If you haven't seen District 9 (I liked it better than The Hurt Locker), you're missing out on one of the best acting performances of the last couple years.  The lead, Sharlto Copley, provides an incredibly plausible and forceful portrayal of a man turning into an insectoid alien.  If there's an emotion he doesn't convey over the course of the film, I'm not sure what it would be.  And he gets to vaporize people, which is cool.  I sure hope this is a breakthrough role for Sharlto, but if this doesn't do it, his upcoming turn as The A Team's Capt. 'Howling Mad' Murdock is likely to cement his stature in the hearts and minds of at least the 18-35 male demo (gosh, I miss that demo).

Just FYI for ya.

That is all.

From Christopher Oliphant in the comments to an iPad story in the WSJ:

"Flash is a crash happy resource hog full of security holes. It is a horribly bloated and slow crutch for lazy developers. If I come across a flash based site it is skipped and YouTube's HTML 5 offers better performance, higher reliability and lower CPU utilization. Even Silverlight is superior to Flash.

Flash is dying and the existence of Flashblock and Clicktoflash and other flash blocking plugins shows that people are getting sick of the bloat and horrible performance. I run Clicktoflash and >95% of the time, flash is used for advertising, Java is used for menus.

The faster flash dies, the better."