Art
- Assemble your own wood Curiosity Rover.
- Comic Book Gift Tags for Christmas
- The Hobbit Cast with their MiniFigs
- This Fused Glass Trilobite Menorah Made to Order will add a geek twist to your Chanukah. Plus, here are 15 More Quirky Menorahs for you to gawk at.
- Katniss Everdeen (Hunger Games) cosplay
- Picturing The Hobbit
- Space Samurai re-imagine Star Wars characters as traditional Japanesee Samurai
- Star Wars Propaganda
Film
- Interview: ‘Hobbit’ Star Martin Freeman: ‘I’m Geek Royalty Now’
- Interview: Peter Jackson on the polarizing 48 FPS format
- News: ‘Indiana Jones’ Lawsuit Alleges Crystal Skull Theft
- News: Pan’s Labyrinth Heading For The Stage
- News: Some Audiences Are Reportedly Leaving ‘The Hobbit’ Feeling Sick
- Reviews: ‘An Unexpected Journey’ Review: ‘The Hobbit’ Is Really, Really Long
- Reviews: Why ‘The Hobbit’ Will Succeed (Or Fail)
- The 10 Most Interesting Facts Gleaned From ‘The Hobbit’ Press Conference
- 10 Surprising Facts About Chewbacca
- The 25 Most Expensive Movies Ever Made
- 80 years of Sci-fi Space Helmets in one video
- The First trailer for the Tom Cruise sci-fi epic Oblivion was released this weekend. It looks like The Island meets The Matrix meets Battlefield Earth.
- For those of you looking to drown yourself in more Hobbit awesomeness here’s a 13-minute TV special called “A Return To Middle Earth” is just the thing to whet your appetite for the movie’s release.
- Here’s a list of all the theaters in the U.S. that will be showing “The Hobbit” at the high definition 48fps rate. Get your tickets now if you live nearby.
- The Hobbit: A Geek’s Take
Internet
- News: Neil Gaiman and Neil deGrasse Tyson answer questions on a panel.
- The Hobbit Christmas Song for geeks super-pumped about the upcoming film.
- The Importance of Being Geek
Literature
- Interview: Christopher Tolkien Laments The ‘Evisceration’ Of His Father’s Work
- Interview: Ken Scholes, Andrew Mayer, and Tad Williams Discuss EPIC Fantasy
- Interview: Sci-Fi Fan Letter interviews Allison Pang of A Trace of Moonlight
- Interview: Three Questions For Author Mira Grant
- Interview: Two Worlds War: An Interview with Danie Ware of Ecko Rising
- The 10 Most Unlikely Things That Were Influenced by J.R.R. Tolkien
- Nightmare Magazine’s Top 100 Horror Books
- Ten Surefire Ways to Survive a Teen Horror Novel
Science
- Interview: Wil Wheaton & the Science of Star Trek with Neil deGrasse Tyson
- The Last Pictures project is a joint venture between Paglen and Creative Time, a New York-based public arts nonprofit, to document the impact human beings have had on the earth’s surface for whoever comes after us, millions or even billions of years in the future.
Technology
- Here’s a Look at the World’s ‘First Smart Restaurant,’ Run by Robots.
- A ‘Star Trek: TNG’-style communicator for your shirt
Television
- News: ‘Doctor Who’ makes TV Guide’s cover for the first time ever
- News: ‘Walking Dead’ EP to produce sci-fi drama for USA Network.
- The 5 Most Irritating Arguments Made Against Modern Doctor Who
- Moral Complexity Is Not Plot Complexity: ‘Buffy The Vampire Slayer’ And Dark TV
- The Rise And Heartbreaking Fall of Doctor Who
- Walking Dead: 4 things networks can learn from the show that’s beating them.
Video Games
- Interview: Anita Sarkeesian talks about how she “accidentally became the villain of a massively online game in real-life.” The feminist media critic who suffered a vicious campaign of misogynistic online harassment earlier this year, has just released an excellent TED talk on her experiences.
- Video games are designed to get you hooked. The gaming industry uses “pure Las Vegas” psychology to make their products more addictive.
- What are the dumbest ways to die in video games? Megasteakman parodies the viral hit ‘dumb ways to die‘ with a look at the most annoying, frustrating and dumbest ways to die in video games.
Writing
- Interview: Stephen King offers writing tips to Mass. students
- Dungeons and Dragons: My dorky literary muse. As an MFA student, my fiction was derivative. Then I reconnected with my inner Dungeon Master.
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