Nerd Worthy News
New Podcast from The Functional Nerds: Episode 5
SciFi & Fantasy
- Grasping for the Wind: Geek Media Round-Up: April 16, 2010
- SFSignal.com: SF Tidbits for 4/16/10
- i09: The One Magnificent Scene From Last Night’s Fringe: Walter Bishop Meets His Equal
- Life, Doctor Who & Combom: Torchwood Series 4 filming in USA?
- Scifi Wire: Who’s Matt Smith: Why the new Doctor is a ‘bit bonkers’
- SFSignal.com: Voice Of The Fans: What’s The Best Media Tie-in Novel?
- SFSite.com: REVIEW: The Splendid Magic of Penny Arcade: The 11½ Anniversary Edition
- SFSite.com: REVIEW: The Accidental Sorcerer: Rogue Agent
- SFSite.com: REVIEW: Warbreaker, Part 2
- Scifi Wire: How Syfy’s Riverworld is a new retelling of a great story (that means, “We changed it to make it ‘better’!”)
Technology
- PCMag: Could an ‘iPad Skeleton’ Transform Tablets into Notebooks?
- WashingtonPost: Apple rejects Pulitzer winner’s iPhone app because it ‘ridicules public figures’
- CNNTech: Stranded leader runs country by iPad
- MacRumors: AT&T Block on Employee Vacations for June Hints at iPhone Launch
- PCWorld: Ning: No More Free Networks
- ARS Technica: In multitasking, more than two tasks do not compute
- Apple Insider: Web use of Apple iPad already rivals Android, BlackBerry
- MacWorld: 12 iPad tips and tricks
- ARS Technica: AT&T network problems: coverage, speed, or none of the above?
Video Games
- ARS Technica: Kratos, Final Fantasy rule March video game sales
- PCWorld: Face-Off: Sony Sings of PS3 Growth, Microsoft Teases E3 Reveals
- Wired (Gamelife): Browse and Buy Videogame-Inspired Artwork
- Wired (Gamelife): Penny Arcade Takes Applications for $10,000 Videogame Scholarship
Comic Books
- CBS Chicago: Inaugural C2E2 Convention Starts Friday
- Marvel: Get Iron Man: Extremis Motion Comic Now!
- CBR C2E2 Coverage:
- Brubaker Makes Steve Roger “Super”
- Scott Allie on “Let Me In”
- IDW Announces “Dungeons & Dragons” Series
- Bendis Turns “Scarlet”
- Comics should be good: Comic Book Legends Revealed #256
- Comics should be good: A Year of Cool Comics – Day 105
Music
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