Film
- AMC’s Horror Hacker lists Ten Dream Double Features Worthy of the Drive In, beginning with Night of the Creeps and Slither.
- Ebert has given Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen one star… dundundun.
- The final trailer for G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra is out… and it features Marlon Wayans doing slapstick. It bodes ill.
- Movie|Line rounds up The 9 Most Scathing Critical Responses to Transformers 2.
- Rotten Tomatoes the 50 Best Movie Robots, beginning with Box from Logan’s Run.
- SciFi Wire explains How the giant-robot F/X in Transformers 2 nearly broke ILM.
- Transformers 2 is so bad, some people are actually asking if Michael Bay Finally Made An Art Movie. (Not in a good way.)
Internet
- British Libraries have begun to tap into Twitter to network and spread information among themselves.
Literature
- Free Fiction: Listen to the short story “The Sledge-Maker’s Daughter” by Alastair Reynolds at Interzone.
- Free Fiction: Read “Arm of the Law” by Harry Harrison at Manybooks.
- Interview: The Nebula Awards interviews Kristin Cashore, author of Graceling.
- Before video and DVD, Dr Who fans who wanted a fix of the Time Lord in between the TV shows relied on a series of official adventures in print. Over at the BBC, Mark Gatiss recalls his love of Doctor Who novels.
- Bills introduced in Louisiana and Utah would enable private citizens to sue booksellers who sold books they considered objectionable to minors, and booksellers are protesting.
- Wired Editor Chris Anderson has been caught stealing content for A Book About How Content Should be Free. The question is was this done to be deliberately ironic or just lazy?
Television
- Just as Lost comes to its conclusion, the Lost Island will open at Disney World.
- Henry Blodget of the Huffington Post explains why The TV Business Is Toast.
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