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Geek Media Round-Up: November 20, 2008

20 Nov 2008  Media

Film

  • As if you needed more reasons, Fantasy Magazine shares Five Reasons to be Psyched for the Watchmen Movie.
  • The Dark Knight is on its way to becoming the most pirated movie of 2008. Personally, I think that deserves an award.
  • David Denby of the New Yorker presents a lecture at Princeton in which he asks Do Movies have a Future? [ASX Streaming Video]
  • Ladies and Gentlemen, I present the ironic link of the day: The Sci-Fi Channel suggests 10 Ways To Update Earth Stood Still. Yes, the people would brought you what, like five films about a gigantic python, think they can improve other people’s films.
  • Sci-Fi counts down the 6 Scariest Environmental Doomsday Movies, reminding us that, despite the increasing visibility of environmental issues, Hollywood still isn’t as worried about global warming as it is about zombies.

Literature

  • Interview: Chasing Ray interviews Ellen Datlow, Editor of Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror.
  • Media Shift examines the issue of Pulp Magazines Struggling to Survive in a Wired World.
  • Over at Auxiliary Memory, James Harris considers who his literary relatives are as a child of science fiction and the 1960s in his article, The Children of Science Fiction.
  • The Top Ten Reasons Books Are Better Than Sex.
  • The Written Weird’s Jay Garmon lays out a plan for Building the Perfect Web 2.0 Sci-fi short Fiction Magazine.

Television

  • The BBC Archive Project has posted some amazing memos and reports revealing the thought processes that led to the creation of Doctor Who.
  • Just when you thought you were out, they pull you back in. Who is the Final Cylon?

Video Games

  • An Italian boy has been diagnosed with PlayStation Addiction.
  • Researchers in Birmingham have been developing new technology to add smells to the virtual world of video games.

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