43 Folders has some tips on concentration while studying.

Did I loan you the DVD of They Live? I can’t find it anywhere!

Arianna Huffington’s new site has a bunch of people I admire (and another several I have no particular feelings about) writing about things that matter to them, frequently with humor.

I can’t decide whether the problem with this logo is a figure-ground issue or something else. If I try hard, I can see it as the designer probably intended, but the initial impression is very penetrating.
Update: crap, the page has been pulled. I’m sure someone has a copy somewhere, but my cache no longer seems to have it.
More update: Ah, BoingBoing has come through

A brown-skinned genius uses stereotypes to ease his passage through airports. I haven’t gotten to listen to the full story yet, but your assignment is to brainstorm other disambiguating (rightly or wrongly) cultural accessories that might help you through airports.

I have frequently wished for good writers to rewrite movies with good premises but bad execution. At last, here’s a taste:
Line from Revenge of the Sith: “I don’t like sand. It’s coarse and rough and irritating, and it gets everywhere. Not like here. Here everything’s soft… and [touching her skin] smooth…”
Line as rewritten by James Lileks: “I hate sand. I was born on a planet of sand. It got in your eyes and your food and your clothes. It stank with whomprat piss. It was in your shoes when you woke in the morning and it was in your sheets when you went to bed at night. You grew up a slave, you grew up in a world of sand.”

The Phantom Edit was good, but needed to be even more invasive. Will someone please make these movies good? Maybe as a silent movie: put music over the awful dialogue and put some good dialogue up on cards?

Take a gander at a repro Levittown kitchen and maybe you’ll spot my penguin-theme ice bucket. Well, Mine doesn’t have the original nice lid.

If you’d like a taste of being an audiobook reader without having to move to New York, maybe you’d like to volunteer at the Washington Talking Book and Braille Library. Sure, you might end up reading the grocery ads, but they’ll be the best-read grocery ads ever.

The "Family Research Council," a religious political extremist outfit, now believes that the minority’s right to filibuster presidential nominees should be removed. Seven years ago, the mouth was on the other foot.
If you’re feeling strong, and your blood pressure isn’t susceptible to dangerous increases, I heartily encourage you to check out more of Media Matters for America.

Did you know that the military has professional reading lists? The Army one was the first I found, and looks quite interesting. The Air Force one looks a bit slimmer, however.