Links posted on June 27, 2006
Deconstructing Astronomy's Holy Grail (PDF), in which the Annals of Improbable Research attempts to find out how and/or why several astronomy articles and papers per year suggest that their particular problem is the "Holy Grail" of astronomy.
Kevin Smith's Clerks 2 "drops" on July 21st and the trailers are already online. You're probably right to be suspicious about whether he's just returning to the well for a quick cash-in especially considering that he promised to retire Jay and Silent Bob after the last movie. On the other hand, Harvey Weinstein thinks the Kansas City test screening numbers are through the roof (and KC isn't supposed to even be the "target audience"). If you feel like giving View Askew twice as much money this summer, download the director commentary track from iTunes and take your iPod with you to the theater.
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List of Problems Solved by MacGyver: major contributions from Patty and Selma Bouvier.