• Liven up any room in your house with one of these Mario Bros. Floating Blocks.
• Tron Legacy concept artist Daniel Simon is choked full of eye candy, including sci-fi race cars and spaceships.

Film

• The Atlantic Wire tries to nail down Why Alice in Wonderland Disappoints.
• BriTANicK has crafted this stereotypical Academy Award Winning Movie Trailer.
• SlashFilm reports on the latest film gimmick, Movies that call you on your cellphone during the film.

Internet

• News: Piracy Rises In France Despite Three Strikes Law

Literature

• News: “E-book ISBN Mess Needs Sorting Out,” Say UK Publishers
• News: Nation Shudders At Large Block Of Uninterrupted Text [The Onion]
• The Guardian examines The ecological case for ebooks.

Television

• News: Richard Belzer stirs up publicity by choking an Apple employee. I’m pretty sure that if I did this, I’d be in jail right now.
• Andy Richter Rips on Jay Leno and NBC on Live! With Regis and Kelly. [Video]
• The Atlantic Wire asks, Is Google TV the Wave of the Future?
• Behold the many moral alignments of Dr. Who.

Video Games

• Only in Korea is StarCraft so funny is gets its own stand-up routine.

• Travis Pitts is selling Sci-Fi Jesus Fish stickers on Etsy.
• Unreality has posted A Wicked Gallery of Little Red Riding Hood Re-Imagined.
• Virtual Fun Zone has a gallery of Japanese Trains Decorated with Anime. I think that some of these would really spruce up New York subways.

Comics

• News: Patton Oswalt to write ‘Firefly’ comic book

Film

• Interview: Christopher Nolan teases a “fantastic story” for a Superman reboot.
• The Innsmouth Free Press picks 10 Best Epidemic Horror Flicks.
• Premiere remembers 10 Movies That Were Better Than The Books.
• Wired warns of The Top 10 Movies That Should Never, Ever Be Converted to 3-D.

Internet

• According to NG Online, Blogging younger demographics aren’t blogging. Does this mean I’m not “hip” anymore?
• FlavorWire is claiming that Conan O’Brien is Secretly Tweeting From 8 Different Accounts. I guess the guy has a lot of free time on his hands.

Literature

• Interview: Starship Sofa interviews Gene Wolfe. [Podcast]
• In the article “Aliens have taken the place of angels” at the Guardian, Margaret Atwood explains why we need science fiction.
• Engadget has an exclusive look Microsoft’s Courier digital journal. Apple seriously needs to strap two iPhones together to make one of these.
• io9 wonders Is “Science Fiction Humanism” A Contradiction In Terms?
• Jo Walton discusses Fantasy and the need to remake our origin stories.
• A new book claims that Robin Hood stole from the rich and lent to the poor as a secret Templar.

Television

• News: Sony 3D TVs to arrive in June

Video Games

• Cracked explains Creepy Ways Video Games Are Trying to Get You Addicted.

Writing

• Charlie Stross explains Why books are the length they are.

Fang: A Maximum Ride Novel by James Patterson
Hiveborn (The Earthborn Wars) by Paul Collins
The Midnight Mayor: Or, the Inauguration of Matthew Swift by Kate Griffin
The River Kings’ Road: A Novel of Ithelas by Liane Merciel
The Universal Essence by Dean Lincoln Minton

Paperback Book Releases

Caliphate by Tom Kratman
How to Make Friends with Demons by Graham Joyce

Anime Releases

Evangelion: 1.11 You Are Not Alone [Blu-ray]
Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple – Season Two, Part One
Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn Vol. 1 [Blu-ray]
Naruto: Shippuden, Vol. 7

DVD Releases

Planet 51 [Blu-ray]

Theatrical Releases

Green Zone (R) starring Matt Damon opens this Friday, leaving men with a viable option for an action fix. Sadly, however, any guy with a girlfriend or wife is more likely to get dragged along to see Robert Pattinson’s latest travesty, Remember Me. My sympathies.

More interestingly, the animated feature film The Secret of Kells is finally opens in the U.S., and it looks like the first decent non-Pixar animation to open in a long, long, looong time.

Video Games

Blazblue: Calamity Trigger Portable (Sony PSP)
Calling (Nintendo Wii)
Final Fantasy XIII (PS3/X360)
Spectral Force Genesis (Nintendo DS)
Warhammer 40000: Dawn of War II: Chaos Rising (Windows)

The Symphony of Science has released a fifth installment in its series, entitled “The Poetry of Reality.” While it isn’t my favorite, I love the fact that they’re not resting on their laurels. Each of their video is more ambitious than the last.

This video features 12 scientists, subtitles for the auto-tune challenged, and some of the best visual yet seen in the the series. Enjoy.

• ComicsAlliance Takes On Gender-Swapped Comic Fan-Art.
• Darren Rawlings is posting Hulk sketches all month. To date, he’s posted Hulk smashing up Iron Man, Reed Richards, and X-Men.

Film

• News: Olivia Munn in Iron Man 2?
• Four New KICK-ASS Character Posters have been released.
• Here’s a shot of James Cameron congratulating Kathryn Bigelow on her Oscar. Awww… I think he’s gonna hug her.
• The SciFi Squad has put together a list of 8 Science Fiction Films That Don’t Start As Science Fiction, starting with Predator.

Internet

• If Bruce Willis had played a SysAdmin in Die Hard, instead of a cop…
• I didn’t think it was possible to dislike xkcd, but, evidently, it is.

Literature

• Interview: The Agony Column interviews Joe Hill. [Podcast]
• Interview: Revolution SF interviews Peter Straub.
• The Book Smugglers kickis off Steampunk Week with a list of great book recommendations: Leviathan, Alchemy of Stone, and more.
• Futurismic wonders Do free ebooks actually affect the sales of dead-tree books?
• The Huffington Post warns readers Don’t Believe the E-book Skeptics.
• Is your reading suffering from multimedia overload? The Guardian thinks so.
• PCWorld examines how the iPad Challenges Traditional Publishing Economics.

Science

• According to DARPA, With Artificial Photosynthesis, A Bottle of Water Could Produce Enough Energy To Power A House.
• Hot damn! It’s about time. Jetpacks are now Commercially Available! I knew I shouldn’t have blown all my money on cars, food, and shelter!

Television

• News: Google Teams Up With Dish Network For Android-Powered TV Experiment
• News: Felicia Day is coming to SyFy in the new series Red.
• SciFi Wire offers the Ultimate sci-fi TV pilot guide, looking at your favorite shows of the future.

• Listen to “The Identifier” by Mark Patrick Morehead at PseudoPod.
• Listen to “The Mermaid’s Tea Party” by Samantha Henderson at Podcastle.
• Listen to “A Programmatic Approach to Perfect Happiness” by Tim Pratt.
• Listen to “Willpower” by Jason Stoddard at Dunesteef.

More Links

• BooksShouldBeFree is a great website for downloading free classic audiobooks.

Novels and Preview Chapters

• Jim Butcher is releasing a chapter a week of his upcoming book Changes.
• Read the First Chapter of Seth Grahame-Smith’s Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.

Short Stories

• Read “Cross Purposes” by Elizabeth Moon at Suvudu.
• Read “The Final Now” by Gregory Benford at Tor.com.
• Read “Make Believe” by Michael Reaves at Suvudu.
• Read “The Notebook of My Favourite Skin-Trees by Alex Dally MacFarlane and more besides at DayBreak Magazine.
• Read “The Nonesuch” by Brian Lumley at Subterranean Online.
• Read “Small Burdens” by Paul M. Berger at Strange Horizons.

Vintage Fiction

• Download “The Sensitive Man” by Poul Anderson at ManyBooks.net.

Zines and Periodicals

• Flurb has released its Spring-Summer issue, featuring “The Goddess of Discord Lives on Mulberry Street” and “Insect Girl Climbs to Paradise.”
• Horror Bound magazine has released issue eleven.
• Popular Science has put its entire 137-year scanned archive online for free!

• CollegeHumor offers an explanation of The Origin of the “Force Quit”
• Darth Monet finds your lack of artistic appreciation disturbing.
• Fans imagine what Captain America Movie Posters would look like.
• This kick-ass Alan Moore doll was made by Ryusuke Hamamoto of Deviant Art.
• This elaborate Lego Steampunk city is pretty amazing.

Comics

• News: J. Michael Straczynski to write SUPERMAN and WONDER WOMAN
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch ponders Batman in the Real World.

Film

• Interview: Mark Millar discusses Kick-Ass, Superman, and Wanted.
• News: Green Lantern Comes To Theaters In 3-D In June 2011
• News: JJ Abrams predicts science-fiction win at the Oscars
• A new Iron Man trailer has been released to the web. (Official site here.)

Literature

• Interview: Elizabeth Moon discusses life in the military with Suvudu.
• Interview: Michael A Ventrella interviews Lawrence Watt-Evans.
• Interview: Sci-Fi Fan Letter speaks with N. K. Jemisin, author of the recently released (and really excellent) The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms.
• Interview: Teri Hall, author of The Line, talks with John Scalzi.
• Interview: Tor.com profiles Margaret Atwood.
• Ben Bova brags “I saw e-books (and related problems) coming.”
• NPR plugs Marilyn Johnson’s new book, “This Book Is Overdue: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All“.
• Publishing Perspectives wonders In the Age of E-books, Does the Cheap Paperback Have a Future?

Science

• News: It’s official: An asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs
• Listverse has compiled a list of the Top 10 Theoretical Megastructures.

Television

• News: Fringe Renewed For A Third Season
• Chud remembers The Geekiest Oscar Moments Ever.
• Here’s a depressing chart of What the cable company pays for the channels they sell you. Prepare to hate your cable provider.

Video Games

• Is Your Life Just One Big RPG? Jesse Schell talks about the present and future of video games. [Part 2, Part 3]

Writing

• GalleyCat has compiled a list of Book Editors on Twitter.
• Tamara Sellman maintains that Everything I’ve learned about writing this year I’ve relearned by watching the Olympics.

• Botanical Drawings for the Digital Age “Murayama can spend months on one of his botanical illustrations, and when he’s done, the plant looks like something that blossomed in outer space.”
• Fandomania has rounded up a gallery of Mad Hatter fan art from Deviant Art.
• Hongkiat has gathered a collection of 60 Marvelous Comic Superhero Wallpapers.
• Web Urbanist explores the world of Model Cities used for Urban Planning.

Film

• Alice in Wonderland is getting shredded by critics.
• Avatar’s sci-fi label surprises Sigourney. Says actress, “Me in a sci-fi movie? Never. Except, you know, all those ones before Avatar.”
• Not only has io9 compiled a list of movies that shouldn’t be remade, it has actually mad suggestions as to which books should get an adaptation instead.

Internet

• Cameo Artist Stan Lee Campaigns for Academy Award.
• Cody Richeson has created a video of Disney’s A Goofy Movie, as it might have been imagined by David Lynch.
• Pamorama is offering 16 Free Must-Read eBooks About Social Media.

Literature

• Interview: Travis Heermann has posted a brief interview with Kat Richardson, author of the really excellent Greywalker urban fantasy series.
• I looks like Amazon has had enough. They’ve begun bypassing publishers in favor of acquiring ebook rights direct from writers and agents. Good for them.
• Russell Smith laments the coming obsolescence of the bookshelf.

Television

• Creators of ‘Lost’ say they won’t tie up all those loose ends. Is anyone surprised? I think we all knew from the beginning that wouldn’t be a rationale for half the things that happened on that show.