Whatever it is (or isn’t), someone has made a list of it.

Here’s one that interests me a bit: once upon a time I started a (mental) list of persons ineligible who have portrayed a President of the United States, such as Peter Sellers (as Muffley) and Anthony Hopkins (as Nixon). (Found from a related page cited by the muted horn.)

Steve Troop has restarted his comicstrip Melonpool from scratch and, very unusually, took down eight years of archived strips (though you can still buy them as books). The event is much discussed at Websnark.

Besides being weighed down by the complexity of the continuity, Troop was concerned that potential readers were driven off by the sheer length of the archives. (Melonpool is probably the longest-running of all webtoons.) This gives me a chuckle. I don’t even try to keep current on the strips I follow; my bookmarks point to some date in the archives. When I want to read the funnies I usually go to the oldest (currently October 2003), mainly so that when reading crossovers I’ll be up to date on both sides. So the depth of the archives generally isn’t an issue for me.

David Willis is incrementally replacing his archives, from the beginning of It’s Walky, with better artwork and tighter scripting. This is probably a good thing. As it was, I found the story rather hard to follow, and was on the verge of giving up on it; one of these days I’ll attempt the four-year backtrack.

Netflix’s list of new releases this week has five Israëli titles, ten Chinese and 55 Indian – not counting 23 collections of songs from Indian film.

A dreadful blunder in Granada Television’s version (1985) of “The Greek Interpreter”: in a non-canonical scene, Mycroft Holmes refers to a derringer as a “revolver”. Tsk!

If you haven’t already, go here and listen to “Title of the Song” (MP3), a spoof on the “boy band” genre.

Unqualified Offerings cites numerous comments on Serenity, which I’ll read later.

An unexpected effect of listening to music through my computer’s speakers is a better stereo image than I’m used to. That’s how I noticed for the first time that Loituma’s joyously goofy song Ievan polkka has four vocal parts, not three: the female lead and the male accompaniment are in the center, with two female voices, singing almost but not quite the same part, in the wings. (Maybe it’s one woman singing the same part twice but adlibbing.)

If any of you understand Finnish, by the way, I’d love to have a transcription and a translation.