this is the kind of thing I love

Well, three things really.

The first is this great short film on Amazon right now. It stars Minnie Driver, as a drug addicted corporate climber, and man is she mean. It's funny, and sweet, and free for the downloading. It's also the first in the series, so check it out.

The second is the WIRED CD. The link takes you to a page which should shortly have the entire CD for download, as well as downloadable remixes and mash-ups that people create from the songs on the CD (downloads were supposed to be available Nov. 9th, but aren't up yet) has all the songs for download, and will have mash-ups and remixes soon. While you're there, it's worth taking a look at what's behind the Creative Commons license. Also, if you're at college or grad school, take a look at Free Culture for ways to get the word out on your campus about things like Creative Commons, open source software, unreasonable expansion of copyright and more. If you're not is school, you can still check them out, and you may also want to visit the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

The third is Athena Astronautics. It's some kind of teaser for a video game, I think. There are three other websites associated with it, too. One is a blog by a trainee at Athena, one is a site tracking a vast conspiracy to cover up government secrets about aliens called Channel 51, and one is an advanced weapons manufacturer called Orbis Labs. Here's another blog commenting on it. Looks like it may be something like the I Love Bees promotion of Halo 2.

UPDATE: (10:29 am) I just remembered this, and had to add it. Jim Munroe has finished publishing his latest novel as 88 blog entries, one per day on a fake blog site. It' called Roommate from Hell, and you can read it as a series of blog entries here, or buy it in book form here. For more info, check this page. It was an interesting exercise in patience to read this one day at a time, but you can read it all at once now, if you want. The illustrations are fabulous, too.