Dimethyl Sulfate warning sign (link roundup)

The hazmat warning sign for dimethyl sulfate makes it seem kind of awesome.

And a few more links:

1. Newsflash: Stores are set up to play on your emotions and convince you to buy. For example, Costco places high ticket items to get you in the mood to spend, and satisfy your urge to splurge with a more attainable DVD. Via.

2. Kraft wants to buy Cadbury because Cadbury has established a major presence in developing countries such as India. Via.

3. Dan Brown's 20 worst sentences. (I'll never understand his success. I hated the Da Vinci Code. Except for the concept at its core that Christianity was popular because it was an orgy religion, that was fun.)

*Previously: Warning Sign: Batman Crossing Ahead.

*Buy Death Traps to Treasure: Spanish and Mexican Mine Traps, Warning Signs and Symbols at Amazon.

Movie Review of the Week: The Condemned is a "D-grade 'Running Man'"

Read the rest of the review here.

Doesn't sound promising, but this poster I saw at a bus stop was pretty clever:

Movie Review of the Day: Fracture

Courtesy of Peter Suderman: "Take a fresh young star, (in this case, Ryan Gosling), a tricky killer (Hopkins), add in a steamy, tumultuous love story with a blonde bombshell (former Bond-girl Rosamund Pike), some detective work, and some courtroom shenanigans, and you've either got yourself a mediocre Law & Order rip-off or second rate, off-season genre junk like Fracture."

"Doug Williams, of whom it was once said, legitimately, that he was the only man who could overthrow the ayatollah"

Funny line, courtesy of Malcolm Gladwell. (Williams was a football quarterback.)

Professors Alan Dershowitz and Norman Finkelstein Hate Each Other

Mr. Finkelstein has called Mr. Dershowitz a "raving maniac," "hoodlum" and "evil." On normanfinkelstein.com there is a recent Finkelstein article titled "Should Alan Dershowitz Target Himself for Assassination?" On Mr. Dershowitz's Web site ( alandershowitz.com), he has had students compile lists of "The Most Despicable Things Finkelstein Has Said," "The 10 Stupidest Things Finkelstein Has Said," and so on.

Read on.