reccing time

If you liked Superman Returns. if you still harbour a fondness for the concept of Smallville (or at least Lex and Clark). If you like seriously good storytelling?

http://hackthis.livejournal.com/394152.html - The Way I was Made

Go and worship at hackthis's feet *now*.

My only complaint is that there wasn't explicit Richard/Clark in there. :shoves you that way:

Canadian vs. American first names

This is entirely out of curiosity for those of you over the pond. Are there any names that're more likely to make you think 'huh, must be American/Canadian'? I'm only thinking this because I work with a thousand and one different nationalities and names a day - we've got to the point where we can make a reasonable guess at the person's nationality by their name alone, and the difference between English/Scots/Welsh/Irish names and those across the pond are very easy to spot if you're from these wind and rain swept isles. (eg, if someone's called Chelsea/Lucie/Dick/Chuck/anything with a Jr. on the end, there is no way in hell they're from the British Isles.) I can spot the non-Europeans, I just can't necessarily make a distinction between American and Canadian names.