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ACTA Gets Death Certificate In Europe.

Net Neutrality Bill Aimed At ISP Data Caps Introduced In US Senate.

New Legislation Mandates Investigation of Video Games and Violent Behavior.

Spin magazine ceases print publication, shocking almost no one.

Crossposts between Livejournal and Dreamwidth might be slow.

A Yuletide focused carol.

Prompts For Yuletide Pinch Hitters.

You can find all of the Yuletide prompts either here or on this single page.

14 Best Craigslist Ads Of The Apocalypse.

Where Did The End of the World Find You?

11 Reasons We Hope The World Actually Ends Later Today.

Gremlins is a perfect holiday movie for those all out of Christmas cheer.

Five Less Conventional Ways The World Will End.

You can own a perfect replica of River Song’s sonic screwdriver and diary.

Lego Officially Announce Back to the Future DeLorean Kit For Next Year.

Original Slimer maquette gets restored.

The Line It Is Drawn #120—Happy Holidays.

P:R Approved: Chris Bachalo’s Cyclops

Trailers From Hell: Marshall Harvey on The Sword and the Sorcerer. The trailer is NSFW.

CW Targets Robin Hood Series With Female Twist.

This Season’s 16 Most Bizarre Pop Culture Christmas Ornaments.

New Year’s Eve: Tales From The Crypt Marathon With Cryptkeeper Hosting.

Great E-Mail Threads: The JLA Do Secret Santa.

Mattel Announces An Adam West Batman Toy Line.

Daleks: 49 Years of Terror.

Best Art Ever (This Week): Holiday Edition 2012.

Heathers Scribe Completes Vampire Academy Adaptation, Director Comes Aboard.

From Rifftrax: Worst Movies of All Time.

Stan Lee Reads ‘Twas The Night Before Christmas’

Michael Caine Gives Alfred’s Origin Story.

From College Humor: 10 Parts In Home Alone That Still Bother Me, by Dan Hopper and Alex Schmidt.

Diagnosing the Home Alone burglars’ injuries: A professional weighs in.

Does the kids vs. adults sadism of the Home Alone movies stand the test of time?

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey concept art.

The Absolute Best Comics and Graphic Novels of 2012.

The 10 best TV episodes of 2012.

Comic Book Legends Revealed #398.

DC Promotes Bob Harras, Hank Kanalz.

The Walking Dead Renewed For Fourth Season As Problems Persist…

Ask Chris #133: The Best Christmas Movie Ever.

Happy Holidays From Deadpool.

Top 20 Horror Christmas Movies.

Original Storyboards From Blade Runner

DC Nation, Green Lantern: The Animated Series, Young Justice Teaser Videos Released.

Mission Log Podcast #20: Episode 20—Court Martial.

Movie Issues Podcast: The Star Wars Holiday Special (1978)

Schlock Treatment 104: Power Rangers/Fat Albert Christmas Specials.

The Shut Up And Watch This Podcast, Episode 70: Gremlins (1984) Commentary

Retroist Podcast, Episode 127—Christmas Commercials II

Ars Technicast, Episode 17: Deconstructing The Hobbit.

Now Playing Podcast: Silent Night, Deadly Night 5: The Toy Maker (1991).
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Post-ACTA Agreement CETA Moving Forward With Similar Provisions.

Yuletide: Tag Set Characters Missing from the Autocomplete. Also another important one: If you signed up very early, with a bucket list in a text field instead of Optional Tags, you will need to redo that portion of your sign-up.

TV Tango has updated their list for Halloween On TV: 377 Halloween-Themed Movie Marathons, Episodes & Specials On TV In October 2012.

31 Days of Horror: Jeepers Creepers/Pumpkinhead.

31 Days of Horror: Alien/Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

10 Classic Horrors You Must See This Halloween.

Longbox of the Damned: Worlds Unknown #6 (The Killdozer Comic)

Intricately Carved Superhero/Sci-Fi Pumpkins. That Superman pumpkin is impressive.

Rare Halloween Videos: You Wish (1997)

Io9 Halloween Costume Show Week 2: A Bungee-Jumping Buzz Lightyear, A Handmade Vampire Diaries Dress, And More.

From Cracked: 4 Truly Scary Facts No One Tells You About Halloween.

Deleted scenes from The Amazing Spider-Man reveal the origin story you never saw.

The Absolute Best Cosplay From New York Comic Con 2012.

2012 NYCC—DC Comics Batman The Killing Joke Joker Statue.

The trailer for The Dark Knight Rises on Blu-Ray.

The Curse Of Stephanie Brown Continues.

Bob Goodman On Writing The Two-Part Batman: The Dark Knight Returns Animated Adaptation.

Robocop Delayed Until February 2014.

Cinema’s creepiest towns.

Dark Shadows Complete Series Half-Price DVD Bargain. It’s still horrifically expensive, even with $300 chopped off.

David Lindsay-Abair is indeed writing the Poltergeist remake.

First teaser trailer for the remake of Carrie.

Grifter, Legion Lost, And Blue Beetle Join The DC Cancellations.

Fantastic Fangirls Q&A #175: What comic book character would you take out on a date, and why?

P:R Redesign: Alex Mitchell’s Omega Red.

Evolution of The Art of Todd McFarlane—Part Two.

2012 Top 100 Comic Book Runs #70-66.

Top 5: Worst Justice Leaguers.

Interview with Chris Claremont.

Remembering Forgotten Sequels.

Stan Lee’s Rants: Bless You.

You Have A Week To Return Your Flash Omnibus Volume 3.

When We First Met—Supervillain Henchmen.

Film Sack Podcast #135: The Prophecy II (1998)

Horror Etc Podcast, Episode 270: What We’ve Been Watching (International Edition)

We Hate Movies Podcast, Episode 80: Friday The 13th: A New Beginning (1985)
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Guess Who’s Back? SOPA And ACTA Are Sneaking Into Law Behind Your Back.

Bat-Signal Heralds Launch of Internet Defense League.

The Devin’s Advocate: Defend Film Criticism.

An exclusive interview with Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer, on the Sandman prequel and Kickstarter success.

Jane Espenson Announces Joss Whedon Role On Husbands.

Watch Joss Whedon Battle A Monster In Scary Smash.

Geeking Out About Storytelling With Joss Whedon.

SDCC 2012: Joss Whedon is interviewed by FearNet.

What’s next on Doctor Who? Heartbreak and Huge Revelations!

TARDIS TV Cabinet.

Keep Count And Shoot First.

Rifftrax Live: Manos The Hands of Fate Trailer.

30 Great Geeky Examples of San Diego Comic Con Cosplay.

Op-Ed: They Shoot Spoilers, Don’t They? Or Why DC Seems To Have A Hate-On For Stephanie Brown.

From Dimestore Dames: The Many Faces of Catwoman.

The Line It Is Drawn #99: Era-Displaced Comic Book Characters.

Classic Anime Princess Mononoke Is Being Turned Into A Stage Play.

Batman 202: Intermediate Reading For The Caped Crusader.

Gateways To Geekery: Batman comics.

Sam Raimi discusses the Evil Dead remake with MTV News.

New Photos Of Dredd Released.

Emily Yetter Flashes A Devilish Smile In New Image From The Exorcist Stage Play.

10 Highly Unlikely (But Not Impossible) Comic Book Projects.

10 Anime That Influenced Hollywood.

Pac Man trailer for a fake live action reboot.

‘Breaking’ old news in the Superman copyright case.

Interview with Comic Con’s David Glanzer.

‘The Oregon Trail’ With Zombies, Aliens And Unicorns?

Linda Hamilton to guest on Lost Girl.

Hug a Spocktopus.

The Essentials: 5 Of The Best Peter O’Toole Performances As The Great Actor Announces His Retirement.

34 Things We Learned From The ‘Big Trouble In Little China’ Commentary.

The Vampire Diaries—Comic Con 2012: Sneak Peek of Season 4.

Merlin Season 5 Trailer, as it premiered at Comic Con. I’ll be on the lookout for a better version, minus audience responses.

HISHE-Comic Con 2012- Behind The Scenes. Stan Lee pops up at the end.

Sherlock Gains 13 Primetime Emmy Award Nominations.

‘Obstacles’ May Prevent Marc Webb From Directing Spider-Man Sequel.

Spook Central – Shot On Site- Louis The Wanderer, as he roams town.

GeekFest Rants Podcast, Episode 97: Fright Night (1985)
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Paypal Bans Major File-Hosting Services Over Piracy Concerns.

Formspring Hacked—420,000 Password Hashes Leaked.

Twilight Fan Dies In Tragic San Diego Comic Con Accident. Summit and Lionsgate Issue Statement. Condolences to her family.

Congress Bill Proposes Sales Tax On Online Shopping.

After 50 years of acting, Peter O’Toole has chosen to retire.

Banner For The Possession Reveals New Art.

Judge dismisses another Stan Lee Media lawsuit against namesake.

8 Superheroes Who Deserve Another Chance At Movie Glory.

Ernest Borgnine marathon to air on TCM on July 26th.

FearNet Brings Back Animated Favorites With ‘Funhouse’ Weekend Programming. It launches August 18th, and the shows include: The Real Ghostbusters and Tales From The Cryptkeeper, as well as live action shows like Eerie, Indiana and Dark Oracle.

SDCC ’12: Dark Horse to launch Star Wars by Brian Wood.

An update on John Carpenter’s Darkchylde.

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Split In Two Parts; Release Dates Announced.

Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers turns 20 at Comic Con.

Christian Bale And Nicholas Cage To Star In Mike Newell’s Nikola Tesla Biopic.

First look inside the 2012 exhibit hall.

Conventional Conduct: How To Ask Questions At A Comic Con Panel.

San Diego Comic Con Bingo.

FearNet chats with Barry Bostwick.

Early Art For Evil Dead.

Eli Roth In Talks To Direct Dracula’s Revival In Harker.

Redesign Rewind: Clay Mann’s Age of X Redesigns.

First clip from The Dark Knight Rises.

Neil Gaiman Signs Multi-Book Deal With HarperCollins.

Dark Horse announces a triumphant return…
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Bye, ACTA, Hello CETA.

A Hero Initiative Fundraiser In Remembrance Of Mike Wieringo And Mark Gruenwald.

Spider-Man’s Amazingly Bizarre Media History, Part 1.

DeLorean time machine team surpasses $100,000 raised for the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research.

Mark Waid on his personal digital-comics revolution.

The Wolverine will add Yun Lee; Brian Tee also joins the cast.

Stan Lee’s World of Heroes unveils full lineup.

Stan Lee’s Rants: Comic Con.

From Think Geek: Cardboard Safari Unicorn Trophy.

Indiana Jones Comic Con Blu-Ray Trailer.

The Hobbit Lego figures revealed for a December debut.

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey unveils huge scroll poster.

Liane Balaban joins Supernatural.

Synapse Collects The Complete Hammer House of Horror.

Man of Steel Will Be In IMAX 3D; New Plot Description Revealed.

Interview with Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy, and Bill Corbett from Rifftrax.

Super Golden Friends.

Zombie-Proof Real Estate Is Up For Grabs, Folks.

Matt Smith Is Made National Youth Theatre Patron.

Does something have to be terrible to be a guilty pleasure?

The 10 Best Stargate: Atlantis Episodes of Dr. Rodney McKay.

William Shatner’s Get A Life Trailer.

Amber Benson: From Buffy To Books Part Two.

Michael Fassbender starring in and co-producing Assassin’s Creed film.

Comic Con: All of Marvel’s Panels.

The Four Questions Everyone Asks At Conventions.

If you became a superhero (or villain), how would you acquire your superpowers?

Daniel Govar’s X-Men from Days of Future Past.

From Cracked: 5 Reasons Batman Always Wins.

13 Minute Dark Knight Rises Behind-The-Scenes Featurette We’re Too Scared To Watch. I’m going to see this one on opening day, so I’ll hold off on watching—even if it doesn’t really spoil anything.

Nathan Fillion on Avengers sequel: ‘I’m not famous enough for it.’ Whedonesque discusses it here.

A Spider-Woman For The 1980s Part 2.

Comic Con 2012: Frankenstein’s Army Propaganda Poster.

This Cake Came From A Wedding In A Galaxy Far, Far Away.

Why Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Is The Best Trek Series Ever.

New Dropbox Pro plans.

American Horror Story Season 2 Writers, Director And Start Date.

Legendary Poster Artist Drew Struzan Is Coming Out Of Retirement.

Sip Your Espresso Out Of A Tiny Rocket.

Marvel Cancel Nine Titles

We Hate Movies Podcast, Episode 66: Inspector Gadget

Nerdist Podcast: LeVar Burton.

Radiodrome, Episode 77: A Joe Dante Retrospective.

The weather forecast calls for volcanoes and Godzilla.
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Scott Henson passed away on June 26th, at the age of 52, after a lengthy battle with heart disease. May he rest in peace.

Eric Sykes has passed away at the age of 89. May he rest in peace. While some may remember him from Harry Potter—I remember him as Horace Harker in The Six Napoleons (the Jeremy Brett version of Sherlock Holmes). According to IMDB, he was in Theatre of Blood, as well—which I’ll be tracking down shortly.

ACTA Is DEAD After European Parliament Vote. For now.

Google Killing Off Mini, Video, and iGoogle.

The Amazing Spider-Man Scores Record Tuesday Opening With $35 Million

Phoenix Eternal: 6 Reasons Why It’s Time For Jean Grey To Return.

Exploring The Adventures Of Pete And Pete’s genesis and highlights (part 2 of 4).

Looking back at Mystery Science Theater 3000.

Geek Gear: Mystery Science Theater 3000 ‘Silver Screen Silhouettes’ Shirt.

Once Upon A Time Comic Con Poster.

SDCC 2012: IDW Announces Convention Exclusives.

Ghost Trap Cake. Spectacular job there. It even has a working light to tell when the trap is full.

From Cracked: 6 Utterly Insane Innovations History Was Sure Were Coming.

Linkara takes A Quick Look At…The Amityville Horror and Amityville II: The Possession.

Stan Lee’s Alphabet.

Teaser Trailer For Turtle Power.

Here’s the poster for Oz: The Great And Powerful.

Paleontologists now say all dinosaurs probably had feathers.

Film Sack Podcast #122: Barb Wire (1996).

Greatest Movie Ever Podcast: Ghost Rider: Spirit Of Vengeance.

Commentary Track Stars: Ghostbusters Commentary.

Just a reminder for interested parties: Encore Action is having a Superman marathon for the 4th of July. The Science Channel is showing Firefly. Encore was showing the Blu-Ray version of Ghostbusters earlier, while the second movie is tonight.
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ACTA Showdown Coming Up—Man Your Barricades.

Paramount shuts down Michael Bay’s Ninja Turtles after realizing there might be a problem with the script.

From Newsarama: The 10 Worst X-Men of All Time. I wouldn’t have included Doug, Hank, or Angelo.

The Dark Shadows Experiment.

The original Dark Shadows (or at least the first 40 episodes featuring Barnabas Collins) is now on Hulu. For those that want to see the 90’s version, but can’t use Hulu, that one is also hosted on Youtube. The original series, currently, is not.

Five things that nearly killed Star Trek before it started.

Grant Morrison honored by Queen Elizabeth II.

Weekend Discussion Thread: Prime Vacation Spots.

The next movie for Svengoolie is Son of Dracula.

Cocktails With Stan Lee: Marc Webb.

The Amazing Spider-Man—Car Thief Full Scene.

10 delightfully cheesy 90’s sci-fi movie trailers.

Looking back at 1991’s The Guyver.

An eighty-foot tube sculpture was made from the magnetic tape in VHS cassettes.

Early Test Footage of Roger and Jessica Rabbit, From When Roger Sounded Like Pee Wee Herman.

50 Worst Sci-Fi And Fantasy Movies That Had No Excuse.

Star Trek: The Next Generation Pez Set Coming This Fall.

Your Brain Scan Looks Different on Mac and PC.

Geek Jewelry on Etsy.

Pizza Necronomicon is deliciously horrific.

Six Strange Cases of Science Fiction Trademarks.

Seth Grahame-Smith Gives a Pride And Prejudice And Zombies Update.

Bad Movie Fiends Podcast #129: One Man Force (1989).

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Stolen from [personal profile] chomiji: The Random Superhero Generator. My first result:

“calliopes_pen has the power to force butterflies to obey her every command, however using this power makes her incorporeal for one hour. Also, she has been known to leap through time using a startling helicopter. Tragically, calliopes_pen is infamous for being terrible at taunting.”

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