I get really excited about the show these days. To get in the mood, how about a little interview with show producers Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof. They actually spill a surprising amount of info on the frieghties, the flash forwards and the Oceanic Six.

Flipping through New York Mag this morning, and saw something that caught my eye. CherishedLives.com is described as "a virtual cemetary for actual dead people". Obviously I had to check it out. And yes, it's basically what I read...an actual online cemetary (yikes)

Checking out the preview, I learn that you can purchase a little plot of virtual land (I'm thinking about the Confucianist section), buy flowers in the gift shop, get chauffeured to your plot, and the kicker...you get your own memorial page. It's MySpace for dead people...whoa.

The Internet never ceases to amaze.

Just spotted a funny list over at the eHarmony site (that's right...we read 'em all so you don't have to) on movies famous for making even the most viral men shed a tear. I mention it because a) they've done an ok job of it (although no Field of Dreams...really?), and b) we took a stab at the same subject a couple years ago.

Obviously, there's some overlapping between the two lists. But I'm particularly proud of our effort...not because of the movies included, but because of the record-setting amount of venom elicited in the comments. Hell...I think I got called a pussy 42 times (a personal record). Check out the lists, but also check out the comments...some very good stuff.

"The Counterfeiters" ***1/2 (out of four): The fascinating, unsentimental true story of a group of concentration camp prisoners forced to help the Nazis perpetrate the largest counterfeiting operation in history.

We first meet Salomon Sorowitsch, a gaunt, stubbly man on a beach in Monte Carlo, staring out at the sea. Newspaper headlines tell us World War II has just ended. Salomon, or "Sally" as he's known (the wonderfully stone-faced Karl Markovics), walks into a fancy hotel wearing a tattered suit, opens his briefcase and, as a deposit, lays down a stack of crisp US fifty dollar bills. No sooner does Sally bed a beautiful casino groupie, than we flashback to Berlin in 1936 where Sally makes a good living creating forgeries of all kinds. Though he is a great artist, he found that he could "make more money by making money". He is, it becomes clear, the best counterfeiter in Germany. Sally is also a Russian Jew. But despite the approaching Nazi threat, Sally is still a cavalier businessman; he believes the Jews are persecuted simply because "they refuse to adapt". When a tryst with a beautiful customer keeps him in Berlin one night too many, Sally is arrest and shipped off to the Mauthausen concentration camp. This is simply the start of "The Counterfeiters (Die Fälscher)", the fascinating, unsentimental true story of the man who helped the Nazis perpetrate the largest counterfeiting operation in history.

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It’s only in a camera-crazy tourist haven like New York that you can go into a public bathroom, snap photos of men standing at urinals, and not only will they NOT be angry, they’ll often take out their own camera and snap a pic of that same urinal, thinking, “Huh, this toilet must be famous.”

Oh yeah, there’s plenty of pictures, video, and reactions at Improv Everywhere.

- Tough day for catalogs...Sharper Image and Lillian Vernon are bankrupt.
- Amy Sedaris, bunnies and cupcakes...what's not to love. Thanks Microsoft.
- Time to get back in the kitchen. Top Chef: Chicago is just a few weeks away.
- Gwyneth Paltrow Secrets on Conan O'Brien. That last line is pretty darn funny.
- And the NY Times turns into the Enquirer...reports on alleged McCain affair.