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Bird on a Wire ran a contest to see who could predict the National Film Registry’s 25 picks this year and I won with these submissions:

1. The Thin Blue Line
2. Jaws
3. Hairspray
4. McCabe and Mrs. Miller
5. Apocalypse Now
6. A Hard Day’s Night
7. Doctor Zhivago
8. A Clockwork Orange
9. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
10. From Here to Eternity
11. Amadeus
12. The Sound of Music
13. The Third Man
14. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
15. Network
16. The French Connection
17. Wuthering Heights
18. Dances With Wolves
19. Rocky
20. Platoon
21. Mutiny on the Bounty
22. Goodfellas
23. Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
24. Aliens
25. Lost Horizon

Unfortunately, I only got three right: Apocalypse Now, Network, and Goodfellas. Here’s the whole list.

A new feature: daily pictures. Every day that I remember to upload one, a thumbnail will appear on the left. Hopefully this will encourage me to take more pictures. Today: an evening view of Buzzard’s Bay from Joe’s patio.

Unlike every other blogger, once I see it I will not tell you to go see Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. I know you already want to see it and will go the first chance you get. Therefore, I will not torture you with stories about how good it is.

Filming on Lord of the Rings wraps. $120 million over budget? Trailer before Thirteen Days.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer finally nominated for some sort of award. (Sarah Michelle Gellar for a Golden Globe)

Linux companies beat Microsoft in Itanium support.

Linux has a lead over Windows because its collaborative programming model is open to anyone and is more flexible than Microsoft’s proprietary methods, said Craig Oda, vice president of alliances and product marketing at Turbolinux. Linux has been running for years on 64-bit chips, notably Compaq’s Alpha, he added.

Oh, sure, a broken receiver. That’s just what the men from the Air Force told you to say, isn’t it?

I’m glad I live in Cambridge.

For all owners of four-cylinder engines.

Damn, those monkeys!

Hey, thanks Lou!

Roy Hattersley on becoming a vegetarian.

My decision was not built on sentiment. I was not concerned with whether the cattle in question were likely to meet a “humane” end… I became a vegetarian because cutting up animals and eating the pieces suddenly seemed a bizarre way to live. I make no complaint against people who take a different view. And I certainly do not suggest that my position is more moral than theirs.

Well, search.msn.com sucks but I’m benefitting from it. I’m the number 5 result if you do a search there for “current events computers”. Neale is number 2.

If eating too much pasta makes you sleepy, what should you eat if you need energy? Antipasto.

But don’t eat the two together because that might destroy the universe.

Have I mentioned that Dr. Menlo rocks? I’m honored to be on his blog list.