Matt Drance's entirely astute opinion of why movie piracy is up. The studios don't realize that to eliminate piracy they should make it easier to buy it legally. I would certainly pay to get access to a la carte movies and TV shows if it weren't so hard.

An interesting piece about the career of David Simon, creator of The Corner, Homicide, and The Wire

Pat Dollard went to Iraq and is now on a penchant to become a conservative voice in documentary media. This article gives a lot of insight into one man's slide into chaos dealing with the terrors that he saw overseas.

A fantastic portrait of Roger Ebert and his life after having a large portion of his jaw remove and subsequently losing his ability to speak, eat, and drink suddenly taken from him.

"For a director who takes himself seriously, to add 3-D would be like a novelist choosing a distracting typeface. The only encouraging aspect of this marketing outrage is that eventually we’ll have more cinemas with better projection. But it still leaves a bitter taste in the throat."

An amusing timeline of when a bunch of futuristic movies are supposed to occur.