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André Cassagnes, creator of the Etch-A-Sketch, has passed away at the age of 86. May he rest in peace.

Remembering The Crew Of Space Shuttle Columbia.

Demonoid Breaks Record With 6 Month Downtime.

Twitter detects and shuts down password data hack in progress.

San Diego Comic Con Badge Registration Is February 16th.

The 10 Worst X-Men Villains Of All Time.

Shelf-destroying Wolverine: The Adamantium Collection will crush you.

5 Actors Who Should Play The Next Batman. I think Matt Bomer works better for Nightwing. Richard Armitage (who I’ve only seen in an few episodes of the BBC’s Robin Hood) could work, though.

The Superman Homepage interviews Bruce Timm at the premiere of The Dark Knight Returns, Part 2.

Abandoned Love: Booster Gold’s New Threads

Buy the house from A Nightmare On Elm Street for $2.1 million.

Fandom Manifesto: Sapphire And Steel.

Awesome Art Picks: Wolverine, The Walking Dead, Spider-Man, and More.

Weekend Discussion Thread: It’s A Smug-Off.

Enlist As A Red Shirt T-Shirt.

Gremlins Laplander Hat.

International Jack The Giant Slayer Poster.

Labyrinth painting.

The Greatest Movie Ever Podcast: Big Trouble In Little China (1986)

Schlock Treatment #111: The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension (1984)

The Batman Universe Podcast: The Dark Knight Rises (2012) Commentary.

The Shut Up And Watch This Podcast, Episode 77: Dredd (2012)

Sofa Dogs Podcast #271: Cellular (2004)

Jake Eberts has passed away, at the age of 71, following a brief illness. May he rest in peace.

Anti-Piracy Outfits Think Megaupload, Demonoid, and BTjunkie Are Still Alive.

Botnet master gets 30-month prison term for renting out infected PCs.

Mother Puss Bucket T-Shirt. It’s Mr. Stay Puft’s angry head being roasted over a fire.

Ghostbusters mod for Doom 2: Gozer battle.

Cocktails With Stan Lee: Seth Green.

Weird Secrets Of The Avengers That You’d Never Have Guessed.

Robot Chicken DC Comics Special Review. You can watch a recently released clip here.

Man of Steel: 10 Mistakes From Superman Returns The Reboot Must Avoid.

The AV Club Q&A: Confused By Our Commitment.

Syfy Acquires British Series Sinbad, Will Premiere April 2013.

Top 50 alternate movie endings. The list includes X-Men: The Last Stand, Army of Darkness, Dawn of the Dead, The Birds, Brazil, Clue, and many others.

The Eleventh Doctor’s 11 Best (and 7 Worst) Episodes.

Another clip from Doctor Who: Dinosaurs On A Spaceship.

Star Trek TNG: Season Two Blu-Ray Out On December 4th.

On Star Trek’s 46th Anniversary, Google Celebrates With Interactive Doodle.

New Wonder Woman Series In Development For The CW.

Wonder Woman On TV: A Brief History.

Writer Victor Gischler Gets To Know The Shadow.

Game of Thrones Cake.

New VOD Title From Rifftrax: The Bermuda Triangle.

Trailers From Hell: David DeCoteau on Tourist Trap.

Exploring Lost Worlds: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Professor Challenger.

Jim Starlin talks Thanos, Guardians of the Galaxy, and more.

The 15 Greatest Classic Nickelodeon Shows. I would add Are You Afraid Of The Dark, and Salute Your Shorts.

1950s Rockabilly Batman came to life at Dragon Con.

Remember when Robin fought Batman while he was taking a shower?

G4, 2002-2013.

Donkey Jones T-Shirt.

Unattended Children Will Be Given To The Goblin King.

Best Art Ever (This Week)—September 7th.

Why is William Shatner making a documentary about Xena?

Comic Book Legends Revealed #383.

Nosferatu At 90: Florence Stoker, Vampire Hunter.

Final Breakdown Of Special Features For They Live Special Edition.

Mission Log Podcast #5: Episode 5: The Naked Time.

Movie Issues Podcast: Mannequin (1987)

Tony Scott has passed away, at the age of 68, following him jumping from a bridge. It looks like he had recently been diagnosed with inoperable brain cancer. Condolences to his family, and may he rest in peace. He co-produced Prometheus, and helped make films such as The Hunger, Days of Thunder, and many others. He produced the forthcoming miniseries Coma, along with working on the tv series Numb3rs. David Krumholtz posts his remembrance of the man.

William Windom has passed away, at the age of 88, due to congestive heart failure. May he rest in peace. Star Trek fans will remember him from The Doomsday Machine as Commodore Matt Decker.

ETA: Phyllis Diller has passed away at the age of 95. May she rest in peace.

Best wishes to Marc Summers for a speedy recovery after his cab accident. He suffered some serious facial injuries.

Cantaloupe Outbreak Kills Two, Sickens 141 In U.S. A friend of Dad’s is one of those 141, and should be getting out of the hospital shortly after being stuck there a month.

Demonoid Domain Sale Banned Over Legal Issues.

Possible Remnants Of Amelia Earhart’s Plane Found.

Marvel Promotes Lauren Sankovitch To Editor.

Read the increasingly desperate tweets of Martian rock N165 as it is zapped by Curiosity.

8 Of The Scariest Horror Movies Made For Kids. I’m happy to see that someone else out there remembers Pinocchio And The Emperor Of The Night.

I Love Ya But You’re Strange—Justice League…Antarctica?

Teaser Trailer For Asylum of the Daleks.

From Cracked: 4 Reasons Gremlins Are The Deadliest Movie Monster Ever.

Also from Cracked: The 6 Most Baffling PSAs Starring Famous Superheroes.

The next movie for Svengoolie is Ghostbreakers.

Trailers From Hell: Adam Rifkin on The Terminator.

The 2012 DCU Fic/Art Halloween Challenge.

Bruce Campbell Has Seen The Evil Dead Remake.

James Gunn In Talks To Direct Guardians Of The Galaxy.

The Hub adds Superman: The Animated Series, Sliders, and Hercules: The Legendary Journeys to their schedule.

After Man of Steel, Which DC Comics Movie Will Warner Bros. Make Next?

Godzilla vs. Kincade.

Fraggle Rock 30th Anniversary Art.

Alternative authors’ version of Lord of the Rings.

ABC is developing the steampunk adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. Yes, really.

Warner Bros is offering single night screenings of The Dark Knight Returns in a New York theater before it comes to DVD and Blu-Ray.

From Think Geek: Hypnotoad Vinyl Figure.

A deleted scene from The Avengers.

Deconstructing the Complete And Utter Insanity Of Batman: Odyssey, Part 1 Part 2. Hysterical.

Bad Movie Fiends Podcast #138: Hell Squad (1985)

Schlock Treatment 89: Starcrash (1978)

Sofa Dogs Podcast: The Lost Boys (1987) Commentary.

Greatest Movie Ever Podcast: Doc Savage: The Man Of Bronze (1975).

Are Demonoid Users At Risk?

Demonoid Raid Credited To IFPI, Multiple Arrests In Mexico Reported.

Bob Hoskins Announces Retirement From Acting After Parkinson’s Disease Diagnosis. Best wishes to him.

Brenda Chapman Leaves Pixar For LucasFilm.

Watch William Shatner Throw The First Pitch For Dodgers Star Trek Night.

More images from Sam Raimi’s The Possession.

As many as 30% of cats are stone cold killers.

Fifty Shades of Stan Lee...Actually Just Three. It’s not how it sounds. There are no kinks. It’s just three people (two and a puppet version) who are Stan Lee imitators popping up throughout.

10 Shows That Survived After Their Original Showrunners Left.

Mark Gatiss to pen Doctor Who making of drama, An Adventure In Space And Time.

An interview with Bill Corbett.

Geek Gear: Doctor Who/Lost In Space ‘Exterminate The Robinsons’ Shirt.

The Claws of Axos—Special Edition Cover Art.

Fan Film: Batman: Puppet Master. You get an idea of what the Riddler and Ventriloquist might have been like in Nolan’s universe.

Batgirl: Spoiled—Full Fan Trailer.

Brian Posehn, Gerry Duggan and Tony Moore are relaunching Deadpool for Marvel Now.

The Line It Is Drawn #101: Superhero 101.

The differences between Kickstarter and IndieGoGo.

The special features on the Blu-Ray and DVD for Tim Burton’s Dark Shadows.

An interview with Kim Newman.

Contest: Win Manos The Hands Of Fate Signed Poster.

Alf is getting his own movie.

How to make any room look more science fictional.

Marvel Cancels Defenders With Issue 12.

Cyber Force Kickstarter campaign passes $79,000 goal.

Nerdist Writer’s Panel #50: TV Fantasy Goes Mainstream.

Demonoid Busted As A Gift To The United States Government.

Tomorrowland’s Giant Book Stage.

The Dark Knight Rises Tops Box Office Third Straight Weekend.

P:R Roundtable: The Nine Lives (And More Costumes) Of Catwoman.

Artwork from scrapped Nightwing cartoon shows off DC heroes, Legend of Korra style.

What Am I Bid?: Recent Comics and Movie Auction Results.

Richard E. Grant will guest star in Doctor Who’s Christmas Special.

From Cracked: 5 Inexplicably Creepy Episodes Of Family Friendly TV Shows.

Tor takes a look at Vonda McIntyre’s Enterprise: The First Adventure.

The 9 Most Underrated Horror Comics.

Lord of the Rings ‘An Inevitable Fate’ T-Shirt.

33 Things We Learned From the Conan The Barbarian Commentary.

The trailer for Holmes and Watson: Madrid Days.

Top Ten Joss Whedon Villains.

Patrick St. Esprit joins The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.

Third annual Read Comics In Public Day is August 28th.

Demonoid Starts Redirecting To Ads And Malware.

PublicBitTorrent And OpenBitTorrent Trackers Return.

Doctor Who Series 7 Trailer.

How Is Doctor Who Good For Science?

Publicity image released for Asylum of the Daleks.

The Dark Knight Rages.

12 Gotham Newspaper Headlines During The Dark Knight Rises. Massive spoilers for everything in the movie, so proceed at your own risk.

Comic Influences On The Dark Knight Rises.

Dark Knight Themed Home Theater For Only $2 Million.

Memos from Nick Fury.

Excelsior! A Tribute To Stan Lee.

Futurama Hypnotoad Vinyl Figure.

Brian Hibbs pays tribute to Bob Wayne.

Christopher Eccleston joins Thor: The Dark World as Malekith The Accursed.

10 Worst Comic Book-Based Movie Performances Of All Time.

SDCC 2013 Online Badge Pre-Registration Announced.

Bryan Singer Confirms X-Men: Days of Future Past, Suggests Connection To Other X-Men Films.

5 Reasons Why The Next X-Men Movie Should Be Days Of Future Past.

Caroline Dhavernas joins the cast of Hannibal for the lead role of Dr. Alana “Al” Bloom.

Archeologists Uncover Maya Temple of the Blood Drinking Sun God.

Trailers From Hell: Josh Olson on The Howling.

Ghostbusters 3 Loses Bill Murray, Can We Move On Now?

The 10 Worst Cartoons Spawned By Video Games. The only one on that list I ever watched was Darkstalkers.

3D Glasses For The Hobbit Revealed.

Redesign Rewind: Best Of Marvel’s Timeslip.

Brian Posehn writing the new Deadpool series?

Children’s chemistry sets used to contain cyanide.

10 Foods You Crave—And Why You Crave Them. I never craved ice when I was near death from anemia, but I know others who did get that one.

How It Should Have Ended: Skyrim.

Dracula vs. Frankenstein managed to get a Blu-Ray release.

MacGyver Comes To Comics.

Lynn Cohen joins the cast of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.

Dimestore Dames spotlights ‘Glittering’ Goldie O’Gilt.

Why Remakes Are One Of Our Greatest Achievements As A Civilization.

The Line It Is Drawn #100—100th Issue Celebration.

First Photos From Joss Whedon’s Much Ado About Nothing.

Fantastic Fangirls Call For Staff Writers.

Prime Time Madness 2012 is live.

Official poster for Dredd.

From Think Geek: Lego Star Wars Darth Vader Desk Lamp.

Hitchcock's Vertigo ousts Citizen Kane as greatest film of all time

Nerdist Writer's Panel #49: Women on TV.

Mary Tamm has passed away, at the age of 62, following a battle with cancer. May she rest in peace. She played the first incarnation of Romana. I don’t believe I’ve ever actually watched anything of her episodes.

Demonoid Goes Down, Sort Of.

Google Talk Is Down. How Are You Coping With The Great Gtalk Outage of 2012? I’ve never used it before, and don’t have a clue about it--but I know there are some who likely use it a lot.

Extremely Dark Knight.

Batman’s Gotham City Map: What Does The Dark Knight’s Home Really Look Like?

How Much Would It Cost To Be Batman?

Where Was The Joker In The Dark Knight Rises? Mild spoilers for the film, and a quote from the novelization.

5 Essential Women In The Batman Universe. Leslie should have been included.

The CW’s New Slogan: TV Now.

New BBC Drama Trailer.

Grant Morrison, on being named a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire,and whether the honor makes him feel more chivalrous.

Werewolf: The Beast Among Us Trailer.

TARDIS Shed Guarded By A Dalek.

Ursula K. Le Guin: Still Battling The Powers That Be.

Maddie Hason and Alice Evans join the cast of Grimm.

Once Upon A Time Adds Lancelot. He will be played by Sinqua Walls.

The Hobbit: An Exclusive Look At Gollum Before And After.

Third Hobbit Movie: How? What? When? Why?

An interview with Len Wiseman, regarding the Total Recall remake.

J. Michael Straczynski Believes In Ghostbusters 3; Has Working Script Idea. This needs to happen.

First Behind The Scenes Footage From The Carrie Remake.

Exclusive Clip From William Shatner’s Get A Life.

Check Out Five New Character Portraits From Frankenweenie.

Marvel’s Multiple Movies: A Crowded House Of Ideas?

From Cracked: The 6 Craziest Superman Stories Ever Written (Twice).

Restoring The 1931 Bela Lugosi Dracula: Video Feature.

Secrets of the X-Men: Interrupted Romance With Colleen Wing.

Fringe Season 5 Production Halted.

Interview with Dan DiDio and Jim Lee, Part 1.

How Prometheus Should Have Ended.

Pulp Nightmare Podcast: Santa’s Slay Commentary.

And a meme, taken from othercat:
Let's do that thing where you give me a fandom I know nothing or very little about and I try to tell you about it.