Fannish Items of Interest

If you’re finding a Rapidshare download slowing or stalling entirely, this could be due to the fact that they have apparently capped download speeds at 30 kb/s, and resume capabilities have been disabled.

The user script has been updated to reflect the changes Youtube made to their coding. Remove the old one in Firefox, and replace it with this one, and you should be good to go.

Dimestore Dames spotlights Selene.

How Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows Should Have Ended.

As part of a settlement, the producers of Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark must pay Julie Taymor $9750 a week in royalties.

Marti Noxon was on the Nerdist Writers Panel podcast, along with Danny Zuker and Craig Silverstein. whedonesque discusses it here.

You can download the first episode of Big Finish’s The Eighth Doctor Adventures (Blood of the Daleks, Part 1) for free from Friday, February 17th, until Sunday, February 19th.

Joss Whedon discusses The Cabin In The Woods.

MGM plans to hurry along a musical remake of Valley Girl.

From Cracked: 6 Abandoned Places That Will Make Awesome Supervillain Lairs.

You can get an early hotel room for this year’s Comic Con.

David Hewlett answers fan questions for Blastr.

Metrodome Distribution have released provisional cover artwork for their UK April release of the original Dark Shadows. Looks good.

Behold JFK riding a robotic unicorn on the moon. It’s almost as good as the sight of Doctor Doom riding a unicorn.

Writer's Block: You’ve Got Mail!

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My Yahoo e-mail is almost always open in one tab. I check it about every 15-30 minutes or so, I'd say. Unless I'm in an active thread, or a Doom Thread has become quite prolific at X-Journal, and then more often.

Writer's Block: You’ve Got Mail!

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My Yahoo e-mail is almost always open in one tab. I check it about every 15-30 minutes or so, I'd say. Unless I'm in an active thread, or a Doom Thread has become quite prolific at X-Journal, and then more often.

(ETA: The LJ Writer's Block question asked how often I checked my e-mail.)