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National Anthems via Cat and Girl…

For example:
I-Kraine.. They Kraine… We all Kraine for Ukraine

The Speech [Neil Gaiman] Just Gave at the Nebulas
posted by Neil Gaiman 4/30/2005 11:41:00 PM
Welcome, to the Nebula Awards, on this, the 40th anniversary of the founding of the SFWA. That’s the Ruby Anniversary, for anyone wondering what sort of gift to give.

Just when [the blogger] was about to write off the Star Wars Line as so April along comes this to spark my atention again. It seems that the nerds have been imortalized at Legoland California.

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy could be turned into a movie trilogy, the film’s executive producer has told a newspaper.

Disneydirect.com: ‘’A Musical History of Disneyland'’ 50th Anniversary 6 CD Box Set
The ultimate Disneyland� CD collection is here! Relive the magical sounds of Disneyland’s past and present with 6 CDs worth of material. From Main Street to Tomorrowland, Toon Town to Fantasyland and more, Disneyland� Resort come alive rekindling your favorite memories at the Happiest Place On Earth. This set features exclusive content not available anywhere else. In addition to the 6 CDs, this box set includes:

An IRC chat with a “Hacker”

SOOOOOO worth the read Total Illusions - The Forums -> Dangerous Hacker!

This is pretty darn cool - it’s a list of “virtual” albums that consist of a retrospect of Disney(land).
Definatly something Belle would like.
I am actually linking to a mirror that gives us direct lniks to mp3, and not the streaming java crap the original (linked from the mirror) has.

Disneyland : The First 50 Years … A Retrospective

Being an Evil Overlord seems to be a good career choice. It pays well, there are all sorts of perks and you can set your own hours. However every Evil Overlord I’ve read about in books or seen in movies invariably gets overthrown and destroyed in the end. I’ve noticed that no matter whether they are barbarian lords, deranged wizards, mad scientists or alien invaders, they always seem to make the same basic mistakes every single time. With that in mind, allow me to present…

The Top 100 Things I’d Do
If I Ever Became An Evil Overlord

42. When I capture the hero, I will make sure I also get his dog, monkey, ferret, or whatever sickeningly cute little animal capable of untying ropes and filching keys happens to follow him around.

Inside the Magic - The Internet’s First Orlando-Based Disney Podcast
Welcome to Inside the Magic, the Internet’s First Orlando-based Disney Podcast! Our biweekly podcast covers anything related to Disney, from the local parks to distant lands. Please select a Podcast below to begin listening!

Entertainment Weekly’s EW.com | News: ‘’Lost'’ season finale will be three hours long

‘’The final two hours is so full of incident and character and shocks and scares and drama, all the things that people love about Lost, that it would have been silly to cut things out,'’ Javier Grillo-Marxuach, a Lost writer and supervising producer, tells Sci-Fi Wire. ‘’So we’ve got a 25-hour first season! We busted our butts on it, but it’s not going to feel like it’s been padded. We are very proud of it.'’

Grillo-Marxuach quips, “…I better start watching that show. We established Boone as Locke’s mentee for the very specific story reason of showing Locke as a character who has the capacity to attract others to his peculiar vision of the island. When the time came to test that vision, killing Locke’s newfound ’son’ figure was a natural place to go. Now Locke is going to have to deal with the consequences of following his vision and how that brings him into a mano-a-mano conflict with Jack over leadership of the island.”

The number to watch on ‘Lost’ is not 47, it’s 23,” Grillo-Marxuach says. “Oh, yeah, and we’ve got 815, but 23 is also a very important number in the mythology of ‘Lost.’”

“We try really hard not to be one of those shows that it’s like, everybody goes to high school for 11 years,” Lawrence says. “In medicine, if you try to stay true to it at all, this is the year – because of the way they progress from intern to resident, people would have to go out and get new jobs and not always at the hospital they work in.”

Clipshows for both

The “Housewives” special will look at each central character’s story to date and recap some of the central mysteries of the show, including why Mary Alice Young (Brenda Strong, who also narrates the special) killed herself and what Mike Delfino (James Denton) is really doing on Wisteria Lane. It will also offer a preview of the season finale, scheduled for May 22.

“Lost: The Journey” will focus on the back stories of the stranded plane-crash survivors, arranging their stories chronologically to give a glimpse into the events that led them onto the doomed flight. It will also explore the mysterious island that’s now their home.

Uh… I gots nothin’
In a potentially brilliant example of niche programming run amuck, noted Twisted Sister Dee Snider is set to host the hour-long special “Matzo and Metal: A Very Classic Passover.” The VH1 Classic event will concentrate on the Passover and musical memories of a group of Jewish heavy metal icons.

It’s unclear why VH1 Classic couldn’t have gotten Gene Simmons and dubbed the special “I Wanna Rock-and-Roll All Night (And Pesah Every Day).”

Simon Kinberg, who is writing the script for the upcoming third film in the X-Men franchise, confirmed to Now Playing that the story will deal with the Dark Phoenix storyline, which originally appeared in the comic book and was alluded to at the end of X2. “[Director] Bryan Singer left the groundwork in place to pursue the Dark Phoenix saga,” Kinberg told the site. “And Famke Janssen will be back in the movie.”

How freaking cool is this? An animator for Pixar, in his spare time he created a href="http://gheehappy.com/GODS%20PAGE/gods_page.htm">children’s book on the Hindu Gods, that looks awesome!
(Roll over the little boxes to see the pages)

No seriously - it’s from CNN

My beloved blue, furry monster – who sang “C is for cookie, that’s good enough for me” – is now advocating eating healthy. There’s even a new song – “A Cookie Is a Sometimes Food,” where Cookie Monster learns there are “anytime” foods and “sometimes” foods.

AnandTech - More proof that Best Buy is actually “Worst Buy": Man arrested for paying in $2 bills

“I’m just here to pay the bill,” Bolesta says he told a cashier. “She looked at the $2 bills and told me, ‘I don’t have to take these if I don’t want to.’ I said, ‘If you don’t, I’m leaving. I’ve tried to pay my bill twice. You don’t want these bills, you can sue me.’ So she took the money. Like she’s doing me a favor.”

So.. wonder what he didn’t like that caused him to quit…

David Fury, a key writer and co-executive producer of ABC’s hit series Lost, told SCI FI Wire that he will
not be returning for the just-announced second season, but will immediately begin working on two other series, The Inside and 24, and maybe develop a show on his own. The series’ writers have wrapped the first season of the hit SF drama.

Emilie de Ravin, who plays Claire on ABC’s hit series Lost, told SCI FI Wire that she doesn’t know whether her character’s new baby will turn out to be good or evil. “I guess that’s yet to be revealed, whether the baby is normal or not,” de Ravin said in an interview. “It seems normal.”