They ran The Games entire series here a while back on a local public television station. It was one of those things you come across and quickly realize you just watched the whole thing and then start wondering "WAIT! When is this on again?!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teoL6FKEtCY&feature=related

One of my favorite bits from The Games.

Their Crown Jewel, though, is The Games. The Games is painfully funny. If you can find it anywhere it's worth watching.

Efficiency in any organization is inversely proportional to the position of the employee.

The illusion of efficiency is, however, directly proportional to the position of the employee.

This is pretty accurate, although you forgot the part where they attach a 20MB PowerPoint file that explains what they are talking about in their punctuation free sentence.

i.e.

fine Just be sure to loop back with Carl - see attachment

So this is just a strictly defined notion about one thing pretty much. Sounds... like a boring sit down to watch movies and mark off a checklist of moral criteria. I mean, who does that? *cough cough CAPAlert cough* http://www.capalert.com/

MUAHAHAHAHA! KODOS, OUR PLAN TO INFILTRATE THE PUNY EARTHLINGS FESTIVAL OF STICK THROWING AND PUDDLE SWIMMING IS UNDERWAY!

http://tinyurl.com/3yzatya

They left out "grant reviewer" and "computer support technician".

I believe Roger Ebert in particular points out why Hackers is actually an enjoyable movie: "The movie is smart and entertaining, then, as long as you don't take the computer stuff very seriously. I didn't. I took it approximately as seriously as the archeology in "Indiana Jones." "

This was well appreciated at our house this morning since we had just been reading DR. Seuss' Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You?

Chook is like the bird version of Mr. Brown. :)

I second Skipweasel. Lack of salesmen is exactly why the internet DID succeed as a medium for commerce. Human contact is fine... with the people you want it from. Salespeople want something from you, though, and someone going through all the motions of being (or pretending to be) your friend strictly to get money from you (money via the sale) is a little creepy.

I remember reading this when it was released and it struck me that Stoll's sole interactions with other human beings must have only been with salespeople.

I think this is a pretty old short, which isn't saying anything about posting it, as I am glad to see it again. I think I saw it several years ago at Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival.

Church - Like this: http://tinyurl.com/yfaxkbh

I find that much creepier than Victorian Zombie Santa. I've been calling it Twilight Zone Santa.

You missed the excellent Action Figure Nativity from lovely Becca at No Smoking In The Skull Cave:

http://nosmokingintheskullcave.blogspot.com/2007/12/action-figure-nativity.html

I can't believe you failed to mention the short-lived "The World Of Sid and Marty Krofft" in Atlanta during the 70s. I saw only the remnants of it as a kid, missing its existence by only a few months.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_of_Sid_and_Marty_Krofft

It was housed in what is now the CNN Center in Atlanta.