When Google bought YouTube last year for (some very large integer) dollars, everybody knew it would be so totally worth it. Why? Ads! Put ads on those videos and charge for them, son! Step three: profit.

Apparently they’re still alive. Or at least Dave Foley is, contrary to his participation in the living death that is Celebrity Poker Showdown. If you’re curious what they’re up to, read this. Corporate synergy!

Some interesting tidbits are leaking out about the Harry Potter theme park that Universal is supposedly going to build in Florida. I hadn’t realized that Disney pondered the project and then passed on it:

It has been an honor and a pleasure serving with you. But right now I gotta go get spliced up.

Everybody seems to be extremely excited about WikiScanner, a nifty tool for helping people peek at who’s editing what on Wikipedia. It’s not particularly user-friendly, but it’s usable enough to have set off a lively round of Internet Gotcha. Wired has smartly crowdsourced (I feel unclean for having used that word, but whatever) this process [...]

This IGN story lists two casting rumors for Matthew Vaughn’s Thor movie, one horrible and one actually pretty great. Horrible: a pro wrestler named Triple H. Pretty great: Kevin McKidd, who played Lucius Vorenus in Rome.

Slashfilm has a very nice little scoop. Apparently there’s some kind of filmy rule whereby you have to register the title of a movie with the MPAA before you release it, and somebody got ahold of the titles Lucasfilm has registered for Indy IV. To wit:

Ain’t It Cool has a rough account of the screenplay for Speed Racer, which is the next project for the fabulous dancing Wachowski brothers, of Matrix fame. This seems to me sort of like having the catering menu of the next Spider-man flick: the Speed Racer script may be a work of the highest literary [...]