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30 Days of No Fact-Checking

Things the movie 30 Days of Night taught me about vampires, Alaska, and nature that I previously did not know:

• Crude oil burns at the flick of a match
• Vampires are messy and inefficient food gatherers; no wonder they wouldn't get on in a populated city
• People care about what happens to Point Hope and Wainwright (hint: not even Wikipedia cares about them)
• Blood doesn't dry or freeze when it's caked on the face of a vampire
• Food and supplies can be rationed even when no one thought to grab any
• The Trans-Alaska Pipeline travels through Barrow despite it being 200+ miles from Prudhoe Bay
• Barrow gets as cold as -10°F in December (um, Fairbanks sees -30s by Thanksgiving)
• Although made up almost completely of water, snow doesn't melt when near fire
• Skill with a newly acquired weapon increases the further along one is on a quest

(Steve has a Condensed Dialog Review up that includes a vampire theme song)