The Weekly for 12 March

• The best and worst super-heroines in comics!
• The Academy needs to figure out exactly whom they memorialize.
• Florida film incentive bill could deny tax credits to films with 'non-traditional family values.' It should be pretty clear what I think about that.
• Werner Herzog: a primer.
• Kathryn Bigelow: the first female best director.
• Fixing US STEM education is possible, but will take money.
• Addressing tokenism. I want to print this out and distribute it as leaflets.

The Weekly for 26 February

• The mathematics of the Hollywood blockbuster: "The key thing is having shots of similar length that recur in a regular pattern throughout a film."
• Why Blockbuster's studio ties leave independent DVD stores struggling. As if another reason were needed to avoid Blockbuster. They are bad for movies, period.
• Is it time for a pulp renaissance?
• Is Computer Engineer Barbie going to get more girls into tech?
• Ten rules for writing fiction.
• "The world seems to be split into roughly three different types of people: Those who have a passion for nothing, those who have a passion for one thing and those who have a passion for everything." Three types of passion. (Via Disassociated.)
• A nice collection of white-based websites.

The Weekly for 19 February

• Web designers who can't code. From Elliot Jay Stocks.
• On designers writing HTML. From Mark Boulton.
• 5 good reasons designers should code. From Carsonified.
• "Me: (tries to visit a local restaurant’s website via iPhone)
  Restaurant website: I require Flash. Fuck off."
  A conversation I have every month or so.
• TCM reviews the DVD set Bad Girls of Film Noir Vol 1 and Vol II.
• Why are women in philosophy so scarce?
• The newest book from the Women Writing Science project at the Feminist Press is The Madame Curie Complex: The Hidden History of Women in Science.
• Watch the Pixies Documentary loudQUIETloud.

The Weekly for 12 February

• The ugliest truth: 24 romantic-comedy characters who don’t deserve love.
• 20 greatest movies about writers.
• Rags to riches: the fangirl phenomena.
• The Bikini Kill Archive.
• Peter Bogdanovich has announced a new project forthcoming: an adaptation of Kurt Anderson's novel Turn of the Century.
• Five comedy film picks from Joanna Angel.
• LitKicks reviews Patti Smith's Just Kids.

The Weekly for 5 February

• "My point was that it would have been better for the author to talk about the stereotyping that underlines “socialization” rather than her “assumptions” about perceived differences." Women and computer games.
• 2010 SXSW Film Festival lineup: underground picks.
• A bit of love for Elsa Lanchester.
• Will we ever see a female-led film franchise?
• Terence Malick has a new film in the works already?
• Film noir posters.
• In case you're new around here, I post links about scientific and skeptical topics every Monday and Wednesday over at Skepchick.

The Weekly for 29 January

• Realism in UI design.
• The most famous unfinished works of art.
• Mixtape: 10 best songs about libraries and librarians.
• From the always great Carrie Brownstein, Do we need Lilith Fair in 2010?
• "I’ve always taken a very unsympathetic view of Salinger's relentless stranglehold on his published works. The control he exercised strikes me as both selfish and counter to how humans learn, grow, and express themselves." On Salinger.
• The Nancy Drew Challenge. I'm pretty sure I already did this at age seven. But it might be fun to do it again, and collect the books for my daughter.
• Pledges now open for Ada Lovelace Day 2010.

The Weekly for 22 January

• 10 reasons geeky ladies are no longer a boner killer. And is this a good thing?
• Los Angeles punk rock 1980-1985.
• "The institutional sexism that still cripples Hollywood is appalling." Hollywood's femme fatality rate.
• For the first time in sixty years, Edgar Allen Poe's mystery mourner didn't show.
• Bruce Campbell is promising a sequel to My Name Is Bruce.
• 7 unapologetic directors.
• Goodbye, Spenser.

The Weekly for 15 January

• The Golden Ratio in web design.
• "Stereotypes are usually the last thing to change in the face of contradictory evidence." Another study proving there's no biological gender gap in math ability.
• 75 books every writer should read. I didn't expect to like this list when I saw the title. But I do.
• "Religions derive their power and popularity in part from the ethical compass they offer. So why do so many faiths help perpetuate something that most of us regard as profoundly unethical: the oppression of women?" Kristof on religion and women.
• I know you're so over best-of film lists, but Film Comment's best of the decade list is really worth a look.
• "But a lot of the time, it’s just that people found they have better things to do with their limited time and resources." Charles Johnson on why past visions of the future usually don't come to pass.
• Bruce Campbell's five favorite movies.

The Weekly for 4 January

• Catching up from over the holidays ... the best films to go direct to DVD in 2009.
• Film Experience has a nice series covering the directors of the decade.
• The 15 sexiest gadgets of 2009.
• The seven most influential filmmaking countries of the '00s.
• From Pink Raygun, 50 fictional femmes of 2009: part one.
• "Just as they were about to be written off, stars like Hepburn, Crawford, Stanwyck, and Rosalind Russell showed they could hold their own at the box office alongside younger stars." Katherine Hepburn and The African Queen

The Weekly for 18 December

• The content strategist as digital curator. I just realized this is what I do. No wonder I ended up working for an art museum.
• The decade of dirty design. (Via Design Observer.)
• DVD report on new two editions of Scarlet Street. My own Noir Monday post on that film.
• On Marvel's new announcement of Girl Comics.
• A profile of the Large Hadron Collider as a wonder of the modern world. (Via Disassociated.)
• Motorized bar stools, porn-loving cats, and more: the stupidest criminals of 2009.
• Just as an FYI, I'm working on integrating my Tumblr more closely with my main site, so in the near future you can get it all at one place. In the meantime, that's updated over there pretty much daily.

The Weekly for 11 December

• The sketchy lines between literary and crime fiction.
• The best crime fiction of the decade.
• Top ten archaeology finds: most viewed of 2009.
• "Bi­ol­o­gists the­o­rize that many risky, costly and ap­par­ently use­less be­hav­iors per­sist am­ong ani­mals be­cause of what they com­mu­ni­cate to po­ten­tial mates, ri­vals and oth­ers." Tattoos, piercings may advertise good health.
• Perfection named Adrienne Shelly grant recipient.
• RJD2's five favorite films about music.
• Terrence Malick: the reluctant auteur.

The Weekly for 4 December

• "Her movie is called 'the most disgusting film of the year' before it's even made and she becomes the brunt of anti-violence outrage and feminist fury. Then she premieres the film at Sundance ('the most anticipated film ever,' introduces Geoffrey Gilmore) and afterwards gets lambasted by the critics. Then she submits the film to the MPAA, gets smacked with an 'NC17' rating and is forced to cut down a sex scene to garner an 'R.' And on top of all of that, she's pregnant." From 2000, director Mary Harron on the premiere of American Psycho.
• 10 best movies of the 90s by Martin Scorsese.
• A look at the 1960 film Strangers When We Meet, a melodrama about adultery starring Kirk Douglas and Kim Novak. This isn't a great film, but I've always found it interesting, and examining it within the context of Mad Men, as this essay does, is even more so. Oh, and the mid-century interiors and exteriors are great.
• Feminist books for 5-year-olds. I love Princess Smartypants.
• The 10 best long tracking shots ever filmed.
• "I talk to people about how you can't ignore Christmas. You can love it, you can hate it, but you can't ignore it. I love it without irony, but I understand why some people hate it. It's a financial burden, it's an emotional burden, it's a decorating burden. But it's a happy time for criminals and a happy time for people who are attracted to elderly men who are overweight and wear velvet. It's a time for perversion." It's always worth reading another John Waters interview. Always.
• Craftsmanship without the man - changing the language for female programmers.
• From Geek Feminism: questioning the merit of meritocracy.
• The best bad movies of the ’00s.

The Weekly for 27 November

• "Judging from these photographs, geek glamour is more about owning and using the 'right tools' then wearing high-fashion clothing, no matter how rich you are." Geek glamour.
• Designers' reactions to the new AOL logo.
• Twenty questions with a Criterion Collection designer.
• From Cinematical, an Orson Welles primer.
• From IFC News, seven actors who have played Welles.
• Ten best films of the 1910s.
• In honor of the show's 20th anniversary, the drunks of MST3K.
• "Why buy the bat when you can have the blood for free?" Why Twilight continues to hurt America.
• From Amalah, things nobody tells you: the four-year-old edition.

The Weekly for 20 November

• "I like lists for the same reason other people like football or pedophilia." Umberto Eco on lists.
• 10 best books for girls and young women. A damn solid list, I must say. I've loved From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler since I was about eight.
• "I've read enough comment threads over the years to know that conservatives regularly make a point of proudly declaring that their female icons are good looking compared to the old hags on the other side. When did they suddenly adopt politically correct second-wave feminist attitudes toward female beauty, even in the public sphere?" Virgina Postrel on Sarah Palin in the media.
• Road to perdition: a great essay on the film noir Detour.
• The best 15 color films noir.
• Yes, Polanski made Chinatown. He also made this.
• "Is Murnau's Nosferatu scary in the modern sense? Not for me. I admire it more for its artistry and ideas, its atmosphere and images, than for its ability to manipulate my emotions like a skillful modern horror film." Roger Ebert on Nosferatu.
• My favorite sport: ripping apart the Oscar nominations and expounding upon how idiotic the Academy is. And with the documentary nominations announcement, the season is officially open. Although - it's actually a decent list. Don't worry, though - I'm sure they'll screw up the feature and director noms.

The Weekly for 13 November

• Top 11 films about writing. (Via Largehearted Boy.)
• Swagger like us: thoughts on women in music, 2000-09.
• The best children's books of 2009.
• The truth about Playgirl and Levi Johnston.
• Paging Dr. Freud - bedposts on film. (Via Sex in a Submarine.)
• The 25 best documentaries of the decade. Some very, very good films there.
• Sonic Youth's 10 favorite Criterion films.

The Weekly for 6 November

• Simple or minimal? (Via Disassociated.
• The 15 best episodes of Batman: The Animated Series.
• The Batgirl that TV never saw.
• New research from the Center for Study for Women in Television and Film at San Diego State shows that women are more represented in the independent film world than they are in big-budget Hollywood.
• A girl-centric horror movie primer.
• Return to Malibou Lake, where the Frankenstein scene between the monster and the little girl was filmed.
• Public domain films noir available at Archive.org. Recommended: Scarlet Street (my review here), The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (my review here) and Detour.

The Weekly for 30 October

• Martin Scorsese's 11 scariest horror movies of all time
• Disney imagery in Citizen Kane.
• Wanted: girls who like computer science.
• How indie rock killed the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. (Via Largehearted Boy.)
• 100 minimalist web designs. These lists are all over the place and often repeat themselves, but, maybe just because of the sheer volume of this one, this has a few I hadn't encountered before.
• Happy halloween.

The Weekly for 23 October

• Confessions of a middlebrow professor: "It wasn't until I arrived in graduate school that I learned there were people who took the intellectual life for granted—who didn't think reading was praiseworthy in itself—and who looked down on the striver's culture from which I emerged as 'middlebrow.'"
• The props of Mad Men.
• Someone make The Crow remake stop. NOW.
• Trailer: Adrienne Shelly's Serious Moonlight.
• The Celluloid Ceiling: thoughts from five women who broke through.
• Lullabyes for adults: "As far as I'm concerned, these efforts to expose children to reggae-less versions of Bob Marley and cocaine-free versions of The Eagles has much more to do with the parents than with the kids themselves."
• When women hide behind their children on Facebook.

The Weekly for 16 October

• The best title award for this past week's article discussing the idiocy of complaining that women are ruining science fiction goes to Pink Raygun: My vagina killed your jetpack.
• Geek Feminism also rounded up a list of critical responses to the same kerfluffle.
• Who killed cult movies?
• A little story about the Psycho house and the Bates Motel.
• On film criticism and professionalism - I think this is part of a larger problem of the establishment tendency to dismiss anything internet-based. It's okay, they'll out die out soon anyway.
• Some thoughts on stockings. A great, nuts-and-bolts guide to traditional stocking wearing, of which I am an aficionado.

The Weekly for 9 October

• Surprise! The "opt-out revolution" was a myth.
• Comic book superhero cocktails.
• 25 best band/musician websites. (Via Coudal.)
• How to create an award for girls in tech.
• The unusual economics of the film industry.
• A good, thoughtful piece on the importance of Citizen Kane.
• "Today I was asked a question I can never answer - 'what's your favorite movie?' When pressed to choose, the same picture always rises to the surface - The Third Man."
• The gospel according to Coco Chanel: on fearlessness.
• Why thirteen women never made it to space: NASA's lost female astronauts.
• I was interviewed and photographed last week by the lovely Amy of Surlyramics for her Get To Know Your Skepchicks series.

The Weekly for 25 September

• Computing as a liberal art.
• "I don’t know of a place to get tech news that's not served up with an occasional side of misogyny, and it definitely reduces my consumption of tech news." Word.
• The secret glamour of the Tin Man: how The Wizard of Oz really appeals to "dreams of flight and transformation and escape."
• 30 thin and light fonts that should not be free.
• Vintage vibrator gallery.
• 5 directors who made great remakes of their own films.
• 20 years of Apple laptops.
• "'Born To Run' was the essence of everything I loved about rock 'n' roll. Bruce held on to the innocence and the romance. At the same time, the music communicates frustration and a constant longing to escape." The birth of Born to Run.

The Weekly for 18 September

• Courtesy of Movieline, meet 2009's "Manic Pixie Dream Girl" - the Sphinx Minx.
• The Bitch Magazine blog looks at The Supergirls, a cultural history of comic book heroines.
• What women want: startups targeting females.
• Bob Dylan's Christmas album: "There’s something about the combination of Bob Dylan and classic carols that’s seriously off; his voice is more wheezy than raspy and it sounds like he’s knee-deep in the eggnog."
• Cheese or font?
• The story of Marguerite Higgins, one of the first respected female war correspondents.
• Mixed reviews are trickling in of Diablo Cody & Karen Kusama's (yes, that's a major film both written and directed by women, thanks very much) Jennifer's Body, but there seems to be a feminist consensus that there's some sly statements being made underneath all the camp.
• The Cleveland Grindhouse Film Festival is now accepting submissions for the November 20 event.
• Don't forget - lots of other links, videos and photos at the DP Tumblr.

The Weekly for 11 September

• And she's cute, too! Geek Feminism on appearance, technical ability and compliments.
• Will chicks dig Jennifer's Body?
• Irving Thalberg: creating the Hollywood studio system.
• 6 diabolically dreadful website designs.
• The Christian adoption racket.
• David Hudson at The Auteurs collects all the Toronto Film Festival 2009 reports you could possibly need.
• By the by, apologies for the lapse in Mad Men coverage. Will be catching up on the last two episodes this weekend.

The Weekly for 3 September

• "I don't care what you say, DJ Lance, Muno, Broby, Foofa, Toodie and Plex have taught my daughter many valuable lessons--like the desirability of napping, for one." Anthony Bourdain reviews kids' television.
• So Disney bought Marvel. A speculation as to why. (Via CinemaTech.)
• 100 important directors of animated short films.
• Farewell to Reading Rainbow: "Grant says that PBS, CPB and the Department of Education put significant funding toward programming that would teach kids how to read — but that's not what Reading Rainbow was trying to do. 'Reading Rainbow taught kids why to read.'"
• From The Brads, protesting Ikea's font switch.
• Filmmakers who love to talk about movies.
• A brief herstory of Elizabeth I in film.

The Weekly for August 28

• This might be one of my absolute favorite stories on the internet: Elevators, Americans, Missed Connections.
• Feral houses and other indigenous species of the rust belt
• I never want to hear the word franchise again. Part of the reason I don't want to see another Nolan Batman movie. I think it should just stop.
• Websites using popping colors.
• An interview with my top science crush, Neil deGrasse Tyson.
• On men and feminism: "There may be a time and place for single-sex organizing, but feminism is relevant to men, and there are lots of ways men can get involved in feminist issues. There’s definitely a place for men in advocating for reproductive freedom, ending male violence, promoting pay equity, preventing sexism - the list goes on."
• Forgotten fashion: the four o'clock dress.
• "In the 19th century, the paramount moral challenge was slavery. In the 20th century, it was totalitarianism. In this century, it is the brutality inflicted on so many women and girls around the globe: sex trafficking, acid attacks, bride burnings and mass rape."

The Weekly for 21 August

• Books that made a difference to Mad Men's Jon Hamm.
• Interview with author of The Girl's Guide to Rocking: "It's culturally less permissible for girls to pick up a guitar or start a band ... That's why I wanted to give girls a permission slip that says, 'Yes, you can rock.'"
• From Grain Edit, designers on Twitter.
• A brief herstory of Lois Lane in film: Part One, Part Two
• Five women to watch in technology. Via GeekyMom, who also writes about it as inspiration for other women.
• How to save indie film: seek out working class youth.
• Working girl, circa 1910.

The Weekly for 14 August

• Life as a woman: the story of Hedy Lamarr.
• Welles the artist.
• Menanced maidens: a collection of B-movie posters.
• Amanda Marcotte on one of Mad Men's defining feminist moments.
• The tale of Nicholas Ray's last unfinished film. Complete with a comment from an original cast member.
• Compiled by the Bitch Magazine community: a list of women directors.
• An analysis of Choose Your Own Adventure books: most likely you'll die.
• Rust Belt 2009. A photo essay from David Zaitz.

The Weekly for 8 August

• Hunting the elusive first "Ms." (Via @thatwhichmatter.)
• Bitch's Grrl on Film with her incredible, three-part Quentin Tarantino + feminism expose (Part 2, Part 3). I've been asking myself these questions for a long time, but never got into it so deeply.
• The movie title stills collection.
• Would you marry Don Draper? Come on, marrying him is the last thing we want to do with him.
• In other Mad Men news, a few cast members' iTunes playlists.
• The second Sony Online Entertainment G.I.R.L. Scholarship has been awarded.
• A profound and detailed consideration on what would happen if Jaws and Mega-Shark got into a fight.
• The 34th Cleveland International Film Festival is now open for entries.

The Weekly for 31 July

• Extremely excellent: video advice for those who want to be designers. (Via Coudal.)
• Trailer: the Coen Brothers' A Serious Man.
• Merlin Mann on creative work. I caught this podcast a while back and loved it - thanks to Swiss Miss for reminding me of it.
• No way I could improve on this title: blaming and shaming in whores' memoirs. Actually a very interesting historical piece.
• Trailer: Hayao Miyazaki's Ponyo.
• Why the Misfits are the most mythic of all New Jersey artists.
• Not the Kerouac estate battle again ... My sentiments exactly.
• Trailer: Wes Anderson's The Fantastic Mr. Fox.

The Weekly for 24 July

• Third-Wave feminist wish list.
• From Adactio, misunderstanding markup.
• The hunt for the worst movie ever - The Lake House: "One thing that I guess is a saving grace of this movie is that they never even bother explaining where that goddamned mail box comes from. Or why Sandra Bullock didn't give Keanu Reeves some information on the World Series so that he could open Biff's."
• Robert Duffy from Donewaiting.com discusses casual comic reading.
• Bumper stickers for shoes.
• Actor Rich Sommer (who has a great Twitter feed) talks about his new miniseries, plus season three of Mad Men.
• Harry Potter's top three skeptical moments.
• New Ohio budget builds in film industry tax incentives.
• From Women and Hollywood, a look at women directing outside the studio system.

The Weekly for 10 July

• "Once the initial 'what the f**k am I reading?!' wore off, I really came to savor everything about it. Cave’s writing, the storyline, the dialogue…it's Grade-A material through and through." Nick Cave's Gladiator sequel.
• Qualify your buyer: reality show matchmaking and marrying for money.
• Tattoos and branding. I am horrified by some of these. Guess which.
• From Khoi Vinh, Minimalism, Michael Mann and Miami Vice.
• The hazy future of web typography.
• I know you guys read Boing Boing, but if you missed it: free chapter from forthcoming book about Bill Waterson, Calvin and Hobbes creator.
• Helveticons.

The Weekly for 3 July

• A lovefest for Nancy Drew and other girl detectives.
• Vintage color & design: 50's & 60's graphics.
• Why technology can't fulfill.
• From Zeldman, the new old minimalists.
• Some useful Linux resources for children, plus ten more.
• A report on a 1996 documentary of Edward D. Wood Jr.. I've never heard of this doc, which surprises me. It would probably be good to follow it up with Burton's Ed Wood, for a happier ending.
• Design as ordinary skill and universal everything. (Hat tip: Design Observer.)
• As you may have heard, next year's Best Picture nominees will number ten. The Women and Hollywood blog discusses how more best picture nominees will effect women.
• Vegan support groups. (Forwarded to me by a few people, but @zipplockbag specifically sent it to me for my weekly.)
• From @dmmaxwell, frogs marry to induce rainfall. Question - is it proper to suspend skepticism when the item in question is mostly harmless? Although maybe it wasn't harmless - maybe one of the frogs was in love with a different frog and is now miserable in this forced marriage. If that's the case, I hope it's raining, to give the poor frog at least a little comfort.

The Weekly for 19 June

• Have today's directors lost their signature visual styles?
• The fallacy of page zooming. I wish everyone would make up their minds about web font size. But this seems a fairly convincing argument. Now, someone sort out the HTML 4 vs XHTML thing so it can stop making my head hurt.
• A desire for varied female protagonists is not a political agenda: "The fact of the matter is: Wanting interesting and diverse female protagonists is not a political agenda. It's a widespread human trait found in both sexes: the desire to find camaraderie and others who are relatable and recognizable."
• Forensic typography! This should be the next Law & Order spin-off.
• Also - the sad state of web typography. (Via Design Observer.)
• The Fallen Princesses Project.
• I dug this one up by pure chance: Philip Marlowe on the silver screen.

The Weekly for 12 June

• Tales from writer/actress Nia Vardalos: "Lately, I've been in meetings regarding a new script idea I have. A studio executive asked me to change the female lead to a male, because... 'women don't go to movies.'"
• A collection of great film noir movie posters.
• The understatement of the year, courtesy of the MPAA: "We've done a lousy job of responding to changes in technology and consumer demands." (Via Ted Hope.)
• From Bright Lights After Dark: 10 (or more) film books that made me what I am today.
• Wait - so I missed the cameo by my favorite author in a film I've seen roughly twenty times? Apparently so, because there's Raymond Chandler, in Double Indemnity.
• The creative side of computer science.
• io9 asks, why all the Wonder Woman hate?
• It is okay for artists to make money ...no, really, it's okay.

The Weekly for 5 June

• Must see: Exhibits from the C.F. Kane Museum.
• Users place more weight on design.
• Hey, guess what? Turns out gender gap in maths driven by social factors, not biological differences. Imagine that!
• Is Pixar the perfect model for the new studio system? (I think he's got something here.)
• Coilhouse dismantles the curious logic behind the conservative sexual politics of anti-pornography propaganda.
• Book recommendations from Sarah Haskins.
• A nice collection of Mad Men inspirational vintage office illustration.
• Tired of hearing about Mad Men? Too bad. Season 3 drops this August and I'm recapping it. Because I can.
• The secret life of Superman: "In this aspect at least, comic books have much in common with early fetish publications."

The Weekly for 22 May

• Lessons for girls. (Via Thus Spake Zuska.)
• 8 layout solutions to improve your designs.
• Why this site is not available on the Kindle.
• On the girl front, there's everything from pink Ouija boards to lady candy bars.
• High-five to the girls who won the Intel science fair. Second year in a row girls have taken top honors, too.
• The first annual Geauga Film Festival is set for mid-June.
• So - Cannes. Sounded pretty crazy this year. Of course, there was Antichrist, which is going to be distributed by IFC Films ...
• ... and Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds: "More time fleshing out characters and less time showcasing stylistic flourishes might have helped..." So, pretty much like every other Tarantino film recently?
• ... and Jane Campion's return to directing with Bright Star.
• You are here. Here is good. By Libbra Bray.

The Weekly for 15 May

• The Princess and the Frog and the Critical Gaze. From Racialicious, a meditation on race and Disney princesses.
• Sorry, everyone - science proves vampires could not possibly exist. Unless it's all a evil scientific conspiracy, which, let's be honest, we can't disprove, can we?
• A collection of Mad Men essays from MediaCommons. (Hat top: Design Observer.)
• From WaiterRant, thinking about the present and the future.
• Need more people to follow on Twitter? OF COURSE YOU DO. Inspired Magazine rounds up all the Twitter niche heroes you could possibly want.
• FlickTweets - track movie opinions on Twitter.
• Interactive map of original Native American names of present-day US places.
• SpoutBlog has Jonathan Demme on Spaulding Grey and his habits of observation.
• Star Trek Failure Generator. (Hat tip: Coudal.)
• Presenting the list according to Marty Beller, being a list of terms disallowed by They Might Be Giants. Seriously, they'll come after you if you use them.

The Weekly for 17 April

• "Mystery Science Theater 3000" meets Twitter.
• Advice and etiquette for zombies: her zombie boyfriend only wants her for her brain!
• Citizen Kane: 3D.
• Busting Columbine myths. (Via Amateur Scientist.)
• Notes on conceptual fiction: "Is it possible that the idea of "realism" as a guiding principle for fiction is itself unrealistic?"
• A helpful chart: how Star Wars changed the world. (Via Design Observer.)
• What if Criterion released video games?
• By the by, read a fucking book.

The Weekly for 10 April

• "The President [Reagan] was mentioning my name the other day, and I kind of got to wondering what his favorite album must have been. I don’t think it was the Nebraska album." Revisiting Springsteen's Nebraska.
• Are you a zombie? Or would you like to be one? At least briefly? In Columbus, Ohio? Then I think the Zombie Walk Columbus might be for you.
• I would probably mention this charity auction for a meal with Don Draper himself no matter what (because I really can't think of a better way to spend a few hundred dollars than that), but it's especially awesome because the charity it's to benefit is one of my favorites - the Adrienne Shelley Foundation, which provides grants to women filmmakers. Win all around.
• It's always worth reading another piece on John Waters.
• 5 reasons the recession is good for your filmmaking career.
• Girls Read Comics has the perfect take on the new line of Marvel merchandise for girls.
• Brilliant: the unofficial female film canon. (Via Bright Lights Film.)
• Liveblogging Inland Empire. And, no, they still don't come up with a definitive explanation for the damn rabbits.
• 8 simple ways to improve typography in your designs, from designer Antonio Carusone.
• Highlighting the mid-century modern idealist design in The Incredibles.
• 25 animation Twitterers, from Cartoon Brew. I would also add to the list Pixar's Lee Unkrich.

The Weekly for 27 March

• Ten things to read on the 50th anniversary of Raymond Chandler's death.
• Diana Eng, from Project Runway Season 2, has written a book about tech-hacking clothes called Fashion Geek.
• Raquelle of the classic film blog Out of the Past lists the upcoming movies for TCM's Norma Shearer week.
• Catch up with the almost 1200 entries submitted for Tuesday's Ada Lovelace Day.
• 10 rare HTML tags you should know. (Hat tip: Disassociated.)
• Tickets are available for the April 2-5 Akron Film Festival. I'm disappointed that I won't be able to make it, because I've been looking forward to catching Sita Sings the Blues.
• Speaking of film festivals, family issues also kept me from this year's Cleveland Film Festival - but you should still totally check out its final weekend.

The Weekly for 6 March

• A riot grrl era retrospective from the Guardian.
• A look at the past and current careers of David and Jennifer Lynch.
• Cinematical posted a clip from the upcoming, Wiley-Wiggins-featuring film, Sorry, Thanks, soon to hit SXSW.
• A tale of sound recording, The Magnificent Ambersons and Orson Welles. (Hat tip: Coudal.)
• Rebranding the Girl Scouts for the modern age.
• Text Pieces, by Stefan Brüggemann. (Hat tip: This Isn't Happiness.)
• 15 strangest college courses in America.

The Weekly for 27 February

• Design is no place for democracy.
• Chasing Ray's essay on abandoned homes: "There are dying cities, dead neighborhoods and then those places that never even were. Even on a highway we are surrounded by ghosts; even roads to nowhere have their own hauntings to contend with."
• Depeche Mode's new video is seriously great.
• I mentioned this on Twitter yesterday, but, man, it's worth a repeat: Rush Limbaugh tries to puzzle out why more women don't listen to him. One of my personal favorite reasons comes from the time he claimed women can't and don't want to understand technology. Good times!
• This link's been all over the place, but for a good reason: 10 commandments of good design from Dieter Rams.
• Can a woman write the Great American Novel?
• An interview with Althea Crome, who knitted all the lovely miniature costumes for the characters in Coraline.
• The authors of Packaging Girlhood point out the ridiculousness of turning Dora the Explorer into a tween. Help out with their campaign if you can.

The Weekly for 20 February

• The best actors never to be nominated for an Oscar. Kudos for putting my favorite underrated actor - Joseph Cotten - at the top of the list. Although how can you mention his work without mentioning The Third Man?
• Debunking rumors that run rampant on Twitter: magenta is in fact a color - at least, as much as any color is a color.
• Photo essay: Struggling Cleveland.
• If Jeff Bailey from Out of the Past (1947) were on Match.com.
• What if David Lynch had created Star Wars?
• The relationship between cinema and comics.
• SwissMiss points out a cool whale papercraft download from the newly, lovely designed Square Eye.
• I liked this aside from Caroline McCarthy about The Darjeeling Limited - I think she hit on Wes Anderson's sometimes mysterious appeal.

The Weekly for 13 February

• A fabulous list by Matthew Baldwin of mindf*ck movies. While Muholland Drive would be my Lynch pick as well, I recommend also checking out Inland Empire, specifically for mindf*ck purposes.
• Amish hackers - mythbusting the Amish and their complicated relationship with technology.
• Batwoman is taking over DC's longest running comic series, Detective Comics, making her the publisher's highest profile gay character.
• Congrats to They Might Be Giants for winning the Best Children's Album Grammy with Here Comes the 1-2-3's, which is a really great album.
• Bitch Magazine points out that as good as the new Coraline film is, there's still few women behind the scenes of animation.
• Oh, crap. My parents joined Facebook.
• American Scary, a doc on late night horror TV shows, is now available to pre-order on DVD.

The Weekly for 6 February

• 10 things a web designer would never tell you.
• The Guardian talks to Mad Men's Vincent Kartheiser. His character, Pete Campbell, stealthily crept into my favorite character position last season.
• Chef Michael Ruhlman has some things to say about natural foods and anti-bacterial America.
• Horrifying. Hilarious. Handmade. Venuszine on bizarre DIY crafts.
• I know this has been linked all over the place, but it's worth the multiple mentions: I Can Read Movies.
• Ziggy Stardust Remixed.
• Roger Ebert tells the tale of the recent Sundance drama wherein Jeff Dowd, the inspiration for The Dude (of Big Lebowski fame) got punched by a film critic.
• Designers must write: "Design is not solely visual. Those who believe it is, make an unconscious decision to confine themselves solely to craft."

The Weekly for 30 January

• Kevin Kelly suggests that borrowing is better than owning.
• FourthWaveFeminism looks at boy-fronted girl bands.
• Documentary filmmaker Louis Abelman compares Twitter to cinema vérité.
• Some interesting news about the forthcoming John Carter Mars movies I didn't know: I thought they were going to be animated Pixar films, and here director Andrew Stanton says they will in fact be live-action, released by Disney. Still looking forward to them.
• The fanboys feel a little weird about the new Star Trek Barbie dolls.
• Spout's Lauren Wissot counts down 5 sex scene golden girls.
• The best of 2008 from the Green Man Review.
• At first I thought this was a humorous mockup of a page selling a fake book about Pride and Prejudice plus zombies. However, it appears to be a real book. It's funny, but I think the joke would wear a little thin over an entire novel. But they should totally turn it into a movie. Zombie Colin Firth!

The Weekly for 16 January

• RIP Ray Dennis Steckler: the beloved (well, by me, at least) B movie director passed away last week. I think the occasion calls for a fresh viewing of MST3K's take on The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-up Zombies in his honor.
• The Central Ohio film critics named their 2008 picks.
• My favorite podcast, The Flop House, was featured in a dumb interview, which is not in fact dumb but rather entertaining.
• Graph: 10 ten countries by robot density.
• News for Ohio filmmakers: the deadline for submissions to the Akron Independent Film Festival is 31 January and the Wexner Center just released their call for entries in the Ohio Short Film & Video Showcase 2009 - submissions to the latter need to be in by 27 March.
• The 10 least-wanted sequels of 2009.
• New Moon Magazine for girls is asking for "Beautiful Girl" nominations to celebrate inspirational girls ages 8-12.

The Weekly for 9 January

• From Maura at Idolator: why 'women in rock' stories will never be considered for my lists of best music writing.
• The Mid-Century Modernist features a collection of motel room postcards of the 1950's and 60's.
• Neat item of the week: An Apple a Day letterpress poster.
• Evolution books for children.
• Open Culture adds video to literary critic Stanley Fish's ten favorite American movies.
• Courtesy of Heartless Doll, 10 self-help books that shouldn't exist.
• Film writer Glenn Kenny has some things to say about awards season.
• Inside the mind of an austistic savant with synaesthesia.

The Weekly for 2 January

• Fimoculous's 30 most notable blogs of 2008.
• Noir City 7, a festival for all things film noir, is set to take place in San Francisco January 23 - February 1 2009.
• From Amanda Marcotte at Pandagon: Anti-vaccine = anti-feminist?
• Cinematical's worst MPAA ratings of 2008.
• Web design sketchbook. Neat.
• Bad week for Holocaust memoirs: Alex Balk's got shot down, too.
• We Are Movie Geeks's most anticipated movies of 2009.
• Hurrah for tomboys!

The Weekly for 26 December 2008

• Pink Raygun's 2008 edition of top 100 fiction femmes of genre film and television.
• From Girl with Pen, stats on women for 2008: "The US ranks 27th in terms of women in power (measured as “top political and decision-making roles, including relative access to executive government and corporate posts”) – below Germany (11th), Britain (13th), France (15th), Lesotho (16th), Trinidad and Tobago (19th), South Africa (22nd), Argentina (24th) and Cuba (25th)."
• Top ten moments in feminism in 2008. And, as a follow-up, Is Digg sexist?
• The state of the blogsphere. (Hat tip: Design Observer.)
• Dr. Julie Wosk has written a book about female robotics: Alluring Androids, Robot Women, and Electronic Eves
• Decency group goes after YouTube comments. Good luck with that.
• Violet Blue's Top Ten Sexy Geeks 2009
• Purple squirrel! Isn't that the name of a cocktail? If not, it should be.

The Weekly for 19 December

• Forty million Americans now contribute to social networking sites. Who are they?
• Real people who inspired pop songs: "One day a friend called me and said, 'Turn on the radio!' They were playing Walk On The Wild Side. The funny thing is that, while I knew the Velvet Underground's music, I'd never met Lou Reed. I called him up and said, 'How do you know this stuff about me?' He said, 'Holly, you have the biggest mouth in town.' We met and we've been friends ever since."
• If the Beats had internet, would they have Twittered? (Via Bill Corbett.)
• I'm not a big My Fair Lady fan in the first place, so the prospect of a remake didn't thrill me very much when I first heard of it - but if Emma Thompson is writing and if she does get Hugh Laurie as Higgins, I might change my mind.
• On the other hand, I will remain entirely un-enthused about a Crow remake.
• Gridr buildrrr - a tool for building design grids.
• This past week, Reviewer X held Girl Week, a series of reviews, essays and interviews celebrating strong female characters and feminism in young adult literature.
• Echidne of the Snakes has a fantastic post about the psuedo-science of gender difference studies.

The Weekly for 12 December 2008

• RIP Bettie Page. The iconic pinup died yesterday at age 85.
• At Teen Skepchick, Vy takes on Miss Bimbo.
• From Popmatters: best albums of 2008 from women over 45.
• Lost daughters - an ongoing tragedy in Nepal: "Current numbers for girls trafficked out of the country are now 10,000 to 15,000 yearly."
• Brody Dalle, formerly of the Distillers, is back with a new band, Spinnerette.
• What Don Draper would do with an alien menace.
• Announcing the early films of Howard Hawks blog-a-thon to be held in January.

The Weekly for 5 December

• If you haven't seen the new Criterion website yet, I highly recommend doing so. Lovely design, great films viewable online, and a really neat social networking site for cinephiles, The Auteurs.
• io9 rounds up gifts for geek causes.
• Designers and developers: why can't we all just get along?
• Patti Smith's favorite books. (Via Tomorrow Musuem.)
• The Guardian asks where did all the great punk movies go?
• Jenny McCarthy causes autism.
• Canton/Akron folks who are into storytelling and video: check out Reelate, a collaborative storytelling project.
• OMG! Hide the children! Teh gayz are coming to your town!
• And, in case you missed it - Prop 8: The Musical.

The Weekly for 21 November

• In response to Spike's 10 most overrated directors list - Not that I generally expect nuanced film opinions from Spike, but Film School Rejects sends them up nicely.
• From a new study - casual internet use is good for kids: "The ways young people use the internet everyday are transforming learning in ways that adults often fail to understand..."
• 40 exquisite independent film posters.
• The IT Crowd season three - starts today, Friday!
• Looking back on MST3K: "'ALL along,' Joel Hodgson said, 'I had a real healthy disrespect for Hollywood.'"
• Why male circumcision and female genital mutilation are not morally equivalent.

The Weekly Special Catch-up Extravaganza

• From Hell Yeah Dude: Don’t smother inspiration by not expanding to other mediums.
• Vote for the Science Fiction B-Movie Hall of Fame!
• Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner defends the show's anachronisms.
• GalleyCat wonders why women don't write "big-idea" books. Big-idea book writer (and woman) Virginia Postrel responds.
• Remembering Katharine Hepburn: "Kate was my godmother, and the Kate I knew and loved paid scant lip service to self-analysis. Her thinking was much too selfless, clear, level-headed and straightforward to waste precious time pondering the 'what-ifs' of the world. She was singularly unimpressed by our modern obsession with self-importance."
• Amy Hoy dissects the "where are the women in programming" question.
• In the face of the trend of pharmacies refusing to do their jobs and keeping legal contraception from customers, the ACLU has a handy guide of what to do if faced with a refusal at pharmacy. Pass it on.
• 10 ways to avoid hipster baby names.
• I'm on record with the opinion that we should just let all the sleeping, incoherent bits of the Beat generation's unpublished writing lie - however, here's the "new" book by Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs.
• Having said that, I also just read John Leland's recent book Why Kerouac Matters, and it is excellent.

A new design is in the works, along with a return to more regular and extensive blogging. Just so you know.

The Weekly for 17 October

• Columbus Alive profiles the designers of Columbus, OH's burgeoning fashion scene, including our two season 5 Project Runway alums.
• If you've been around here for a little while, you might know that the intersection between art and science is a particularly favorite topic of mine. Laura without Labels has also just taken it up.
• Amanda Marcotte talks about Springsteen populism.
• 50 beautiful movie posters.
• Hail Fredonia! - Anne Thompson looks at Hollywood depression economics, including the Marx Brothers' Duck Soup.
• Stephen Fry in America.
• I am inordinately excited about the prospect of Muppet noir.
• DigitalLabz included me on a list of 100 designers to follow on Twitter. Thanks!

The Weekly for 10 October

• Washington City Paper has declared content bankruptcy. (Hat tip: Maura.)
• Slow fashion: "Much as local and organic eating is only beginning to shake off the stigma of yuppie luxury and become a slowly-growing cultural norm, so too must clothing with a provenance."
• The Zen of punk rock: a primer from NPR.
• Jamelah describes why Gmail's new Mail Goggles are a much-needed service.
• The ten worst directors in Hollywood.
• Advergirl looks at some of the best Columbus creative spaces.
• A resource on how to get independent healthcare for writers, artists and filmmakers.
• Mad Men's Font Problems. Does noticing anachronistic fonts and props impact enjoyment of the show? Not really. It's just a fun game to play on the side.
• Top ten other catastrophes that fundamentalists blame on gay people.

The Weekly for 3 October

• Sometimes, Jezebel annoys me. Sometimes, though, they get it exactly right.
• Bill Maher tore it up at the Daily Show this past week. Hopefully, I'll see and report on Religulous soon.
• 26 actors who deserve better careers.
• Dear Old Love: "When I see you, what I really want to ask about is your vagina. It'd be in same spirit as inquiring about a beloved dog. 'How is the vagina? What's it up to? Any adorable mischief lately? Please pass along my best!'"
• The Mid-Ohio Comic Con released their first ever indie film festival schedule. The Con takes place this weekend.
• John Waters and Bruce Springsteen are both going to be in Columbus this Saturday. Not at the same event, though. That would just be weird.

The Weekly 25 September

• This is how I roll - super blogger Pamie talks about becoming a derby girl.
• Interesting: Young people who use landlines are more conservative than those who use mobile phones.
• Need relationship advice? Obviously, you need to talk with John Hodgman. (Hat tip: Daily Bedpost.)
• The Girl's Guide to Being a Noir Heroine.
• Pointed out by Coudal, a BBC documentary on The Third Man.
• Speaking of which, the Noir of the Week last week also covered The Third Man.
• In praise of Carrie Fisher. Word.

The Weekly for 19 September

• In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, Pink Raygun lists the Top 10 Geeky Hispanic Characters.
• I have a bad feeling about this: Artemis Fowl scribe to write 6th Hitchhiker's Guide book.
• I wonder when folks are going to realize that the "OMG! the ladies play video games?!" tale has been told a few times before.
• Here's a love fest for black and white film* ...
• ... and here's a call for some new silent films, which I think is an idea worth exploring.
• The Sixth Annual Akron Independent Film Festival is now accepting submissions.

The Weekly for 12 September

• Maurice Sendak hates God, Salman Rushdie, and cloying cartoons, not necessarily in that order. (Hat tip: Bookninja.)
• Is there a future for indie film?
• A defense of adverbs. (Hat tip: Alas, a blog.)
• Author Mike Heppner is publishing four novellas in different formats: the second as a super-small press product, and the fourth as a free digital download. One and three TBD.
• There's a film about the Eliot Ness and the Cleveland Torso Murders in the works, with Matt Damon signed on as Ness, and, more importantly, David Fincher signed on to direct. Since I'm a bit of true crime geek, and from NE Ohio, the Torso Murders are a topic I know far too much about, and am curious to see how Fincher spins this similarly unsolved case differently than the Zodiac.
• Ridiculous design rules: not all ridiculous, but a caution to never follow any rule off of a cliff is generally a good thing.

The Weekly for 5 September

• Pixar director Andrew Stanton visits NPR. I hope he continues to be recognized as a good director, and not just a good "cartoon" director, because, like Brad Bird (or Chuck Jones), he is.
• A Point-by-Point Evaluation of My Build-A-Bear Workshop Experience.
• For those of us who still nostalgically fetishize the word "alternative" when it comes to music - a pretty great 90's downloadable mixtape. (Hat tip: IFC's Indie Ear.)
• Hollywood's 5 Saddest Attempts at Feminism.
• Bruce Campbell is personally bringing his new movie, My Name is Bruce, to the country. And he's scheduled to hit Columbus.

The Weekly for 28 August 2008

• 17 simple rules for going to the cinema with me. If you go to the movie theater and see this printed out and plastered all over the place, uh, it wasn't me.
• A new Red Dwarf special? Yes, please!
• Target settles the lawsuit over their site not being blind-accessible. The end to a long saga that never should have happened in the first place.
• Good Magazine traces famous world trips, "from Magellan to Kerouac."
• The Movies about Movies Blog-a-thon was a rousing success. Some great pieces there.

The Weekly for 22 August

• Creatives in the wild: ten personality traits of a creative person. Hat tip to Dissociated.
• Disney princesses of Sin City.
• Photoshop and Save for Web issues: if this drives you crazy too, September Third has some thoughts and suggestions.
• John Oliver's Literature Rodeo.
• Two members of my new rock 'n' roll crush, the Hold Steady, popped up on The Sound of Young America.
• Call for submissions for September Scientae, the blog carnival for women in science, technology, engineering and math.

The Weekly for 15 August

• I keep holding out hope that new Star Wars offerings are going to at least be okay, if not a bit of return to former glory. But the evidence keeps piling up against it.
• "Theirs was a New York love, a checkered taxi ride burning rubber, and like the city their passion was open 24/7, steam rising from their bodies like slick streets exhaling warm, moist, white breath through manhole covers stamped "Forged by DeLaney Bros., Piscataway, N.J." The 2008 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Award winners are out.
• Some horrible examples of global blogger imprisonment. To make horrible light of the subject, I only support repercussions for bloggers when they post regular pictures of their lunches.
• Cinematical's Geek Beat looks at the summer's movie heroines (or lack thereof).
• How to stop being a lazy designer.

The Weekly for 8 August

• Manic Pixie Dream Girls are the scourge of modern cinema. I think this is one of my favorite articles of the entire year.
• Rethinking cookie cutter websites: "Really nothing we do is original or new. We’re always riffing off of each other. When somebody does something which is NOT copying and adapting from others, then things don’t work."
• 15 geek novels to read before you die.
• There seems to be some debate about whether or not this film is truly in the public domain, but, regardless, the very wonderful Tod Browning horror classic Freaks is available to watch online. Watch it now in case they take it down soon - it's completely worth it.
• Pointed out by Coudal Parnters: a list of the worst films ever.
• Spyjournal posted a survey from me as a Geek Girl Blogger.

The Weekly for 1 August

• New study: women outnumber men on social networks.
• Director's follow-up to Helvetica will be Objectified, which explores industrial design. Nice little blog design too, eh?
• The top ten most ridiculous undergarments worn by women in video games. (Via Rayna.)
• There was a reunion of sorts at Comic-Con with the entire cast of Mystery Science Theater 3000. Film School Rejects talked to Joel and Jim about the show's past, future, and related projects.
• I Rock Cleveland has a fantastically-thorough video rundown of songs sampling the Clash, with some pure Clash tracks thrown in for good measure.
• Freakazoid out on DVD - I don't agree with Doctorow that this was that great of a cartoon, but I did love it.

The Weekly for 24 July

• Social stigma makes more women than men regret their tattoos.
• Are you as sick as I am of hearing about how the internet and technology is making all us young'uns dumb? Alan Reiter is.
• Yesterday, July 24, was Raymond Chandler's birthday.
• You must Flickr every meal: Baby's First Internet.
• Where are the women in programming? .51 points out a lengthy, if seemingly underpublicized, list.
• I watch very little TV, and even fewer brand-new shows. So it's pretty momentous that I'm waiting anxiously for the second season premiere of Mad Men this Sunday night. Even though it's on too late for me and I'll probably just get it online the next day.

The Weekly for 18 July

• I love Tilda Swinton for many reasons, and the fact that she just founded a film festival that charges baked goods as admission and asks guests to sit on beanbags during the films is just one more reason to add to the list.
• Retro Wall-E Prints - I missed a small chunk of this movie due to a certain toddler jumping from seat to seat, but what I saw was magnificent.
• Jane Austen and Boredom - Just to clarify, this is a paper about boredom in the works of Austen, not possible boredom caused by Austen's novels. Also to clarify, I am not bored by Austen in the slightest, but I would like to distance myself from the type of Austen fan that generally sees no farther than Colin Firth.
• Ten Best Neo-Noir Films, from AMC.
• Pamie's 'Open Letter to My Cat' - "Are we currently starring in some kind of romantic comedy together?"
• Drive-In Movies: A Primer. From GreenCine.

The Weekly for 13 June

• IFC rounds up the 50 worst sex scenes.
• A very good article about single motherhood and coparenting.
• Jello Biafra and the politics of punk: "But that [his anarchic stance] doesn’t automatically mean that I'm filled with naïve hope for our future ... I figure every available tool should be used relentlessly to fight the powers that be."
• 100 Movies in 100 Days - I've definitely added a few more cult films to my must-see list after reading through this. (Thanks to Coudal.)
• Start Here journals - lovely little notebooks to which you can easily add pages. (Hat tip: Good Magazine.)
• For the locals: PodCamp Ohio is looking for volunteers; plus, Columbus Startup Weekend is looking for some more good women participants - register here.

The Weekly for 6 June

• Audrey Hopkins, the first transgendered employee to be hired into Eaton Corp.'s IT department, discusses her experiences. (Via Think Girl.)
• Eco-fashion label releases designs under Creative Commons.
• Graphic Leftovers - a site for reselling unused logos and graphics. Looks to be handy.
• Dial S&M for Marnie. Lauren Wissot unpacks the Hitchcock thriller as a piece of erotic art. She has this dead on. Marnie has always been one of my favorites.
• Things Universal lost in the fire.
• Violet Blue collects some great moments in fake sex news.

The Weekly for 30 May

• The Guardian looks at the advertising world then and now, through the lens of Mad Men.
• Lucrative salaries in the trades are opening up a new array of jobs for women.
• Five members of 1st Inclusive Women Expedition scale Mt Everest.
• Possible remake of Ed Wood's Plan 9 from Outer Space. Oh noes - what if they ruin it!?
• Wow, Karina Longworth and Jeff Wells hate Sex and the City even more than I do.

The Weekly for 23 May

• Why Graphic Designers Don't Get Tattoos. Except for the ones that do. I'm only partially a "graphic designer," but I do admit I'm particular about my body modifications when it comes to things like symmetry and that. Designer instinct or mild OCD? You decide.
• Us MSTies mourned last week for John Phillip Law. If you don't remember him from Space Mutiny or Danger: Diabolik, maybe Barbarella will do the trick.
• Exene Cervenka interview in Columbus Alive.
• The now-defunct Ohio band Miranda Sound releases their last album as a free .MP3 download.
• Are you an anti-authoritarian in MN? Maybe you might want to join the "welcoming" committee for the RNC.
• "Thousands of discarded computers from western Europe and the US arrive in the ports of west Africa every day, ending up in massive toxic dumps where children burn and pull them apart to extract metals for cash." Make sure to find computer recyclers you can trust.

The Weekly for 16 May

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The Weekly for 9 May

• Help Me Obi Mom: Five Ways to Grow a Fan Girl/Boy, from Pink Raygun.
• Shalom Auslander lifts a glass to (good) anger and reminds us that all capital-L Love gave us was Celine Dion.
• Why Chipotle Insists on Humanely Raised Meat. Well, excepting their beef - but, still, step in the right direction. I'm slowly making the switch to eating only meat from local, ethical farms and eating vegetarian when I can't verify where the meat comes from, but it is not that easy, especially when I'm simultaneously trying to put on extra weight. Also, the first Skepchick Chat (which I was unfortunately not able to attend) covers some of the same ground.
• Columbus's The Other Paper looks at Columbus bloggers and new media folk. Frankly, the author's tone seems a little condescending to me, but I'm just a blogger - what do I know about what "real people" think.
• 15 great examples of web typography.
• A 1958 audio interview with Dorothy Parker.

The Weekly for 2 May

• Who do you trust more: corporations or government? Tiffany B. Brown raises the point that the Net Neutrality debate is not necessarily as simple as many on the internet seem to think it is.
• In case you've been following the case of Hans Reiser, he was convicted on Monday of his wife's murder.
• The decline and fall of quality on Digg.
• The Digg clone for girls, Sk*rt, is changing its name.
• Celebrating Lou Reed's Berlin.
• Bruce Campbell's My Name Is Bruce: on track (finally) for October.

The Weekly for 25 April

• Gordon Lee, the comic book store owner arrested after a minor received an "objectionable" Free Comic Book Day comic book in his store, has had the charges against him completely dismissed. Good news indeed.
• What a lovely way to burn. An appreciation of Raymond Chandler.
• Ugh. They're still pushing forward with that film version of Atlas Shrugged with Angelina Jolie. Todd Seavey looks at the bright side.
• 5 Principles And Ideas Of Setting Type On The Web. Smashing Magazine presents a handy guide.
• Magicians and the Paranormal: A survey by Professor Richard Wiseman (who also wrote Quirkology) is the first regular guest post over at Skepchick.
• The Internet work how they're supposed to - Liz Henry discusses the recent kerfluffle of the Open Source Boob Project, and how the feminist blogosphere countered it.

The Weekly for 18 April

• The Feminist SF - The Blog talks about gender and science fiction publications.
• One of the last original Walt Disney animators, Ollie Johnston, passed away at age 93
• Shock jocks suspended over slur against Alaska Native women. Making sexually inappropriate jokes is always especially funny when the ethnic group of women targeted in the joke has the highest instances of rape and sexual assault in the entire US.
• Can the French really ban pro-thin websites? A look at the politics and ideas behind squashing pro-anorexia websites.
• Why Superman will always suck. I'm so geared up for all the Batman happenings this summer. Seen the Gotham Knight trailer yet? Awesome.
• Evidently, Spielberg thinks Cate Blanchett made her character the best Indiana Jones villian ever. My geek is showing when it comes to this summer's movies, isn't it.

The Weekly for 11 April

• Is designing better on a Mac or PC? Designers, for a good reason, usually gravitate towards pretty Macs. But, in the end, it's just a tool, and it only works as well as you make it work. If a PC suits you, run with it. (Via David Airey.)
• Why dyslexics are good computer programmers. I'm not dyslexic (or a good computer programmer - maybe there's a connection?), but as someone interested in both language and computers, this is fascinating.
• A group of leading skeptics are putting together a TV pilot a la Mythbusters: The Skeptologists!
• Girl Power? A retrospective, feminist look at the Spice Girls.
• Since I mentioned Kim Peirce's new Iraq War film Stop/Loss, here's the Women and Hollywood blog's take on it. (Word on the internets is that the film's not that great.)
• A statistical analysis of Star Trek red-shirt deaths. This might be the geekiest thing I've ever seen. And that covers a lot of ground.

The Weekly for 4 April

• Dr. Seuss kindly requests - in verse, of course - that Hollywood knock it off with the movie adaptations already.
• Margaret Atwood shows some love for Anne of Green Gables. Side note: as much as I love Anne, I found as I grew older the Emily books richer, and they remain my favorites. Check them out if you haven't.
• The Hermione Granger in me has to give props to this smart fifth-grader who found a mistake in a Smithsonian display. Oh, and his name is Kenton Stufflebeam. So fantastic. (Via The Park Bench.)
• Filmmaker Ladd Ehlinger Jr. kicks off a series of articles on film for GreenCine with a thoughtful look at Orson Welles and the monolith that is Citizen Kane.
• Also at GreenCine: an interview with one of the directors of Girls Rock!.
• Women serving in the U.S. military are more likely to be raped by a fellow soldier than killed by enemy fire in Iraq. No comment on that one.

The Weekly for 28 March

• Annalee Newitz checks in on the Twitter color wars. Right on.
• Save the Developers. Won't you, please? Please?
• A new British Film Noir Guide covers that particular portion of the genre.
• The industrial wedding complex marches on. Remember to resist the princesses.
• And - Stuff Dead People Like.

The Weekly for 21 March

• One of my favorite people in the universe, Ricky Gervais, is now blogging the production of his directorial debut, which also features John Hodgman and Tina Fey.
• Nicky Crane and the Skinhead Closet. An interesting article about the intersections of skinhead, oi, and gay subcultures.
• "Kelis Rogers: Magnetism against the Lactic Euphemism." Nikolay Saveliev's PopMatters, faux-academic makeovers of pop music. (Via ISO50.)
• Legal battles between Beatrice Welles and Turner Entertainment are apparently holding up the DVD releases of classic Orson Welles films, which is why the only way you can get a copy of one of the best films ever made, The Magnificent Ambersons, is to buy it on VHS. Swell.
• We Make Money Not Art profiles the life and work of the Billboard Liberation Front.

The Weekly for 14 March

• DevChix posts a long, lovely biography of female computing pioneer Lady Ada of Lovelace.
• The Independent Film Channel website has relaunched, and, in addition to a new incarnation of their film blog, has created blogs for music and politics.
• A dazzling gallery of vintage horror movie posters, via Coudal Partners.
• Speaking of IFC film blog, there writer Alison Willmore pointed out this Radar piece about recent years of movie misogyny, No Country for Fat Chicks.
• The MPAA now pays off people to snitch on others recording films in the theater. They're also luring kids away from a life of piracy with cute puppy dogs. Yeah, that'll solve movie piracy, for sure.

The Weekly for 7 March

• Girls and Legos - The CEO of Lego claims girls aren't into Legos as much as boys because boys are "genetically" predisposed to building things. Does that mean all those hours I spent building intricate Lego worlds (seriously, I did it well into high school, and they were awesome) marks me as genetically aberrant?
• New Book from Jack Kerouac - This is unnecessary. I will always have a sincere, romantic fixation on his work, but there has been so much of his stream-of-consciousness crap published since his death that I have a hard time believing this book will be at all worthwhile, even with Burroughs's contributions.
• NASA Needs To Be Cooler - Very well put. Part of modernizing their image needs to be encouraging more participation from women and minorities (get Uhura back on the job!). It makes me sad that such an exiting field is losing its luster.
• The Man She Forgot to Google! - Priceless.
• Oh, and In Case You Missed It ... - Neil Gaiman is now offering a free digital copy of his novel American Gods, a very great book, and it has also opened up some good discussions about free digital content on his blog.
• And in Related News ... - Trent Reznor released his new album with various download options, including some free, and made $750k in less than a week. Anyone from the record industry listening?