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Mike Smith, he of Snape fights a bear fame, is now reviewing Goblet of Fire.

So, there's been a rumor running rife around the Doctor Who fandom since Moffat took over. And that rumor has been that Neil Gaiman will be writing an upcoming episode for the franchise. Gaiman, however, hasn't really said anything about it. Until now.

Neil Gaiman confirms Doctor Who episode

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Are you excited? I know I am! (Uses the only Doctor Who icon she has uploaded over here.)

Oh. And he also won the SFX Best Comic award for Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?. Which is mentioned in the article, but still. It deserves its own mention.

Anyone else getting over a dozen repeat responses to comments on LJ? Or is it just me?


ETA: Thanks everybody!

So, I already plugged this a while ago, but now Yu-Gi-Oh: The Abridged Series is up to 46 episodes, multiple filk anime music videos, three Councils of Evil, and miscellaneous funniness. You don't need to know the first thing about Yu-Gi-Oh for it to be hilarious.

(You can also watch it at YouTube, which doesn't have the complete collection, but also doesn't have ads embedded in the videos)

This news is a bit outdated, but still exciting. There was a previous post about MTV (FINALLY) putting out Daria on DVD, but new details are slowly emerging.

Teaser trailer from MTV.

DVDaria has some more details from MTV. They seem to want to put out a product that fans want to buy. In sum:

1. It will be out sometime this year, maybe even as early as spring. They'll be putting the whole series out at once, not season-by season, including the two movies, and it will be "reasonably priced".
2. The episodes will be from the original masters, NOT the censored/edited ones that aired on Noggin. WOOOO
3. Most of the music will be replaced, as expected (getting the rights to the original music was cost-prohibitive), but it will be replaced with covers or similar songs rather than total silence, like the original DVD releases of the movies.

YYYYAAAAAYYYYYYY

Sarah from Smart Bitches, Trashy Books, Jane from Dear Author, and Angela James from Carina Press will be giving a presentation at the upcoming Tools of Change conference. They want to come with some statistics they can do "sexy mathematical things" with. If you fill out their survey, you will be entered to win $250 for books or towards an ereader of your choice.

Takes a little less than 10 minutes. It asks about ebooks, DRM, pricing, whether you illegally download, etc. It's confidential.

Bill Watterson gives a rare interview about Calvin and Hobbes.

Cue the ONTD lovefest, including pictures of the upcoming USPS stamp :)

You would think that after the borderline-hysterical, factually-bare and downright ludicrous stories the media has put out about cyberpredators, x-rated content and general evildoers lurking in kids' gaming consoles, (See the hysteria over Mass Effect's sexual content, the Nintendo DS' Pictochat function, and of course "Anonymous") you'd think news departments would learn to fact check a bit deeper? Dial back on the "ZOMG TEH KIDDIE PRONZ IZ EVERWHERES!!" at the very least?

Answer: OH HELL NO!

I give you: "The Sex-Box!"

 

BRB: Luring 14-year olds into Halo sex chats...

The whole article is behind the cut. Slight spoilers for the episode the guest star is appearing.

( I don't think I can handle the awesome. )

With the links going around the latest Amazon wank and a shiny new paycheck burning a hole in my pocket, I decided it was time to investigate something I've been meaning to check out for a while, namely, international DVDs. I have a Friendly Local for Region 1, but since I have the capability to play other regions and since US and Canadian DVDs tend not to have the dubs/subs I want, I'd like to know where to get Region 2 ones. Hypothetically I could use Amazon's international sites, but since I'd rather not give them money at this point and I'm not sure they'd let me anyway....

Suggestions?

Ok, so I want to list all my fic in an easy to read and follow index page on LJ. Unfortunately I'm at a loss on how exactly I should go about doing that. How do you all manage?

So far all I use are tags.

Should I link to many links? If My SailorMoon fic is hosted on LJ and FFN and OTW should I list them all?

Thanks for input.

(Barrowman) will be the show's main villain in the last section of the current season, series six.

Executive producer Cherry met with Barrowman last week after watching him in episodes of Torchwood.

He was very taken by Barrowman's Captain Jack Harkness character.

While he's in LA Barrowman will meet up with old friend Russell T .Davies.

Dr Who and Torchwood Writer Davies has been working in LA writing a Torchwood series for America's Fox TV. It will be a co-production between Fox and BBC TV.

Casting is way off. Barrowman will just being saying 'Hi' to Davies, not asking to be cast in the U.S. Torchwood.