If your taste in movies is even remotely similar to mine, you’re excited that the Coen brothers are making a version of True Grit, and even more excited that it stars Jeff Bridges.

Here are some snapshots of the set in Granger, TX being prepped for filming.

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Tonight Flogging Molly is playing at 1st Ave. Then Gogol Bordello is playing there on Saturday and Sunday with Devotchka.

Too bad I don’t have $90 I wasn’t going to spend on anything else. I guess YouTube will have to do:

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Here are two things I learned yesterday and then a bonus tip for free.

1. Get a link from MollyPiper.com (Thanks, babe!)

2. Use the phrase “drunk girl” in a post’s title.

And the bonus tip:

3. Make ludicrously concrete and overly-simplistic claims about easy ways to increase web traffic. (I can’t believe you clicked through…but thanks!)

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Today is a national day of mourning in China because of the Yushu earthquake that has taken over 2,000 lives.

In recognition of this, many major Chinese websites have removed color from their designs and gone black and white.

(via @jkpittman, images via China Media Project)

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Screen savers seem like an unnecessary holdover from the era when you’d try to beat solitaire just to see the cards bounce around—because it was Uh-May-Zing that something on a computer screen could move.

Maybe not, though. Perhaps they have some purpose that a blank screen doesn’t accomplish. (Other than simply being awesome, of course.)

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