Amanda Seyfried Knows Why You Think She's Hot

· And you can thank her mother. This and many other scintillating tidbits revealed in a highly amusing and weirdly erotically affecting video interview by fellow actor Mark Webber. Click through to view. [Edgar Wright Here via ONTD]

· "Has Glee gotten too dark?" asks Vulture. I have no dog in this fight, I'm afraid, but I'll go along with anything that hastens its going away. [Vulture]

· Janice Whaley is a California mother who decided to spend 2010 covering every Smiths song using nothing but her voice and home-studio recording software. Staggering is one word for it. I'd start here. Er, waiwaiwait... here? You tell me. [The Smiths Project via @thomaslennon]

· "The middle class is over. It's not coming back." "Make sure you've got someone to change your diaper." "You may well burn out on the effort of being an individual." "The future of politics is the careful and effective implanting into the minds of voters images that can never be removed." Yup, Douglas Coupland's Radical Pessimist's Guide to the Next 10 Years pretty much lives up to its promise. [Globe and Mail via The Awl]

· "Don't ask, don't tell" don't stand up -- at least not in one federal court. [NYT]

· Sorry, one more Smiths Project song. I'll stop now.