A steaming hot pile of our favorite things from around the internets.
- Gird your loins, for Comic-Con approacheth! There will be lightsaber chopsticks (Via), and Disney's bringing lots of awesome stuff, including the first official trailer for Tron 2.0, clips from Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland and Robert Zemeckis' Disney's A Christmas Carol, and Hayao Miyazaki and John Lasseter. Here's io9's top picks from the full, just released Comic-Con schedule.
- Also on its way? Harry Potter!! Not only is it Harry Potter weekend on ABC Family again this weekend (woo hoo!), we've also got various fun articles about the upcoming movies, including one about the special effects, one about a new podcast and iPhone app, and a couple revealing fascinating details about the last two films.
- Edgar Wright talks very briefly about Ant-Man, and Marc Guggenheim won't say whether or not there'll be a Superman cameo in Green Lantern. Speaking of Green Lantern, Variety claims the casting of the emerald crusader is down to three: Bradley Cooper, Ryan Reynolds and Justin Timberlake.
- The sci-fi hotties of 2009. (Via)
- 10 of the most horrible deaths by women in Star Trek. (Via)
- Rainn Wilson and Nathan Fillion apparently went together to meet with DC Comics recently. Hmm. What's that about? (Via)
- Cool drawing of Marvel superheroes. (Via)
- Agent M declared this bulldog the winner of the internet yesterday. (Via)
- According to @whedonesque, the title of the Dollhouse season 2 premiere episode is "Vows."
- Amazon picks the best music of 2009 so far.
- A robot has taught itself to smile. Aaah! Teach yourself to stop smiling immediately! That is horrifying.
- Geek Dad has 10 things you should know about Nerdapalooza.
- Pretty hilarious ad for Cemetery Junction.
- Eli Roth talks Thanksgiving and Endangered Species.
- Another bit of interesting Twitter usage analysis. Meanwhile, Overlapr is a web app that determines how many followers overlap across two Twitter accounts (via).
- Pretty hilarious trailer for Office 2010.
- Penn and Teller are calling bullshit on the supposed causal link between video games and violence.
- How to download videos off of Hulu. Just so you know? Almost certainly illegal. (Via)
- Controlling a 15-ton robotic arm with the Wii Remote.
- An amusing and intriguing tidbit about LEGO Rock Band.
- Sci Fi Wire reviews Blood: The Last Vampire.
- We're just going to quote this word for word: "The Dark Knight producer Charles Roven and Transporter producer Steve Chasman are teaming up to produce The Destroyer, a franchise vehicle that brings back '80s action hero Remo Williams."
- Some new images from Kick-Ass.
- A poster and a new trailer for Jennifer's Body.
- Graphene sounds like a fascinating new material.
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