• A Power List of the movers-and-shakers in sci-fi and fantasy in 2010. As they say, these aren’t necessarily the people I wish had all the power, but it’s hard to argue that they don’t.
  

• Author Neil Gaiman had a patch of land that looked “always Winter, never Christmas,” so he bought a lamp-post for it, and had it installed. Instant Lantern Waste!

• Pictures from the upcoming fantasy movie Ember Days, about a fallen angel teaming with a Greek god, starring Raw Leiba, right.

• Win a copy of Legend of the Seeker (DVD) signed by Bridget Regan — and help support a really good cause! But hurry, the deadline rapidly approaches.

• I approve! It’s reportedly Viggo Mortensen or Javier Bardem leading Ron Howard’s upcoming The Dark Tower.

• A list of the year’s best and worst spoilers. Yet another reminder: just cause you read it on the internets, that don’t make it true!

• A damn interesting (and funny!) list of all the sci-fi cliches.

• How incredibly depressing: the cool Zoltar machine from Big is now … a Pepsi machine.

• Everyone’s talking about the dead birds that fell out of the sky in Arkansas, just like in Flash Forward (and lots of other sci-fi projects). Yup, however you slice it, we’re screwed:

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