Saturday Hot Links
Time for another installment of Saturday Hot Links!
Today: The Walk Off The Earth Edition!
THR: What really happened at the Oscars [analysis].
Oscars: Best and worst moments.
Oscars: Behind the scenes on how Michelle Obama ended up on the show.
Oscars: Backstage with the winners.
Oscars: Telecast by the numbers.
Oscar ratings rise 19% over last year.
Ang Lee: Oscar in one hand, In-and-Out Burger in the other.
10 moments to remember from a long, strange award season.
10 secrets of the Oscars envelope.
10 people who have misplaced their Oscars.
TotalFilm: 50 greatest Oscar moments.
Why there were 400 visual effects artists protesting at the Oscars.
What TV’s most popular shows would look like without their visual effects.
5 reasons to shut and stop complaining about the Academy Awards.
Andy Samberg’s indie Spirit Awards monologue.
Seth MacFarlane won’t host Oscars again.
Tina Fey hosting the Oscars? No way!
Prematurely predicting the 2014 Best Picture nominees.
Physicist builds robot to separate Oreos.
David Duchovny wants fans to demand a 3rd X-Files movie.
Millennials say they’d give up cars before their computers and cellphones.
David Lynch working on a new script.
8 ridiculous ways comic book characters have been brought back from the dead.
Robert Rodriguez’s El Rey network inks six series deal.
The federal case against the Harlem Shake craze.
30 twist endings movie characters should have seen coming.
An autopsy of Friendster: A dead social network.
Steven Spielberg to head 2013 Cannes Film Festival jury.
How to build an ice hotel.
J.D. Salinger doc acquired by Harvey Weinstein.
8 official state dinosaurs.
How a “New Girl” script gets made.
It’s not easy potty training a cow.
13 really creepy movie locations.
TED Talk: Why great ideas get rejected [HT to @FilmmakerIQ].
Flavorwire: What is an “independent film” in 2013.
The origins of 10 great insults.
Michael Moore blasts Buzzfeed over 5 Broken Cameras story.
1,458 bacteria species ‘new to science’ found in our belly buttons.
Variety to drop daily print edition.
Why we love beautiful things.
Iceland box office rises 2.7% in 2012.
17 of the most mysterious corporate labs.
Scarlett Johansson forms an all-girl band.
Apple iWatch: More fact than fiction.
Dude watches all 9 Best Picture nominated movies in one day… lives to tell about it.
60% of the world’s population still without toilets.
30 things we wouldn’t know without movies.
5 ridiculously expensive restaurant menu items.
Anime films for people who hate anime.
Forbes: The genius of raising brilliant kids.
Vanity Fair: The making of Pulp Fiction.
9 fascinating historic methods of contraception.
5 real TV shows that feature fake TV shows.
12 beautiful poems for book lovers.
50 riskiest movie projects.
Creativity Post: The virtue of confusion.
How Oscar nominee Argo escaped the Black List.
And finally the question we’ve all been asking: Does drinking kill brain cells?
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