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“This is so profoundly stupid it’s hard to believe it isn’t from The Onion.” – John Gruber

When people use text message abbreviations (all ur base r blong 2 us^*), even when they are not being charged by the letter. Like on forums and blogs. GAH. Flames…heaving…!

^* I had to go sit under the table for 15 minutes to recover after typing that.

Usually I think of Twitter kind of like this, but this parasite-app is pretty interesting. Heh. (Via Gruber)

Introducing Google Doctype, “an encyclopedia for web developers, by web developers”. Rockin’. (Via Daring Fireball)

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

This blew me away. (Via Drawn!)

I love more than urban liberal elitists being accused—rightly—of intolerance. (Via InstaPundit)

Is the bachelor’s degree obsolete? (Via InstaPundit)

Studies have shown that its active agent, triclosan, does not make antibacterial soap distinguishably more effective at killing bacteria than regular soap, and its presence in the water supply (it is not removed by water/sewage treatment facilities) is potentially harmful to those who ingest it. (Via InstaPundit)

Update 2008-05-13 12:54—I guess, according to the comments on that post, that there is no credible link between normal levels of dioxin (a chemical that may be produced when triclosan interacts with light and/or chlorine) ingestion and death. So what you should take away from all this is that if you’re spending extra money on your antibacterial soap, you’re not getting your money’s worth.

For those who may not read Japanese, that means: “I’m home!” Now that SFIFF 2008 is over (as of last Thursday—more on this in a minute), and I’ve spent a couple of days recovering, you’ll be seeing more of me. Aren’t you excited?

About the festival. In direct contrast with SFIAAFF, my happiness quotient with SFIFF has been going down in recent years. I wasn’t sure why, until my friend Jieun hit the nail on the head a little while ago: the festival takes itself entirely too seriously. It’s pretentious, even more than most, which are snooty almost by definition. SFIFF tends to pick films rather than movies, “important” films (a description that makes me want to run in the other direction), serious films, films that are about art almost to the exclusion of entertainment…but isn’t that what movies are about, in the end?

And when they do show movies that are so crass as to be entertaining, they apologize for it beforehand. I mean, come on. 9_9

Anyway. That said, this year was better, mathematically speaking, than last year, and I’ll let you judge for yourself based on my descriptions of each movie:

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Jessica Enders applies some science to testing the meme over at ALA.