Fannish Items of Interest

Proxy War Against The Pirate Bay Heats Up.

Megaupload’s domain name was sold for $11,099.

Behold the Dalek Easter Egg.

How Las Vegas missed out on a life-sized Starship Enterprise.

AOL sells 800 patents to Microsoft for $1 billion.

Facebook to buy Instagram for $1 billion.

Sign-ups for the Doctor/River ficathon end on April 15th.

The Rotten Truth: Hey, Universal, Give Other Monsters A Chance, or, An Argument Against The Mummy Reboot.

Behold the dark beauty of Russia’s 1968 Little Mermaid cartoon.

A peek at Stephen King and John Mellencamp’s new musical.

The 10 Nerdiest Deaths of Michael Shanks. He gets two death scenes from SG-1, as I expected. I never knew he was in Highlander: The Series.

Paul Feig walks us through Freaks And Geeks (Part 1 of 5).

Second short for Super Best Friends Forever, in the DC Nation block.

Movie posters for DC’s imaginary superhero flicks.

A new image from Total Recall.

Katniss Barbie.

Live action spoof trailer for Hey Arnold, in which Helga is psychotic, and Arnold has at long last grown into his football head.

Watch a silent era Back to the Future.

Pac-Man: The Movie fan short.

Statler and Waldorf cake. They will mock you as you eat them.

Mike Wallace’s Rod Serling interview.

Ralph Bakshi remembers Thomas Kinkade and his work on Fire And Ice.

And now, Monty Python’s John Cleese on the origins of creativity.

The Greatest Movie Ever Podcast discusses Warlock: The Armageddon.

Fannish Items of Interest: Part The Second

CISPA Bill Lets ISPs Spy On and Report Pirating Subscribers.

From Think Geek: Ninja Fighting Chopsticks. I can just see Meggan giving this to Korvus or Wade, over at x_project.

Superman cufflinks.

Viking Batman.

Book trailer for Darth Vader And Son.

Boomerang plans a 14 hour Captain Planet marathon for Earth Day.

New clip from The Raven.

DC Comics will revive National Comics to spotlight dormant characters.

As expected, The Dark Knight Rises will be PG-13.

Darwyn Cooke on why he initially said no to Before Watchmen.

Senior Editor Bobbie Chase has been promoted to Executive Editor over at DC Comics, while previous Executive Editor Eddie Berganza has been moved to a different position. Congratulations to her.

Grant Imahara, in front of the TARDIS, dressed like the Tenth Doctor and wielding a sonic screwdriver in one hand…and a puppy in the other.

There will be an 11-hour Veronica Mars marathon on SoapNet on April 15th.

Cliff Chiang draws Joss Whedon for GQ magazine.

Days of Our Lives changes head writers (again). Gary Tomlin and Christopher Whitesell will serve as the new head writers, effective immediately. So that recent reboot may be jettisoned for another reboot?

Maleficent will be coming to theaters March 14th, 2014.

Ben Kingsley is in final talks to play a villain in Iron Man 3.

Cinematic Titanic will be returning to the Family Arena in St. Charles on Saturday, November 17th, for those that are in that area.

Snow White And The Huntsman: Behind The Costume Design.