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She’s right, you do not talk back to Darth Vader [via Daring Fireball]

I think AO Scott nails this review in a way that can’t help but make me think of the Obama phenomenon. It’s as if Barack Obama is sweding a new generation into politics.

—quite possibly the definitive reason why the New York Times should not allow comments on their stories.

Kottke has a swell interview with “Proust was a Neuroscientist” author Jonah Lehrer

“After a few hundred pages of melodrama, I began to realize that the novelist had these very modern ideas about how our memory worked. His fiction, in other words, anticipated the very facts I was trying to uncover by studying the isolated neurons of sea

Some interesting thoughts on the “local” food movement and how it’s reported in American media

Local isn’t necessarily better nor is it necessarily more efficient, just assumed to be.

Princeton research Ed Felten freezes computer chips, reads the 1’s and 0’s

The implication being that one could retrieve encryption keys, which are normally stored in RAM and then wiped when the computer is powered down. Obviously, requires physical access to the machine.

Michel Gondry swedes the trailer to his own movie

StrawPoll is a Twitter-based polling app

From Rob Goodlatte and Dan Romero. Clever, that, even for a couple of Dookies.

Iron Chef Boyardee

Village Voice on the fakery of Iron Chef. Say it ain’t so, Chairman Kaga!

AdSense for video now in beta

Contextual, overlay ads, will also apparently work on non-Google video networks like Revver.