Internal Memos, a website similar to The Smoking Gun, where real company memos (often embarassing ones) are published for all the world to see.

Five Finger Fillet – a fantastic, if somewhat gruesome Flash game involving a test of your dexterity with a sharp knife.

The latest 200 Words is up, featuring eJournalist and columnist for Silicon Valley, Dan Gillmor.

Thanks to Dan for his kind contribution.

Enjoy.

The first 200 Words of 2003 has been published here on The Copydesk, and it’s also the first time we’ve received a response from a woman.

Scottish model, Viki Neil has been kind enough to respond with a terrific answer.

Tommorow night is Rabbie Burns’ night in Scotland.

It typifies the Scottish spirit, that we’re happy to celebrate the life of a writer over our patron saint or a famous hero. Certainly, we celebrate no other national day in the same way Americans unite on Independence Day, but Burns’ Night comes with lots of trimmings, including haggis and whisky.

Born on 25 January 1759, in Alloway, Ayrshire, Robert Burns developed an early affection for literature, and between 1784 and 1788, whilst working as a farm labourer, he wrote much of his best and most celebrated poetry.

He died in 1796, aged just 37, but is held by many to have been among the greatest poets of all time.

My personal favourite is Man Was Made to Mourn.

The poor, oppressed, honest man

Had never, sure, been born,

Had there not been some recompense

To comfort those that mourn.

Blogger has now passed the 1 million subscribers mark.

Pity they haven’t introduced any of the much-promised features yet.

Imagination at work.

Do a drawing, send it to friends, and watch it unfold before your eyes.

Simply brilliant.

I watched Minority Report on DVD last night, and if you’ve already watched this movie, a second viewing is entirely in order to fully appreciate just how good it is.

Tom Cruise is pretty good in it too, which is saying something.

As I said before, despite the cheesy Hollywood ending, it stands up as a fine science-fiction film, and is certainly worthy of Philip K. Dick’s original short story.

The second viewing allowed me to pick up on more of the subtleties of the movie, in particular Speilberg’s very obvious allusions towards a patriotic theme, which is even more pertinent when you realise that the movie was in production whilst America was attacked on September 11, 2001.

The use of “can you see” (from the Star Spangled Banner’s opening line: ‘O, say can you see’) as a repeated quote throughout the movie, down to the only colours outwith the bleached sepia tone of the movie being red, white and blue hinted towards Speilberg’s subliminal intentions.

I also noticed the uncredited cameos from Cameron Crowe (director of Jerry McGuire, which Tom Cruise also appeared in) as a man on the subway reading a copy of USA Today, and Lucy Liu in a strange, lingering deja vu snippit as a woman with a guilty secet in the shopping mall when the pre-cog Agatha suddenly warns her not to go back home.