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Geek Media Round-Up: September 22, 2009

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Art

Obsolescence

  • Bioshock Big Daddy Ultra Deluxe Action Figure. Nuff said.
  • Check out the awesome art tribute to God of War, complete with art tutorial.

Comics

  • GeekDad urges audiences to get to know The Surrogates comic before seeing the movie.

Film

  • Interview: Tim Burton Interviews special-effects master Ray Harryhausen.
  • Automopedia counts down 10 Epic SciFi Battle Scenes In Space!
  • SciFi Wire has posted a video gallery of the 29 Sexiest and Strangest Sci-fi Shower Scenes.
  • UHM has posted a gallery of photos from the upcoming DayBreakers vampire flick.
  • Unreality looks back at Five Excellent Moments with Quentin Tarantino.

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This Day in Geek History: September 22

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1869
Richard Wagner’s opera Das Rheingold, the first of the four operas that comprise Der Ring des Nibelungen, debuts in Munich.

1888
The first issue of National Geographic Magazine is published, though it is dated October. The magazine is the scientific journal of the National Geographic Society, but in 1905, the magazine will shift to photojourrnalism with an issue featuring full page shots from Tibet.

The terms ampere, ohm, and volt are indoctrinated at the Electrical Conference in Paris, France.

1893
The Duryea Brothers publicly demonstrate their automobile, the first to be built in America, two days after it’s completion in Springfield, Illinois. In 1896, the brothers will found the first company in the world to manufacture gasoline powered automobiles.

1955
The first commercial television broadcast in Britain is transmitted by Rediffusion, an Independent Television (ITV) contractor, in London. The first advertisement shown at 9:12pm shows Gibbs SR toothpaste in a block of ice. The ad was produced by AB-Pathé.
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Geek Quote of the Day

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Imagine what it would be like if TV actually were good. It would be the end of everything we know.

      -Marvin Minksy

Dr Horrible at the Emmys

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Yeah, this is everywhere this morning, so you’ll have seen it a dozen times before your RSS Feeder makes it this far down your morning rounds, but it’s my blog. So, there. Laugh, sofa monkies!

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Geek Media Round-Up: September 21, 2009

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Art

The King's Garden

  • The Terrible Yellow Eyes is a great exhibition dedicated to Where the Wild Things Are tribute art.

Comics

  • After The Chameleon stole Peter Parker’s identity and had sex with his roommate, some fans have been left asking Do DC and Marvel Need a Special Victims Unit?
  • Topless Robot counts down The 11 Least Necessary Star Wars Comic Book Stories.

Film

  • News: Outraged Nigerian minister wants District 9 banned.
  • So, Did chicks dig Jennifer’s Body? Turns out, not so much. Who knew girls don’t like softcore porn?
  • There’s a new set of retro-chic posters out for Duncan Jones’ Moon.

Internet

  • FirstShowing asks When does Sci-Fi Become Fantasy? To which I respond, why not just call it speculative fiction when the boundaries blur?
  • Google has been displaying UFO designs into their logo for weeks now, hinting at what they’re memorializing with including clues and codes. Today, they’ve finally come out and marked the occasion openly – the birth of HG Wells.
  • Maxim magazin explains How To Tell Which ‘Star Wars’ You’re Watching.
  • Over at The Science Creative Quarterly, Justin Kahn explains HOW I GOT OUT OF WRITING AN ESSAY ON H.G. WELL’S THE TIME MACHINE.

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This Day in Geek History: September 21

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1784
The Pennsylvania Packet and Daily Advertiser, the first daily paper in America, is first published.

1897
The The New York Sun runs a letter sent in by Virginia O’Hanlon, asking, “I am eight years old. Some of my friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says, ‘If you see it in “The Sun”, it’s so.’ Please tell me the truth. Is there a Santa Claus?” Along with the letter, the paper runs the famous response written by editor Frank Church. “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist. No Santa Claus? Thank God he lives and lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay ten times 10,000 years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.” Read the text of the original article and view digital images of the original newspaper.

1937
The first edition of 'The Hobbit' by J.R.R. TolkienGeorge Allen & Unwin, Ltd. publishes the first edition of the fantasy novel The Hobbit written (and illustrated) by J.R.R. Tolkien, a professor at Oxford University. The story, which draws strongly on mythology and Anglo-Saxon history, follows the adventures of a Hobbit named Bilbo Baggins, who will later be cited by literary historians as fantasy literature’s first bourgeois character. By introducing a character through which his middle class readers could relate to medieval archetypes, he transformed the genre forever. All 1,500 copies of the first print run will sell out by December 15, and the American edition will be published on March 1, 1938. It will eventually go on to become an international bestseller, available in forty languages. Length: 312pp Read Anne T. Eaton’s 1938 review of The Hobbit from the New York Times. Visit the official Tolkien website.
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Geek Quote of the Day

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Our technological revolution is quickly making degrees irrelevant for many of even the top jobs. Bill Gates didn’t graduate from college. Tumblr founder David Karp dropped out of high school. So did blip.tv founder Mike Hudack. Dropping out of the standard school curriculum is not a dead end if it leads you toward a trade where you can earn a living and be proud of your achievements.

      - “What Obama Should Have Told The Kids Today” by John Carney, September 8, 2009.

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