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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.

Michael Hossack has passed away, following a battle with cancer, at the age of 65. May he rest in peace. People may remember him as one of the Doobie Brothers.

Josie DeCarlo passed away in her sleep, at the age of 82. May she rest in peace. She was the widow of Dan DeCarlo, and the model for Josie, of Josie And The Pussycats fame.

AIM: The Reports Of My Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated.

Net Neutrality’s Death Rattle Starts July 12th.

Court orders Rapidshare to filter user uploads.

In light of the death of a third horse on the set of Luck, HBO has chosen to halt production of the second season, canceling the series.

Get your first look at DC Nation’s Super Best Friends Forever.

Lessons In Character Development: The Real Ghostbusters.

There’s new footage for The Avengers in this Japanese trailer.

Art from the Soviet version of The Hobbit, back in 1976.

Updates on The Hobbit pub issue, as Sir Ian McKellen adds his support.

6 Comic Stories In Which Normally Cheerful Heroes Turned Dark.

Joe Shuster’s artwork for the 1942 novel The Adventures of Superman.

First footage from Len Wiseman’s Total Recall remake.

Luke Skywalker and the Doctor, playing with a lightsaber.

Bebop and Rocksteady cosplay.

David Lynch’s anti-litter ad from 1991.

Gateways To Geekery: Old-Time Radio.

21 Fresh Images From Dark Shadows.

First trailer for Superman Vs. The Elite.

From Tor: Six Weird Things We Probably Won’t See In The Amazing Spider-Man.

The Guardian interviews Mark Gatiss. If you haven’t watched season 2 of Sherlock, there are spoilers for that, along with this season of Being Human.

Nathan Fillion will play Hermes in Percy Jackson And The Olympians: The Sea of Monsters. whedonesque discusses it here.

The Film Sack podcast discusses The Crow.

Terror Transmission’s latest podcast focuses on Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978).

Once the Dark Shadows trailer pops up after airing on Ellen, I'll edit it in.

Edit: Here's the trailer for Dark Shadows. While it does seem funny, it...really doesn't feel like Dark Shadows, does it?