Nerd Worthy News
Scifi & Fantasy
- BSC: Lou Anders, editor of Pyr books – interview
- JournalStandard: THE READERS’ WRITERS: An interview with multi-award winning author, Robert J Sawyer
- A Dribble of Ink: Free Readin’-What Doctor Gottlieb Saw by Ian Tregillis
- AirlockAlpha: SciFriday: More Effort Needed To Attract Youth To Conventions
- Grasping for the Wind: Free Fiction: The Glades by Clifton Campbell
- io9: Designing the Dark Crystal
- SciFi Wire: This is why Joss Whedon can’t make a new Buffy movie
- SFSignal: SF Tidbits for 6/18/10
- TOR.com: The Wheel of Time Re-read: The Path of Daggers, Part 16
- TOR.com: The Countdown to Futurama Begins… (YES!)
- Walker of Worlds: Review-The Dreaming Void by Peter F Hamilton (Pan Macmillan/Del Rey)
Technology
- ChannelWeb: Verizon Teases Droid X, Big Reveal Next Week?
- PCMag: Apple Updates MobileMe, Adds iPhone Locator App
- MacWorld: Analysts: Unlimited data plans’ days are numbered
- InternetWeekly: Facebook Rebukes Privacy Groups
- InternetWeekly: Microsoft Expands Mobile Platform Offerings
- AppleInsider: Apple quietly includes malware prevention update in Mac OS X 10.6.4
- MacWorld: Verizon may introduce tiered pricing
- ARS Technica: Microsoft sues spammers for abusing Hotmail anti-spam filters
- CNET: Phone-charging boots: Walk (a lot) to talk
- CNET: Google Docs makes it easier to share–or not
Comic Books
- NYTimes: Graphic Books Best-Sellers: The Outcry Over ‘Cry for Justice’
- Comics Should be Good: Comic Book Legends Revealed #265
- WIRED: 6 Genre-Tripping Gunfighters Jonah Hex Must Duel FTW!
Music
- CBC: McCartney lands gig for ballet music
- Seattle Times: Free Georgetown Music Festival great opportunity to soak up new sounds
- WIRED: Musical Mad Scientist Concocts Bizarre Instruments, Strange Sounds
- io9: Warp 11: This is not the Star Trek-themed band you’re looking for
Video Games
- PSX: E3 2010 Attendance Numbers, E3 2011 Receives Date
- Macworld: Disney unveils Tron for iPhone
- ARS technica: Metroid: Other M shows human side of Samus Aran
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