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Here’s what an actual Six Strikes copyright alert looks like. Comcast Punishes BitTorrent Pirates With Browser Hijack.

Are Cable Companies Hoping Usage-Based Internet Access Will Help Thwart Netflix?

Time Warner Cable says there's no consumer demand for gigabit internet

High Court Orders UK ISPs to Block Kat.ph, H33T and Fenopy

San Diego Comic Con hotels sold out in about 2 minutes.

New Short From Rifftrax: Ten Long Minutes

For the curious, the Rifftrax Kickstarter page has reached $174,410, with 26 days to go. Here’s their recent video with their plea.

Showcase Renews Lost Girl For Season 4; Syfy will air it, too.

Off My Mind: Consequences of Batman Incorporated #8.

Help Wanted: 10 Applicants For The New Robin.

A poster for The Dark Knight, drawn by Daniel Nash

Image of the Day: Awkward 1950′s and 1960′s Batman Moments #4

Deadman: Where Do I Start?

Top 10 Things That Make Stan Lee Awesome.

Stunning Glow-In-The Dark Steampunk Iron Man Cake

Great Moments in Comics History: What If? #19

Image Relaunches Joe’s Comics Imprint With Help From Straczynski, Templesmith, and Sienkiewicz

11 Most Controversial Comic Books.

Defining the Doctor: The Tomb of the Cybermen

Weeping Angel Doll

Cult moves to Fridays on the CW.

Doctor Gash's Top 10 Greatest Horror Movies Ever #1 - The Exorcist

Movie Legends Revealed: Was There Really an Octopus in The Goonies?

Star Wars X-Wing Bed.

Snow Yoda.

What Movies Look Like Before Special Effects.

Sherlock’s E-Card.

Oz: The Great And Powerful cover for Entertainment Weekly.

8 Great Mythological Creatures That Desperately Need to Be in More Movies

Ninja Turtles Moves to June 2014

21 Surprising Facts About Your Favorite Childhood TV Shows.

The BBC’s Zombie PSA – Keep Calm And Avoid The Undead

The Hobbit Re-Read: Chapter 14, Fire and Water.

CBS Announces Start Of Production On Under the Dome

You can watch the two-minute international trailer for the first season of Hannibal here.

Titanium ring conceals saw and handcuff opener

Bad Movie Fiends Podcast #166—Live Stream.

Saturday B Movie Reel #100: End of the World.

Film Bin Super-List Special: ‘Cartoon Villains’, Part 1

Film Bin Super-List Special: ‘Cartoon Villains’, Part 2

Mission Log #30—Episode 30—Amok Time.

Has Your ISP Joined The US ‘Six Strikes’ Anti-Piracy Scheme?

Demonoid Will Be Back, But Patience Required.

How @Gizmodo Got Hacked and How You Should Defend Yourself.

Briefcase company sues Marvel over The Avengers box set packaging.

TR Contest Special: Lesser-Known Bat-Villains.

Parting Shot: Dark Knight Rises Toy Needs A Spoiler Warning.

Colin O’Donoghue joins Once Upon A Time as Captain Hook.

G4’s Attack Of The Show interviews David Tennant.

Mike Nelson Talks Rifftrax Live, Manos The Hands Of Fate.

Weekend Discussion Thread: Ten Essential MST3K Episodes.

New trailer for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.

Greenbooks guest post: in defense of a Hobbit trilogy.

Star Trek Ten for Ward #5: 10 Trek Novels The Canon Passed Over.

Awesome Art Picks: Hawkeye, Justice League, X-Men And More. My favorites are the ones of Jean as Marvel Girl with Scott, and the impressive Magik that Mike Mayhew made on commission.

Obscurus Lupa takes a look at the 80’s Beauty and the Beast tv series, starring Ron Perlman and Linda Hamilton.

Watch the First Doctor bid farewell to Susan—in color.

San Diego Comic Con 2013 Tickets Selling Briskly- But Not Insanely.

Now Playing Podcast: Dr. No (1962)

Movie Issues Podcast: Total Recall (1990).

Pop My Culture Podcast #87: Barry Bostwick.

How Long Does Your ISP Store IP-Address Logs?

Arrow Gets A Premiere Date.

Fairy Tale TV gets crowded as Peter Pan’s Lost Boys get a series.

Three More Clips From The Amazing Spider-Man.

Biggest roadblocks to story.

Bleeding Cool reviews The Amazing Spider-Man. Tor’s review. Expect a few spoilers.

The 5 Best (and 5 Worst) Spider-Man: The Animated Series Episodes.

Looking back at The Legend of Korra.

Embrace of the Vampire Remake Confirmed, Lead Actress Revealed.

New The Dark Knight Rises TV Spot In HD.

Edgar Wright Just Directed An Ant Man Test Reel.

Back to the Future Day Hoax: Do Not Be Fooled. I didn’t hear about this one until now, but I’ve seen the movie more than enough times to know it was 2015, not 2012.

The CW Premiere Dates 2012—Your Fall TV List.

Mad Max: Fury Road No Longer Shooting In 3D; Will Post Convert.

Comic Book Legends Revealed #373.

Bookcase that cunningly stores a table and chairs.

Top 10 Most Traumatizing Movies About Toys.

Some polite Daleks left this on somebody’s door.

Tezuka’s Unico Headed To Publication…Thanks To Kickstarter.

A Taste Of The Supernatural In Trailer For Period Horror The Awakening.

Tony Daniel Announces Detective Comics Exit.

Movie Issues Podcast: Amazon Women On The Moon (1987)

CNN says that it’s as hot here, as it would normally be in Death Valley. Meanwhile, the local news crew just successfully fried a couple eggs on the sidewalk near here in under 10 minutes. It was 109 degrees Fahrenheit, last I checked.

An explanation as to what caused yesterday’s access issues for Livejournal.

Comcast Protests ‘Shakedown’ of Alleged BitTorrent Pirates.

Little Shop of Horrors With Alternate Ending Is Coming To Blu-Ray.

Portia De Rossi is the new Lily Munster for Mockingbird Lane, replacing Mariana Klaveno.

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter Clip Shows Daring Train Escape.

Katie Cassidy Talks About Her Role In Arrow.

The Top 5 Ray Bradbury Stories On Screen.

Advanstar buys Stan Lee’s Comikaze Expo.

Funny “Lost Wormhole” Sign.

Confirmed: Peter Reckell Leaving Days of Our Lives.

7 Ways Warner Bros. Can Avoid Disaster On Their Way To A Justice League Movie.

Batman Cape Cufflinks.

Batman Blows His Cover.

Random Roles: Ernie Hudson.

Prepare Yourself For Aliens: The Musical.

Thundercats is being cancelled, and The Nerdist wonders why.

Predator: a 25th birthday appreciation.

First Look at Jor-El and Faora’s Costumes From Man Of Steel.

Now Playing Podcast: Batman And Robin (1997).

The repairman from Comcast arrived at 11 AM on the dot even with thunderstorms going on in the area, and was an insanely nice guy. He immediately assumed whatever was wrong had to be Comcast's fault, and was genuinely surprised that it turned out to actually be something on our end after all.

Turns out our modem had killed itself in such a way that it looked like it was continuing to work when it was beyond its last legs. So you'd get moments when things worked, blips of nothing, it would be back--looking like Comcast had issues. He said it was the living dead, "a zombie." He gave us a new one, explained everything perfectly, and ventured off to throw our old one out since there is no way that anyone can use it.

He gave us a link to a broadband Speed test for Xfinity/Comcast, so we'll know exactly what servers are dying at any given point and what our speed is, too--just to be nice, apparently. He explained everything in detail, even the type our old one was, what the new one was, and gave a suggestion for what an even faster modem might be if we ever thought of upgrading.

Before he left, due to the massive number of books we have in various spots, he asked Mom for bookstore recommendations for his wife.

Now, even Dad's ancient laptop can use the internet at fast speeds. He said he almost didn't know what to do now that he could watch videos.

Finally, something in English about the Scrapbook issue. Tags are being removed, everything will be compiled into one gallery--I needed those tags, it was how I kept track of everything. The whole format worked fine for me before, I never had any issues with it.

Comcast Praises Voluntary BitTorrent Crackdown Agreement.

How to get the old Gmail back.

The brand new trailer for The Dark Knight Rises.

The Silliest Complaints By British Moviegoers.

We might see a new Hulk from Marvel in 2015.

The Great Alan Moore Reread: From Hell, Part 2.

When We First Met: The Evolution of Red And Green Kryptonite.

Major Star Trek Sequel Spoilers Confirmed. If you don’t want to know the character Benedict Cumberbatch will play, or who might have a possible cameo, you’ll want to avoid this.

Scott Lobdell To Take Over Superman From Jurgens And Giffen.

Egon Bobble Head.

Real Ghostbusters t-shirt design.

New character posters for Snow White And the Huntsman.

An interview with Ty Templeton.

From SFX: 20 Things We Love About Angel.

50 Greatest Friends And Foes Of Spider-Man: Supporting Cast #1-3. Villains #1-3.

The Nerdist gives an overview of the Trailers From Hell website.

From Cracked: 5 Movie Apocalypses That Would Defeat Themselves.

The 5 Weirdest Avengers Plots—Ever.

Dark Shadows Movie Media Round-Up. A sequel is already under consideration. The latest issue of Screem has two Dark Shadows covers—one with Quentin, Angelique and Barnabas from the original series, and one with three images of Barnabas from the new movie. I’ll be looking for the former.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles chalkboard art for the Illinois coffee shop Expresso Royale.

Gaiman settlement cost Todd McFarlane $1,100,000.

House of Dark Shadows available from Amazon digitally.

A reboot of Van Helsing is on the way…with Tom Cruise attached to star in and produce the latter.

Chemistry Tea Set.

Sign-ups are open for the Not Prime Time Ficathon.

Last year’s Rifftrax Live: Jack The Giant Killer is now available on DVD.

Make sure you stay all the way through the end credits, because there is a second end credits sequence.

The 30 Nerdiest Mad Magazine Covers.

We Hate Movies Podcast, Episode 56: The Philadelphia Experiment II (1993).

Now Playing Podcast: Captain America: The First Avenger.

Comcast appears to be having some serious problems. Long stretches of time when it looks like the internet’s down, or having temporary hang-ups. I can’t watch anything on Youtube or Blip, since it never loads—or if it starts to, it will constantly buffer. A call to customer service seems to think it’s on my end, when I seriously doubt that. Their server keeps dying if anyone tries to check e-mail. (Except for a brief window this morning) Earliest they can bother to check around and see if there’s something messing up is Saturday afternoon, around 11 AM-1 PM. Maybe.

To watch the trailer for The Dark Knight Rises, I had to use Download Accelerator Plus, since it kept trying even when the connection dropped out. So I watched a fuzzy quality version of the HD trailer, but at least I was able to see it.

(Yahoo is insane, because it’s been working for me at times, even when Comcast wasn’t, in certain windows of time. So I can keep tagging back in the Genosha logs. Watch the confusion!)