Whoa.

First things first, the lovely and talented Miss Abby Bollenbacher has updated her Being Miss Northwestern Ohio blog with a fascinating entry about the nature of the Miss America scholorship program and what goes into its make-up. Highly encourage all of ya to head over and check it out, and encourage her to leave more stuff...I think Abby could really do well using her blog to educate people on the nature of the system she has devoted so much of her time to becoming successful in. Cool stuff!

Secondly, check this out.

Yes, they're releasing a TEN-DISC SET of the Matrix trilogy. Now, before you start complaining about how the last film wasn't up to par and as a result you won't even be giving this set the time of day, check out everything you get:

Disc 1: Matrix 1, with 2 new commentaries
Disc 2: Matrix Revisited, an excellent documentary on the making of the first, released separately a few years ago
Disc 3: Reloaded, with 2 new commentaries
Disc 4: Reloaded Revisted, same thing for the sequel, also includes all the 23 extra scenes filmed for the Matrix video game
Disc 5: Revolutions, with 2 new commentaries
Disc 6: Revolutions Revisited
Disc 7: The Animatrix, the complete DVD of Anime shorts, which is wicked cool
Disc 8: The Roots of the Matrix, 2 documentaries about the inspirations of the trilogy
Disc 9: "The Burly Man Chronicles," a disc of 21 featurettes about the people behind the scenes - craftspeople, actors and so on
Disc 10: The Zion Archive, a collection concept art, music videos, trailers and so forth

All this for only $55.94 if you're buying from Amazon. I don't care what you thought of that last chapter, now THAT is a SET. Pretty much everything you'd ever want about the Matrix, for less than it would cost to buy the three movies separately now. A steal, says I. Hope my brother sees it the same way when I ask for it for X-Mas... :)