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Doctor Who or: How I learned to Stop Worrying and See Ethnocentrism

Doctor Who or: How I learned to Stop Worrying and See Ethnocentrism

Kristi Grim January 7, 2013 0

A show about an alien whipping through time and space in a blue police box from 1960′s London seems like the kind of thing created only to entertain children. And it does entertain children,

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Disney Buys Lucasfilms for $4.05 Billion; Episode 7 Scheduled for 2015 Release

Disney Buys Lucasfilms for $4.05 Billion; Episode 7 Scheduled for 2015 Release

Zak Grim October 30, 2012 0

You heard that right, the Mouse now owns the Force. Disney has purchased Lucasfilms for $4.05 billion in cash and stock and announced that a new Star Wars movie will be released in 2015. George

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Book Review: ‘Year Zero: A Novel’

Book Review: ‘Year Zero: A Novel’

Zak Grim August 8, 2012 0

It’s been a long time since we’ve had a book that made me think of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy as much as Robert Reid’s Year Zero did. For as strange and absurd as the Hitchhiker’s story

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New Batgirl Web-Series Ready to Showcase Stephanie Brown and a Host of Bat-Villians

New Batgirl Web-Series Ready to Showcase Stephanie Brown and a Host of Bat-Villians

Zak Grim August 8, 2012 0

With DC’s ‘New 52′ Barbra Gordon has slipped into the role of Batgirl again, but from 2009 to 2011 Stephanie Brown wore the female cowl. And even though after the events of Flashpoint, Stephanie

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Joss Whedon Officially Signs On for ‘The Avengers 2′; Working on Marvel TV Show

Joss Whedon Officially Signs On for ‘The Avengers 2′; Working on Marvel TV Show

Zak Grim August 7, 2012 0

In the course of just a few months, Joss Whedon has gone from geek icon to main stream darling. The writer and director of The Avengers has become a household name thanks to the monster success

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‘Bill Nye the Science Guy’ to return on YouTube

‘Bill Nye the Science Guy’ to return on YouTube

Zak Grim July 31, 2012 0

If you grew up in the mid-90s odds are you learned about science from two places. The first was from your teachers at school, the second was from one of two (or possibly both)

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Geek Artist Team Up for the First ‘Humble Music Bundle’

Geek Artist Team Up for the First ‘Humble Music Bundle’

Zak Grim July 28, 2012 0

Gamers are more than likely fimilar with The Humble Bundle. HumbleBundle.com organizes bundles of ‘digital stuff’ and offers them to the public in a pay-what-you-want format. For as little as $0.01 you can get

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Heavy Hitters at Valve and Blizzard Publicly Voice Concern Over Windows 8

Heavy Hitters at Valve and Blizzard Publicly Voice Concern Over Windows 8

Zak Grim July 27, 2012 0

While Windows 7 was a revelation for many Windows users after the lackluster Windows Vista, Windows 8 has gotten off to a rocky start. Drastic changes to the user interface and file hierarchy are

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