dkichline writes, There is an article on CHUD.com about the possibility of a name for the JJ Abrams “Cloverfield” Project.

Some other hard-to-classify stories of the week follow.

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Everyone loves lists, right? RIGHT? Yeah, that’s what I thought.

Well, here’s another one. Specifically, this is Entertainment Weekly’s “Top 25 SF TV Shows And Movies Of The Last 25 Years.” Pay attention to that temporal disclaimer, as it explains why things like “Star Trek: The Original Series” aren’t on the list. You can click the link thingy or just our “Read More” for the entire list.
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Liquid nitrogen, Charles Stross and Bruce Schneier waxing Brazilian about the future of spyware, surveillance, and privacy, and Elizabeth Bear engaging M. Keaton over women in genre. The Aegis Sword Academy, caffeinated everything, great room parties, faux gun-battles in the halls: experience a hotel filled entirely with nerds.

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Penguicon, a Michigan convention with events appealing both to SF/Fantasy fans and Linux/Open Source types runs from April 20-22. This year’s noteworthy guests include Charles Stross, Steve Jackson, Nick Sagan, and Bruce Schneier.

Among the somewhat less noteworthy people rounding out the weekend’s many panels you’ll find a Bureau42 author.

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As some of you already know, I tend to collect things. As a side effect, I buy movies, novels, comics, and video games faster than I can review them. Since I can’t keep up, I need you to tell me which reviews are of greater interest to you. Details are below.
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You’re too late to bid on a Christopher Reeve Superman suit, the 1979 Alien outfit, an Ep II light-sabre, the Staff of Ra from Raiders of the Lost Ark, and other items, but the car from Knight Rider remains available.

What piece of genre history would you most want to own?

I’ve never followed YouTube or its most recent “star,” lonelygirl15, but it sounds as though determining she was a set-up with a creative team behind her did not require rocket science.

However, there may be a genre twist to this latest bit of online “teen” silliness.
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The 2006 Hugo Awards were handed out Saturday, August 26 at WorldCon in L.A.

Among them you’ll find an excellent novel, a two-part Doctor Who episode, and the return of Malcolm Reynolds.

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At Captain Comics, where I sometimes post, someone started a thread on non-existent comics that would be in a hypothetical ideal library. I’ve posted a variation of my response, branching off into other genre-related items, and want to ask the Bureau the question:

What genre-related shows, books, comics would you want to see, either seriously or for laughs, that don’t, and likely never will, exist?

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If you’re near Sarnia, Ontario (about halfway between Toronto and Detroit) and you’re looking for something to do next Saturday, March 6, check out GenreCon 2006. The guest list this year may not have writers as well-known as Robert J. Sawyer or
Robert Charles Wilson (both on panels last year), but a number of writers in the horror, sf, and mystery fields will appear, including Julia Vryheid, PJ Coldren, Dennis Collins, Marcy Italiano, and others, along with writer and, uh, online personality, the Timeshredder.