Kay Cunningham's List: Popular Culture

'"Star Trek" is full of stars. For a few seconds I turned away from the screen simply to watch its light reflected in the faces of the core believers. Half of them were literally nibbling at their fingernails.'

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Vintage images of Minneapolis. Collected by James Lileks.

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Public domain video on the internet

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"The Science Fiction Oral History Association (SFOHA) is a non-profit organization that maintains an archive of audio and video recordings of historic people and events related to science fiction and fantasy."

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Images from vintage postcards of motels; arranged by state. Collected by James Lileks.

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Images of vintage restaurants. Collected by James Lileks.

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Comics--both books and strips--and unintentional humor. Collected by James Lileks.

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By James Lileks. Humor blogs on various topics: food, chain restaurants, comics

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Comic book news and reviews

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Online comic strip

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"So I came to Zack Snyder’s Watchmen as an unabashed fangirl, positive that it wouldn’t live up to my expectations, but still thrilled to see those flat, simply colored images from the ’80s unfold on the screen in deep, rich color, full of shadows and act

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Watchmen graphic_novels movies reviews film comic_books on 2009-03-09

Watchmen movie article and links from Entertainment Weekly

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Blog on genre films, comics, graphic novels, and science fiction, from the LATimes

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Review of the 3-D children's fantasy movie, based on the book by Neil Gaiman.

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Search for movie scripts

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MARSBest Annotation: "According to the web site, "Over 7 million readers each month use RT [Rotten Tomatoes] globally as a dependable, objective resource for [opinions] of movies and DVDs.” Good films receive a "fresh" tomato rating and bad movies receive a "rotten" rating. In addition to film reviews, there is entertainment news, links to celebrity information, and the Weekly Ketchup (a newsy Web column). The site is easy to search and includes well-placed navigation aids, making it an excellent companion to the Internet Movie Database (IMDB.com)."
Author/Publisher: IGN Entertainment, Inc
Free/Fee-based: Free
Reviewed: 2/16/08 Revised: 4/16/08

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Cast lists, production information, trailers

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"So Bertoni began looking for patterns that would predict customer behavior — specifically, an algorithm that would guess correctly the number of stars a given user would apply to a given movie."

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