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Geek Media Round-Up: June 9, 2010

10 Jun 2010  Media

Art

Goonies

  • Check out this morbid skin-bound spell book, the Walpurgisnacht, created as a movie prop by Ross McDonald.
  • Epic cross-over: Silver Surfer vs the Daleks by Daniel McDaid

Film

  • PopCrunch remembers 15 Great Movies That Were Never Finished.

Internet

  • The Internet ate my brain. Nicholas Carr says that our online lifestyle threatens to make us dumber. But resistance may not be futile.
  • Jed Whedon is now Twittering!
  • A rather enlightened judge in Spain has likened P2P to lending books.

Literature

  • Interview: Cory Doctorow talks with both Books on the Radio and Copper Robot.
  • Interview: Nnedi Okorafor discusses writing and culture.
  • Interview: StarShipSofa interrogates Jack Vance.
  • The Guardian argues that What Philip K Dick needed was a co-author.

Science

  • Star Trek’s Hypo Spray Now A Reality

Technology

  • Authors Anton Radevsky and Emma Sanders have teamed up to build the world’s first pop-up book about the Large Hadron Collider. As you read the book, you can actually build a replica of the massive physics tool.

Television

  • Metacritic names its picks for the 10 Best and Worst vampire TV shows.

Video Games

  • News: Study pinpoints personalities affected by violent games.

Writing

  • Breaking news! Not all fantasy authors are disfigured freaks. NPR has the story.



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