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Geek Media Round-Up: October 28, 2009

28 Oct 2009  Media

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  • Alex CF is selling The Collected Eldritch horrors of Merrylin, an amazing model specimen kit.
  • Check out photos from year’s annual Zombie Walk in Toronto. The zombie baby is particularly kick-ass.
  • Hilarious Comic Strip Mashups!
  • MSNBC has posted a gallery of photos in an article entitled How to build a steampunk haunted house.

Comics

  • Comic Alliance has discovered what may be the Best Comic Book Halloween Costume ever.
  • MTV rounds up Five Comic Book Pumpkinheads For Halloween.

Film

  • Bram Stoker’s Dracula is now available for free online at Hulu.
  • House on Haunted Hill is now available for free at SlashControl.

Internet

  • Felicia Day has posted the Halloween bonus episode of The Guild to her blog.
  • Here’s a preview of the sort of packages your ISP will offer unless net neutrality gets passed and soon.
  • Slate asks Does Twitter Semi-Censor to Protect Celebrities?
  • The soundtrack of Tron: Rise of the Virals, an unmade, “darker” TRON movie that Pixar and Disney were developing in the late ninties, is now available online.

Literature

  • Interview: Details interviews Brandon Sanderson, author of the last three entries in Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series.
  • Interview: Fantasy Book Critic interviews Shilpa Agarwal, author of Haunting Bombay.
  • Interview: Publisher’s Weekly interviews Charles de Lint, father of Urban Fantasy.
  • News: Smartphone eBook Readers Multiply
  • The Huffington Post wonders Do Authors Still Need Publishers?
  • Increasingly, Adults are turning to the Young Adult Section for their reading selections.
  • Online University has a list of 101 Book Blogs You Need to Read.

Television

  • News: Microsoft hired the cast of “Family Guy” to pitch Windows 7 but canceled after seeing the show’s jokes about “deaf people, the Holocaust, feminine hygiene and incest.”
  • Leonard Nimoy says his ‘Fringe’ experiment may be coming to an end

Video Games

  • In a revelation to some, it turns out that all the dungeons in The Legend of Zelda were part of the same enormous map.

Writing

  • Tor.com takes a Semi-Scientific Look at What Makes a Good Story.

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