Art
- Apollo 11 Tribute in Legos
- Family Guy / Star Trek Mash-Up
- How will museums work in the age of the iPad? Leo Caillard speculated in “Art Game“
- The Joy of Maps
- Readable Book Hotel Bedcovers
Comics
- Interview: Dark Horse’s Scott Allie talks Buffy books, possible Firefly comics.
- News: In The Wake Of The Aurora Tragedy, ‘Batman Incorporated’ #3 Delayed
- Great New Yorker piece on how and why Batman stopped carrying a gun in 1939.
Cross-Media
Film
- Interview: Frank Oz to ‘Star Wars’ fans: Do the Yoda impression I won’t
- News: Batman actor Christian Bale visits Aurora, Colo., shooting victims
- News: Dispicable Me Minions are getting their own spin-off!
- AMC’s Great Film Quotes of the 2000s
- The Home Entertainment Trailer of The Cabin in the Woods is markedly better than the theatrical trailers, if just a bit spoilerish. I think I’d have seen it sooner if they has used this one from the start.
- Catch a glimpse of The Hobbit Production Video shown at Comic Con!
- Christopher Nolan’s Goodbye to the Batman Franchise – ComingSoon.net
- How Much Does It Cost To Be Batman?
- io9 speculates on How a sequel to The Dark Knight Rises could go down.
- Turns out, Every 3D Movie is the Same.
- What’s Next for Superhero Movies? With Batman finished for now, it’s likely that the future belongs to Marvel.
Internet
Literature
- Infographic: The Best Selling Sci-fi Books of All Time
- Interview: Ben H. Winters discusses his novel, The Last Policeman.
- Interview: Prolific Editor John Joseph Adams on Science Fiction, Anthologies, and the Future of Printed and Digital Books and Magazines
- Interview: Proudly clutching his Comic-Con International 2012 Inkpot Award for achievement, British author Peter F Hamilton joined SFX just around the corner from San Diego’s convention centre to discuss his upcoming book Great North Road and attending Comic-Con for the first time.
- Interview: Sword and Laser interviews Michael A. Stackpole.
- News: Zola Aims to Replace Google Books, Then Take on Amazon
- The Bookless Library: Don’t deny the change. Direct it wisely.
- Books Have a Bright Future, Just Not Like You Expect
- The Lawrence Public Library in Kansas has compiled a massive flowchart to help you find the next book you should read if you loved The Hunger Games.
- Pat Rothfuss is launching a Youtube show, and he’s asking for help naming it.
- “Uncle Ray’s Dystopia” is an op-ed about Bradbury’s vision of his future.
Science
- Infographic: Exiting the Solar System
- The First Synthetic Organism: Our Victor Frankenstein Moment?
- Gliese 581g Tops List of Habitable Alien Planets
- The Mathematics of Spiderman and the Physics of Superheroes
- NASA’s Next Spacesuit Makes Astronauts Look Like Trash Bags
- What Isaac Asimov thought 2012 would be like: “Assuming we haven’t destroyed ourselves in a nuclear war, there will be 8-10 billion of us on this planet—and widespread hunger. These troubles can be traced back to President Ronald Reagan who smiled and waved too much.” Back in 1987, the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future contest asked science fiction writers what the world would look like 25 years in the future. They were then put in a timecapsule, sealed in a bank vault and reopened earlier this year. Some common threads are the population boom, the idea that there would “probably not” be a nuclear war and most Americans would be “barely literate”. Writers include Gregory Benford, Orson Scott Card, Jack Williamson, Frederik Pohl and Gene Wolfe.
Technology
Television
- Interview: ‘Doctor Who’ exec on River Song: ‘Series six was her big story’
- Interview: Giving Fringe a Proper Farewell: Fringe’s cast and showrunner discuss going into the final season and crafting the proper ending, as they look back at their time on the series.
- News: ‘Booster Gold’ Script Getting Delivered To Syfy Next Month
- News: Doctor Who exhibit opens to fans in Cardiff
- Lame of Thrones: A hater’s guide to the hit show
- River Song is “The Queen of Mischief” in Series 7
Video Games
- News: Thanks to NASA, Space Core is Now Actually in Space
- Learn Science While Playing Video Games? Valve Makes Dreams Comes True.
- Tomb Raider: Anniversary, a remake of the original Tomb Raider, had an interesting bonus feature: the designers of Tomb Raider Anniversary and Tomb Raider discussed the differences in the two games, the process of the remake and what it was like creating the game in 1996. Youtube playlist
- Watch a trailer for Ecstacy of Order, a documentary about the search for the world’s greatest Tetris player.
