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I read on Mike D'Angelo's site that the Movie Nerd Discussion Group has five ratings: PRO, pro, mixed, con, and CON. Here's how my ratings correlate:

PRO: 10, 9, 8, 7, 6; pro: 5, 4; mixed: 3, 2; con: 1; CON: 0

articles prompted by prose books (sorted by post date, by rating, by name)
articles prompted by movies (sorted by post date, by rating, by name)

articles prompted by comics

2009 November 28 Bad Machinery
2009 February 15 Superman: Secret Identity
2008 March 7 6  Y: The Last Man
2007 December 22 6  Age of Bronze: Betrayal, Part One
2007 June 17 3  Pyongyang
2007 January 12 1  The 9/11 Report
2006 December 14 4  Murena
2006 July 12 7  Zot!
2006 July 1 3  Superman: Red Son
2006 February 20 1  Kingdom Come
2006 January 17 10  Absolute Watchmen
2005 September 17 1  V for Vendetta
2005 June 17 4  We3
2005 February 6 2  Ex Machina
2004 September 8 4  The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
2004 July 12 6  Age of Bronze: Sacrifice
2004 June 17 4  Empire
2004 June 16 3  Scare-O-Deleria: Wishin; Girl Spy
2004 June 10 3  Fables: Legends in Exile
2004 May 19 6  New X-Men
2003 February 3 4  The Authority: Relentless; 2  Blood Song
2002 December 29 3  Ghost World
2002 December 20 1  The Big Book of Martyrs
2001 November 5 3  Zero Girl
2001 June 23 3  Red Star: The Battle of Kar Dathra's Gate
2001 June 14 6  Black Panther: The Client
2001 June 5 6  Age of Bronze: A Thousand Ships
2001 June 1 4  Astro City: The Tarnished Angel
2001 January 18 4  Powers: Who Killed Retro Girl?

articles prompted by computer programs

2009 August 25 Kdice
2009 August 18 Broken Picture Telephone (emphasis on "broken")
2009 April 12 Fail-Safe
2008 March 10 All Roads
2008 January 3 3  Europa Universalis III
2007 September 11 5  Civilization IV
2005 June 28 1  253
2005 March 7 Galatea
2003 December 7 5  Europa Universalis II
2003 September 9 Popcap
2001 November 18 Comp01
2001 March 15 2  Civilization II: Test of Time

articles prompted by art, stage drama, TV, etc.

2010 February 5 4  Dollhouse
2010 February 4 3  Breaking Bad (first episode)
2009 February 15 Dollhouse (first episode)
2009 February 14 "If You Go Away"
2009 February 1 I'll Get My Coat
2008 November 9 Misty Dawn; Life-Time
2008 July 5 Killola @ Buhach Colony High School
2008 June 20 8  Wizard People, Dear Readers
2008 April 4 3  Big Love
2008 January 3 2  Tell Me You Love Me
2008 January 3 4  Rome
2007 June 19 3  Heroes, season one
2006 December 13 6  Profit
2006 January 31 "Prophecy Girl"
2005 September 6 9  Cosmos
2005 June 17 Roy Lichtenstein
2004 December 14 With the Lights Out
2004 October 21 Jock Sturges: Notes
2003 January 16 Buffy
2002 December 12 Exposed: the Victorian Nude
2001 December 13 Piet Mondrian; Metamorphoses
2001 February 18 Victorian Painting
2000 December 19 Jock Sturges, New Work 1996-2000

articles prompted by then-current events

2010 February 12 A lecture
2010 January 26 Encyc Scott Brown and the Case of the 41% Majority
2009 December 2 More maps of white men
2009 October 12 2009 Nobel Peace Prize
2009 August 19 Deathers
2008 September 13 My first political donation
2005 September 17 New Orleans
2005 July 27 Rated AO
2004 November 11 Election shrapnel
2004 October 4 John Kerry for President
2004 August 21 Swift Boat Veterans for Denial
2004 January 27 The politics of the moment
2004 January 20 Iowa and Mars
2003 October 7 Governor Schwarzenegger
2003 May 13 $20
2003 April 30 Georgia
2003 April 4 President Gore
2002 August 31 Answer me these questions thr— er, two
2002 July 2 Homelands and allegiances

articles prompted by U.S. presidents

2008 June 16 George Washington
2008 July 3 John Adams
2008 July 30 Thomas Jefferson
2008 September 26 James Madison
2008 October 11 James Monroe
2009 June 12 John Quincy Adams
2009 April 9 Andrew Jackson
2009 June 12 Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, James K. Polk
2009 October 20 Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan
2010 May 30 Abraham Lincoln, part one
2010 July 5 Abraham Lincoln, part two

articles telling stories or ruminating about stuff

2010 April 5 Bracketology
2009 November 9 Who's your daddy?
2009 March 28 No tooth fairy
2009 February 26 February 25
2009 January 2 On wanting a daughter
2008 November 8 The smoothies
2008 June 21 I lost 20 pounds
2007 February 17 Scatterplot
2006 August 24 Back in black
2006 April 29 Pitches ain't shit
2006 February 11 Olympic emblems
2005 December 26 Name withheld
2005 December 22 Flyover country II: Tribulation Force
2005 October 16 Flyover country
2005 October 11 Signing off from Holyoke
2005 August 13 What I saw from the airplane
2005 August 11 "Wonderwall"
2005 June 24 Adrock
2005 May 31 Julian Boyd, 1931-2005
2005 May 27 Damsels in distress
2005 January 31 The entire Los Angeles
2005 January 25 Videophones
2004 September 4 Fatal abstraction
2004 July 29 Letter to a young artist (plus a joke)
2004 July 4 Against the '80s
2004 April 25 Memory; special interests
2004 February 27 Ob$e$$ion
2004 February 5 Dylar, please
2003 December 19 Autism and interactive fiction
2003 November 19 Tantrum music
2003 January 21 I still haven't read the journals, though
2003 January 1 Journalism
2002 December 28 Number 51, 2002
2002 August 18 Breadth and depth
2002 May 5 Gatitos
2002 April 15 Cycles
2001 April 28 The green futures of Taft Elementary
2001 March 21 9907
2001 January 31 The odds
2001 January 10 Jazz

articles that are jokes or amusing observations

2010 May 5 Nej means nej
2006 December 31 2006: the year in search phrases
2006 February 1 Launderland
2005 July 12 I'm out of touch
2005 July 11 Lentinus edodes
2005 May 24 The New Value-Added Colossus
2005 March 17 Ripped
2004 September 12 More badges
2004 July 29 Letter to a young artist (plus a joke)
2004 July 23 Everybody's trying to be my Baby
2004 May 26 Wonders never cease
2004 March 22 Badges
2003 October 28 Trick or treat
2003 August 12 Juxtapose, there's nothing to it
2003 July 25 Ameliorate Your Vocabulary in a Fortnight
2003 May 3 Gatos: one year later
2003 March 14 It's hard to wait
2002 December 31 Three years late, but
2002 November 9 Barbie
2002 October 23 Cross into the OWWW
2002 July 7 The secret of the Powerpuff Girls
2002 July 6 Das Buch

articles complaining about stuff

2005 April 1 April Fools' Day
2004 April 20 New York still sucks
2003 November 2 Sizes
2003 August 3 Boston by the numbers
2002 December 13 Illiteracy
2002 October 8 "Hehe"
2002 May 10 The far left end

minutiae

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