First: Despite what you read on the internet last Thursday, Matt Damon isn't dead:

"What amazed me even more was that the calls we were getting were from [news groups] that were very reputable...The truth of the matter is all these mother [expletive] are lazy [and didn't do their homework to verify if the story was real]. There I said it."

This exact same obituary has been circling the internet for at least two years.

Second: The Futility Closet spotlights a great idea from the days of silent film. Instead of using title cards to impart dialogue to the audience, someone came up with the idea of using word balloons. Actors would inflate balloons with their dialogue printed on them, thusly "add[ing] to the realism of the picture by the words appearing to come from the mouth of the players." I can't stop thinking about this idea.