I love the Muppets and -- obviously -- I love Doctor Who. But this is just odd:

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Be Careful How You Rom-Com...

I think the only good sex advice I ever read in a “woman’s” magazine -- it was probably Cosmo or Glamour, and I would certainly have been reading it out of desperation in a doctor’s waiting room or something, because, if you’re a born reader, you have to be reading all the time, even if it’s just a cereal box or an idiotic magazine... Anyway, the advice: Be careful whom you sleep with, because you might end up bonded to someone you don’t even like.

Now, it’s not that Drew Barrymore’s Erin doesn’t like Justin Long’s Garrett, but what she intends to be a brief fling -- because she’s leaving town to move across the country in six weeks -- ends up developing into something more. And now they’re both stuck bonded to someone on the other side of the country. Which is a tough thing when you’re a healthy young person, and horny, but interested only in indulging that horniness with one special person.

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Take a break from work: watch a trailer...

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USA Today issued its Summer Movie Report Card this week, and the overall outlook isn’t great, no matter how sweetly the paper tries to spin it:

No one is sorrier to see summer draw to a close than Hollywood. After stumbling out of the gates early on, the film industry righted itself with a string of unexpected hits like Inception, The Last Airbender and The Expendables. Ticket sales heading into the Labor Day weekend are 4% ahead of last year's pace, reports Hollywood.com. Sure, attendance is down 2% from 2009. But in this economy, movie executives are beggars, not choosers. Still, there were a few hiccups in what was otherwise a healthy summer, including flops from Tom Cruise and young superheroes.

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The lack of much posting today is because I was pulling my hair out over some behind-the-scenes tweaking. Two things drove me crazy for much of the day: implementing a way for you to edit comments for a short while after you post them, and implementing a way to highlight the comments of subscribers. But either I don’t know what the hell I’m doing or there are bugs in the plugins I was trying to use -- probably some of both -- and I ran up against a wall with both of them. I’ve got requests out for assistance from people who might know how to help me, and hopefully that’ll pan out and I can finish up those tweaks.

But in case any of you understand this crap, I’m trying to get Arvind Satyanarayan’s Comment Email Filter 1.11 and Mark Jaquith’s Tempus Fugit (which isn’t actually a plugin but a PHP script) working on Movable Type 3.36. If that means anything to you, gimme a shout.

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If Davros worked for Chevrolet, perhaps:

(via Totally Looks Like)

(If you stumble across a cool Doctor Who thing, feel free to email me with a link.)

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LATER: It's so much fun to spend frakkin' hours on what is supposed to be a simple plugin that's fully compatible with this version of Movable Type, and it simply will not work.

So much fun.

Remember a while back, we talked about David Tennant signing on to the remake of 80s favorite Fright Night, as magician Peter Vincent? Now we know what he’s going to look like:

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Yesterday afternoon, James Lee picked up a gun, strapped some pipe bombs to his body, and took hostages at the Washington DC-area headquarters of the Discovery Channel. The situation ended a few hours later when Lee was shot to death by police.

According to the Village Voice blog Runnin’ Scared, Lee had a history of protesting the programming on the Discovery Channel, and noted that DCist had highlighted some of Lee’s protests in 2008. DCist asked:

Anyone who seriously ponders questions about the Discovery Channel like, "If their ‘environmental’ shows are actually working, then why is the news about the environment getting worse?" is just asking for a good mocking.

But Lee’s question seems like a pretty good one, actually. Here’s what Lee actually wrote in an attempt to gather participants for a week-long protest in 2008 outside the very same building where he died yesterday:

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