• An Ulti­mately neg­a­tive (but insight­fully so) piece on Watch­men, gleaned from its Wikipedia entry: “Fight­ing Evil, Quot­ing Niet­zsche: Did the comic book really need to grow up?” by Tom Shone.
• Quinn: a really fun and really free Tetris falling blocks game for the Mac.
• Serve with Chips has loads of scoops on the upcom­ing Trans­form­ers fea­ture film: Bum­ble­bee is no longer a VW Bee­tle! Bum­mer! Megatron’s face looks like the Sar­laac Pit, and Opti­mus Prime is seri­ously blinged out.
• The Bea­t­les are suing their label EMI for non­pay­ment of $57 mil­lion in roy­al­ties, and are seek­ing the return of their mas­ter record­ings. Of course, The Bea­t­les are already bazil­lion­aires, but on the other hand, being in that posi­tion gives them the abil­ity to do the right thing: tak­ing on a mega­cor­po­ra­tion to pro­tect the rights of artists.
• The new Spi­ral­Frog online music ser­vice (backed by Uni­ver­sal and EMI) is just… crazy. Who in their right mind would lis­ten to 90 sec­onds of adver­tis­ing before each song, and visit the site monthly? That’s worse than com­mer­cial radio. Free is not cheap enough. (note: the “90-second” sta­tis­tic comes from BigO, but I can’t find con­fir­ma­tion elsewhere)
• Super­group Asia prog-rockin’ it like it’s 1981, with an offi­cial web­site design like it’s 1996! Holy Christ those guys are ugly. Sorry, that was a cheap shot.
• Fonts for Flash relaunches with a much nar­rower design. One lit­tle detail I don’t recall ever see­ing in a Flash site before: vis­ited link colors.
• This is seri­ously one of the dorki­est things I have ever seen: Minia­ture, self-contained, work­ing Atari game key­chains.
• I want to move to Nor­way. The Oslo Con­tem­po­rary Art Museum dumped three tons of LEGOs out­doors for peo­ple to build what­ever they wanted for a future exhibit.

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