One paper in, one paper in horrible rough draft, and one paper still entirely unwritten. Let's keep it going with some links.

* The Great Batman Equipment Archive: "An attempt to catalog everything Batman has ever pulled from his suit or belt."

* The New York Times has their 10 Best Books of 2006. As I've said before, it's been sort of a weak field. The only of these I'm all that interested in reading are Absurdistan and The Omnivore's Dilemma.

* Within the first five minutes of the movie, someone eats a testicle. At the time, this graphic display was shocking and repulsive (Gibson employs very able FX people), but somewhere after the heart chewing and around the second beheading, I longed for the halcyon days of the testicle appetizer. We were so young then. The CBC reviews Mel Gibson's latest snuff film, Apocalypto.

* And in Harper's, Ground Control to my Imam.