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Are you excited about Anonymous, the movie that’s going to shock the world by revealing the shocking truth? No, me either. Check this out, from a New York Times take-down of the film:

The most troubling thing about Anonymous is not that it turns Shakespeare into an illiterate money-grubber. It’s not even that England’s virgin Queen Elizabeth is turned into a wantonly promiscuous woman who is revealed to be both the lover and mother of de Vere. Rather, it’s that in making the case for de Vere, the film turns great plays into propaganda.

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By bringing this unsubstantiated version of history to the screen, a lot of facts — theatrical and political — are trampled.

(Thanks to Gregory Wolfe for sending that link along.)

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Here are several fingertips, poking at you until you poke at the links I’ve discovered…  (more…)

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I’m going to try and recharge my blogging routine by bringing back “The Browser” with a different name – “Fingertips.”

TMBG outdid themselves on their album Apollo 18 by including a blast of fleeting songs called “Fingertips”… five-to-ten-second hooks that you can’t get out of your head.

Similarly, my blog’s Fingertips will be a list of miscellaneous links and interesting trivia that I found worthy of sharing.

For example:

What may be the most creative work inspired by Winter 2010 so far: Optimus Ice Sculpture.

Got the idea?

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