Hitler finds out about another Downfall parody. Even if you don't usually, watch the whole thing. (via)

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Still another Saturday morning linkdump.

* This is my favorite MetaFilter post in a while, with tons of links all about the history of stick-figure icons, non-literacy information signs, and Helvetica Man.

* Also at MeFi: all about Herb & Dorothy Vogel, art collectors.

* Favorite last lines from science fiction novels. Hard, I think, to top "Poo-tee-weet?"

* Know your meme.

FML for the Star Trek fan: @FMLmccoy.

Woke up in 1930s, tried to save a woman's life but ended up indirectly killing a hobo and giving Hitler the A-bomb. FML

(Thanks Kate!)

There's a lot of talk this weekend about Facebook "jumping the shark" with this ubiquitous "25 Random Things You Don't Know About Me" meme. I don't think I've ever actually participated in one of these memes, and frankly at this point I hardly notice them even when they do pass my screen. Facebook will survive this; the thing that will kill Facebook is an even more flexible social networking portal that's so elite right now none of us even know about it.

Today's blog icon—this week every day gets its own—comes via the good people at obamaicon.me, which makes it easier than ever to latch on to last year's branding sensation. I made an indescribably large number of these images, which I plan to roll out randomly over the course of the next four years. Prepare yourselves. Though nothing can prepare you. (via)

Kottke links to Ben Tesch's film personality test.

1. Joel Coen: No Country for Old Men, The Big Lebowski, Fargo, The Hudsucker Proxy, Miller's Crossing, Raising Arizona, etc
2. Wes Anderson: The Darjeeling Limited, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The Royal Tennenbaums, Rushmore, Bottle Rocket, etc
3. Hal Ashby: Being There, Shampoo, Harold and Maude, etc
4. Kevin Smith: Zack and Miri Make a Porno, Dogma, Chasing Amy, Mallrats, Clerks, etc
5. Quentin Tarantino: Grindhouse, Kill Bill, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, etc

I would also personally throw in:

6. Stanley Kubrick: 2001, The Shining, A Clockwork Orange, Full Metal Jacket, Dr. Strangelove, Lolita, etc.
7. P.T. Anderson: Boogie Nights, Hard Eight, There Will Be Blood, Punch-Drunk Love, Magnolia.
8. Errol Morris: The Thin Blue Line, The Fog of War, Mr. Death, Fast, Cheap and Out of Control, Gates of Heaven, etc.

I play this game all the time, but never in such an academically rigorous environment. On this scale I'm a Lebowskite with strong Hudsucker tendencies, Rushmore-loving pan-Andersonist with slightly fond memories of the one time I saw Chasing Amy, a Pulp Fictionist with Kill Bill sympathies (or maybe the other way around) Strangelovian TWBBloody FCaOoCer.

Two from YouTube: Cynical-C catches Alan Moore talking Watchmen, while Boing Boing finds 2000's most annoying meme is back with a tragic glow for 2008.

This epic Fark thread is my new favorite thing on the Internet.

Things I'm guaranteed to fall for:

* Video-game theme songs for the string quartet.

* Teller, after the apocalypse.

* Oil paintings inspired by video games and Internet memes.

* Articles titled "Welcome to the Post-Carbon World," with sci-fi subtitles like "Why do some planets survive their carbon crises and others don’t? A plan for how ours could."

* Stanley Kubrick.

It's not often that you can catch tomorrow's memes being born today, but here's one—a study which claims climate is too complex to be precisely modeled that will undoubtedly wind up a favorite in the global warming denialist's toolbox. You can see how these things happen even in the misleading headline; the study's claim that climate models "can never give a precise prediction" of future climate conditions slips to "too complex for accurate prediction." Precise and accurate don't mean the same thing—not that it will matter in a few months when deniers start lecturing us about how science proved you can't predict the weather.