Baby Name Fail « FAIL Blog: Pictures and Videos of Owned, Pwnd and Fail Moments
failblog.org 3/20/2009 — Incorrect credit? This fail picture or video was posted on Friday, March 20th, 2009 at 7:00 am.

Why Ebooks Must Fail
blackplasticglasses.com 4/1/2009 — This piece is about consumer or “trade” publishing as we call it in the industry. To begin, let's review how a book becomes a book. A writer gets an agent who peddles a manuscript to an editor who buys the book. The Publisher then pays an advance ...

Original Metropolis Lives On In Berlin [Metropolis]
io9.com 27 days ago — After more than eight decades, Fritz Lang 's original cut of his classic movie Metropolis will be seen for the first time at next year's Berlin Film Festival , including 30 minutes of almost-unseen footage. Lang's original cut had almost become an ...

Superhero Fan Film Contest Returns To Metropolis!
fancinematoday.com 5/19/2009 — A mere 10 years ago, DC Comics famously shut down the first major Superman fan film on the internet, as recounted in Homemade Hollywood . These days, not only does DC approve of fan productions , so does the Metropolis Chamber of Commerce. Every year, the town of Metropolis, IL holds its ...

OF Blog of the Fallen: The "Fail" beat still continues
ofblog.blogspot.com 8/6/2009 — I'm feeling a bit ill tonight, so if my thoughts are a bit too brief and/or disjointed, I'll blame it on the stomach bug I have. Anyways, on with the topic du jour, that of another all-male SF Anthology being released and the shitstorm that Paul di ...

Berlinale to show uncut 'Metropolis'
variety.com 27 days ago — Festival to screen reconstructed original print BERLIN -- The Berlin Film Festival will screen Fritz Lang's original cut of "Metropolis," which was feared lost but discovered in an Argentine museum last year, at a gala ceremony on Feb. 10, the ...

Happy Birthday H.G. Wells
tor.com 9/24/2009 — It’s H.G. Wells ’s one hundred and forty-third birthday, and Google has chosen to celebrate it with a lovely Google-Doodle. (I liked it so much I woke my husband to come and look at it.) It’s no exaggeration to say that Wells invented ...

Original, Complete 'Metropolis' to be Shown for the First Time Since 1927
scifiblock.com 28 days ago — Film aficionados rejoice! Variety brings the good news that Fritz Lang's seminal 1927 science fiction film Metropolis will be shown in its complete form on February 10, 2010, by the Berlin Film Festival.

The Bioluminescent Metropolis
bldgblog.blogspot.com 8/21/2009 — [Image: "Lightning Bugs in York, PA," by tom.arthur , courtesy of a Creative Commons license]. While staying in the Blue Mountains outside Sydney for a few days last week, I managed to re-read W.G. Sebald's book The Rings of Saturn . At one point, ...

The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
jameswharris.wordpress.com 6/25/2009 — The Time Machine is the big bang origin of the science fiction universe.  I’ve read The Time Machine a couple times before in my life, but I never noticed that it was the origin of all science fiction before, but then I haven’t ...