Geek Media Round-Up: September 21, 2010

Art

Cross-Media

• AOL picks the Top 10 Pirate Songs.
• MSNBC picks the 10 Greatest Fictional inventors of All Time.
• Sing Something Sci-Fi: a list of 15 sci-fi and fantasy actors who have performed extra-curricular vocal duties.

Film

• Interview: Freakonomics Director Alex Gibney sits down for some Q&A.
• Best Buy Ditching DVDs This Holiday Season?
• Cinematical lists Sci-Fi Series That Need Movie Reboots 7 Sci-Fi Movies For People Who Don’t Like Sci-Fi Movies and Sci-Fi Series That Need Movie Reboots.
• Cracked points out 6 Movies That Didn’t Realize They Let The Villain Win.
• Moviefone picks The Best Science Fiction Films of the Decade.
• Near Misses: 5 Hollywood Stars Who Almost Got Cast in Your Favorite Movie
• Total Film remembers Film features: The 32 Coolest Movie Moments.

Internet

• Ecto-1 is a community dedicated to the discovery, creation and preservation of one of the most beloved movie cars of all time, Ghostbuster’s (1984) Ecto-1.
• George Lucas picks the Star Wars Fan film of the year.
• Should the British library be archiving Stephen Fry’s tweets? Sure, then they should preserve him whole in carbonite.

Literature

• Interview: Book Banter Blog interviews Naomi Novik of Tongues of Serpents.
• Interview: Joseph Mallozzi profiles Marjorie M. Liu, author of A Wild Light.
• Interview: The Living Dead interviews Steven Gould of Tameshigiri.
• Interview: Stomping on Yeti interviews Brandon Sanderson of The Way of Kings.
• News: Hand-written JK Rowling manuscripts to go on display.
• David Barr Kirtley lists 20 books that a 14-year-old boy would want to read.
• Google’s publishing free for all undermines our literary tradition. The ‘dark threat of digitisation’ is being underestimated, warns Robert McCrum, even by enlightened critics such as Andre Schiffrin.
• Just in time for Banned Books Week, the Bridwell Library at SMU presents “Heresy and Error”: The Ecclesiastical Censorship of Books, 1400-1800.
• SFRA explains What Is Mundane Science Fiction?
• Sorry, H. G. Wells, No Sci-Fi Allowed.
• What Can Digital Publishers Learn from Traditional Publishing’s Long Lead Times?
• What happens to your library of books when you die?

Science

• According to PopSci, Science is predicting the Discovery of the First Earth-Like, Habitable Exoplanet Will Be Announced in May of 2011
• Geocentrism is on the rise again. Yes, geocentrism.
• Gigantic Spider Webs Made of Silk Tougher Than Kevlar
• New Discoveries Reveal Details about T. rex

Technology

• ScienceNews explains Why cell phone talkers are annoys-makers.
• Terry Pratchett creates a sword with meteorites.

Television

• News: ‘Big Bang’ Extends Hiatus While Co-Star Kaley Cuoco Recuperates
• News: The stars of ‘Big Bang Theory’ get 333% raise. They will all be making $200,000 per episode for the upcoming 4th season, with raises every season after.
• The 10 Most Badass Gunslingers in Science Fiction.
• Booth Reviews offers this countdown of The 11 Greatest TV Cops of All Time.
• CollegeHumor offers More Accurate Titles for This Fall’s New TV Shows.
• SciFiNow has launched a new Buffy revisit blog.

Writing

• Brent Weeks talks about Lazy Readers & Self-Indulgent Writers.
• Charlie Stross explains Why Wikipedia is the writer’s friend.

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