Internet Freedom

• Assange to RT: Entire nations intercepted online, key turned to totalitarian rule
• 'Father of the internet': Why we must fight for its freedom
• Google: Keep the Internet free and open

Surveillance and Privacy

• NSA Whistleblower: Everyone in US under virtual surveillance, all info stored, no matter the post
• Ninth Circuit Gives the A-OK For Warrantless Home Video Surveillance
• Attempt to Modernize Digital Privacy Law Passes the Senate Judiciary Committee--"The package that passed out of committee included an amendment championed by Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) would mandate that the government receive a probable cause warrant before accessing private electronic communications. This would close a dangerous loophole in the 1986 Electronic Communications Privacy Act, which the Department of Justice has argued allows them to access private emails that are more than 180 days old without a warrant."

Passwords

• Fighting Hackers: Everything You've Been Told About Passwords Is Wrong
• How script kiddies can hijack your browser to steal your password--"How script kiddies can hijack your browser to steal your password."
• xkcd: Identity

Hacking

• Code can't be stolen under federal law, court rules
• Should Developers Be Sued for Security Holes?
• Goldman Sachs Programmer Back in Court on New Charges
• DOJ Won't Ask Supreme Court to Review Hacking Case--"The Justice Department has decided not to ask the Supreme Court to review a controversial federal appeals court decision that said employees may not be prosecuted under a federal anti-hacking statute for simply violating their employer's computer use policy."
• AT&T iPad Hacker's Real Crime Was Embarrassing the Wrong People
• Forget Disclosure — Hackers Should Keep Security Holes to Themselves
• Bank Agrees to Reimburse Hacking Victim $300K in Precedent-Setting Case

Syntax Error

• "Can you fix my Windows 95 computer?": How to troll a tech support scammer
• State-Sponsored Malware 'Flame' Has Smaller, More Devious Cousin
• Stupid user tricks 6: IT idiocy loves company--And a lot more where that came from.

Music, Orchestras, Gangnam Style; Sports; Videogames, Foul Play; Comics; 'Mad-vertising, 'Rad-vertising

Music

• Rejected Beatles audition tape discovered--"The Beatles' audition tape famously rejected by a record executive in 1962 has finally been uncovered after 50 years."
• Books explore music's connections to society as a whole
• From Backstreet Boys to One Direction: Boy bands have changed
• Country Music Hollers Back at Hip-Hop--"One of the easiest ways to set about explaining who you are is to explain who you are not. So why has popular country music valorizing rural life been appropriating elements of hip-hop culture and rap music?"
• Could Reddit Be The New Place To Launch A Music Career?--Gaming the system can backfire, however.

Orchestras

• Orchestras on the brink of extinction
• What Professional Orchestras Should Learn From YouTube
• Do Orchestras Really Need Conductors?

Gangnam Style

• Psy's "Gangnam Style" Passes Justin Bieber's "Baby" To Become The Most Popular YouTube Video Ever With Over 805 Million Views
• 2 Legit 2 Gangnam Style: How The Amazing Hammer/PSY Duo Was Born At Google Zeitgeist
• Gangnam Style, Dissected: The Subversive Message Within South Korea's Music Video Sensation
  
• Gangnam Style dance-off escalates into gang shootout in Bangkok
• Navy Midshipmen go 'Gangnam Style'

Sports

• How Instant Replays Changed Professional Tennis
• Zinedine Zidane headbutt statue unveiled in French capital
• Eric Winston of Kansas City Chiefs Tears into Fans Who Cheered Quarterbacks Injury
• Phelps sinks the longest putt ever recorded on TV--Best comment: he can sink and swim.
• Is cheerleading a sport? Salon

Videogames

• How a Videogame God Inspired a Twitter Doppelgänger — and Resurrected His Career.
• 100K Strong to get Zangief To SDCC 2013--Help this beefy bloke to get buffed.
• Did Blowing into Nintendo Cartridges Really Help?
• OSU marching band does a fantastic tribute to classic video games
• How One Myst Fan Made Himself a Real-Life Linking Book
• QWOP the movie trailer
• Minimalist Video Game Posters

Foul Play

• The 13 Most Shameless Super Mario Rip-Offs on iPhone
• Animal Rights Group Attacks Pokemon For Promoting Animal Abuse
• Street Fighter II developer jailed for withholding staff pay

Comics

• The Con of the Art
• How to Get a Trademark for a Comic Book Superhero Character
• On Crossovers: A Manifesto, Part I
• On Crossovers: A Manifesto, Part II
• DC Comics lets Sears' Craftsman save the Justice League

'Mad'-vertising

• How Advertisers Convinced Americans They Smelled Bad
• 'We will find you' marketing gone wild: Candy bars that guarantee stalkers
• What Were We Thinking? The Top 10 Most Dangerous Ads

'Rad'-vertising

• Incredible ads
• Hands-on
• Top 10 Wrong Placed Ads
• Faber Castell
• Badass Grocery List

World AIDS Day; 007@50, Skyfall, Entertainment, "Joss Whedon is my master now", Movies, The Hobbit, Disney, Cartoons, Spoofs

World AIDS Day

007@50

• Everything Or Nothing: The Untold Story of 007
• "May I suggest that Mr. Bond be armed with a revolver?"
• Which Bond Villain Plan Would Have Worked (and Which Not)?
• Bond 50, the complete 007 collection on Blu-ray
• Designing Bond's World
• Designing 007: Fifty Years of Bond Style
• 50 Years of Bond Cars: A Top Gear Special
• James Bond Kills
• Covering Bond
• The Spy Mixology

Skyfall

• Bond's boldest adventure yet: Skyfall
• Javier Bardem on Playing James Bond's Latest Villain in 'Skyfall'
• Skyfall and the James Bond Sartorial Tradition--Was Craig well-"suited" for the role?

Entertainment

• Fake celebrity pranks New York City in social experiment caught on video
• No Everyone is Not a Critic: A Critic's Manifesto
• JK Rowling mulls 'director's cut' of Harry Potter books
• Ottoman was Geeky--Superheroes, movie characters drawn Turkish-style
• Riverdale, Redefined

"Joss Whedon is my master now"

• Castle opening with Firefly TV Theme
• Much Ado About Joss Whedon, Nathan Fillion, Clark Gregg
• Weird Secrets of The Avengers That You'd Never Have Guessed

Movies

• Cinematography
• Location scout's guide to New York movie scene
• 10 Stage-to-Screen Musicals Hollywood Got Right
• With 35mm Film Dead, Will Classic Movies Ever Look the Same Again?
• Finally, You Can Buy Your Very Own Zoltar Machine for $9,000--When you wish upon a stall.

The Hobbit

• As the world prepares for 'The Hobbit,' New Zealand prepares for the world
• Peter Jackson's three Hobbit films suggest he is running on empty--Is another trilogy necessary?
• "The Hobbit" uncut, at last--Unabridged audio book now available. Salon
• New Zealand issues Hobbit coins as legal tender Salon
• Hobbit animal abuse claims: Warner Bros backs Peter Jackson

Disney

• Disney Face Swap
• Letters of Note: SEVEN LITTLE MEN HELP A GIRL
• Lily's Disneyland Surprise!--Cuteness overload.

Cartoons

• The 50 greatest cartoons
• Spongebob Voice Actors Dub Classic Movie
• Pixar open sources production animation code

Spoofs

• Mrs. Doubtfire (Recut)
• Man vs Metro
• Hugh Jackman's Teacher Interview
• Movie trailer: «Famous last words»
• Whitest Kids U'Know: Jaws