Geeking Out

  • Excellent news for gamers who don’t want to interrupt play time to talk on the phone or  grab a laptop: you can just order your Pizza Hut directly through your Xbox.
  • How a group of librarians fooled Al Qaeda and saved ancient texts. Reads like Indiana Jones and Oceans’ 11.
  • Opening today at L.A.’s Gallery1988 on Melrose, is the Official Bad Robot Art Experience show, with pop art paying tribute to the many films and TV shows from J.J. Abrams’ prolific production company.
  • Tilda Swinton and Chaz Ebert led a dance-along at Ebertfest to Barry White, and it was adorable.
  • Kiki’s Delivery Service is going to be a live-action movie, based on the original novel.
  • The Bling Ring, directed by Sofia Coppola and starring Emma Watson as Alexis Neiers, has a trailer out. No word yet on whether Emma will be wearing little brown Bebe shoes or six-inch Louboutins in the film.
  • Strange Horizons gives us a lot of data regarding women in science fiction literature.
  • Tumblr you should follow: little girls are better at designing superheros than you.
  • 16 year old Zainab Oni chronicles her travel to the White House Science Fair!
  • What happens when 140 corgis have a beach party? You end up dead in the water from the cute.
  • Cat + cardboard cutout art = the perfect silly pick-me-up
  • Can you believe it’s been 20 years since the debut of Backstreet Boys? They relive some of their worst group outfits and provide scathing commentary.
  • Watch this new Studio Ghibli short Giant God Warrior Appears in Tokyo, serving as a sort of prequel to the action of the much beloved Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind story.
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