Midday Monday. Another apology for so many linkdumps is in order, but I'm afraid I don't have time to write it at the moment.

* What does it take to really disappear? Wired investigates faking your own death.

* Tarantino's top-twenty films since he started directing.

* Criterion Collection top-tens from Jonathan Lethem, Steve Buscemi, Robin Wood, and Richard Linklater.

* Usian Bolt sets a new 100m world record. Via MeFi, which immediately accused him of juicing.

* The House Next Door's review of District 9—which incidentally comes to many of the same conclusions as mine—includes a neat look at the six-minute short from Neill Blomkamp that preceded it, Alive in Joburg.

* More bad press for New Jersey's Chris Christie originating from his time on the Morris County Board. Discussion at TPM and MyDD.

* And Steve Benen bemoans 44 years of human slavery under Medicare.

Tuesday night linkdump #3.

* Here comes the Dollhouse? 'Scientists Erase Painful Memories Without Drugs.'

* Both Inside Higher Ed and Barack Obama himself can declare victory alongside UNC.

* Even the National Review says it's time for Coleman to concede.

* Environmental reporters at The Washington Post hit back at George Will over the many inaccuracies in his climate change columns.

* More on the Morristown UFO hoax.

Two self-admitted skeptics who rigged highway flares to weather balloons to create a UFO hoax are now facing misdemeanor charges in Morristown, New Jersey for endangering public and air traffic safety. (via Posthuman Blues)

Morris County rocked by earthquake. 2.1 on the Richter scale. Randolph not yet swallowed into hell.

Trying in vain to breathe the fire we was born in: someone else has made a movie out of Morris County.

Equal parts drama, horror, true-crime anthology, this grim life-cycle piece presents three tales of alienation and woe in suburbia. Starring indie regular Pamela Stewart (100 Proof, Amateur) and TV mainstay Albie Selznick (24, Suddenly Susan) alongside stunning newcomers Alice Cannon and Darcy Miller, Morris County juggles the horrors of human nature against the kind of sadness that cuts deep. In Ellie, we spend one day in the life of a damaged teen-age girl whose reckless behavior hides a grave secret; The Family Rubin finds a seemingly happy couple and their young son, whose questionable lifestyles begin to tear at the seams; and finally, Elmer & Iris explores the life of an elderly couple who prove that love can overcome almost anything, even death. This triptych of suburban decay will leave you questioning just how well you know your neighbors.

Matthew Garrett’s disturbing debut feature recalls the work of fellow New York indie director Douglas Buck (Cutting Moments), exposing suburbia’s dark heart and the self-destructive compulsions that fester there.

Here's a trailer:

Morris County Movie Trailer

The headline reads, "Police Puzzled By Strange Lights Over Morris County."

The Caucus takes me home to Morris County, NJ, where upscale Republicans are deeply demoralized.

Mr. Nielsen is one of the thousands of people in Morris County — one of the country’s wealthiest — that can usually be counted on to vote Republican. Morris County voters, including Mr. Nielsen, chose George W. Bush in 2000 and 2004, even though Democrats won New Jersey in both elections.

But that was then.

“I look at this election selfishly,” he said over coffee at Drip café on Main Street. “If I am honest with myself and my family, I am better off with a Democrat in the White House. I would be better off health care wise, and I don’t believe in privatizing Social Security. Can you imagine if we had gone that way what would have happened over the last three weeks? With Obama in office we are going to get a more socialized system and some people don’t want that, but more and more people I talk to are going to cross the line.”

If McCain's lost Morris County, he's completely screwed.

(Thanks, Steve!)