Eurotrip - I have to say I really wasn't expecting much out of this movie. It really isn't the type I'd even normally rent, but at the insistence of my brother, his friends, and one of the aikido students, there you go. It happily did turn out to be quite hilarious, with rampant nudity, vulgarity, and landmarks. Randomly, there's great acting of facial expressions. Go figure. Also Michelle Trachtenberg is way hotter in this than she was in Buffy, wherein she was ugly.

   And Wyatt pointed out a great connection. High performance fighter jets, the example in particular being the F-16 Falcon, are inherently instable; they would hardly be able to fly for the most part, if not crash outright, if not for advanced flight control systems. The reason for that is that the greater instability lends greater maneuverability. In jujitsu and similar martial arts, one can probably muscle through most throws, if the other person has no clue, but to do a real throw one has to lose balance, and use that loss of balance and stability to take the opponants balance (and thereby often regain their own. unless a bodyslam is in order. natch.).

-plumb forgot about this year's, but there'll be another Free Comic Book Day next year