EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson

Care of one of my favourite webcomings – The Daily Blink – is this highly entertaining and definitely recommended list of 20 Things You Must Do At Blizzcon 2011.

My favourites are 10 and 14. Hope to hear that Scott and Turpster tried a few of these on the next episode of The Instance.

I’m not a hundred percent certain of who Nerd Machine is or who Break is, but together they’ve created three fantastically funny PSAs for nerds that, really, you should take note of.

Take the jump for Zachary Levi on zombie killing and Kaley Cuoco on Slave Leia costumes. It’ll be informative.

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Yes, some of the references are a little obvious or obscure, but I thought it was fun to see where some of the iconic scenes and ideas from The Matrix may have began. And yes, Doctor Who is in there.

Had a lot of fun with this. Been wanting to draw Ron for a very long time. On the store too.

NPR recently provided the results of a top-100 list of the best science fiction and fantasy ever written. Naturally, and sadly, it was a very uneducated/American-centric list which poorly captured the entire sphere of science fiction and fantasy, choosing instead to just list popular American names with few contenders from outside the country. It’s not a great list, but it’ll have to do for the moment.

Even more frustrating was the entire lack of usability it provided for those wanting to enter into the dangerous and large world of science fiction and fantasy fiction: there were no blurbs, categories or context.

Thankfully, the fine folks over at SF Signal have compiled the below flow chart to help you get the most out of a relatively mediocre list, with some fun questions and actual flow to the chart.

You can also check out a similar flowchart that they did for sci-fi series on NetFlix.

OK, so, take yourself back 15 years; where were you? What were you doing? What computer did you have?

Here’s a bit of an aid to help you remember.

That’s right. Someone, somewhere, has found a Best Buy flyer/catalogue from September 15, 1996, and it really blows your mind, the prices and the things available.

Jump through to see a few more which will really make you laugh. Keep your eye out for Starcraft 2.

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