links for 2006-03-24

• The Dan Brown Code- By Bryan Curtis via Slate
  How to write like Dan Brown as told by Dan Brown.
• UPDATE-"Snakes on a Plane" Fan frenzy for 'Snakes' is on a different plane
  "the filmmakers added more gore, more death, more nudity, more snakes and more death scenes. And they shot a scene where Jackson does utter the line that fans have demanded." The line is "I want these motherfucking snakes off the motherfucking plane!"
• Star Wars figues + Transformers = coolest toy line ever.
  ....can't speak....heart racing too fast...excitement overwhelming...
• Spider-Man Reviews Crayons! Part 1 of 3.
  I don't know why I find action-figure humor so damn funny, but I do. I imagine my inclination to laugh at that originates in the same place which causes me to laugh at Christopher Walken when he's being serious & watch him seriously when he's being funny.
• Top 25 Craziest Deaths
  R. Budd Dwyer would later become the subject of a Filter song, and even though Nigerian dictator Sani Abacha passed away, at least he did so with happy thoughts in his mind.
• USATODAY.com - Chertoff: U.S. would have been safer with Dubai company at ports
  I'm willing to admit that the whole Dubai thing was blown way out of proportion, but really, you create an atmosphere where you motivate your culture with fear and then you seem flabbergasted when we react fearfully?