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As reported at iMDb’s Studio Brief:

DVD’s Are Now Rental Favorites

For the first week ever, more DVDs were rented last week (June 9-15) than VHS cassettes, the Video Software Dealers Association (VSDA) reported Thursday. According to the group’s VidTrac service, 28.2 million DVDs were rented during the week versus 27.3 videocassettes. The figures represent yet another landmark for the DVD format. In March, rentals of DVDs overtook those of VHS cassettes in gross revenue for the first time.

Have you seen Secretary yet? (No? You should. It’s a cool kinky love story.)

Yahoo/Reuters reports: “Steven Shainberg, director of indie fave Secretary, has come aboard to develop Urban Townies, a potential vehicle for “Spider-Man” star Tobey Maguire.”

Life is strange, wacky, fun, and occasionally inane. To wit:

Wax Model of Spears in UK to Get Inflatable Breasts

LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. pop star Britney Spears is to get a pair of inflatable, throbbing breasts that will pulsate in time to her dancing - at least her waxwork model will at Madame Tussauds museum in London. [more]

It’s quotes like the one at the end of this blurb that keep me reading Wired News’ Furthermore:

Wooly Bully
Ever wonder what sheep shearers do for fun? Five American shearing die-hards are headed to the World Shearing Championship in Edinburgh, Scotland — the “Olympics of the shearer’s world.” This competition isn’t for the faint of heart. Competitors must be able to shear six sheep in less than five minutes, the shearing device must stay flat on the sheep, and the animals can’t get cuts or blemishes. Still, the five Americans — from Montana, Minnesota and Pennsylvania — are vying for the top 10. “Every day, when you switch on in the morning, you know you’re trying to shear faster than the guy next to you,” said one American shearer. “The measure of a man is decided by one or two sheep.“

(Emphasis mine)

I just had a woman call me on my direct line. That’s usually a sign that it’s going to be a wrong number.

I answered with my usual spiel.

I wasn’t whom she was expecting: “Oh. Oh. Technology? Sorry, I have wrong number.”

No problem, I reply, and start to hang up.

“Wait!” she says. “Is John there?”

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This woman just called what she now KNOWS to be a wrong number, but apparently figured she’d check to see if John was here, just in case.

Hooray!

It looks like there’s going to be a Firefly movie!

Not really. It just seemed an apropos title given that this site revealed to me that my “Goth Name” is “Bloody Tears.”

What’s your Goth Name?

Warning: It’s long!

My results: 50.88757% - Super Geek

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