LITTLE MAN BY THE WINDOW STOOD: It's very hard to talk about Cabin In The Woods without getting spoilery, and the movie is much improved if you go in as unspoiled as possible. I'll just say that if you're thinking you want to see it, you probably should, that the performances (particularly those by Whitford and Jenkins) are darn fine, and that the movie, in addition to being both a darn fine horror film and a critique of horror film, raises questions about issues both low (reality television) and high (free will).  I know a number of y'all have seen it and want to talk about it, and the comments here are a spoiler zone, so enter at your own peril, OK?

ADORABLY TERRIFYING; TERRIFYINGLY ADORABLE: Have you ever thought that what's missing in your life is a band of children (including what looks like a three-year-old drummer standing on a chair) doing a very credible Rammstein cover? I am 90% certain that I saw these kids open up for Mercyful [sic] Fate at the Moore Theater in 1984. (@NekoCase)

INCLUDING BOTH WINDSOR AND WINDSOR LOCKS:  Incredibly cool: the entire Amtrak route network, simplified to the format of a subway map.

BRAVEHEART WAS ROBBED**:  A survey at Britain's National Army Museum has named George Washington as the greatest enemy commander ever to face the British, besting such finalists as Michael Collins, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, and Erwin Rommel.

** Okay, survey was for 17th century to the present only. I didn't have a better title.

FER SHER:  Engaging in the kind of usage analysis that makes me giddy, Vulture's Margaret Lyons tries to determine the proper spelling of Curly Howard's favorite adverb.

AND THE BAND PLAYED ON:  Ben Zimmer traces the history of various phrases associated with the Titanic disaster.

TEAM LARRY:  Defying everyone's expectations, I gather, the new Three Stooges movie apparently doesn't completely suck.