I’m a big fan of Edgar Allen Poe, which I’m sure you would have guessed easily. So it comes as no surprise then that I was happy to find out that the Harry Ransom Center of the University of Texas now houses a rather large digital archive of manuscripts and letters created by Edger Allen Poe. Named The Edgar Allan Poe Digital Collection (shocker, I know), it was launched to accompany the 2009 Poe Bicentennial exhibition, “From Out That Shadow: The Life and Legacy of Edgar Allan Poe,” and includes the manuscripts of “The Domain of Arnheim,” “The Spectacles,” and some of Poe’s most famous poems, letters written by and to Poe, books belonging to Poe (including the author’s annotated copies of the Tales and Poems and Eureka), sheet music for songs based on Poe’s works, and various portraits of Poe. The Koester Collection was acquired by the Center in 1966.
Most of the collection from the exhibit once belonged to William H. Koester (1888-1964), who lived in Baltimore and began collecting Poe items in the 1930s.
Want to own a piece of Battlestar Galactica? Want Colonel Tigh’s flask? How about the entire CIC command deck? Well as the series comes to an end Propworx and Universal Studios are auctioning off many of the props and costumes, which now gives you a chance to expand upon your fandom.
The folks over at Mirage Studios’ Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles web site are letting visitors read the first 13 original comic book series and collected books for free. And they’ve also included synopses pages that covers most everything that has occurred in the numerous TMNT comic book universes. You can check it all out here.
If you’re a fan of the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles this is a pretty swank treat. If you’re only familiar with the candy-coated cartoons then you should get schooled and read these.
Just when you thought that fast food giant Burger King couldn’t make itself look more absurd and wanna-be-hip, the meat slingers have come out with a body spray – “Flame”, which the company describes as “the scent of seduction with a hint of flame-broiled meat.”
And just to be sure that you know they’re all “cool like that” they’ve launched the website www.firemeetsdesire.com in which you can eventually gaze upon the half-naked visage of the Burger King himself being all creepy, as he is apt to do.
Should you really feel the need to smell like cooked beast the fragrance is on sale at New York City retailer Ricky’s NYC in stores and online for a limited time for $3.99.
All of you Rob Zombie fans can now get even more obsessive and follow all his news in one centralized place – Rob Zombie World. Yes all you rabid Zombie fans, Rob is giving you a one-stop, all you can eat buffet of Zombie loven’.
Here you will find all the information you can stand about all of his projects be it comics, movies or music. There’s also a merchandise section that right now is empty but knowing how much Mr. Zombie is a promowhore, I’m sure it will be filled to the brim with all things Rob Zombie soon. And just to give you more reasons to stalk Zombie online he’s also got an actual blog (which means he’ll hopefully stop using that MySpace piece of crap to dispense information) and a Flickr account.
Right now there isn’t much on the site but that will probably change soon considering all of the new material he’ll be pumping out in the very near future.
Can’t get enough of your nerdtastic friends quoting every line from every bit of the venerated comic troupe Monty Python? Or the never ending loop of Monty Python’s Flying Circus on your local PBS station? Well then, this is your lucky day ’cause those Limey Bastards have now opened up their very own YouTube channel!
Three guys (Chad, Matt and Rob) have produced an actual interactive choose your own adventure series of videos using YouTube and its new feature of placing links and comments over the video.
At the end of each episode (above being episode one) you are given two choices as to what our heroes should do next, taking you to a new video chapter. The choice you make will determine what happens to them, with the ultimate goal of getting the three knuckleheads safely to their office meeting so they don’t get fired. Choose poorly and they’ll get their asses kicked by an assorted list of evildoers.
As if YouTube isn’t already a massive time-sink, this clever use of the video application will more than likely take those minutes left in out lives away.
Want to visit Rome in all of its gladiator-filled glory but can’t afford to build that time machine you keep telling everyone you have the plans for? Well Google Earth is here to help you out. Google taps into the history nerd in all of us with creating ancient Rome in their 3D application Google Earth.
I’m a big fan of Edgar Allen Poe, which I’m sure you would have guessed easily. So it comes as no surprise then that I was happy to find out that the Harry Ransom Center of the University of Texas now houses a rather large digital archive of manuscripts and letters created by Edger Allen Poe. Named The Edgar Allan Poe Digital Collection (shocker, I know), it was launched to accompany the 2009 Poe Bicentennial exhibition, “From Out That Shadow: The Life and Legacy of Edgar Allan Poe,” and includes the manuscripts of “The Domain of Arnheim,” “The Spectacles,” and some of Poe’s most famous poems, letters written by and to Poe, books belonging to Poe (including the author’s annotated copies of the Tales and Poems and Eureka), sheet music for songs based on Poe’s works, and various portraits of Poe. The Koester Collection was acquired by the Center in 1966.
All of you Rob Zombie fans can now get even more obsessive and follow all his news in one centralized place – 
