Coraline

If you're planning on seeing this on the big screen, try to catch the 3D showing. It was more than I expected to pay for what I thought was going to be a matinee, but it ended up being well worth the price. Visually impressive, haunting, spooky, dark, beautiful, and compelling, and the 3D made it quite the experience. Also, I want the gorgeous soundtrack. (Surprise (to me) appearance by TMBG, too.)

Definitely recommend this movie. (I would probably not bring very small children, though.)

ETA: Oh yes! Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders as the voices of the actresses with the Scottie dogs... BRILLIANT CASTING. (And John "I'm a PC" Hodgman as Coraline's father.)

Screensavers

I sent these to a couple of friends, but then said to myself, "Self, you should share these with LJ peeps."

Courtesy of Brian at work, I give you, for both Mac and Windows:

System 47: a LCARS-style screen saver (ST:TNG). I currently have this on both my home laptop, and my work Mac Mini. It's totally sweet. It's got the sound sounds and everything, though I turned the sound down, 'cause it kind of gets to you (and those around you) after a while. (Mac Leopard kicks up some Quartz-has-been-deprecated errors if you're nerdy enough to scope out your Console logs, but it doesn't seem to affect the screensaver at all.)

The HAL Project: Brian has this running on his Mac Mini at work, and I just downloaded it to try it out. It mimics display animations from HAL 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey. Once you enter the site, you have to follow Downloads, then Screensaver, then choose your screen's resolution. Ta-da.

Have fun. :)