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Geek Media Round-Up: October 26, 2009

26 Oct 2009  Media

Art

Count Dracula by Pheonix0684

  • Fandomania has rounded up a gallery of Dracula art from Deviant Art.
  • Screen Junkies has posted a gallery of 20 Movie Villain Pumpkin Carvings.
  • Super Tremendous has posted a gallery of 15 Horrifying Baby Halloween Costumes, beginning with a startled little Alien victim.
  • Unreality has posted a gallery of 15 Zombie Road Signs.

Comics

  • Need more Dr. Horrible in your life? Dr. Horrible is coming to comics.
  • Wired’s Geek Dad interviews the iconic Stan Lee.

Film

  • News: Ghost in the Shell to become a live-action movie.
  • AMC’s FilmCritic picks Horror Movies to Watch in the Dark.
  • AMC’s SciFi Scanner shares Ten Creepy Comic Book Movies To Make Your Halloween a Super Scream, beginning with Blade II.
  • The Guardian’s Film Blog waxes nostalgic over The Shining, which they claim (and I agree) is just getting better with age.
  • The SciFi quad asks Did James Cameron Steal the Plot for ‘Avatar’?

Internet

  • Fortune looks at 10 things Google has taught us as author Ken Auletta asks What makes it so revolutionary. Good stuff.
  • This Klingon Propaganda film that just went viral calls for us to embrace our invaders as Earth joins the Klingon Empire.
  • The Spitzer Science Center has released a funny and informative PSA on colliding galaxies featuring Felicia Day, assuring us all that the Milky Way Isn’t Doomed.

Literature

  • Interview: Audible is hosting a live chat with Michael Connelly on Facebook at 7PM ET, November 3rd. RSVP now to participate.
  • Deal News offers a Cheat Sheet on the Leading eBook Readers.
  • Jason Sanford shares 42 Reasons Not to Read the New Hitchhiker’s Book, starting with the fact that it’s not funny.
  • The story Neil Gaiman crowdsourced on Twitter is complete and now online.
  • With the race to make ebooks copy-proof, Publishers are Delaying Electronic Editions of Major Titles.

Television

  • It turns out that 124/180 Seinfeld episodes have a Superman reference, but only 24 of the references are verbal.
  • Watch the first eight minutes of ABC’s “V” on The Live Feed.

Video Games

  • Koku Gamer wonders Can Video Games Help Us Learn?

Writing

  • Author Michael A. Stackpole asks Are Authors Really Their Characters?
  • In letters from the query wars, Jennifer Jackson offers a quick guide to demystify the query letter.

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