Sunday remainders.

* Continuing his recent comics theme, American Stranger has an interesting post up about the "new style of acting dominant in ‘mainstream’ corporate entertainment of the type constructed ‘as if’ intended solely for teenage boys."

* Here's how to get Firefox to ask you to remember any password.

* Democrats to offer bill with offshore oil drilling. Of course they are.

* And for the theory-heads among you: How susceptible is ecocriticism to the critique that it is a nostalgia? Follow up: in what ways might ecocriticism work outside of nostalgia? (Via Timothy Morton)

Day 2.

* Firefox 3 has been released.

* In the last few days I've noticed a number of people fantasizing that John McCain might drop out of the race before the Republican Convention. It's not impossible, but it's definitely not likely, no matter how poor a match for Obama McCain keeps turning out to be.

* Ryan has thoughts on Danny Boyle's Sunshine at culturemonkey.

* Battlestar Galactica concept art from Ralph McQuarrie, whose Star Wars ceoncept art I've linked to previously. Via Cynical-C, who also has the hard proof demonstrating why humans are doomed.