[Brian de Palma goes very experimental](http://www.apple.com/trailers/magnolia/redacted/trailer/). The film is supposedly "a variety of created source material-video diaries, produced documentary, surveillance footage, online testimonials, [and] news pieces". Sounds like…
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[How Yale Economics Professors lose weight](http://www.nysun.com/article/66874). Here's the [website for the StickK program](http://stickk.com/), which isn't quite live yet. A pity, it would've been nice to get this up…
[Guillermo Del Toro tells a dark tale set in an abandoned orphanage](http://www.apple.com/trailers/picturehouse/theorphanage/trailer/). Del Toro has a fantastic eye for these kinds of things, but the trailer actually makes…
[A rap song about Supply and Demand](http://rodrik.typepad.com/dani_rodriks_weblog/2007/12/rapping-along-t.html). Production is pretty good, but the lyrics are not fabulous...
[How to make your password better](http://www.tuaw.com/2007/09/19/secure-your-mac-strong-passwords/). The tips are designed for Mac, but apply to most passwords. Why not try something other than 'Password1' this year...
What do I see in my email this morning but a link to [this](http://www.tivo.com.au/testtivo/): >Would you like to be one of the first people in Australia to use…
[An adapter to attach a flat-screen TV to the back of your pickup truck](http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2007/11/28/tow-hitch-tv-mount.html). I'd say 'only in America', but I expect to overtake one of these here…
[A group of Star Wars fanboys travel the country to see the new Star Wars film](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBkA3R2Habo). Stars Kristen Bell from *Veronica Mars*, too. In case you didn't already…
[A new way to multiply](http://clubtroppo.com.au/2007/12/22/a-seriously-cool-way-to-multiply/). Nice party trick, but it kinda falls over when you're working with four digit numbers. The proof that it works in all cases…
[The adorable animals of YouTube go out on strike with the Writer's Guild](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npqx8CsBEyk). From the writers of the Colbert Report. The writer's strike is not going away any…