A round-up of geeky stories you might have missed...(1) Are You Evil Enough? The Evil League of Evil (from Joss Whedon's excellent Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog) is accepting video applications for membership up until October 11. So what are you waiting for? A personal invitation from Bad Horse?
(2) North America 's Smallest Dinosaur: A researcher in Alberta, Canada has discovered the bones of a 70-million-year-old, chicken-sized dinosaur, believed to be North America's smallest, that existed on a diet of insects.
(3) The Next Doctor: The 2008 Doctor Who Christmas special will be called 'The Next Doctor'. This was revealed by the BBC at the same time as it unveiled it's Children In Need competition to win a 'behind-the-scenes' tour of the studios where Doctor Who, The Sarah Jane Adventures and Torchwood are filmed.
(4) More Smeggin' Red Dwarf: Four new half-hour Red Dwarf specials are to be shown next year on British comedy channel Dave - two will be new episodes, one will be a 'making of' documentary and one will be a 'clip show with a twist'.
(5) Would You Like A Chop With Your Tea? Custom wargame scenery maker, Nikolai Ruskin, is publishing a daily record of his attempt to recreate the famous tea house from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon in 28mm scale.
(6) What The Future Holds For Doctor Who Action Figures: Read an interesting article with Alasdair Dewar, Product Development Director of Character Group, manufacturer of the Doctor Who action figures line on Doctor Who Toys. Net. Discover which lines are continuing and which have been dropped and get an insight into what makes a good action figure.
(7) Now THAT'S A Big Bang: Wanna find out what happens when two planets the size of Earth crash into each other? Then read this story from Science Daily.
(8) I Spy: Mark Copplestone and Nick Lund will be at the Victoria & Albert Museum on October 31, as part of its Cold War Modern Exhibition, to show off their Kiss Kiss Bang Bang range of James Bond-inspired miniatures in a series of demonstration wargames.
(9) Daleks Conquer All: The pre-election Radio Times cover from May 2005 featuring a Dalek has been voted Britain's favourite magazine cover of all time, netting over 25 per cent of the votes.
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Gotta say, I'm really digging your weekly bringing-you-up-to-speed summaries.
Keep up the good work!
Thank you - I enjoy compiling them through the week; and Rachel is very good at spotting things that I might have missed as well, while she is surfing the web at work for work-related news items.
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