Film
- The first trailer for Avatar is online now! It looks a LOT more like fantasy than sci-fi. Hmmm. The Sprout Blog reacts with a list of 10 Movies Avatar Unfortunately Resembles.
- Mashable argues that Twitter Can Bury a Movie. It Can Also Make it a Success.
- Pajiba looks back at The 11 Oldest Actors to Play Teenagers over the years.
- Publisher Weekly looks at Taking Millar’s “Kick Ass” from Page to Screen.
- Taki Magazine argues that District 9 is not an Apartheid allegory.
Internet
- io9 looks back at Dirt-Cheap Aliens Who Still Look Awesome.
- ISS points out some Common Supervillain Blunder.
- MSN claims that Science fiction’s robotics laws need reality check, saying that Asimov’s Three Laws don’t recognize current limitations… and evidently not realizing that they’re pretend.
- New Scientist looks at Why Geeks get the Girls. Note to self: Have this list made into a t-shirt for next night out.
Literature
- News: Three more Sookie Stackhouse novels planned.
- 20 best websites to download free Ebooks. (Also, don’t miss Part 2)
- Heathrow Airport has appointed Philosophical author Alain de Botton as the airport’s writer-in-residence.
Video Games
- According to “Health-Risk Correlates of Video-Game Playing Among Adults” (PDF), the average gamer is 35 years old, overweight, and depressed. Ouch.
- IGN offers up a History of Warcraft spanning the past fifteen years.
Writing
- The Rumpus author Stephen Elliott explains why he writes, saying, “We’re lucky to be writers. Nobody owes us anything.“
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am August 21 2009 @ 12:08 pm
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