Los Angelenos not used to 50-degree temperatures making a movie:

Chris Devers watched the moviemakers near between Watertown and Brighton today as they filmed some faux rowers for the movie about Facebook.

Posted under this Creative Commons license and in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.

Yuval Zukerman posts photos of the innards of one of the cars Google uses to make Street Views after he spotted it just sitting there outside the Friendly's across from the Arsenal Mall in Watertown today.

A “Voter Choice” initiative petition turned in to the Massachusetts Attorney General’s office on Wednesday would give Massachusetts voters a chance to change to a voting system that lets voters rank their choices instead of voting for only one candidate. The change would apply to key races, including for governor, lieutenant governor, secretary and treasurer, among others, starting after January 2012.

KWAPT tweets:

Just overheard a commuter ask a friendly MBTA agent when the next 57 bus is - his response: "when it gets here.."

Biggie_Robs tweets:

Watertown mall crazy and without power. We watched the transformer blow. Traffic signals out too.

David Schrag does not have twenty seven eight-by-ten color glossy photographs with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one, but he does have a video to explain why he shouldn't have gotten a ticket in Watertown for making an illegal left turn. It didn't work, however - he was found responsible, which means he paid a $50 filing fee to appeal the $35 ticket.

Nobody wants to live next to a DPW dirt pile where stuff is loaded and unloaded at 11 p.m..

Wicked Local Watertown reports the owner of a Main Street convenience store arrived at work early one morning to find a $10 ransom note in place of the stacks of newspapers he expected to find.

The Herald reports.

Martin Lieberman reports on his trip to the Watertown OCB:

... Yes, last night I went with one of my coworkers to the OCB after weeks and weeks of discussion. It started casually one day when we both mentioned that we had never been but had always sort of wanted to try it. After that, no amount of convincing could talk us out of it — and plenty of people tried. ...