Totally bringing TOO DEAD to an end this week. Five days? I can do it. One day to get them back to the mill with trouble hot on their heels, two days for the final showdown, one day for the resolution, and one day for the final touches on the ending and popping a bottle of wine to celebrate the end of the first draft.

What else to blog about today? I have some links sitting around in my “to blog” file, so here’s looking at those, kid:

Bookcase envy.

The coolest-sounding MMORPG ever (because I omg love the thought of a virtual world overlaid on the real one) that I’m not going to get to participate in anytime in the near future (more on that over the weekend, with photos maybe!).

And this video of Black Rebel Motorcycle Club doing “Spread Your Love” at a club—sound’s not great, but the video is the closest I’ve seen to the actual experience of being at a show. (My favorite bit happens around 2:30—that’s what I’m talking about!) Seventy-five days till I see them next (at a festival—so not the same as a small club, but I’ll take it. Plus I get to see NIN the same day. Dream come true y/y?).

Plus: 21 days till the new season of Weeds.

Anyone have any idea when we’re getting a new season of Big Love?

This is the best Survivor season ever.

But I just watched a video clip on the new hulu.com site, which is the product of a collaboration between NBC Universal and Fox and has a whole bunch of big media players as content partners. You can watch movies, TV shows and clips on the site—all for free. (Or “free” if you’re recently het up over LJ’s recent nonannouncement about the demise of basic accounts. I’m all right with advertising-supported—businesses gotta pay their bills.)

On the good: decent quality video, complete television shows, complete movies. And it’s not likely to squash YouTube like a bug, land of user-generated content that YouTube is (and hopefully always will be).

On the potential bad: What does this mean for unsanctioned fanvids on places like YouTube? Will Hulu media partners get more aggressive about DCMAing them out of existence?

Meanwhile, I’d better get writing if I want to have time to watch an old Fantasy Island on Hulu later.

(Someone let me know when a Firefox extension or Mac app shows up that’ll rip videos off the site—I like flexibility in what I watch, from the Archos on the go to the big screen with the nice sound system downstairs. Or what if I want to watch on my Macbook—when I’m not online?)