- The noosphere grows a lot more self-aware with the advent of IM/SMS nanoblogging site Twitter. Make an account, hook up your phone and/or chat client, and send 140-character updates to your friends. Resistance is futile — and no fun. For the bar-hopping crowd, there’s Dodgeball.
- The 300 debate rages on: roundups at GreenCineDaily and IFC Blog. It’s all fine and dandy, but I’m shocked that The Host, which opened on the same day, isn’t doing any better at the specialty box office.
- “Pay Attention to the World” A previously unpublished essay by Susan Sontag about the place of the novel in the age of mass media (but before Twitter.)
- Brand-spanking-new: the Mississippi Review & Center for Writers blog
- Short movies: “Two Solutions for One Problem” by Iranian maestro Abbas Kiarostami [via girish] and “My Name is Oona” by Gunvor Grundel Nelson [via Bright Lights Film Journal].
- I won’t blog about every episode, but Prime Suspect just keeps getting better.
- Photo site Flickr added “collections,” aka sets of sets. Here are mine.
- More from Dan: a Bill Laswell mix.
- Finally, muppets and midgets (thanks, Doug!), including this Herzog classic:
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