Yet ANOTHER notable birthday is taking place in 2009; it's the 200th anniversary of the birth of composer Felix Mendelssohn, and the Mendelssohn Project wants you to know all about it.

At the rate it's going, the switch to all-digital television will not happen this year, and here are some reasons why it's taking so long.

Matthew Baldwin talks about movies that mess with your mind, and goes into more detail over on Defective Yeti.

In related messing-with-mind media, the work of Relleno de Mono is awesome and surreal.

The Flickr Commons now has its own weblog! Hooray!