What a country!

Just a few more of my little odds and ends before I have to get back to work:

• Due to popular demand, here is a link to Harry and the Potters singing their smash hit, The Wrath of Hermione, though judging from the lyrics I would have called it "Rita Skeeter Better Watch Out", since that seems to be the only line.

(Actually, that link seems to be out of commission today, but you can try the link later. If you're into that sort of thing, that is. It's cool, I'm not judging. Honest.)

• Special thanks to mein lovely Frau, for sending a copy of Draco and the Malfoys' far superior song "My Dad is Rich (Your Dad is Dead)".
  
• Here, as an overdue gift to the Frau, is a link to The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen, which inspired the highly underrated movie of the same name.
  
• Time Magazine has released their list of the 50 Coolest Websites of 2006. Sadly, the Daily Marmoset has once again been overlooked. This is especially shocking since their list of the All-Time Novels had the surprisingly good taste to give Alan Moore his due. I guess we're just a little too far ahead of our time for Time.
  
• One of Time's "25 Sites We Can't Live Without" was the hyper-geeky (but sometimes useful) Lifehacker site. Their headline story on speed reading and speed reading tools made me think of the Marmoset. The poor, long suffering, nose-deep-in- collie-and- academic-crap Marmoset. Hang in there, Chief.
• And finally, 1980s comedy icon Yakov Smirnoff has become a professor at Missouri State University. Yes, you read that last sentence correctly. Professor Smirnoff is currently teaching a class in positive psychology called Living Happily ever Laughter. Maybe this was inevitable in a state where the second-largest university is only half an hour north of Branson. (I would be interested in the Marmoset's thoughts on this subject, given his past experiences with this sort of thing.) I can't wait till next year, when Professor Rogers -- or someone who looks like him -- will teach a course on game theory called "Know When to Hold, Know When to Fold 'Em" and Dr. Andy Williams will conduct a graduate seminar on the ecology of Moon River.