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Speaking of translations, the Swedish edition of 50 Shades Of Gray was published yesterday. The earliest review date for newspapers, blogs etc? October 15th. I know this is common practice in the movie business, but I think it's the first time I've ever seen it done for a book.

Two new films I saw yesterday: Searching For Sugarman: a documentary on early-70s singer-songwriter Rodriguez, whose two albums flopped monumentally in the US, whereupon he disappeared without a trace, rumoured to have killed himself on stage... And never finding out that he'd somehow managed...

Not really, no, but perhaps a more general one than is appropriate for this thread.

Interesting: "Mommy porn" better in translation I'm not surprised that James' prose reads better after it's been through professional editing and a decent translation, though it raises an interesting question; what is a translator supposed to do when they realise that they're actually a...

:sad: Stevie Ray Vaughan Rude Mood '87 daytona beach live - YouTube

A statement from the Armstrong family. There's a full moon next week. Just saying.

Honestly, I'm not sure the idea is all that unique. The concept of having readers play "Choose your own adventure" with a book or TV series as it's written has been tried quite a few times before. The reason you haven't heard of it is probably because it turns out very few people are interested...

Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes Birdemic 2 The Resurrection Trailer - YouTube From THE MASTER OF THE ROMANTIC THRILLER (TM)!

Only single-copy lending rights are available to most US libraries. Of course, they're free to buy multiple single-copy lending rights for the same book.

First man on moon Neil Armstrong dead at 82: NBC - Yahoo! News :sad: Neil Armstrong One Small Step - YouTube One of the few people in history about whom you can literally say that he changed a world. His footprints will never leave the surface of the moon.

In 17th century Iceland, trying to figure out how birds can grow from kelp.

For Sparky and other xkcd fans: Every Major's Terrible - xkcd/Xave - 10 Parts a Cappella - YouTube

What happens when an 80-year-old parishioner decides to restore a priceless 19th century fresco all by herself? Jesus looks kind of like an eskimo painted by Edward Munch.

He's Tom Cruise. Xenu provides.

It's called CHOWDAH! Chowder - YouTube Why is it that critics always compare female singers to other female singers, action movies to other action movies, romance novels to other romance novels, etc?

Shakespeare's Drinking: What Did Shakespeare Drink? So basically, the Shakespeare drink of choice should be a real ale.

Did they even have tea in England in Shakespeare's time? *googles* Nope. The more you know.

Lord Of The Rings in the style of other authors

Dachshund. When you have your hair cut, do you ever want to tell the hairdresser "No, not quite that short" afterwards?