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DDoS Attacks Take Down What.cd & Major Private BitTorrent Trackers

Large Hadron Collider shuts down for two years of upgrades

svmadelyn made this Valentine Love Meme. You may want to check to see if you happen to be listed. Whoever it was that tossed my name out there, thank you so much—that was unexpected, but definitely a welcome surprise.

Nathan Fillion Is Taking Valentine Requests

The 12 Most Horrifically Bad Dates in All of Science Fiction and Fantasy

Stan Lee’s Rants: How It Should Have Ended. It’s a crossover with How It Should Have Ended, for the Star Wars movies, Inception, and Batman.

San Diego Comic Con badges go on sale on February 16th—here’s your video guide.

ComicsPRO and CBLDF Team-Up for Second Annual Live Auction

Tales From The Code: You’ve Lost That Loving Feeling.

Canada Has Bipartisan Agreement Opposing Zombies

The Line It Is Drawn #126: Valentine’s Day With The Superheroes.

Peter Dinklage joins the cast of X-Men: Days of Future Past. While they don’t say which character he’ll play, my best guess is Puck.

Alternate The Amazing Spider-Man Movie Web-Shooter Designs Arrive Online.

Hayley Atwell Will Return (Briefly) In Captain America: The Winter Soldier.

New Iron Man 3 Poster.

The Night Gwen Stacy Died Cover Art Expected To Go For Over Two Hundred Thousand

Rocket Raccoon: Where Do I Start?

Interview: Scott Snyder On Death Of The Family.

10 Things Geoff Johns Added To The Green Lantern Mythos.

Rumored New Writers For The Green Lantern Books.

Claire Holt joins the spin-off of The Vampire Diaries, The Originals.

A Jurassic Park 3D Poster.

Ultimate Back To The Future Collectible: Biff’s Manure Car.

Griff’s Hoverboard For Sale On eBay.

One Trek Mind #63: 10 Best Trek Romances

The Evolution of Star Trek.

The Darth Vader Knife That’s Made To Go With a Kilt

The Hobbit Re-Read, Chapter 12: Inside Information.

Transformation and Death: The Witches.

Amazingly realistic David Bowie dolls

Night Of The Living Dead (1968): 3 different prints at Archive.org

Evil Dead Fest Announced.

Top 10 Superhero Movie Costumes.

Hey Kids, Comics Vol 2 07 Happy Birthday, Superman Part 2.

Pulp Nightmare Pulp Commentary: Judge Dredd

Comic Book Club Podcast: New Paradigm Studios.

Death’s Door Prods Podcast—Let’s Watch: Young Frankenstein (1974) Commentary

Death’s Door Prods Podcast—Let’s Watch: Spaceballs (1987)

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.

Ghostbusters with the Inception soundtrack. The person that made that trailer did an incredible job.

For those that listen to music, there is now a TARDIS Ipod Speaker.

The 5 Best (And Worst) Things About Star Trek V.

There’s a chance that Elijah Wood could have a cameo The Hobbit as Frodo, along with Orlando Bloom as Legolas.

7 of the Wildest Sci-Fi Promotional Stunts Ever. It includes the Zombie Walk done to promote The Walking Dead, as well as Improv Everywhere going to the New York Public Library dressed as the Ghostbusters to help raise money.

Via BoingBoing: A bird expert sanely explains why there’s nothing to worry about with all the bird deaths, as well as listing each place it happened in. The bit that strangely amuses me? They link to WPSD’s website (local news) for the woman around here that randomly had birds falling into her yard.

From Cracked: 6 Disaster Movie Explanations For All These Dead Birds. #1 is great.

TV Gawker remembers the Back to the Future cartoon, and links to the first episode.

zombie_fest is accepting more zombie related prompts in any fandom.

A promo for season 3 of Being Human.

Concept art for the Batman Live Arena Show.

For those that are interested in this sort of thing, the apocalypse was supposedly moved up—May 21st of this year. I’ll probably be watching Doctor Who on that day, since it’s a Saturday. Armageddon can just wait until the episode’s finished. Meanwhile, 1,000 dead birds fell from the sky, and 100,000 dead fish washed ashore in Arkansas. The best theories on the cause were over at Gawker—either something to do with the New Madrid fault acting up or a chemical plant issue.

I doubt lightning struck the fish underwater. That was one of the more official theories for the birds. My first response to the whole thing was a mix of this scene in Ghostbusters, and this scene in Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy.

Anne Francis has passed away, at the age of 80, due to complications from pancreatic cancer. May she rest in peace. She was Leslie Nielson’s co-star in Forbidden Planet, as well as the star of the series Honey West.

Pete Postlethwaite has also passed away, at the age of 64, due to cancer. May he rest in peace.