Every week my browser gets cluttered up with tabs for stuff that I stumble across and figure I might be able to use as a Question of the Day or a WTF Thought for the Day or grist for some other post. And inevitably, I end the week with most of that material unused. But there’s no reason to let this stuff go to waste: I can still share it with you, for your amusement, and start the new week with a clean slate.
Herewith this week’s leftover links, in no particular order:
Martin Freeman turns down The Hobbit to stay at Holmes
2010 summer movie season sees faltering ticket sales
Apple TV isn’t 1080p and you shouldn’t care
Google to start TV service in U.S. this autumn
Nation’s Only Black Fulltime Editorial Cartoonist Is Losing His Job
William Gibson On the Future of Publishing: Made to Order Books
New plus-sized sitcom ‘Mike & Molly’ works hard to move beyond weighty issues
Gawker Media Now Bigger Than All Newspapers Online – Except One
Digital Comic Museum Is Library Of Free Comic Downloads
Can You Guess The Average Age Of A Facebook User?
A Close Look at Apple’s Latest Astonishing Twitter Takeover
Like It or Not, Twitter Has Become a News Platform
New Media Upstarts Relying on Journalism for a Change
How did all that movie talent crash?
Bruce Campbell on the horror franchise that launched his career: ‘All roads lead to “Evil Dead”‘
How Casting a Black Actor Changed ‘Night of the Living Dead’
Rachel Maddow: When You Leave the Studio ‘Your Ratings Go Down’
Stephen King exclusive: Who should star in ‘The Dark Tower’? ‘The Twilight cast, of course!’
Are zombies the new vampires in Hollywood?
Hilary Duff to star in new Spider-Man?
Ronald Reagan Biopic: Who Should Play the Gipper?
Peggy’s final farewell to Queen Vic
Tonight’s EastEnders fire: most ‘spectacular stunts’ in show’s history
Facebook Like Box Now Telling Users “F U”
The Xenophobic Right’s Weird Reaction to Hollywood Blockbuster ‘Machete’
Joaquin Phoenix’s I’m Still Here and the Rise of the Questionable Documentary
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