Daily Links for May 8th

  • The Goonies Cast Members Talk Sequel at Reunion – The entire cast, along with director Richard Donner and producer Steven Spielberg, reunited in Hollywood On March 17, 2009 for the first time in 20 years, and wouldn’t you know it, a few of ‘em expressed interest in a sequel. For their 20th anniversary issue, Empire magazine just released a video from the interview and photo shoot on their website today that shows The Goonies crew bantering about the possibilities. But should the chatter be taken seriously? Take a look at what some cast members said below the jump and decide for yourself…
  • 240 Free Albums, Tracks and Links for Music Mashup Lovers – Audiotuts+ – If you like mashups, this post is for you.
  • Hullabaloo: Today in Utterly Crazy – Let's take a moment to meditate on this tenured professor at Cornell Law School, who has now spent close to 36 hours publicly obsessing over Barack Obama's choice of Dijon mustard for his hamburger. In any other country, anywhere in the world, the story itself, accompanied by 10 updates, two companion articles, and continued smug pronouncements that "I must have hit a nerve" uncovering the evil Dijon mustard/Presidential agenda and the refusal of the lib media to report the FACTS, would be followed by a small group of men coming to his house and asking if he would like to lay down for a bit, perhaps with some herbal tea and a friend. In America, this brilliant insight gets picked up by multiple top-ranked radio outlets and the most heavily-watched cable news station in America.
  • 10 Changes To Wordpress That Would Make It A Killer CMS [Update] (Noscope) – What’s keeping this? A few things. Besides the necessary critical mass of not-blog-only-websites sporting Wordpress, there are just a few hurdles keeping Wordpress out in the cold. There’s the “isn’t Wordpress that free Blogspot-like website?” confusion (for the love of goodness couldn’t you have called it “Wordpress-Spot”, “Spotpress” or just about anything else than Wordpress.com?). Besides that, there are a few technical and therefore solvable issues, which I have tried to collect here.
  • Search Goes Real-Time With Scoopler. Twitter Dominates Results. – Scoopler is a search engine that gives you live updating real-time results across a variety of services. These include Twitter, Flickr, Digg, Delicious and others. You enter a query and the middle field on the page returns auto-updating results based on information coming in. The two columns that surround it give you hot search topics and popular content from around the web. It’s a pretty nice view of what is happening on the web at any given moment.

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