Geek Media Round-Up: September 9, 2010

Art

• The adorable Google Android mascot bears more than a passing resemblance to an old Gauntlet character.
• The Palettenpavillon, created by Matthias Loebermann, is a structure made entirely from shipping pallets, ground anchors, and tie rods.
• Tom Banwell is selling an awesome selection of masks on Etsy, including this Elephant-esque gas mask.

Comics

• Furious Fanboys names its picks for The 5 Dumbest Comic Story-lines.

Film

• News: Bruce Campbell is making a sequel to My Name is Bruce.
• GeekDad names the Top 10 Evil Geeks in the Movies.
• Premiere points out 10 Things You Never Noticed in 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Internet

• News: The webhost of The Pirate Bay and WikiLeaks has been raided by police.
• This particular book—or rather, set of books—is every edit made to a single Wikipedia article, The Iraq War, during the five years between the article’s inception in December 2004 and November 2009, a total of 12,000 changes and almost 7,000 pages.

Literature

• Interview: Cat Rambo interviews Brenda Cooper, author of Reading the Wind.
• Interview: Gail Carriger talks about making her first sale.
• Interview: The Living Dead interviews Carrie Ryan of Flotsam & Jetsam.
• Interview: William Gibson on the Future of Publishing.
• News: HarperCollins Science Fiction Announces Rebranding as Voyager
• News: New info from Boing Boing on the secret copyright treaty
• News:Ray Bradbury, 90, is still chasing Martians
• The Bible vs. Mao: A “Best Guess” of the Top 25 Bestselling Books of All Time
• The curse of swearing in children’s books | Books | guardian.co.uk
• Omnivoracious considers the question of what are The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year So Far?
• Sitting, lying or standing: what’s the pole position for reading?.
• Will Amish Romance Dethrone Vampire Romance?

Science

• How sci-fi fans can contribute to science.

Television

• Nathan Fillion: will such a geek icon ever become A-list?

Video Games

• News: UK Games Industry 96% Male Dominated

Writing

• Un-rules: Forget these 10 language laws.
• Writer’s Digest explains How to Write Intriguing Male and Female Characters.

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