Film
- Film School Rejects interviews Ben Burtt the genius behind the sound effects of Indiana Jones, Star Wars, and Wall-E.
- Rotten Tomatoes names the sexiest vampires in film.
- Spill counts down 10 Vampires Who Will Turn Your Skin White… a few videos you may want to rent to ward off all the teenage girl mojo of the Twilight film in theaters this weekend.
- Vanity Fair hypes the Twilight film, mainly because every single person in it looks as if they stepped out of an Abercrombie & Fitch ad.
- You can save yourself a fortune in video rental fees by heading over at College Humor, where The Fine Brothers spoil 100 films in under 5 minutes.
Internet
- Chris van Dyke discusses Race in Dungeons & Dragons and presents a powerpoint presentation on the topic at Nerd Nite. Now there’s a discuss on the essay over at Ta-Nehisi Coates’ blog.
- Don’t bother clicking this link, but take note: The Europeana is the European Union’s new digital library. It provides multilingual access to two million digitized books from over a thousand institutions in the 27 EU states. Just after its launch, the site crashed as its servers were overwhelmed by over “10 million hits an hour.“
- The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, my favorite magazine, is switching its URL to http://www.fandsf.com.
- Monty Python has announced its decision to launch a YouTube channel. Check out the video announcement.
Literature
- Free Fiction: Read “The Last Devil” by Sarah L. Edwards at Beneath Ceaseless Skies.
- Over at the Barnes and Noble Bookclub Forums, they’re discussing the Top Ten Paranormal Releases of 2008. The Outlaw Demon Wails by Kim Harrison (which was great) makes number one on the moderator’s list, though I would have personally chosen Jim Butcher’s Small Favor.
Music
- Jonathan Coulton performs the song “Creepy Doll” with the assistance of Neil Gaiman on a tamberine. Yes, I said Neil Gaiman on the a tamberine.
Television
- Watch the full episode of Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II online.
Video Games
- You know it’s true love when… An Eve Online player has agreed to marry his girlfriend if she fills a Choron with corpses. For those of you not familiar with the game, that’s 50,000 – 80,000 corpses. I can’t wait to hear what he has to do before the wedding night.
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