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Just boosting the signal: For those upset by the disappearance of bookmarks on Delicious, brownbetty has posted instructions for a hack that will recover them, even if you’ve deleted the account.

From Cracked: The 6 Most WTF Special Edition Comics Ever Released. Ah, yes, the Super-Dictionary—I own that one.

The trailer for Warren Ellis: Captured Ghosts.

The man whose Superman collection was stolen got a little something extra before his belongings were returned—a phone call from Brandon Routh.

What Culture has a retrospective on the Fleisher Superman cartoons.

Watch the opening credits for American Horror Story.

The AV Club interviews Mark Hamill.

Arthur Darvill introduces Doctor Who’s season finale. While he doesn’t spoil anything, if you’re avoiding clips from the promo for the episode you may want to avoid.

Sign-ups remain open for one more day at hlh_shortcuts.

The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund has acquired the rights to the Comics Code Seal.

In honor of Halloween, I’m tracking down schedules for what channels are doing for the holiday. So follow the links for those that are interested. For those that can get the channel (I can’t) on their cable provider, Turner Classic Movies (in the US and Canada) will be showing some Hammer horror films for the month of October. Here is a full listing of their horror schedule for the month.

ABC Family’s 13 Nights of Halloween schedule is here.

Halloween Shows.Net has the Halloween themed listings for Syfy.

Oct 31st is a good site to keep track of Halloween specials as they come up in the schedule. I’ve made a syndicated feed for them at oct31storg. TV Tango should have something comprehensive up soon, going by last year’s post. For them, the syndicated feed is tvtango.

Gateways To Geekery: Mystery Science Theater 3000.

To celebrate the release of Star Wars on Blu-ray, George Lucas sent Jawas (and a Stormtrooper) to take over Times Square.

Sign-ups for the hlh_shortcuts 2011 fic exchange are now open.

A new print of Horror of Dracula has been unearthed—the longer, more explicit version reportedly only seen in Japan until now.

Bruce Campbell discusses the Evil Dead remake.

The CW is remaking the 80’s Beauty and the Beast tv series.

The Nine Lives of Chloe King has been cancelled.

Promo for the next episode of Lost Girl

Fox is supposedly considering creating a channel that would air nothing but The Simpsons.

The new director for the Highlander remake (now that Justin Lin is gone) is Juan Carlos Fresnadillo.

Witness audience reactions from the original releases of The Exorcist and the first Halloween movie. For those that are squeamish, there’s no blood, and no clips are shown from The Exorcist—just people pouring out of the theater.

Four Daleks and a turtle creep through a hotel lobby. According to the Youtube comments, this took place at a Marriott hotel in Madison, WI during Geek.Kon.

Three clips for Doctor Who: The God Complex have been released. Clip 1. Clip 2. Clip 3.

Jim Shooter discusses the development of X-Men: Heroes For Hope, along with some strange drama on the part of OxFam America.

This Halloween, Ghostbusters gets a rerelease to theaters in the UK, along with Jurassic Park.

10 Delightfully Hammy Villain Performances. The list includes Khan, The Kurgan, and General Zod. I would have added (and I see someone in the comments did) Richard Roxburgh as Dracula in Van Helsing.

NBC is doing a “edgier and slightly darker” remake of The Munsters. Bryan Fuller is involved.

August 28th is International Read Comics In Public Day.

Justin Lin has bowed out of directing the Highlander remake.

Promo for the next episode of Torchwood.

For those interested, Rifftrax Live: Jack The Giant Killer happens this Wednesday.

Found a ton of Carey Mulligan icons thanks to mackinzie: —just putting the link here, for whenever I have enough room and need to find the link quickly. Quite a number of those expressions are great for Meggan. She could just be having a brunette day.

ETA: Seems as though Insanejournal is having a slight problem right now, so give them a little while. Luckily, I saved most of the ones I could someday use to LJ Scrapbook before that happened, so you can view them under this made by whimsies tag until they come back up.

Yesterday was weird. Two cats (one a kitten, both strays) were trapped on the roof of Nellie’s house while birds kept dive bombing them from a nearby branch. Eventually, after an hour or so they fell off the roof, got up, and ran away. Meanwhile, she had just buried another cat (also a stray) that had waited for her to walk outside so that it could die at her feet. Third this month to do it that way, she says, presumably thanks to the heat. She’s dealing with enough, having just been diagnosed with inoperable pancreatic cancer, and likely 6-9 months left.

While this was going on, and Dad was watching (and considering getting a net, to which Nellie rolled her eyes, explaining they do this all the time, but few notice) to see if he could catch the kitten, a rabbit hopped up beside him, and watched him watching the cats. Completely unafraid. While that was all going on, Toby escaped, and ran in circles in the road until I eventually got him back to his house before he could eat a falling cat.

The first full trailer for Captain America.

The 10 Most Watchable MST3K Movies. I can confirm that Jack Frost is strangely good, even without MST3K providing jokes. As a sidenote, I believe that was also the first episode I ever caught on the Sci-Fi Channel, when they were mostly just showing the final season over and over and over again.

A sequel to the reboot of Spider-Man is already in the works.

Juno Temple has joined the cast of The Dark Knight Rises.

From Tor: 7 Science Fiction TV Shows We Barely Remember. I may have been one of the only people that actually watched Homeboys In Outer Space. I’m so sorry.

Fringe has been renewed for a fourth season.

17 small-screen cartoon spin-offs from science fiction franchises. The Back to the Future cartoon makes the list, as does Real Ghostbusters/Extreme Ghostbusters, Doctor Who: The Infinite Quest, and Highlander—both the anime, and the cartoon with Quentin Macleod, set in the future.

Michael Gough has passed away at the age of 94. He may be best remembered in the role of Alfred in Tim Burton movies, as well as Batman Forever and Batman And Robin. He was also in Classic Doctor Who as both the Celestial Toymaker, as well as Councillor Hedin. I also remember that he played Arthur in Hammer’s Horror of Dracula. May he rest in peace.

8 Mostly Forgotten 90’s Cartoons. I remember Road Rovers and The Mighty Ducks. With the latter, I don’t believe I watched it—I think I watched an ABC special telling what new shows would be airing on Fridays and Saturdays, and that was one of them.

Geoff Johns thinks the Sandman series is happening after all. Given the fact the news was that it was not going forward just the other day, make of that what you will.

The Rifftrax of Highlander is now available.

Eva Green says Dark Shadows will take place in the 70’s. Angelique is also American now, therefore not originating from Martinique. And, again, the script is referred to as funny, which doesn’t seem to bode well.

14 Great But Lesser-Known Sci-Fi Novels For Lil' Nerds. Who else remembers My Teacher Is An Alien?

Here is a small portion of the leaked Wonder Woman script.

8 Movies That Inexplicably Got Cartoon Spin-Offs.

A while back, I mentioned that there was going to be a Poltergeist remake. The good news is the remake won’t be happening. The bad news is that it’s a fourth movie, continuing on the franchise instead. Robocop is also due for a remake.

For those interested, Geeks of Doom tells how to get the first episode of the Back to the Future game for free, using a special code.

The Five Best Moments of Each of the Red Dwarf Crew.

Melissa Rosenberg has entered negotiations to work on the latest draft of the Highlander remake. What else has she worked on? The scripts for the Twilight Saga. Please don’t let the Immortals sparkle as they take a Quickening.

Do you remember the unaired pilot for Dark Shadows, from 2004? A short clip has surfaced.

The first trailer for X-Men: First Class has been released. It looks better than I expected it to. Which is easy to accomplish, as I expected it to look worse than X-Men 3.

Topless Robot is having a contest where you describe the worst RPG character you ever played or encountered. It looks to be mostly Dungeons and Dragons and World of Warcraft, neither of which I’ve never played. I didn’t start playing in any RPG’s until 2004, so I don’t really have any stories.

One of the next movies to get the Rifftrax treatment will be Highlander. I look forward to that.

Ducktales: An Epic History.

You can now claim prompts for dark_fest, over here.

There was a time back in 1994 when Katie Couric and Bryant Gumbel asked if someone could explain “what an internet was.” In the fall of 1994, I was just starting 9th grade and high school. I would have just turned 14, and I didn’t have a computer at home yet until a few months later--until then, back in middle school the most I really did with a computer at school was the occasional search, Oregon Trail, and Carmen Sandiego. And learning how to draw a circle in Microsoft Paint. In the dark, because of the teacher freaking out over power consumption, but that's a whole other story. And I still knew what @ meant. Mom says even she knew what @ meant back then.

Funny Sidenote: In 9th grade, I had my first typing class. We only had typewriters, and couldn’t afford computers until 10th grade. I discovered dial-up soon after.

Vh1 is showing Ghostbusters right now, starting at 4:30 PM CST. And it looks as though they are airing the Blu-Ray version. They aired the same version last night, too. Everything’s crisp and bright. When the Terror Dog’s eyes glow, it’s a much brighter red than other airings. The lightning is brighter. When the containment unit blows, it’s not as faded as in previous viewings. Someday, when I can afford a Blu-Ray player, I must buy this version.

Submitting prompts for the next round of dark_fest begins January 18th.

If it’s actually true that Georgia Moffett and David Tennant are expecting their first child, then congratulations to them.

Just discovered: A 2500 Year Old Recipe For Celtic Beer. Is it sad that my first thought was Methos would either be pleased...or he was the one trying to hide it for himself all these centuries?

From Cracked: 5 Reasons There Must Be Corpses Under The Batcave.

I edited my offering for the auction at qldfloodauction just a little bit, to include these fandoms that I'm willing to write: The Librarian, Highlander: The Series, Merlin, Buffy, and Angel. Willing to completely ignore Highlander: The Source for the sake of everyone's sanity. If it hadn’t been so long since I had seen an episode of Xena, I would have included that. Would anyone actually want to see Mr. Boogedy fanfic? If so, I can throw add that into the mix, too.

For the flooding in Brazil, helpbrazil2011 has been set up.

SFX lists 20 Sci-Fi Game Changers. Included on the list: Doctor Who, Buffy, Angel, Highlander: The Series, Farscape, TNG, DS9, Eureka, and others.

BBC America has an exclusive inside look at A Christmas Carol.

The latest video game in the Highlander franchise will not be happening after all. I only cared because (since I don’t play video games) I was looking forward to thespoonyone reviewing it and going insane.

The first official trailer for Thor has been released, and you can watch it here.

allthingsgood is hosting a Holiday Love Meme, Secret Santa Style. My thread is here.

The next Rifftrax Live (streaming, rather than in theaters) will be on the 16th, for a movie by the name of Santa And The Ice Cream Bunny.

There’s a chance the CW will be making a series based on Teen Titans’ Raven when Smallville ends.

thespoonyone has reviewed Highlander: The Source. Part 1 can be found here, while part 2 is here.

From Cracked: 5 Absurd Ways Comic Books Have Resurrected Dead Superheroes. Years after the Clone Saga had ended, I thought maybe I should see what was going on in the Spider-Man comics. #5 on the list is the first thing I picked up. Yes, I ran far, far away from Spider-Man. Let us not speak of the Goblin babies (which was my next attempt).

Lost Girl: I’m up to episode 6 of the series now. It’s not something that I’m obsessed with, and it is extremely corny but I do like the premise. Given that I am occasionally obsessed with legends and folklore from around the world, I do enjoy seeing the way they write the different kinds of fae.

For those interested, (or may have missed the links earlier) my holiday wish list is here, and my fandom_stocking is here.

The preliminary list of all the eligible fandoms for Yuletide has been posted. Yuletide sign-ups open later this week. I’m slowly going through the list—adding all the fandoms I might be able to do to a Word document. I’m amused that the Buffy movie is eligible this year, and very happy that The Curse of Fatal Death made the cut. Justice League International apparently wasn’t eligible, which I can understand.

By the way, does anyone on my friends list know if a UK series called Lost Girl worth watching? I just located a few episodes, and wondered.

The director of The Fast and the Furious will be doing the Highlander remake.

NBC has renewed Days of Our Lives for another 2 years.

From Cracked: The History Channel’s Strange Definition of History. And then there’s 7 Famous Movie Flaws That Were Explained In Deleted Scenes. And 6 Things Movie Characters Always Seem To Forget. The latter includes the fact that New York City didn’t believe the Ghostbusters fought the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man.

Costumed characters protested at City Hall in L.A, after they were banned from performing on Hollywood Boulevard. The characters included the Hulk, the White Power Ranger, Superman, and Darth Vader. Batman and Elmo refused to attend the function.

toast_ofthetown is hosting The Relationship Meme. You post with your username, and people post a word or something general that sums up your relationship. My comment is here.

Power Rangers is coming back for an 18th season. All those that feel old, raise your hands. I only watched the first couple of seasons, but at the time I liked it. I was 11, and that’s my excuse.

Io9 posts How To Get Into 20 Classic Science Fiction Shows: The Ultimate Guide. They include Buffy, Angel, Highlander: The Series, the Star Trek shows, Doctor Who, Torchwood, MST3K, and others.

The 10 Strangest Creative Liberties Ever Taken On Superhero TV Shows.

spook_me sign-ups are now open.

Peter Wingfield answers eleven Highlander questions from fans over at Io9.

There’s a new Merlin trailer, and you can watch it here.

Runaways should begin filming in March 2011.

Neil Gaiman’s Sandman is being developed for television…unfortunately, without Neil Gaiman.

The first pictures of David Tennant as Peter Vincent in Fright Night have been released. Is it just me, or does he resemble Chris Angel, mixed with a little bit of Russell Brand?

The designs for the Back to the Future game have been released. Christopher Lloyd will be doing the voice for Doc in the game.

This Ghostbusters item would have to be the best response to LJ’s drama. 51stcenturyfox tells how to remove the little Twitter and Facebook checkboxes from your journal—but it only works if you are in S2. Here is a poll where you can let LJ know what you think of the cross-posting features.

I’ll probably start a poll later, just asking for people’s Insanejournal or Dreamwidth usernames. I never cross-post at the latter, and once in a blue moon (and mostly for finding icons, which I keep track of via Memories) use the former, but I’d like to try to keep track of everyone.