"Fun with Dick and Jane" ** (out of four): Amusing trifle of a remake with enough gags to keep you occupied, if not entirely entertained.

Meet Dick Harper (Jim Carrey). Dick works for Globodyne, one of those big conglomerates that seems made of money - until one day when Globodyne folds almost instantaneously, leaving Dick, his wife Jane (Téa Leoni) and their son sinking into bankruptcy during the failing economy of year 2000 (in which the film is set). After selling their possessions and trying unsuccessfully, with sometimes hilarious results, to find new work, Dick and Jane are forced into a life of crime.

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With yesterday's Sun mention, YesButNoButYes is gaining a reputation for informative, well-researched posts on trivial-but-fascinating subjects.

So let me take you in the other direction. Poorly researched entries on topics bland and historical. I'll play the role of substitute middle school history teacher; you pretend to listen while scrolling through the porn and comic book posts.

Did Woodrow Wilson hate all black people? I have no idea. But he's lucky he presided over this great nation before the birth of network television and Kanye West. On February 18, 1915, Wilson gathered his cabinet for a special screening of D.W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation.

Here's a summary of the film: "In its explicitly caricaturist presentation of the KKK as heroes and Southern blacks as villains and violent rapists and threats to the social order, Birth of a Nation appealed to white Americans who subscribed to the mythic, romantic view of the Old Plantation South."

Wilson's review: The film 'is like writing history with lightning,' he remarked, adding, 'it is all so terribly true.'

That's today's lesson. Upcoming lecture topics include the 1976 Olympics and Joe Namath's ties to organized gambling.

Breaking into the music industry is hard for anybody. But if your uncle is the most despised man in American history, you have to try a little harder.

Here's Wafah Dufour, Osama's niece, posing for GQ. And your acceptance.

SIck mash-up of Jay-Z's 99 Problems and 99 Luft Balloons from Jay-Zeezer.

First The Sun, now The Hindustani Times. Once again, they wrongly list it our article, Ten Great Hollywood Orgasms, as a poll, so I suspect they just regurgitated what The Sun wrote. What a fascinating exercise in The Media Telephone Game.

Maybe my all time ambition of making The Drudge Report will happen before Xmas - please Santa, I've been good.

I think I pissed him off. Link

Holy crap, we made The Sun, which (correct me if I'm wrong) is the UK's #1 best selling newspaper (or, at least the print version is) And, yes, I use the term “newspaper” advisedly, but I have a lot of affection for The Sun, as it was the newspaper of choice in the Scaramouch household when I was a wee lad.

Glad to see they did their fact checking (nope, not a poll, or at least, only a poll of one). Next time, I'll try to include more boobies for them.

(Anyone know if this appeared in the print version too? I'd sure love a copy if it did.)

- My first laugh of the morning. Try winning this classic Three Card Monty game. (NSFW)
- The Mercury Mistress...never saw this Chris Parnell SNL commercial, but it's very funny
- In my opinion, a very therapeutic game...with valuable prizes at stake.
- And check out some really bad Christmas...I mean holiday music.

Don't forget your coat!

OR, for the girls:

"Sometimes you find things you aren't looking for," Showalter said. "No one thought this region of Uranus was very interesting." As it turns out, that region is turning out to be very interesting.

New images from the Hubble Space Telescope show the planet Uranus has two additional moons and two faint rings never observed before. The new moons, which were named Mab and Cupid, bring the total number of satellites orbiting Uranus to 27.

Just a note to say that yesterday (Thursday) was our best traffic day ever, nearly 60,000 people streaked through this place in 24 hours. Almost makes me wish I'd had something worthwhile to say.