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Geek Media Round-Up: December 16, 2009

16 Dec 2009  Media

Art

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  • The Avalanche Software Art Blog has some great Twilight fan art.
  • Bruton Stroube takes photos of people upside down… basically to make them look like bloated (and surprised) treasure trolls.
  • DesignBoom has just unleashed The Baddest Baby Carriage ever designed.
  • DJMick has posted a gallery of 24 Beggars With Funny Signs.
  • StreetLevel has a tongue-in-cheek gallery of Zombified Star Wars Posters.
  • Unreality explains The Hierarchy of Morgan Freeman.

Film

  • Christopher Nolan’s New Inception Poster is uncannily like that of The Dark Knight. Did Leonardo DiCaprio ever tell you how he got those scars?
  • Empire recalls the Most Disturbing Yuletide Movie Moments from film.
  • Forget Klingon. Give a listen to Avatar’s Na’vi language thanks NPR.
  • I was surprised by how many of the films on The Playlist’s Best Documentaries Of The Decade list I’ve actually seen..
  • Premium Hollywood looks back at the Funniest Death Scenes of the 2000s.
  • SciFi Wire remembers 11 movies that changed sci-fi beginning with The Day the Earth Stood Still and continuing on to other such blockbusters as The Matrix.

Internet

  • Can an information source that is free also be reliable? Or does the price of content always reflect its value?
  • Check out these AWESOME Backwards Sand Castle Explosions from the Travel Channel. (Part 2) Who stuffs a sandcastle with explosives?

Literature

  • News: One-Third of Book Buyers Cutting Purchases, Bowker Finds.
  • BookSquare examines a list of Things That Will Not Save Publishing.
  • Entertainment Weekly gets its hands on the new Nook and reports back.
  • The Guardian admonishes readers, You can’t speed read literature. It might be useful for commercial documents, but when it comes to serious writing, it blurs out all the really interesting stuff.

Science

  • 3D camera breaks world record with 158 lenses.

Television

  • SciFi Wire offers 11 awesome season 3 spoilers from the creators of Chuck.

Video Games

  • News: Australian Government Consulting Public On Changes To Game Ratings.
  • GameSpy points out Seven Christmas Games That Make You Hate Christmas.
  • Manolith uses any excuse to post photos of these 15 Hottest Girls That Game.
  • Wow.com explains Why you don’t have freedom of speech in WoW.

Writing

  • I want to support my favorite authors. Where should I go to buy their books?



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