But add in critically acclaimed box-office winners The Wedding Crashers and The 40-Year-Old Virgin and figure that one or two deserving underdogs such as The Squid and the Whale or the highbrow gross-out documentary The Aristocrats sneak in, and you've got a category worth watching.

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Another change was a spell checker that keeps an eye on every bit of text typed in almost any Firefox browser box be it in a web-based e-mail program or an add-on that lets people post blog updates directly.

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