The best of the internet, chopped into tiny bits and grilled for your enjoyment.
- The greatest thing ever. (Via @BeaucoupKevin)
- WonderCon is here! Wired has pictures, Cinematical sums the whole thing up in 60 seconds, while Sci Fi Wire has the detailed news from the Con on Astro Boy, Alien Trespass, Pandorum, Star Trek, Wonder Woman, Watchmen, and plenty on Terminator: Salvation. Meanwhile, Underwire has its own news from the Con about Terminator and Star Trek.
- We can get Serenity back in space! Go here and vote! (Via)
- 24 haiku about Robocop.
- Ooh, new behind-the-scenes featurette on Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
- The executive producer of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles talks about the season finale, and how he wrote it to also work as a series finale, if necessary. Argh!
- Yet more on Watchmen! The schedule for a series of videos introducing the main characters that will be aired on TV this week; a Watchmen link roundup; the price for the downloadable Watchmen game will be $20; and a couple of amusing Watchmen parodies.
- Unfortunate product design.
- The first episode of Ed Brubaker's Angel of Death hits the web today. (Via @warrenellis)
- A fun illustration of all the Doctors from Doctor Who (Via @Agent_M). And speaking of, here's a look at the new Doctor Who spin-off show, K9.
- Lots of interesting trailers in the Trailer Park, including one for The Informers, Bret Easton Ellis' film adaptation of his own novel.
- Looks like The Birds remake will be in 3D. Nice.
- It's a pretty weak rumor, but the idea of Robert De Niro, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Joe Pesci doing a heist film together is a little hard to resist.
- The top ten John Wayne movies that could also be porn titles.
- Microsoft's vision of the crazy awesome technology that will be available to us in 2019.
- User-contributed photos have been added to Google street view. Cool idea, but we could see how it could go horribly awry.
- If you haven't heard, a controversy bomb hit the internet in the form of an argument over whether Kindle 2's ability to read your books aloud to you would eat into the audio book market. Pretty much everybody we read is saying it's a totally stupid idea, but Amazon is caving and will disable the text-to-speech feature in Kindle 2. Lame!
- Download Squad lists five ways to enhance your Wikipedia experience.
- Anton Yelchin says no, he's not the Green Lantern. He also talks Star Trek and Terminator.
- Ooh, a prequel web comic for Star Wars: The Old Republic. (Via)
- Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li is still holding at an amazing 0% on Rotten Tomatoes (via). Meanwhile, Street Fighter IV, the video game, will be out for the PC this summer, and there may even be an optional bundle that includes a Mad Catz fighting stick.
- Nerd World lists the song title from the upcoming Spider-Man musical. (Not really.)
- Mike Nelson gives a press conference to explain why he was not able to go through with his plan to eat only bacon for a month.
- The next DC animated DVD will be Green Lantern: First Flight.
- "Cinematic cut-scenes in the upcoming Resident Evil 5 videogame provide an advance look at the 'virtual camera' technology being used by director James Cameron to shoot his 3-D sci-fi epic, Avatar."
- Joystiq has an amusing quiz for you: which of these titles is a real Wii or DS game, and which are not?
- The new Puzzle Quest game is rumored to have long load times on the DS.
- More reimagined book covers; this time it's the His Dark Materials trilogy. (Via)
- LEGO Spider-Man, Freddy Krueger, and Jason Voorhees (via).
- The entire Quest for G saga.
- Adorable probe droid.
- "A Brazilian man held a 60-year old woman hostage for ten whopping hours with a Sega Master System Light Phaser."
- Sweet design for an R2D2 boombox; sadly, it doesn't actually work.
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