Japanese TV
Why I wish North American shows were more like Japanese shows: http://www.ntv.co.jp/channel/asx/hkzkt10.asx

More Fun than Rotten Tomatoes

Gnovies is a self-adapting community system based on the gnod engine.

I clicked on American Beauty, and almost all of the movies were movies I liked, though they are movies in a more violent vein.

It's fun to watch the movies slide into their places in relation to all the movies on the page.

Note that next time you click on the same movie, you'll probably get different map, leading me to believe that it is is not just a database, but in fact there is some implementation of a form of AI. (Well, at least the movies on the fringe differ in their locations.)

It seems to link movies based on any of the following: decade, actors, theme, genre and who knows what else. The Evil Dead, Evil Dead2 and Army of Darkness grouping makes sense, as does the Canadian Bacon, Men with Brooms, Strange Brew grouping, but how do they figure someone who likes The English Patient will like Ferris Bueller's Day Off? Sound of Music and War of the Worlds?
Lord of the Rings and Silence of the Lambs?
Monty Python and What Dreams May Come?
Mary Poppins and Cum Guzzlers III???

There were a lot of movies that I would have expected to be linked but weren't. I would link "Something about Mary" and "Deuce Bigalow" (unsuspecting character has a gift for making people feel good about themselves), or maybe throw "Life is Beautiful" and "A Life Less Ordinary" in there too and call it "Unexpected Romantic Movies." Or maybe add "Sixth Sense" and "Amelie" and say those are all movies featuring people with extraordinary gifts. Or start with Pulp Fiction, you get Go, Run Lola Run and Sliding Doors? Fight Club and American Beauty are two of my favourite movies, they have very similar themes. I like movies that make you feel "sixth-sensed." That's a term my friend invented to describe that feeling when you finally put all the clues together that you didn't think much about and go "oooohhhh!" Like that guy in Unusual Suspects.

Enough rambling. A pretty cool site I have to say.

My cat went missing last week. Our neighbour 3 doors down (is that the name of a band? Song "Kryptonite") is a friend of mine from dragon boat. I let him know when Joe went missing to keep an eye out for him. He had mentioned to me that the neighbours moved, and they had a brown cat who Joe played with, so maybe they took him. I didn't believe that anyone would take Joe, but also, those cats didn't play. Joe doesn't play with other cats. He picks fights with them and always loses. On Saturday, he saw a cat in their garage on the window sill, though it wasn't very clear. He called my mom, and gave her the phone number of the landlord next door. My mom went over and called for Joe, and he answered back! So she went home, and called the landlord (who was Chinese), but they said they couldn't come over right away, but maybe at midnight that night. My mom said, that's not good enough, he's been in there a week with out food and water and is starving to death! (Mmm dat! Ngo sai kyu!) Here's the best part...So she went over there, and KICKED THE DOOR DOWN! Hurray, Joe was saved! But he was scared and hid in the corner until eventually my mom coaxed him out.

He was really dirty and had lost a couple of pounds, but he's well now, except for being a little weak and tired. They rubbed down with some towels, and brushed a ball of fur as big as he off of him. The first thing he did after eating and drinking? Hid in the closet! Next? Tried to escape through the window, and then the door. Sheesh.

X2

Finally saw X2. I thought it was much better than the first one. Lots of death and destruction. The Jean Gray-Wolverine-Cyclops love triangle. (Bleah, whatever.) Storm was actually a bit tougher than the last one, though I still wish they cast Angela Bassett for the role. Halle Berry is just to cute and pixie-like. That trick that Magneto did with the guard to escape was pretty cool too.