We have a once-beautiful white birch tree in the backyard that seems to have mostly died over the winter, as now it only has leaves on a few branches near the bottom. This is a pretty creepy vista, as dead trees have a sort of horror movie look to start with, all the worse because the white bark of the birch makes it look like a negative image of a tree, and Hollywood long ago taught us that negatives are a harbinger of terror. That's all bad enough to start with, but now that my bird feeder is all the rage with the local avian community, it has become a favorite haunt of a murder of crows, another horror cliché. It can be pretty unsettling to look out there and seeing more than a dozen crows perched on those dead white branches. Watching... waiting.

Haunting Links:	Thanks Ant and Mike Martinez and Acleacius.
Play:	Hungry Sumo. Ryoshis Revenge.
Links:	10 unmade Star Trek projects we wish we could've seen. Thanks Neatorama. Star Wars Animated Neon Signs. How to Drink Like Your Favorite Authors. Thanks Neatorama.
Stories:	Cleveland man shoots 11-year-old for playing on lawn. Thanks Batman.
Science:	Dual Black Holes Inhabit Nearby Galaxy Markarian 739, Both Active.
Images:	The LOVE Boat - A quarter of a million bricks. Thanks Neatorama.
Media:	SAS - Ragequitter. Spider-Man Musical Parody of the Day. Killer Queen Cover (FreddeGredde).
Follow-up:	Dueling Analogs- Put On a Happy Face.