Deadly lava lamp

Looks like we can add lava lamps to the list of potentially deadly household appliances.

Cf. Kent man killed by exploding lava lamp.

Stranger sign of the times

The Stranger's Nov. 11 cover story -- or, at least, its striking Nov. 11 cover -- really resonated with discouraged Blue Staters.

D. Parvaz reports that requests for copies are "still pouring" into the alt-weekly newspaper's offices three weeks later. It's getting requests for T-shirts and posters, too.

Alas, Stranger editor Dan Savage says you're out of luck if you don't already have your hands on a copy: the paper has run out of extras. You can, however, still download the cover as a PDF from TheStranger.com.

Too quick to Taser?

Are local police too quick to use their Tasers?

Tasers have been used locally to end violent standoffs and subdue suicidal people, but a Seattle Post-Intelligencer review found they're also being used routinely in far less threatening situations -- including against juveniles, pregnant women and people who have already been handcuffed.

King County sheriff's deputies have fired Tasers at a teenager who ran after not paying a $1.25 bus fare, a 71-year-old man who was arrested for drunken driving and refused to get into a patrol car, and a partially deaf man who couldn't hear deputies ordering him to stop, reports show.

Some civil rights advocates argue Tasers are being drawn too quickly and in cases in which such extreme force isn't necessary. They worry about potential abuses as more officers rely on the tool to subdue people who they say pose no serious threat to themselves or others. ...

Related stories illustrate how, despite local cases where potentially questionable Taser use contributed to a growing "catalog of pain and complaints," police swear the stun devices have saved lives and reduced injuries.

A P-I story from earlier this year explained just how Tasers work, if you're interested.

Immortal sandwich

Slate's "Explainer" tackles a question raised by one of the odder news stories from last week: How the Virgin Mary's grilled cheese stayed mold-free for 10 years.

Is 'user-friendly' dead?

Performing his filial duty as a member of the Tech-Support Generation prompted Frank Catalano to muse:

There used to be a charming concept called "user friendly." It meant an average person, such as my 75-year-old mother or 80-year-old father, could reasonably expect a computing device or software to do what it promised to do without inexplicable problems. You don't hear much about it any more.

I suspect with PCs having hit the saturation point in U.S. households several years ago and most PC companies competing on price to steal existing market share, they see little profit in the concept. ...

Most popular last week

Although SeattlePI.com's traffic dipped noticeably on Thanksgiving and the days after, a few stories from later in the week still made the lists of most read and most e-mailed articles for Nov. 22-28, 2004. There's not much overlap between the two lists this time:

Top picks (most e-mailed articles)

1. Free credit reports start Dec. 1
2. Compulsory voting means ignoring Election Day is not an option
3. Hospital apologizes in death of patient
4. Professor fighting discrimination step by step
5. Few people aware of new state sales tax deduction
6. MoveOn brings activists together to set a course for the future
7. Fremont merchants plan to light up Lenin this season
8. Invincible American brands do vanish
9. Living Well: The list keeps growing why an apple a day is a must
10. $28,000 for mother of all sandwiches

Top clicks (most read articles)

1. Microsoft search falls far short
2. Britons offered 'real' Windows XP
3. M's lead Delgado chase, sources say
4. Sonics' fortunes rise along with price tag of team's free agents
5. Man kills himself; daughters also dead
6. Recount gives Rossi a 42-vote victory
7. Professor fighting discrimination step by step
8. Stone puts his stamp of greatness on bold 'Alexander'
9. Sonics go cold, win streak ends
10. Microsoft Notebook: Top exec shares business lessons

Red Menace revisited

Hilarious and cheesy describe an entertaining piece of 1960s anti-Communist propaganda presented in comic-book form. Of course, chilling and scary might be equally apt descriptors.

(Via Boing Boing.)

Long-lived tortillas

If you can never seem to finish off a whole bag of tortillas before they go stale, Ralph Waniska may have just the thing for you. "By mixing the right proportions of ingredients and changing the structure of the tortilla when it's baking," the Texas A&M University food scientist has created tortillas with a shelf life of one month -- after the package is opened. Even NASA doesn't have those, although it does have tortillas that remain edible for nine months as long as they stay sealed.

Funniest TV spots

TBS invites everyone to vote for the funniest TV commercials of the year. You can watch streaming video of the 10 finalists -- not all of which are American -- and cast your votes for the top three. Winners will be revealed in a TV special airing Dec. 29.

(Via Lost Remote.)

Who needs turkey?

Today the P-I looks into the story behind Field Roast's vegetarian Celebration Roasts, which will be turning up on about 28,000 dinner tables this Thanksgiving in lieu of turkey or ham.

Company founder David Lee insists that he's not making fake meat -- "Being fake anything implies being lesser. I sell grain meat." -- and that you'll never see his Thanksgiving roasts sporting faux drumsticks. Needless to say, he has some interesting thoughts on vegetarianism and our "dysfunctional disconnect" with food in general.

A lost frog story

Mike Whybark explains the fascinating story behind Hopkin the lost frog, one of those mysterious memes that seems to have new and everlasting life online.

Superman fosters inferiority

Comparing yourself to Superman is counterproductive, according to a recent study by researchers at New York University and MIT.

As New Scientist sums up their conclusions, "Superman is too good a role model. Fans of the man from Krypton unwittingly compare themselves to the superhero, and realise they do not measure up. And as a result, they are less likely to help other people."

Gen Tech Support

Gen X. Gen Y. The Internet Generation. Those and many other labels have been used to describe today's under-40s.

But I think Newsweek's Brad Stone may have come up with the best yet, one that neatly sums up a certain commonality of experience. We are, he proposes, the Tech-Support Generation:

Our job is to troubleshoot the complex but imperfect technology that befuddle mom and dad, veterans of the rotary phone, the record player and the black-and-white cabinet television set. Next week, on our annual pilgrimage home, we’ll turn our Web-trained minds and joystick-conditioned fingers to the task of rescuing our parents from bleeding-edge technology on the blink.

On a related note, if you want to see how your personal tech-support stories compare to those of the pros, check out the amusing archive of real-life stories at TechTales.

The ones that got away

Would you admit that you had the, um, foresight to pass on investing in Starbucks, Amazon and Blue Nile early on? The venture capitalists at OVC Venture Partners would. On their Web site, they list -- with self-deprecating humor -- five big deals that were shown the door.

The most entertaining anecdote explains why OVC passed on Starbucks way back when:

A guy walks into your office in the late 1980’s and says he wants to open a chain of retail shops selling a commodity product you can get anywhere for 25 cents, but he will charge 2 dollars. Of course, you listen politely, and then fall off your chair laughing when he leaves. Howard Shultz didn’t see this as humorous. And we didn’t make 500 times our money.

To get even (wasn’t our not making money enough?) years later, Howard opened his own venture capital firm right down the street.

In today's Insider column, OVC's Chad Waite explains why they're admitting to such past mistakes, especially against the advice of their PR guru.

Top picks, top clicks

Interest in the still-not-quite-decided governor's race remained strong through the week of Nov. 15-21, 2004. But readers were also drawn to stories on a variety of other topics:

Top picks (most e-mailed articles):

1. Attack on Fallujah can't be justified
2. Texas schools scrap 'cross-dressing' day
3. PETA: Fish feel -- so don't eat them
4. Making sense of moral surprise during the 2004 election
5. It's Rossi, by 0.0093%
6. Microsoft Notebook: Google opens new office in Kirkland
7. Human toll has some arguing for ban on cell phone use at the wheel
8. Few people aware of new state sales tax deduction
9. And our governor is ... check back next week, or maybe even later
10. Plenty of food found in home where boys starved

Top clicks (most read articles):

1. Texas schools scrap 'cross-dressing' day
2. And our governor is ... check back next week, or maybe even later
3. Questions for Rice's confirmation hearing
4. Governor race slips closer to a recount
5. Human toll has some arguing for ban on cell phone use at the wheel
6. It's Rossi, by 0.0093%
7. Early baseball signings appear curious
8. Plenty of food found in home where boys starved
9. Go 2 Guy: Fairly maligned, unfairly fired coach right for UW
10. Democratic suburbs abandon Gregoire

'Toons getting political?

Innocence was perhaps an inevitable victim of the culture wars in this country. The collateral damage includes family-oriented animated films, according to the Christian Science Monitor. The paper reports that some critics see chilling messages and subtexts in seemingly benign films such as "The Polar Express" and "The Incredibles":

For example, take the central message of "The Polar Express" -- which, in a word, is believe:

The movie's big mistake, according to some critics, is illustrating the importance of faith by hooking it onto Santa, who - let's face it - doesn't exist. This may bother religious viewers who consider faith too important to fritter away on myths.

Those to the left of the political spectrum - perhaps unable to let go of the political season - are also irked by the message they see embedded in the movie: that facts and logic can't hold a candle to "believing."

"The message of blind faith, though certainly harmless in the context of a Santa Claus story, may trouble viewers who see the same principle at work today in US foreign policy," says critic Stuart Klawans, author of "Left in the Dark" and "Film Follies."

As for "The Incredibles," most of the criticism revolves around its apparent Nietzschean subtext.

Names of ill repute

Just how indiscriminating is the federal government's "no-fly list"? Frank Catalano relates a striking example.

Past vs. future

The story of an 85-year-old shipyard that stands in the way of Seattle's planned monorail line is yet another account of the ongoing conflict between the city's maritime past and its high-tech future:

Attempts have been made to find a way for the monorail line and the shipyard to coexist, but without mutually acceptable results so far. The old and new ways are clashing at the water's edge, with the shipyard the last business with which the monorail must come to terms. ...

'Matrix' haiku

Some people have too much time on their hands -- which they use to produce astonishing entertainments for the rest of us.

Case in point: The Matrix: Reworded at Kuro2hin retells the first part of the movie trilogy -- in haiku.

A sample verse:

Organic metal
Twisting, morphing, and crawling
Neo's mouth glued shut

Finding free Wi-Fi

Wait, warchalking is dead? I hadn't realized -- which may indicate how out of it I am nowadays -- but if Glenn Fleishman says so, I believe him.

Turns out there are much easier ways to mark open hot spots and to find unprotected Wi-Fi networks. Paul Boutin lists many of the tricks for the latter, and also offers tips on how to keep others from "borrowing" your service.

Dawgs vs. Cougs, in song

Inspired by JibJab's popular cartoon poking fun at President Bush and John Kerry, the folks at our broadcast partner, KOMO-TV, have crafted their own "This Land" spoof in honor of tomorrow's big cross-state college football face-off.

That's Why We'll Win the Apple Cup features caricatures of present and past, disgraced Husky and Cougar football coaches, and skewers cultural stereotypes of the Puget Sound and the Palouse.

You can download it in QuickTime, Windows and Real formats.

The napping instinct

The urge to take an afternoon siesta at work is perfectly normal, biologically speaking, if inconvenient, the Wall Street Journal's Jared Sandberg points out:

No one exactly schedules a slumberous coma each afternoon, but for many people, it's more punctual than the coffee cart. No sooner do you get back from lunch than every document seems like an opiate, every colleague a sheep to count, and the creepy carpeting an enticing feather bed. It's the only time of day when the incessant chatter of a cube mate can fade like a lullaby. Even insomniacs can't always withstand the contagion of a yawn in the middle of the afternoon. ...

"You're phenomenally stupid when you're sleep deprived, and you're too stupid to realize it," says Bob Stickgold, assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. "We are certainly the only known organism that sleep deprives itself."

Viewing values

TV critic Melanie McFarland points out that if Americans really are putting a premium on "moral values" nowadays, you sure can't tell by the shows they watch:

To those wondering what our extended discussion of the effect the fuss about moral values will have on future programming decisions, look no further than what's topping the Nielsen ratings chart: crime shows, adult-oriented comedies and a drama about middle-age sexpots.

In other words, the effect will be minimal, at best. The cold truth is, what viewers say they want -- in polls, through organizations and elsewhere -- rarely jibes with what the majority of us actually sit down to watch.

Fact is, sex, crime and sizzle still draw in the viewers and the all-important ad dollars. Meanwhile, Melanie notes, producers hawking wholesome, family-friendly fare still face an uphill battle -- both to get on the air and then to get people to tune in.

Life as a slideshow

Random shuffle for your life?

Cult of Mac's Leander Kahney muses on the possibilities presented by the iPod Photo's ability to scroll through a lifetime's worth of photos at lightning speed:

There it is: Your life can be flashed before your eyes. Or your kids' lives. Or every vacation you ever took. All your girlfriends. A lifetimes' memories, in your pocket.

Could this be the pictorial equivalent of random shuffle? Random shuffle has changed listening habits in ways that no one predicted. Who foresaw the magic in unpredictably rummaging through a giant jukebox? The iPod can stir powerful emotions as it magically chooses just the right track at just the right time, or throws songs together in delightful combinations.

Will access to a lifetime's library of snaps have a similar emotional impact?

FCC's march into twilight

Does the FCC have a death wish? Some observers tell Wired News that the agency's ramped-up enforcement of broadcast indecency rules will only hasten the decline of broadcast TV and radio by driving audiences to other media that it doesn't regulate. And that undermines the raison d'etre for its existence.

Best movie quotes

The American Film Institute is trying to compile a list of the 100 best movie quotes of all time, the Associated Press reports.

People in the film business will choose the finalists from a list of 400 nominees, taken from films released between 1927 and 2002.

Is your favorite on the list?

The nominees (in alphabetical order by film)

1. ACE VENTURA: All-righty then! ("ACE VENTURA, PET DETECTIVE," 1994)

2. SHERLOCK HOLMES: Elementary, my dear Watson.
   ("THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES," 1939)

3. TERRY McKAY: Oh, it was nobody's fault but my own. I was looking up. It was the nearest thing to heaven. You were there.
   ("AN AFFAIR TO REMEMBER," 1957)

4. CHARLIE ALLNUT: A man takes a drop too much once in a while, it's only human nature.
   ROSE SAYER: "Nature," Mr. Allnut, is what we are put into this world to rise above.
   ("THE AFRICAN QUEEN," 1951)

5. TED STRIKER: Surely you can't be serious.
   DR. RUMACK: I am serious. And don't call me Shirley.
   ("AIRPLANE!," 1980)

6. STEVE McCROSKEY: Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.
   ("AIRPLANE!," 1980)

7. CAPT. OVEUR: You ever been in a cockpit before?
   JOEY: No sir, I've never been up in a plane before.
   CAPT. OVEUR: You ever seen a grown man naked?
   ("AIRPLANE!," 1980)

8. RIPLEY: Get away from her, you bitch!
   ("ALIENS," 1986)

9. MARGO CHANNING: Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night.
   ("ALL ABOUT EVE," 1950)

10. PAUL: And our bodies are earth. And our thoughts are clay. And we sleep and eat with death.
    ("ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT," 1930)

11. JOE GIDEON: It's showtime!
    ("ALL THAT JAZZ," 1979)

12. DEEP THROAT: Follow the money.
    ("ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN," 1976)

13. EMPEROR JOSEPH II: There are simply too many notes.
    ("AMADEUS," 1984)

14. RICKY FITTS: Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world I feel like I can't take it, like my heart's going to cave in.
    ("AMERICAN BEAUTY," 1999)

15. CAPT. JEFFREY T. SPAULDING: One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know.
    ("ANIMAL CRACKERS," 1930)

16. ANNA CHRISTIE: Give me a whisky, ginger ale on the side. And don't be stingy, baby.
    ("ANNA CHRISTIE," 1930)

17. ANNIE HALL: La-dee-da, la-dee-da.
    ("ANNIE HALL," 1977)

18. ALVY SINGER: I don't want to move to a city where the only cultural advantage is being able to make a right turn on a red light.
    ("ANNIE HALL," 1977)

19. ALVY SINGER: Don't knock masturbation. It's sex with someone I love.
    ("ANNIE HALL," 1977)

20. FRAN KUBELIK: Shut up and deal.
    ("THE APARTMENT," 1960)

21. LT. COL. BILL KILGORE: I love the smell of napalm in the morning.
    ("APOCALYPSE NOW," 1979)

22. JIM LOVELL: Houston, we have a problem.
    APOLLO 13
    Universal, 1995

23. MORTIMER BREWSTER: Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.
    ("ARSENIC AND OLD LACE," 1944)

24. ARTHUR BACH: I'm going to take a bath.
    HOBSON: I'll alert the media.
    ("ARTHUR," 1981)

25. MELVIN UDALL: You make me want to be a better man.
    ("AS GOOD AS IT GETS," 1997)

26. LOU PASCAL: Yes, it used to be beautiful -- what with the rackets, whoring, guns.
    ("ATLANTIC CITY," 1980)

27. MAME DENNIS: Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death!
    ("AUNTIE MAME," 1958)

28. AUSTIN POWERS: Yeah, baby!
    ("AUSTIN POWERS: INTERNATIONAL MAN OF MYSTERY," 1997)

29. DR. EVIL: One million dollars!
    ("AUSTIN POWERS: INTERNATIONAL MAN OF MYSTERY," 1997)

30. FARMER HOGGETT: That'll do, pig. That'll do.
    ("BABE," 1995)

31. DR. EMMETT BROWN: Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads.
    ("BACK TO THE FUTURE," 1985)

32. JONATHAN SHIELDS: Georgia, love is for the very young.
    ("THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL," 1952)

33. SUGARPUSS O'SHEA: I love him because he's the kind of guy who gets drunk on a glass of buttermilk, and I love the way he blushes right up over his ears. I love him because he doesn't know how to kiss, the jerk!
    ("BALL OF FIRE," 1941)

34. THE JOKER: Have you ever danced with the Devil in the pale moonlight?
    ("BATMAN," 1989)

35. BETELGEUSE: I'm the ghost with the most, babe.
    ("BEETLEJUICE," 1988)

36. CHANCE: I like to watch.
    ("BEING THERE," 1979)

37. ROSA MOLINE: What a dump.
    ("BEYOND THE FOREST," 1949)

38. JOSH: Okay, but I get to be on top.
    ("BIG," 1988)

39. DEBBY MARSH: We're sisters under the same mink.
    ("THE BIG HEAT," 1953)

40. VIVIAN RUTLEDGE: I don't like your manners.
    PHILIP MARLOWE: I'm not crazy about yours. I didn't ask to see you. I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them long winter evenings.
    ("THE BIG SLEEP," 1946)

41. BILL/TED
    Excellent!
    ("BILL AND TED'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE," 1989)

42. ROY BATTY: I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.
    ("BLADE RUNNER," 1982)

43. BART: Excuse me while I whip this out.
    ("BLAZING SADDLES," 1974)

44. BERT HARRIS: That dirty, double-crossin' rat!
    ("BLONDE CRAZY," 1931)

45. ELWOOD BLUES: We're on a mission from God.
    ("THE BLUES BROTHERS," 1980)

46. MATTY WALKER: You aren't too bright. I like that in a man.
    ("BODY HEAT," 1981)

47. CLYDE BARROW: We rob banks.
    ("BONNIE AND CLYDE," 1967)

48. BILLIE DAWN: Wouldja do me a favor, Harry? Drop dead!
    ("BORN YESTERDAY," 1950)

49. FATHER EDWARD J. FLANAGAN: There is no bad boy.
    ("BOYS TOWN," 1938)

50. WILLIAM WALLACE: They may take away our lives, but they'll never take our freedom!
    ("BRAVEHEART," 1995)

51. HOLLY GOLIGHTLY: How do I look?
    ("BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S," 1961)

52. PRINCIPAL RICHARD VERNON: Don't mess with the bull, young man.
    You'll get the horns!
    ("THE BREAKFAST CLUB," 1985)

53. THE MONSTER: We belong dead.
    ("BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN," 1935)

54. MAJ. CLIPTON: Madness. Madness.
    ("THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI," 1957)

55. DR. DAVID HUXLEY: It isn't that I don't like you, Susan, because after all, in moments of quiet, I'm strangely drawn toward you; but, well, there haven't been any quiet moments!
    ("BRINGING UP BABY," 1938)

56. AARON ALTMAN: I'll meet you at the place near the thing where we went that time.
    ("BROADCAST NEWS," 1987)

57. VIRGINIA HILL: Why don't you go outside and jerk yourself a soda?
    ("BUGSY," 1991)

58. CRASH DAVIS: ...I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days.
    ("BULL DURHAM," 1988)

59. BUTCH CASSIDY: Kid, the next time I say, "Let's go someplace like Bolivia," let's go someplace like Bolivia.
    ("BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID," 1969)

60. GLORIA WANDROUS: Mama, face it. I was the slut of all time.
    ("BUTTERFIELD 8," 1960)

61. MADGE NORWOOD: I'd love to kiss you, but I just washed my hair.
    ("CABIN IN THE COTTON," 1932)

62. CARL SPACKLER: Cinderella story. Outta nowhere. A former greenskeeper, now, about to become the Masters champion. It looks like a mirac... It's in the hole! It's in the hole! It's in the hole!
    ("CADDYSHACK," 1980)

63. TY WEBB: Be the ball.
    ("CADDYSHACK," 1980)

64. CAPT. QUEEG: Ah, but the strawberries! That's, that's where I had them.
    ("THE CAINE MUTINY," 1954)

65. MARGUERITE GAUTIER: His eyes have made love to me all evening.
    ("CAMILLE," 1936)

66. MAX CADY: Come out, come out, wherever you are!
    ("CAPE FEAR," 1991)

67. ILSA LASZLO: Play it, Sam. Play "As Time Goes By."
    ("CASABLANCA," 1942)

68. RICK BLAINE: Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.
    ("CASABLANCA," 1942)

69. RICK BLAINE: Ilsa, I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world.
    ("CASABLANCA," 1942)

70. RICK BLAINE: We'll always have Paris.
    ("CASABLANCA," 1942)

71. RICK BLAINE: Here's looking at you, kid.
    ("CASABLANCA," 1942)

72. CAPT. RENAULT: Round up the usual suspects.
    ("CASABLANCA," 1942)

73. RICK BLAINE: Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
    ("CASABLANCA," 1942)

74. MICHAEL KELLY: For the first time in my life, people cheering for me. Were you deaf? Didn't you
    hear 'em? We're not hitchhiking any more. We're riding.
    ("CHAMPION," 1949)

75. DUFFY: Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown.
    ("CHINATOWN," 1974)

76. EVELYN MULWRAY: She's my sister! She's my daughter!
    ("CHINATOWN," 1974)

77. MRS. PARKER: You'll shoot your eye out.
    ("A CHRISTMAS STORY," 1983)

78. DR. WILBUR LARCH: Good night, you princes of Maine, you kings of New England.
    ("THE CIDER HOUSE RULES," 1999)

79. CHARLES FOSTER KANE: Rosebud.
    ("CITIZEN KANE," 1941)

80. MITCH ROBBINS: Hi, Curly, kill anyone today?
    CURLY: Day ain't over yet.
    ("CITY SLICKERS," 1991)

81. CHER HORWITZ: As if!
    ("CLUELESS," 1995)

82. SHUG: I think it pisses God off when you walk by the color purple in a field and don't notice it.
    ("THE COLOR PURPLE," 1985)

83. CAPTAIN: What we've got here is failure to communicate.
    ("COOL HAND LUKE," 1967)

84. HUBERT HAWKINS: The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle. The chalice from the palace has the brew that is true.
    ("THE COURT JESTER," 1956)

85. LINDY CHAMBERLAIN: The dingo took my baby!
    ("A CRY IN THE DARK," 1988)

86. FLO MARLOWE: Oh, hold me closer! Closer! Closer!
    DR. HUGO Z. HACKENBUSH: If I hold you any closer, I'll be in back of you.
    ("A DAY AT THE RACES," 1937)

87. HELEN BENSON: Gort! Klaatu barada nikto!
    ("THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL," 1951)

88. DAVID WOODERSON: That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I keep getting older, they stay the same age.
    ("DAZED AND CONFUSED," 1993)

89. JOHN KEATING: Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary.
    ("DEAD POETS SOCIETY," 1989)

90. MICHAEL VRONSKY: This is this.
    ("THE DEER HUNTER," 1978)

91. MOUNTAIN MAN: I bet you can squeal like a pig.
    ("DELIVERANCE," 1972)

92. VERA: Stop makin' noises like a husband.
    ("DETOUR," 1945)

93. ANNE FRANK (V.0.)
    In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
    ("THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK," 1959)

94. JOHN McCLANE
    Yippie-ki-yay, motherfucker!
    ("DIE HARD," 1988)

95. KITTY: I was reading a book the other day.
    CARLOTTA: Reading a book?
    KITTY: Yes. It's all about civilization or something, a nutty kind of a book. Do you know that the guy said that machinery is going to take the place of every profession?
    CARLOTTA: Oh, my dear, that's something you need never worry about.
    ("DINNER AT EIGHT," 1933)

96. JOHNNY CASTLE: Nobody puts Baby in a corner.
    ("DIRTY DANCING," 1987)

97. HARRY CALLAHAN: You've got to ask yourself one question: "Do I feel lucky?" Well, do ya, punk?
    ("DIRTY HARRY," 1971)

98. DA MAYOR: Always do the right thing.
    MOOKIE: That's it?
    DA MAYOR: That's it.
    MOOKIE: I got it, I'm gone.
    ("DO THE RIGHT THING," 1989)

99. SONNY WORTZIK: Attica! Attica!
    ("DOG DAY AFTERNOON," 1975)

100. DONNIE BRASCO: Forget about it.
     ("DONNIE BRASCO," 1997)

101. PHYLLIS: There's a speed limit in this state, Mr. Neff. 45 miles an hour.
     WALTER: How fast was I going, officer?
     PHYLLIS: I'd say around 90.
     WALTER: Suppose you get down off your motorcycle and give me a ticket.
     PHYLLIS: Suppose I let you off with a warning this time.
     WALTER: Suppose it doesn't take.
     PHYLLIS: Suppose I have to whack you over the knuckles.
     WALTER: Suppose I bust out crying and put my head on your shoulder.
     PHYLLIS: Suppose you try putting it on my husband's shoulder.
     WALTER: That tears it...
     ("DOUBLE INDEMNITY," 1944)

102. JAMES BOND: Bond. James Bond.
     ("DR. NO," 1962)

103. PRESIDENT MERKIN MUFFLEY: Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!
     ("DR. STRANGELOVE," 1964)

104. DR. STRANGELOVE: Mein F¸hrer! I can walk!
     ("DR. STRANGELOVE," 1964)

105. COUNT DRACULA: Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make.
     ("DRACULA," 1931)

106. DAISY WERTHAN: Hoke, you're my best friend.
     ("DRIVING MISS DAISY," 1989)

107. RUFUS T. FIREFLY: Remember, you're fighting for this woman's honor, which is probably more than she ever did.
     ("DUCK SOUP," 1933)

108. RUFUS T. FIREFLY: I could dance with you 'til the cows come home. On second thought, I'd rather dance with the cows 'til you came home.
     ("DUCK SOUP," 1933)

109. RUFUS T. FIREFLY: I suggest that we give him ten years in Levenworth, or eleven years in Twelveworth.
     CHICOLINI: I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll take five and ten in Woolworth.
     ("DUCK SOUP," 1933)

110. E.T.: E.T. phone home.
     ("E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL," 1982)

111. WYATT: You know, Billy. We blew it.
     ("EASY RIDER," 1969)

112. JOHN MERRICK: I am not an animal! I am a human being. I am a man.
     ("THE ELEPHANT MAN," 1980)

113. ERIN BROCKOVICH: They're called boobs, Ed.
     ("ERIN BROCKOVICH," 2000)

114. REGAN/DEMON: What an excellent day for an exorcism.
     ("THE EXORCIST," 1973)

115. MARGE GUNDERSON: You betcha!
     ("FARGO," 1996)

116. JEFF SPICOLI: Hey, Bud, let's party!
     ("FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH," 1982)

117. ALEX FORREST: I won't be ignored, Dan!
     ("FATAL ATTRACTION," 1987)

118. FERRIS BUELLER: Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
     ("FERRIS BUELLER'S DAY OFF," 1986)

119. COL. NATHAN JESSEP: You can't handle the truth!
     ("A FEW GOOD MEN," 1992)

120. SHOELESS JOE JACKSON: If you build it, he will come.
     ("FIELD OF DREAMS," 1989)

121. TYLER DURDEN: First rule of Fight Club is -- you do not talk about Fight Club.
     ("FIGHT CLUB," 1999)

122. BOBBY DUPEA: Now all you have to do is hold the chicken, bring me the toast, give me a check for the chicken salad sandwich, and you haven't broken any rules.
     WAITRESS: You want me to hold the chicken, huh?
     BOBBY DUPEA: I want you to hold it between your knees.
     ("FIVE EASY PIECES," 1970)

123. ANDRE DELAMBRE: Help me! Help me!
     ("THE FLY," 1958)

124. VERONICA QUAIFE: Be afraid. Be very afraid.
     ("THE FLY," 1986)

125. MARIA: I do not know how to kiss, or I would kiss you. Where do the noses go?
     ("FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS," 1943)

126. YOUNG FORREST GUMP: Mama says, "Stupid is as stupid does."
     ("FORREST GUMP," 1994)

127. FORREST GUMP: My mama always said, "Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get."
     ("FORREST GUMP," 1994)

128. JULIAN MARSH: Sawyer, you're going out a youngster, but you've got to come back a star!
     ("42ND STREET," 1933)

129. REGGIE HAMMOND: I'm your worst fucking nightmare, man! A nigger with a badge.
     ("48 HOURS," 1982)

130. HENRY FRANKENSTEIN: It's alive! It's alive!
     ("FRANKENSTEIN," 1931)

131. FREAKS: Gobble gobble, gobble gobble. We accept her. One of us, one of us.
     ("FREAKS," 1932)

132. JIMMY 'POPEYE' DOYLE: When's the last time you picked your feet, Willy? Who's your connection, Willy? What's his name? I've got a man in Poughkeepsie who wants to talk to you. You ever been to Poughkeepsie?
     ("THE FRENCH CONNECTION," 1971)

133. CRAIG/SMOKEY: Damn!
     ("FRIDAY," 1995)

134. EVELYN COUCH: Face it girls, I'm older and I have more
     insurance.
     ("FRIED GREEN TOMATOES," 1991)

135. GUNNERY SGT. HARTMAN: What is your major malfunction?
     ("FULL METAL JACKET," 1987)

136. FANNY BRICE: Hello, gorgeous.
     ("FUNNY GIRL," 1968)

137. MOHANDAS GANDHI: If you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
     ("GANDHI," 1982)

138. PAULA: But because I am mad, I hate you. Because I am mad, I have betrayed you. And because I'm mad, I'm rejoicing in my heart, without a shred of pity, without a shred of regret, watching you go with glory in my heart!
     ("GASLIGHT," 1940)

139. GUY HOLDEN: Chance is the fool's name for fate.
     ("THE GAY DIVORCEE," 1934)

140. LORELEI: I always say a kiss on the hand might feel very good, but a diamond tiara lasts forever.
     ("GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES," 1953)

141. SAM WHEAT: It's amazing, Molly. The love inside, you take it with you.
     ("GHOST," 1990)

142. DR. PETER VENKMAN: We came. We saw. We kicked its ass.
     ("GHOSTBUSTERS," 1984)

143. DR. RAYMOND STANTZ: I've been slimed.
     ("GHOSTBUSTERS," 1984)

144. GILDA: If I'd been a ranch, they would've named me the Bar Nothing.
     ("GILDA," 1946)

145. MAXIMUS: Father to a murdered son. Husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next.
     ("GLADIATOR," 2000)

146. VITO CORLEONE: I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.
     ("THE GODFATHER," 1972)

147. PETE CLEMENZA: Leave the gun. Take the cannolis.
     ("THE GODFATHER," 1972)

148. PETE CLEMENZA: It's a Sicilian message. It means Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes.
     ("THE GODFATHER," 1972)

149. MICHAEL CORLEONE: I know it was you, Fredo. You broke my heart. You broke my heart.
     ("THE GODFATHER: PART II," 1974)

150. MICHAEL CORLEONE: Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
     ("THE GODFATHER: PART II," 1974)

151. HYMAN ROTH: Michael, we're bigger than U.S. Steel.
     ("THE GODFATHER: PART II," 1974)

152. MICHAEL CORLEONE: Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.
     ("THE GODFATHER: PART III," 1990)

153. JAMES BOND: A martini. Shaken, not stirred.
     ("GOLDFINGER," 1964)

154. SCARLETT O'HARA
     Fiddle-dee-dee.
     ("GONE WITH THE WIND," 1939)

155. PRISSY: I don't know nothin' 'bout birthin' babies.
     ("GONE WITH THE WIND," 1939)

156. SCARLETT O'HARA
     As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again.
     ("GONE WITH THE WIND," 1939)

157. SCARLETT O'HARA
     After all, tomorrow is another day!
     ("GONE WITH THE WIND," 1939)

158. RHETT BUTLER: Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.
     ("GONE WITH THE WIND," 1939)

159. ADRIAN KRONAUER: Good morning, Vietnam!
     ("GOOD MORNING, VIETNAM," 1987)

160. TOMMY DE VITO: Funny like I'm a clown? I amuse you?
     ("GOODFELLAS," 1990)

161. BENJAMIN BRADDOCK: Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me. Aren't you?
     ("THE GRADUATE," 1967)

162. MR. MAGUIRE: Plastics.
     ("THE GRADUATE," 1967)

163. GRUSINSKAYA: I want to be alone.
     ("GRAND HOTEL," 1932)
     
164. TOM JOAD: Wherever there's a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there.
     ("THE GRAPES OF WRATH," 1940)

165. THE POLITICIAN: If it weren't for graft, you'd get a very low type of people in politics.
     ("THE GREAT McGINTY," 1940)

166. COL. MIKE KIRBY: Out here, due process is a bullet.
     ("THE GREEN BERETS," 1968)

167. JOHN WADE PRENTICE: You think of yourself as a colored man. I think of myself as a man.
     ("GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER," 1967)

168. BART TARE: We go together, Laurie. I don't know why. Maybe like guns and ammunition go together.
     ("GUN CRAZY," 1949)

169. CUTTER: You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din.
     ("GUNGA DIN," 1939)

170. MAUDE: L-I-V-E! Live! Otherwise, you got nothing to talk about in the locker room.
     ("HAROLD AND MAUDE," 1971)

171. ELWOOD P. DOWD: Well, I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, Doctor, and I'm happy to state I finally won out over it.
     ("HARVEY," 1950)

172. HELEN: Would you be shocked if I put on something more comfortable?
     ("HELL'S ANGELS," 1930)

173. LOUIS XVI: It's good to be the king!
     ("HISTORY OF THE WORLD: PART I," 1981)

174. BARAVELLI: You sing-a high.
     CONNIE BAILEY: Yes, I have a falsetto voice.
     BARAVELLI: That's-a funny; my last pupil she got-a false set-a teeth.
     ("HORSE FEATHERS," 1932)

175. HUW MORGAN: Men like my father cannot die. They are with me still -- real in memory as they were in flesh, loving and beloved forever. How green was my valley then.
     ("HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY," 1941)

176. HUD BANNON: I'll remember you, honey. You're the one that got away.
     ("HUD," 1963)

177. QUASIMODO: Sanctuary!
     ("THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME," 1939)

178. BERT GORDON: Eddie, you're a born loser.
     ("THE HUSTLER," 1961)

179. HELEN: How do you live?
     JAMES ALLEN: I steal.
     ("I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG," 1932)

180. TIRA: Well, it's not the men in your life that counts, it's the life in your men.
     ("I'M NO ANGEL," 1933)

181. DIXON STEELE: I was born when she kissed me. I died when she left me. I lived a few weeks while she loved me.
     ("IN A LONELY PLACE," 1950)

182. VIRGIL TIBBS: They call me Mister Tibbs!
     ("IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT," 1967)

183. SCOTT CAREY: To God, there is no zero. I still exist.
     ("THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN," 1957)

184. DR. MILES J. BENNELL: They're here already! You're next! You're next!
     ("INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS," 1956)

185. ELLIE ANDREWS: Well, I proved once and for all that the limb is mightier than the thumb.
     ("IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT," 1934)

186. GEORGE BAILEY: What is it you want, Mary? What do you want? You want the moon? Just say the
     word, and I'll throw a lasso around it and pull it down.
     ("IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE," 1946)

187. HARRY BAILEY: To my big brother George, the richest man in town!
     ("IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE," 1946)

188. ZUZU BAILEY: Look, Daddy. Teacher says, "Every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings."
     ("IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE," 1946)

189. MARTIN BRODY: You're gonna need a bigger boat.
     ("JAWS," 1975)

190. JAKIE RABINOWITZ/JACK ROBIN: Wait a minute, wait a minute. You ain't
     heard nothin' yet!
     ("THE JAZZ SINGER," 1927)
     
191. NAVIN R. JOHNSON: I was born a poor black child.
     ("THE JERK," 1979)

192. ROD TIDWELL: Show me the money!
     ("JERRY MAGUIRE," 1996)

193. JERRY MAGUIRE: You complete me.
     ("JERRY MAGUIRE," 1996)

194. DOROTHY BOYD: You had me at "hello."
     ("JERRY MAGUIRE," 1996)

195. DR. IAN MALCOLM: Life will find a way.
     ("JURASSIC PARK," 1993)

196. MR. MIYAGI: Wax-on, wax-off.
     ("THE KARATE KID," 1984)

197. KING MONGKUT: Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
     ("THE KING AND I," 1956)

198. CARL DENHAM: Oh, no, it wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast.
     ("KING KONG," 1933)

199. RUPERT PUPKIN: Better to be king for a night than schmuck for a lifetime.
     ("THE KING OF COMEDY," 1983)

200. DRAKE McHUGH
     Where's the rest of me?
     ("KINGS ROW," 1942)

201. CHRISTINA: Get me to that bus stop and forget you ever saw me. If we don't make that bus stop...
     MIKE HAMMER: We will.
     CHRISTINA: If we don't, remember me.
     ("KISS ME DEADLY," 1955)

202. BREE DANIELS: And for an hour, for an hour -- I'm the best actress in the world...
     ("KLUTE," 1971)

203. KNUTE ROCKNE: Tell 'em to go out there with all they got and win just one for the Gipper.
     ("KNUTE ROCKNE ALL AMERICAN," 1940)

204. HERBERT H.HEEBERT
     Hey, lady!
     ("THE LADIES' MAN," 1961)

205. JEAN HARRINGTON: I need him like the axe needs the turkey.
     ("THE LADY EVE," 1941)

206. JOE CARRACLOUGH: You're my Lassie come home.
     ("LASSIE COME HOME," 1943)

207. WALDO LYDECKER: In my case, self-absorption is completely justified. I have never discovered any other subject so worthy of my attention.
     ("LAURA," 1944)

208. T. E. LAWRENCE: Sherif Ali, so long as the Arabs fight tribe against tribe, so long will they be a little people, a silly people, greedy, barbarous, and cruel as you are.
     ("LAWRENCE OF ARABIA," 1962)

209. T. E. LAWRENCE: No prisoners! No prisoners!
     ("LAWRENCE OF ARABIA," 1962)

210. JIMMY DUGAN: There's no crying in baseball!
     ("A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN," 1992)

211. CESARE ENRICO "RICO" BANDELLO: Mother of mercy, is this the end of Rico?
     ("LITTLE CAESAR," 1930)

212. THE LONE RANGER: Hi-Yo, Silver!
     ("THE LONE RANGER," 1956)

213. GOLLUM: My precious.
     ("THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS," 2002)

214. BARTENDER NAT: One drink's too many, and a hundred's not
     enough.
     ("THE LOST WEEKEND," 1945)

215. OLIVER BARRETT IV: Love means never having to say you're sorry.
     ("LOVE STORY," 1970)

216. MAJ. MARGARET O'HOULIHAN
     Oh, Frank, my lips are hot. Kiss my hot lips.
     ("M*A*S*H," 1970)

217. MR. ALBERT OSBORNE: Why don't you get out of that wet coat and into a dry martini?
     ("THE MAJOR AND THE MINOR," 1942)

218. MALCOLM X: We didn't land on Plymouth Rock -- Plymouth Rock landed on us!
     ("MALCOLM X," 1992)

219. DR. JED HILL: You ask me if I have a God complex. Let me tell you something. I am God.
     ("MALICE," 1993)

220. SAM SPADE: You're good, you're very good.
     ("THE MALTESE FALCON," 1941)

221. SAM SPADE: The stuff that dreams are made of.
     ("THE MALTESE FALCON," 1941)

222. MAXWELL SCOTT: This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.
     ("THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE," 1962)

223. ISAAC DAVIS: I think people should mate for life, like pigeons or Catholics.
     ("MANHATTAN," 1979)

224. DR. CHRISTIAN SZELL: Is it safe?
     ("MARATHON MAN," 1976)

225. ANGIE: What do you feel like doing tonight?
     MARTY: I don't know, Ange. What do you feel like doing?
     ("MARTY," 1955)

226. STANLEY IPKISS: Somebody stop me!
     ("THE MASK," 1994)

227. ESTHER SMITH: I can't believe it. Right here where we live -- right here in St. Louis.
     ("MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS," 1944)

228. JACK BYRNES: I have nipples, Greg. Could you milk me?
     ("MEET THE PARENTS," 2000)

229. AGENT J: You know the difference between you and me? I make this look good.
     ("MEN IN BLACK," 1977)

230. 'RATSO' RIZZO: I'm walking here! I'm walking here!
     ("MIDNIGHT COWBOY," 1969)

231. IDA CORWIN: Personally, Veda's convinced me that alligators have the right idea. They eat their young.
     ("MILDRED PIERCE," 1945)

232. ANNIE WILKES: I am your number one fan.
     ("MISERY," 1990)

233. ENSIGN PULVER: Captain, it is I, Ensign Pulver, and I just threw your stinking palm tree overboard. Now, what's all this crud about no movie tonight?
     ("MISTER ROBERTS," 1955)

234. JOAN CRAWFORD: No wire hangers, ever!
     ("MOMMIE DEAREST," 1981)

235. LORETTA CASTORINI: Snap out of it!
     ("MOONSTRUCK," 1987)

236. JUDGE MAY: But, in the opinion of the court, you are not only sane but you're the sanest man that ever walked into this courtroom.
     ("MR. DEEDS GOES TO TOWN," 1936)

237. JEFFERSON SMITH: I wouldn't give you two cents for all your fancy rules if, behind them, they didn't have a little bit of plain, ordinary, everyday kindness and a little looking out for the other fella, too.
     ("MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON," 1939)

238. JEFFERSON SMITH: You think I'm licked. You all think I'm licked. Well, I'm not licked. And I'm going to stay right here and fight for this lost cause. Even if this room gets filled with lies like these, and the Taylors and all their armies come marching into this place.
     ("MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON," 1939)

239. VICAR: This is the people's war! It is our war! We are the fighters! Fight it, then! Fight it with all that is in us, and may God defend the right.
     ("MRS. MINIVER," 1942)

240. CAPTAIN BLIGH: Mr. Christian!
     ("MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY," 1935)

241. MONA LISA VITO: My biological clock is ticking like this, and the way this case is going, I ain't never getting married!
     ("MY COUSIN VINNY," 1992)

242. WYATT EARP: Mac, you ever been in love?
     MAC
     No, I've been a bartender all my life.
     ("MY DARLING CLEMENTINE," 1946)

243. CUTHBERT J. TWILLIE: Will you take me?
     FLOWER BELLE LEE: I'll take you -- and how.
     ("MY LITTLE CHICKADEE," 1940)

244. NARRATOR: There are eight million stories in the naked city. This has been one of them.
     ("THE NAKED CITY," 1948)

245. JOHN 'BLUTO' BLUTARSKY: Toga! Toga!
     ("NATIONAL LAMPOON'S ANIMAL HOUSE," 1978)

246. JOHN 'BLUTO' BLUTARSKY: Over? Did you say "over?" Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell, no!
     ("NATIONAL LAMPOON'S ANIMAL HOUSE," 1978)

247. DEAN WORMER: Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.
     ("NATIONAL LAMPOON'S ANIMAL HOUSE," 1978)

248. DEXTER: Who's on first.
     ("THE NAUGHTY NINETIES," 1945)

249. HOWARD BEALE: I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!
     ("NETWORK," 1976)

250. CLOAKROOM GIRL: Goodness, what beautiful diamonds
     MAUDIE TRIPLETT: Goodness had nothing to do with it, dearie.
     ("NIGHT AFTER NIGHT," 1932)

251. OTIS B. DRIFTWOOD: It's alright, that's in every contract. That's what they call a sanity clause.
     FIORELLO: You can't fool me! There ain't no Sanity Claus.
     ("A NIGHT AT THE OPERA," 1935)

252. REV. HARRY POWELL: Would you like me to tell you the little story of right hand, left hand? The story of good and evil? H-A-T-E. It was with this left hand that old brother Cain struck the blow that laid his brother low. L-O-V-E. You see these fingers, dear hearts? These fingers has veins that run straight to the soul of man -- the right hand, friends, the hand of love.
     ("THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER," 1955)

253. CHILDREN: One, two, Freddy's coming for you...
     ("A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET," 1984)

254. COUNT LEON D'ALGOUT: Ninotchka, it's midnight. One half of Paris is making love to the other half.
     ("NINOTCHKA," 1939)

255. NINOTCHKA: Must you flirt?
     LEON: Well, I don't have to, but I find it natural.
     NINOTCHKA: Suppress it.
     ("NINOTCHKA," 1939)

256. CHARLOTTE VALE: Oh, Jerry, don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars.
     ("NOW, VOYAGER," 1942)

257. OSCAR MADISON: I cannot stand little notes on my pillow! "We are all out of cornflakes, F.U." It took me three hours to figure out F.U. was Felix Unger.
     ("THE ODD COUPLE," 1968)

258. GOD: The last miracle I did was the 1969 Mets. Before that, I think you have to go back to the Red Sea.
     ("OH, GOD!," 1977)

259. ETHEL THAYER: Listen to me, mister. You're my knight in shining armor. Don't you forget it. You're going to get back on that horse, and I'm going to be right behind you, holding on tight, and away we're gonna go, go, go!
     ("ON GOLDEN POND," 1981)

260. ETHEL THAYER: Come here, Norman. Hurry up. The loons! The loons! They're welcoming us back.
     ("ON GOLDEN POND," 1981)

261. TERRY MALLOY: You don't understand! I could've had class. I could've been a contender. I could've been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am.
     ("ON THE WATERFRONT," 1954)

262. KAREN BLIXEN: I had a farm in Africa.
     ("OUT OF AFRICA," 1985)

263. JEFF BAILEY: You know, maybe I was wrong and luck is like love. You have to go all the way to find it.
     ("OUT OF THE PAST," 1947)

264. KATHIE MOFFAT: I think we deserve a break.
     JEFF BAILEY: We deserve each other.
     ("OUT OF THE PAST," 1947)

265. JOSEY WALES: Dyin' ain't much of a living, boy.
     ("THE OUTLAW JOSEY WALES," 1976)

266. JOHN D. HACKENSACKER III: Chivalry is not only dead, it's decomposed.
     ("THE PALM BEACH STORY," 1942)

267. MIKE CONOVAN: Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
     ("PAT AND MIKE," 1952)

268. GEN. GEORGE PATTON: Now, I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.
     ("PATTON," 1970)

269. PEE-WEE HERMAN: I know you are, but what am I?
     ("PEE-WEE'S BIG ADVENTURE," 1985)

270. MIKE CONNOR: You're lit from within, Tracy. You've got fires banked down in you, hearth-fires and holocausts.
     ("THE PHILADELPHIA STORY," 1940)

271. JAN MORROW: Mr. Allen, this may come as a shock to you, but there are some men who don't end every sentence with a proposition.
     ("PILLOW TALK," 1959)

272. INSPECTOR CLOUSEAU: Does your dog bite?
     ("THE PINK PANTHER STRIKES AGAIN," 1976)

273. THE BLUE FAIRY: A lie keeps growing and growing until it's as clear as the nose on your face.
     ("PINOCCHIO," 1940)

274. GEORGE EASTMAN: I love you. I've loved you since the first moment I saw you. I guess maybe I've even loved you before I saw you.
     ("A PLACE IN THE SUN," 1951)

275. GEORGE TAYLOR: Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape!
     ("PLANET OF THE APES," 1968)

276. CAROL ANNE FREELING: They're here!
     ("POLTERGEIST," 1982)

277. PROF. EUSTACE P. McGARGLE
     Never give a sucker an even break.
     ("POPPY," 1936)

278. FRANK CHAMBERS: With my brains and your looks, we could go places.
     ("THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE," 1946)

279. VIVIAN: I want the fairy tale.
     ("PRETTY WOMAN," 1990)

280. LOU GEHRIG: Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.
     ("THE PRIDE OF THE YANKEES," 1942)

281. INIGO MONTOYA: Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die!
     ("THE PRINCESS BRIDE," 1987)

282. PVT. JUDY BENJAMIN: I did join the Army, but I joined a different Army. I joined the one with the condos and the private rooms.
     ("PRIVATE BENJAMIN," 1980)

283. FRANZ LIEBKIND: Not many people know it, but the Fuhrer was a terrific dancer.
     ("THE PRODUCERS," 1968)

284. NORMAN BATES: A boy's best friend is his mother.
     ("PSYCHO," 1960)

285. NORMAN BATES: We all go a little mad sometimes.
     ("PSYCHO," 1960)

286. TOM POWERS: I ain't so tough.
     ("THE PUBLIC ENEMY," 1931)

287. ZED: Bring out the Gimp.
     ("PULP FICTION," 1994)

288. VINCENT: They call it a "Royale with Cheese."
     ("PULP FICTION," 1994)

289. INDIANA JONES: Snakes! Why did it have to be snakes?
     ("RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK," 1987)

290. RAYMOND BABBITT: I'm an excellent driver.
     ("RAIN MAN," 1988)

291. H.I. McDUNNOUGH: I'll be taking these Huggies and whatever cash you got.
     ("RAISING ARIZONA," 1987)

292. THE SECOND MRS. DE WINTER (V. O.)
     Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.
     ("REBECCA," 1940)

293. JIM STARK: You're tearing me apart!
     ("REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE," 1955)

294. CHERRY VALANCE: There are only two things more beautiful than a good gun -- a Swiss watch and a woman from anywhere.
     ("RED RIVER," 1948)

295. MR. BLONDE: Are you gonna bark all day, little doggie, or are you gonna bite?
     ("RESERVOIR DOGS," 1992)

296. MILES: Sometimes you gotta say, "What the fuck."
     ("RISKY BUSINESS," 1983)

297. ROCKY BALBOA: Yo, Adrian!
     ("ROCKY," 1976)

298. ROSEMARY WOODHOUSE: This isn't a dream! This is really happening!
     ("ROSEMARY'S BABY," 1968)

299. CAPT. JOHN MILLER: Earn this.
     ("SAVING PRIVATE RYAN," 1998)

300. LLOYD DOBLER: I gave her my heart, and she gave me a pen.
     ("SAY ANYTHING...," 1989)

301. TONY MONTANA: Say "hello" to my little friend!
     ("SCARFACE," 1983)

302. LT. COL. FRANK SLADE: Hoo-ah!
     ("SCENT OF A WOMAN," 1992)

303. ITZAK STERN: The list is an absolute good. The list is life.
     ("SCHINDLER'S LIST," 1993)

304. GHOSTFACE: Do you like scary movies?
     ("SCREAM," 1996)

305. ETHAN EDWARDS: Let's go home, Debbie.
     ("THE SEARCHERS," 1956)

306. JOEY STARRETT: Shane! Shane! Come back!
     ("SHANE," 1953)

307. SHANGHAI LILY: It took more than one man to change my name to Shanghai Lily.
     ("SHANGHAI EXPRESS," 1932)

308. ANDY: Get busy livin', or get busy dyin'.
     ("THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION," 1994)

309. LADY LOU: Why don't you come up sometime and see me?
     ("SHE DONE HIM WRONG," 1933)

310. CAPT. NATHAN BRITTLES: Never apologize and never explain, it's a sign of weakness.
     ("SHE WORE A YELLOW RIBBON," 1949)

311. MARS BLACKMON: Please-baby-please-baby-please-baby-babybaby. Please!
     ("SHE'S GOTTA HAVE IT," 1986)

312. JACK TORRANCE: Here's Johnny!
     ("THE SHINING," 1980)

313. DR. HANNIBAL LECTER: A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.
     ("THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS," 1991)

314. DR. HANNIBAL LECTER: I do wish we could chat longer, but I'm having an old friend for dinner.
     ("THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS," 1991)

315. MARCEL MARCEAU: Non!
     ("SILENT MOVIE," 1976)

316. LINA LAMONT: What do they think I am, dumb or something? Why, I make more money than Calvin Coolidge! Put together!
     ("SINGIN' IN THE RAIN," 1952)

317. COLE SEAR: I see dead people.
     ("THE SIXTH SENSE," 1999)

318. LUNA SCHLOSSER: It's hard to believe that you haven't had sex for two hundred years.
     MILES MONROE: Two hundred and four, if you count my marriage.
     ("SLEEPER," 1973)

319. QUEEN: Magic Mirror on the wall, who is the fairest one of all?
     ("SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS," 1937)

320. JERRY: Look at that! Look how she moves. That's just like Jell-O on springs. She must have some sort of built-in motor. I tell you, it's a whole different sex!
     ("SOME LIKE IT HOT," 1959)

321. OSGOOD FIELDING III: Well, nobody's perfect.
     ("SOME LIKE IT HOT," 1959)

322. OLIVER: Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into!
     ("SONS OF THE DESERT," 1933)

323. DET. ROBERT THORN: Soylent Green is people!
     ("SOYLENT GREEN," 1973)

324. ANTONINUS/REBEL SLAVES: I'm Spartacus! I'm Spartacus!
     ("SPARTACUS," 1960)

325. TERRY RANDALL: The calla lilies are in bloom again.
     ("STAGE DOOR," 1937)

326. OBERST VON SCHERBACH: Nobody has ever escaped from Stalag 17. Not alive, anyway.
     ("STALAG 17," 1953)

327. ESTHER BLODGETT: Hello, everybody. This is Mrs. Norman Maine.
     ("A STAR IS BORN," 1954)

328. HAN SOLO: May the Force be with you.
     ("STAR WARS," 1977)

329. PRINCESS LEIA: Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope.
     ("STAR WARS," 1977)

330. DARTH VADER: I am your father.
     ("STAR WARS V: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK," 1980)

331. YODA: Do, or do not. There is no try.
     ("STAR WARS V: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK," 1980)

332. STANLEY KOWALSKI: Stella! Hey, Stella!
     ("A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE," 1951)

333. BLANCHE DUBOIS: I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
     ("A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE," 1951)

334. HARRY CALLAHAN: Go ahead, make my day.
     ("SUDDEN IMPACT," 1983)

335. JOHN L. SULLIVAN: There's a lot to be said for making people laugh. Did you know that's all some people have? It isn't much, but it's better than nothing in this cockeyed caravan. Boy!
     ("SULLIVAN'S TRAVELS," 1941)

336. NORMA DESMOND: I am big! It's the pictures that got small.
     ("SUNSET BLVD.," 1950)

337. NORMA DESMOND: We didn't need dialogue. We had faces.
     ("SUNSET BLVD.," 1950)

338. NORMA DESMOND: All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up.
     ("SUNSET BLVD.," 1950)

339. YOUNGBLOOD PRIEST: Can you dig it?
     ("SUPERFLY," 1972)

340. SUPERMAN: I'm here to fight for truth, justice, and the American way.
     ("SUPERMAN," 1978)

341. J. J. HUNSECKER: Match me, Sidney.
     ("SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS," 1957)

342. TRENT: You're so money, and you don't even know it.
     ("SWINGERS," 1996)

343. TRENT: Vegas, baby.
     ("SWINGERS," 1996)

344. BANK TELLER #1: Does this look like "gub" or "gun"?
     BANK TELLER #2: Gun. See? But what's "abt" mean?
     VIRGIL STARKWELL: It's "act". A-C-T. Act natural. Please put fifty thousand dollars into this bag and act natural.
     BANK TELLER #1: Oh, I see. This is a holdup?
     ("TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN," 1969)

345. TARZAN: Jane. Tarzan. Jane. Tarzan.
     ("TARZAN THE APE MAN," 1932)

346. TRAVIS BICKLE: You talkin' to me?
     ("TAXI DRIVER," 1976)

347. LAURA REYNOLDS: Years from now, when you talk about this -- and you will -- be kind.
     ("TEA AND SYMPATHY," 1956)

348. NEFRETIRI: Oh, Moses, Moses, you stubborn, splendid, adorable fool!
     ("THE TEN COMMANDMENTS," 1956)

349. THE TERMINATOR: I'll be back.
     ("THE TERMINATOR," 1984)

350. THE TERMINATOR: Hasta la vista, baby.
     ("TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY," 1991)

351. AURORA GREENWAY: Would you like to come in?
     GARRETT BREEDLOVE: I'd rather stick needles in my eyes.
     ("TERMS OF ENDEARMENT," 1983)

352. NADA: I have come here to chew bubble gum and kick ass, and I'm all out of bubble gum.
     ("THEY LIVE," 1988)

353. NORA CHARLES: They say you were shot in the tabloids
     NICK CHARLES: They never got near my tabloids.
     ("THE THIN MAN," 1934)

354. NED "SCOTTY" SCOTT: Watch the skies, everywhere, keep looking! Keep watching the skies!
     ("THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD," 1951)

355. HARRY LIME: In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, and they had 500 years of democracy and peace. And what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.
     ("THE THIRD MAN," 1949)

356. NIGEL TUFNEL: These go to eleven.
     ("THIS IS SPINAL TAP," 1984)

357. JACK DAWSON: I'm king of the world!
     ("TITANIC," 1997)

358. COL. EHRHARDT: What he did to Shakepeare, we are doing now to Poland.
     ("TO BE OR NOT TO BE," 1942)

359. FRANCES STEVENS: Do you want a leg or a breast?
     ("TO CATCH A THIEF," 1955)

360. MARIE "SLIM" BROWNING: You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow.
     ("TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT," 1944)

361. REVEREND SYKES: Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passing.
     ("TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD," 1962)

362. ATTICUS FINCH: You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view, until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.
     ("TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD," 1962)

363. RITA: I'd like to make her look a little more attractive. How far can you pull back?
     CAMERAMAN: How do you feel about Cleveland?
     ("TOOTSIE," 1982)

364. LT. PETE "MAVERICK" MITCHELL: I feel the need...
     LT. PETE 'MAVERICK' MITCHELL/LT. NICK 'GOOSE' BRADSHAW: ...the need for speed!
     ("TOP GUN," 1986)

365. TANYA: He was some kind of a man. What does it matter what you say about people?
     ("TOUCH OF EVIL," 1958)

366. BUZZ LIGHTYEAR: To infinity and beyond!
     ("TOY STORY," 1995)

367. GOLD HAT: Badges? We ain't got no badges! We don't need no badges! I don't have to show you any stinking badges!
     ("THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE," 1948)

368. MARIETTE COLET: You see, FranÁois, marriage is a beautiful mistake which two people make together. But with you, Francois, I think it would be a mistake.
     ("TROUBLE IN PARADISE," 1932)

369. ROOSTER COGBURN: Fill your hands, you son-of-a-bitch!
     ("TRUE GRIT," 1969)

370. HAL: Dave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave? Stop, Dave. I'm afraid.
     ("2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY," 1968)

371. DAVE BOWMAN: Open the pod bay doors, HAL.
     ("2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY," 1968)

372. WILLIAM "BILL" MUNNY: It's a hell of a thing killin' a man. You take away all he's got and all he's ever gonna have.
     ("UNFORGIVEN," 1992)

373. VERBAL KINT: The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist.
     ("THE USUAL SUSPECTS," 1995)

374. THE VIRGINIAN: If you wanna call me that, smile.
     ("THE VIRGINIAN," 1929)

375. STANLEY MOTSS: This is nothing!
     ("WAG THE DOG," 1997)

376. GORDON GEKKO: Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.
     ("WALL STREET," 1987)

377. JOSHUA THE COMPUTER: Would you like to play a game?
     ("WARGAMES," 1983)

378. LUTHER: Warriors, come out to play!
     ("THE WARRIORS," 1979)

379. WAYNE CAMPBELL/GARTH ALGAR: Schwing!
     ("WAYNE'S WORLD," 1992)

380. WAYNE CAMPBELL/GARTH ALGAR: We're not worthy. We're not worthy.
     ("WAYNE'S WORLD," 1992)

381. CURT DUNCAN (V.0.): Have you checked the children lately?
     ("WHEN A STRANGER CALLS," 1979)

382. CUSTOMER: I'll have what she's having.
     ("WHEN HARRY MET SALLY...," 1989)

383. HARRY BURNS: But I would be proud...
     SALLY ALBRIGHT: But I would be proud...
     HARRY BURNS: ...to partake...
     SALLY ALBRIGHT: ...to partake...
     HARRY BURNS: ...of your pecan pie.
     SALLY ALBRIGHT: ...of your pecan pie.
     ("WHEN HARRY MET SALLY...," 1989)

384. ARTHUR 'CODY' JARRETT: Made it, Ma! Top of the world!
     ("WHITE HEAT," 1949)

385. JESSICA RABBIT: I'm not bad. I'm just drawn that way.
     ("WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT," 1988)

386. GEORGE: And that's how you play "Get the Guests."
     ("WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?," 1966)

387. PIKE BISHOP: If they move, kill 'em.
     ("THE WILD BUNCH," 1969)

388. MILDRED: Hey, Johnny, what are you rebelling against?
     JOHNNY STRABLER: What've you got?
     ("THE WILD ONE," 1953)

389. DOROTHY GALE: Toto, I've got a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.
     ("THE WIZARD OF OZ," 1939)

390. THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST: I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too!
     ("THE WIZARD OF OZ," 1939)

391. DOROTHY GALE/THE SCARECROW/THE TIN MAN: Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!
     ("THE WIZARD OF OZ," 1939)

392. THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST: I'm melting! Melting! Oh, what a world!
     What a world!
     ("THE WIZARD OF OZ," 1939)

393. THE WIZARD OF OZ: Pay no attention to that man behind the
     curtain!
     ("THE WIZARD OF OZ," 1939)

394. DOROTHY GALE: There's no place like home.
     ("THE WIZARD OF OZ," 1939)

395. SAM CRAIG: Women should be kept illiterate and clean,
     like canaries.
     ("WOMAN OF THE YEAR," 1942)

396. CRYSTAL ALLEN: There's a name for you ladies, but it isn't used in high society -- outside of a kennel.
     ("THE WOMEN," 1939)

397. TESS McGILL: I have a head for business and a bod for
     sin.
     ("WORKING GIRL," 1988)

398. CATHY: No matter what I ever do or say, Heathcliff, this is me -- now -- standing on this hill with you. This is me, forever.
     ("WUTHERING HEIGHTS," 1939)

399. GEORGE M. COHAN: My mother thanks you. My father thanks you. My sister thanks you. And I thank you.
     ("YANKEE DOODLE DANDY," 1942)

400. IGOR: What hump?
     ("YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN," 1974)
     

A more detailed list, including actor and director credits, can be found at the AFI Web site (PDF).

Bush fowl photos

Study these photos -- you'll probably be seeing a lot more of them.

							AP

I predict that Photoshop satirists will have a field day with these images of President Bush sparing Biscuits' life at the annual Pardoning of the National Thanksgiving Turkey ceremony at the White House today. Biscuits, incidentally, will live out his remaining years at the Kidwell Farm petting zoo at Frying Pan Park in Herndon, Va.

Video of the solemn ceremony is available from the White House Web site.

Feeling for fish

As we report today, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has embarked on a "fish empathy" campaign to try and persuade consumers to forego eating our finny friends based on scientific research that indicates their brains are more developed than previously thought.

Unscientific research from our Daily Poll today indicates that the group may face an uphill battle.

Incidentally, our story contains one of the most memorable quotes of the week so far, courtesy of unrepentent fisherman Paul Matson: "I stalk them, surround them, kill them and sell the flesh. And I couldn't care one little bit what the rest of the world thinks about the hierarchy of sentient beings."

Who needs people?

We now have a pillow that imitates a boyfriend's arm and one that transmits long-distance hugs. So, I guess it was inevitable that someone would make a pillow shaped like a woman's lap -- complete with miniskirt.

Human contact is fast becoming a quaint thing of the past, it seems.

Call for laws

Today's installment of our special report, Driven to Distraction, looks at attempts here and elsewhere to ban the use of hand-held cell phones while driving. They're banned in New York, New Jersey, the District of Columbia and 40 countries.

Cell phones aren't the only high-tech distractions found in today's cars. On-the-go DVD players are a growing problem now, but only Louisiana and California have laws against watching them while driving. Washington merely outlaws driving with a TV in view.

There doesn't appear to be any research on the risk posed by watching movies while at the wheel, but as Mike Goodman, head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's driver vehicle performance group, says: "It's a no brainer. You don't have to do research that a driver shouldn't watch a movie while driving. You don't have to waste public funds on that."

Gridiron science

Football games are just lessons in applied physics for University of Nebraska scientist Timothy Gay, the New York Times reports:

To watch a football game with Dr. Gay is to view the sport through a different lens, one where talk of fly patterns, blitzes and muffed punts is supplemented by discussions of vector analysis, conservation of momentum and strange forces that can affect the flight of the ball. At Dr. Gay's perch a dozen rows back on the 35-yard line, Isaac Newton is cited as often as Vince Lombardi, and the X's and O's of the game are enhanced by delta-V's and delta-T's. ...

Dr. Gay is as much a teacher as he is a researcher, and for the past five years has been intent on teaching fans of football something of the science behind it, first with a series of humorous one-minute videos shown on the scoreboard at Nebraska games and now with a book, "Football Physics: The Science of the Game."

Rolling into Boston

Well, it looks like the guys who set out from Seattle in August to cross the country by Segway made it.

Leaf rage

Well, here's a new one: leaf rage.

Per the Advocate in Stamford, Conn.:

Police arrested a North Stamford man yesterday in what may be the first leaf-rage incident in city history.

Michael Peters, 67, became angry when city employees told him they would not remove the leaves from his property, grabbing a supervisor by the collar and holding his car door so he could not drive away, police said.

Free is better than paid

CBS MarketWatch's Bambi Francisco opines that the jury has returned a verdict on that perennial question of e-publishing business models: paid subscription or free with ads?

On Monday, the [Online Publishers Association] reported that web surfers spent $853 million in the first half of this year on paid content. That was a 14 percent increase from the same period in the previous year. The increase was due in large part to a surge in music downloads, such as people buying songs from Apple's ... i-Tunes, for instance. Subscription fees for business investment content fell 6 percent in the same period.

Separately, the Internet Advertising Bureau said that online advertising dollars shot up 35 percent in the third quarter to $2.43 billion. At that rate online advertising in 2004 "is shaping up to be a record year, possibly exceeding by a large margin the previous revenue record," of $8 billion set in 2000, the Bureau said. By some estimates online advertising could reach $10 billion this year.

By contrast, if paid content continues at the same growth rate as the first half of the year, it will reach $1.7 billion in 2004, and register a growth rate that's less than half of online advertising's.

So now that the Web has been commercial for about 10 years, can we conclude that the online advertising model for news is a better mousetrap than a subscription-based model? Apparently.

Dependent on tech

In Are search technologies evil? François Joseph de Kermadec raises some important questions about growing too dependent on technology. Especially, he points out, tools and services provided by companies that could stop offering them at any time.

It's a lesson I hope many learned during the dot-com crash, when we were invited to do everything from buying groceries to hiring janitorial services to storing all our files online -- only to watch those services go kaput, often with little warning. (Personally, I miss being able to have a bag of chips delivered to my door at 11:30 p.m. via Kozmo. Not that I ever did that, but it was nice to know I could.)

But are services such as Google's Gmail or Spotlight, Apple's forthcoming, OS-level desktop search technology, setting consumers up for the same kind of fall?

Cell phones at the wheel

The P-I begins a two-part series today on the hazards of driving while talking on a cell phone. A few disturbing factoids from the first installment:

• The accident risk for drivers talking on cell phones is the same as that for people driving with a 0.08 blood alcohol level.
• 68% of drivers nationwide deem talking on the phone while driving dangerous -- yet 51% have done it
• Talking on the phone is the second most common driver distraction in Washington state, after eating. Rounding up the top six are steering with legs(!), applying makeup or shaving, reading a newspaper or book, and text messaging (!!). (I take some solace in the fact that the latter items require enough dexterity and agility to discourage most people from trying them.)
• Drivers who cause accidents while talking on the phone usually don't face any serious penalties -- even if they kill someone. The practice is not against the law and, because it's so common, one prosecutor tells us, it's difficult to prove that it constitutes criminal negligence.
• It's against the law in Washington to hug someone while driving.

A related sidebar rounds up several studies that detail why it's more dangerous to drive while talking on the phone.

We also invited readers to sound off on the topic of phoning while driving -- and, boy, are they responding.

How the brain creates

Wall Street Journal science columnist Sharon Begley reports that researchers may be making progress on unraveling the secrets of creativity:

Since creativity emanates from the mind, and the mind is the child of the brain, you'd think neuroscientists would be drawing a bead on the source and character of this highly prized mental skill. But progress has been slow, in part because neuroscientists' pet technique -- brain-imaging -- can't track real-life creative processes such as thinking up "Guernica" or proving Fermat's last theorem. So rather than concede defeat as Sigmund Freud did (referring to Dostoevsky, he wrote, "Before the problem of the creative artist, analysis must, alas, lay down its arms"), researchers are using proxies of true insight and creativity, such as brainteasers.

Governor's race updates

Want to keep up with the very latest returns in the Washington governor's race -- without having to keep visiting a Web site? You can do it using Microsoft Excel's Web query feature. Jeremy Rule expla