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03:56 PM :: Comment of the day.
From a comment left on Eschaton:
I see that Iraq has received a "B" grade from the UN nuclear agency.
So, as of today Iraq is doing better at the UN than Bush did at Yale.
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09:00 AM :: Oh yeah. Oh yeah.
BEST ENGRISH EVER.
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05:59 AM :: MRQE.
The Movie Review Query Engine is a site that provides links to reviews of movies. Similar in principle to Rotten Tomatoes, which you may also be familiar with.
However, MRQE has a good deal less advertising space (one ad banner, and a couple links to Amazon and whatnot), and it covers a list of reviewers that includes most of RT's territory, as well as the Usenet movie review group rec.arts.movies.reviews, and unusual film review sites like the US Conference of Catholic Bishops.
Cool stuff: I think the simple interface to the database is what makes this site cool. Although RT is flashier and calculates a rating for the movie based upon the consensus of critics, MRQE has a less graphic-intensive page, and loads up pretty quickly. Whenever I need to find a review quickly, I find myself going back to MRQE.
The only other feature of note is a pulldown on the front page, where you can quickly jump to any one of several precomputed pages of links, including the US top 10 at the box office, the most popular titles of the preceding week, and the tributes to film critics Gene Siskel and Pauline Kael.
Representative quote: "All visitors to MRQE retain complete anonymity by default. As pages are delivered, MRQE does not acquire or collect any personal information about you."
How I came across this site: Unknown.
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