Round 4 of Suvudu's 2013 Cage Match is on and Gandalf is destroying as always. Surprisingly it looks like he will take on White Witch in the finals right now.

I was also surprised that Doctor Who is beating Star Trek: TNG in the final of io9's The Greatest Sci-Fi Shows Ever! poll. Not surprisingly Firefly beat everything in Wheadon special. The ( Read more... )

In this quick update I note that the Fandom Steel Cage Match March Madness has been won by Joan Watson. That's something for such a new fandom. I'm happy with the fandom once again pushing female characters to the top. Sometimes it feel nice to be reminded it's not all about the hate.

The io'9 poll for The Greatest Sci-Fi Shows Ever! has finished ( Read more... )

This year io9's March TV Madness is about finding The Greatest Sci-Fi Shows Ever! It's already on the second half of round 1 and it has all my favourites - Doctor Who, Farscape, BSG, TTSC, Red Dwarf and ST:TNG and The Middleman (only the last one is losing :( ). Of course, taught by previous experience, they eliminated Wheadon shows (because ( Read more... )

NPR (American public radio) did a survey to find the Top 100 Science-Fiction and Fantasy. First people nominated their favourites and then chose the Top 10 from 250 nominees. And now finally the results have been announced. Here's Top Ten:

1.The Lord Of The Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
2.The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams
3.Ender's ( Read more... )

Remember tor.com and their Decade’s Best Science Fiction/Fantasy Movies Viewer’s Poll? They finished counting a week ago and the list is here. Just as decade means 11 years for them, the best 10 actually includes 12 movies. However I'm all for treating LotR trilogy as one when it means both Moon and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind made the ( Read more... )

I got the nielsen TV Viewing Diary to fill for a week. When I learned about this a month ago I was joking about watching BBC America all the time but they happened to give it to me just as Being Human started, there are new Top Gear episodes being shown and things happen around the world and I watch BBCA news and it is becoming very true indeed. ( Read more... )

So my second year in US starts and I just got letter from nielsen saying I've been chosen to be "Nielsen Family" for a week. They are supposed to call me and explain how I can participate. There were 2 dollars enclosed so I would talk to the interviewer. I wonder how many people get this. Ii feels weird as after just a year I'll get to be one of ( Read more... )

How fast the memory of even furthest trip becomes distant. It haven't even been a week since I come back and it already seems like my visit home never happened. I have to prepare poster within next few days and my data still isn't perfect. So instead any serious thoughts have a look at the preferences of OkCupid users by race, gender and also ( Read more... )