MICHAEL GOODWIN: Is the 'Obama Family' Going to the Mattresses?Source: FOXNews.com
excerpt: "" When a President is determined to squander an irreplaceable mandate of public trust, as Obama apparently is, even his friends aren't safe.
We could call it doubling down on a mistake. Or drawing a partisan line in the sand.
'The Godfather,' at Its GreatestSource: The Washington Post
Sounds like THIS is the one to own. Until holograms, or virtual reality, or some such @!$%# comes out in five years.
There Should NOT Be a Dark Knight SequelSource: ropeofsilicon.com
The Dark Knight worked on so many levels as it easily moved from Batman Begins and into the Joker's narrative. It was as if the two films were made as one and like Empire Strikes Back and The Godfather Part II, The Dark Knight became a better film than its predecessor.
When the 'wisdom of crowds' turns on itself: IMDB edition Source: CNET.com
The concept of the "wisdom of crowds" is a fundamental building block of a lot of the Web 2.0 services that we see today. While not all of them are built on this core concept, major sites like Digg, Wikipedia, and Mahalo rely heavily on crowds being wise.
Simon Michael Bessie, a Publisher of Major Literary Figures, Dies at 92Source: The New York Times
Simon Michael Bessie, who in 1959 left a top editorial position at what was then called Harper & Brothers to help found Atheneum Publishers, perhaps the last major literary house to be started from scratch in the 20th century, died on Monday at his home in Lyme, Conn. He was 92.
The Top Ten Most Misunderstood Movies Ever MadeSource:
We're not talking about abstract, BS French art films or something. We're talking Pulp Fiction, The Godfather, Scarface. The kind of movies that you assume you understand on a thematic level, but you really don't.