12/26: Morning Communique

CITY PAGES BLOGS

Steve Monaco has your Monday Movie Quiz at Couch Pundit.

THESE DAYS

The first evidence that some of the basic organic building blocks of life can exist in an Earth-like orbit around a young Sun-like star has been provided by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.

Internet guru Jakob Nielsen discusses the future of the now one-billion strong internet.

MINNESOTA BLOG OF THE DAY

Minneapolitan John Andreini is a senior copywriter who's posted his predictions for 2006 at That's Going Too Far!

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TIME WASTERS

St. Petersburg Times A&E writer Rick Gershman's Top 10 Worst Films of the Year

Activate the ultimate polypsychotronic transdimensional superhero identity calculator to find the super hero inside you. BTW, I'm really Demon Wolf and I have invisible hands.

FREEDOM OF SPEECH

"The girls we spoke to see Barbie torture as a legitimate play activity, and see the torture as a 'cool' activity."

-- University of Bath researcher Agnes Nairn, who interviewed children as part of a branding study and found them to be fans of the vice president