Tony Gentilcore turns in this great piece on improving your squat: Squat Like You Mean It. A bunch of useful mobility exercises that should help you (and hopefully me) get deeper.

Good (if unsurprisingly bottom-heavy) map of which movie sequels were better than the original.

I have tried several Firefox extensions for URL shortening, and so far my favorite is Cutyfox because you can pick your preferred shortening service, but if a native shortener exists for the page you are on (e.g. Amazon, YouTube) it will (optionally) use that instead.

Check out the trailer for Rubber, a movie about a killer tire. Not a hoax.

Twitch has the trailer for Silver Tongues, which sounds interesting:

Two lovers play a dark and dangerous game of deceit. Donning different personalities, they travel from town to town using their talent for performance to shatter the lives of strangers unlucky enough to cross their path. But how far can a person go, when all they know are lies? How much can they change before they break? Manipulation builds upon manipulation, and soon the audience themselves become unwitting collaborators in the characters cruel deceptions. As this amoral game spiral out of control, the audience is forced to question who will be the ultimate victim

… and looks promising:

Why Can’t We Walk Straight?

Great piece: A Day in the Future.

Bill Murray gave a great speech introducing Sofia Coppola at the National Board of Review Awards:

“They told me I have two minutes. I’m going to pop this Red Hot [candy, pops in mouth] so I’ll be finished in two minutes [mumbling with candy in mouth]. Why do you give this award? Why? Because you have to throw a party. Because you have to compete with the Golden Globes. [Cheers.] We all asked that question. You’re able to get out tonight, celebrate — without your relatives — you earned, you deserve it.

But why do you give it to Sofia Coppola? Why? Because you want to encourage her, I think. I think that’s the real reason. Look at her. Look at her!

(via kottke)

So if e-reader screens are bad for learning because they are so good, and Comic Sans is good for learning because it’s so bad, can you just run Comic Sans on your e-reader and call it a wash?

I like the look of the Wolfram Alpha Course Assistant apps. This has got to be a great time to be a student.

Roger Ebert posted his best documentaries of 2010 rundown. Definitely some titles on there I need to check out. Here are the Netflix links, if this makes it easier for anybody:

• 45365
• A Small Act
• The Art of the Steal
• Best Worst Movie
• Collapse
• Cropsey
• Exit Through the Gift Shop
• Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work
• Last Train Home
• Restrepo
• Tabloid
• Waiting for "Superman"
• Winnebago Man

I couldn’t find Scrappers or Vincent: A Life In Color.

I have wanted, at various times, exactly what GroupMe provides: free group texting.