The Towers live on ... in movies & television, that is (Jim Hill Media)
A small collection of pre-9/11 film and TV imagery of the World Trade Center.

I get why this would make people sad, but I also feel that the larger view is that Bad Shit Happens And Time Forgets. We no longer feel much of anything about the Battle of Gettysburg (in fact, there's a national holiday of celebration in there), and a hell of a lot more people died there... and that event was far more impactful on American history than 9/11, the Oklahoma City bombing, Columbine, the Challenger Disaster and whatever else has happened in the past decades. Shit, when was the last time the nation truly mourned in unison on December 7th? ...Probably the last time the anniversary of the Day That Will Live In Infamy ended in a nice, divisible-by-ten number... which just proves how cloying and opportunistic we get about these things.

Microsoft announcement: No more Seinfeld ads! (Valleywag)
So after approximately what, one week? of running those Bill Gates / Jerry Seinfeld commercials (which said nothing and were not funny), Microsoft is running away from them? Does anybody else flare up, be awful, and then explode as fast or as impressively as Microsoft?

Exclusive Shards Of Alara Spoiler Cards! (Gay Gamer.net)
Preview cards from an upcoming Magic expansion. Not that I've played Magic in the last ten years, but two of those cards - Skeletonize (stupid name!) and Goblin Assault - are really, really cool and right up my token-loving alley.

No, YOU pick it up. (It's Lovely! I'll Take It!)
I can't believe I haven't been linking to this weblog more, because it is always great. It's actual awful photos from stupid people's online real estate listings, roundly mocked with snarky commentary. Put it in your weekly travels.

Fox, Foxworthy set to get animated (Variety)
An animated comedy about a NASCAR family starring Jeff Foxworthy. Hasn't that whole fictional blue-collar redneck amusements fad died off yet?

Something that does not amuse me: Talk Like a Pirate Day (Twitter)
It took my idiot friends less than three minutes to comment on this (within Facebook) with stupid fucking pirate talk. I don't even know half the people I've friended.

By the way, the new Twitter single-status Tweet page layout sucks.