Gary Westfahl hates The Day the Earth Stood Still. So does everyone.

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)