London's Tate Modern Gallery, which
London's Tate Modern Gallery, which is awesome(!), has a website with lots of useful information, including its visiting hours and directions, etc. But I think they're going a bit too far when they include RealPlayer American Sign Language translations of the Gallery Hours. I mean, are they assuming that AMSLANers can't read? Is there some data to back this up? Makes no sense to me.
I was disappointed to learn yesterday of "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin's sudden death, the result of an unfortunate encounter with a stingray. The Ray stabbed Irwin's chest with its barbed tail, piercing his heart and killing him instantly. Of course, the attack was caught on video - which will no doubt find its way to the morbid internet. Irwin died doing what he loved - communing with the animal kingdom. His full-on, in-your-face methods were shocking to some and more than a little bit embarrassing to his Australian countrymen, who regarded him in the same light as Paul Hogan (Crocodile Dundee), a stereotype they would like to slough off. I myself saw him as a cross between Mutual of Omaha's Marlon Perkins and Tom Green. I can only imagine what Irwin's wife must have felt when she found out (after the media) about Steve's death. Sigh. RIP Steve Irwin.
Torrents, Piracy and Beyond: will the film industry survive? Very good article.
If Marvel's Stan Lee styled Alan Moore's "The Watchmen" graphic novel. *Shudder*.