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In addition to general news, I hope people here will treat this as a place for general OT comments, as well.

Today, we have Jerry O’Connell and Eddie Izzard starring in a dark, gritty, and (one imagines) wholly ill-conceived and unnecessary reimagining of The Munsters. It will be called Mockingbird Lane and premiere sometime next year.

NASA and congress arrive at an agreement concerning private space taxi service.

Meanwhile, America’s National Reconnaissance Office has just donated two spy telescopes to NASA.

Below, this week in unique uses of technology. These have to be seen to be believed.

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Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

Has Ransom Riggs written the next Harry Potter? No, but his first novel, a YA fantasy, has won him bestseller status and a movie deal, and he clearly wrote it with the intention of launching a sequel. Indeed, he wrote it a little too clearly with the intent of launching a sequel.

The book has been illustrated with and was partially inspired by creepy old photographs of the sort found in faded cardboard boxes in second-hand book stores and antique barns, pressed between pages of books and lost behind wooden desks.

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Weekend Review: Comic-Con IV: A Fan’s Hope

When a woman tells you to grow up, that’s God’s way of telling you to get a new woman. Especially if it means getting rid of your comics. There are three billion women on the planet, but only so many good comics, so the choice is an easy one.
–Chuck Ronzanski

Documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock (Super Size Me, The Greatest Movie Ever Sold) goes to Comic-Con and reports back. The movie tours select theatres, will eventually be available as video, and certainly bears watching, especially if you’re the sort of person who frequents a site like this one. You’ll get a fun taste of what Comic-Con has become. What you won’t get is anything especially deep or probing.

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Marvel Comics has created a sidekick for Hawkeye. A speedy knock-off, prompted by the success of The Avengers? No—it’s a plan to help a hearing-impaired child. The character may never appear in continuity, but it’s some compensation for the loss of DC’s physically-challenged super-doer, Oracle.

Virgin Galactic has received the go-ahead for the next phase in their development, as the Dragon Capsule readies for departure from the International Space Station.

Our own Crossover Comix page welcomes scans from the new Doctor Who/Star Trek crossover, and last year’s Star Trek/Legion of Superheroes shindig.

And by now we’ve all heard of the Miami cannibal attack, and doubtless made or heard the standard grim gag: is the zombie apocalypse, in fact, upon us?

Various video, and Venus, below:

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Weekend Review: Midnight in Paris

It says something that the aging darling of the filmgoing quasi-intelligentsia had a hit last year with a movie that borrows its central conceit from science-fiction. No one would call Midnight in Paris SF, or (more correctly) fantasy, but its use of time-travel qualifies it for a review here.

It’s also an entertaining little movie.

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SpaceX’s launch is a go for Saturday and, with that, we have reflections on the privatization of space travel. We also have new fuel for the ongoing debate about what (and who) might wait in the distant reaches of space.

A recent fossil find in China could represent a hitherto unknown species of human.

Of course, Maria Jose Cristerna, the Vampire Woman of Guadaljara, Mexico, might also be a hitherto unknown species of human.

Light clothing, Seattle ComicCon, and more of the Vampire Woman, below:

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Your phone could become a digital wallet.

The self-published e-book “Wool” has garnered enough of a following that the movie studios have become interested.

George Lucas does something very cool, for the first time in a while.

Find out how you can watch SpaceX’s launch to the International Space Station on May 19 (Of course, two cosmonauts and one astronaut are en route soon).

Guess what the world oldest known cave art appears to represent?

A meteor miss of a populated planet and more, follow:

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