Topics: Steve Jobs movie, Sin City 2, Going Pre-Paid Wireless, KickStarter & Tentacle Rape Games, Privilege in Nerd culture, Nebula Award Winners, Glyph Awards, Northstar getting married, Racialicious talks TV Upfronts and W. Kamau Bell, Boondocks will have a Season 4

Nerdtastic News:

• Aaron Sorkin To Adapt ‘Steve Jobs’ for Sony
• Sin City 2 Release Date! A Dame to Kill For!
• 7 Reasons to shred your wireless contract & swtich to pre-paid
• Kickstarter Cancels Tentacle Rape Card Game
• Life’s ‘Lowest Difficulty Setting’: John Scalzi Explains Privilege to Nerds
• 2012 Nebula Award Winners
• 2012 Glyph Awards
• Northstar, the first openly gay comic book superhero, is getting hitched in an upcoming issue of Astonishing X-Men
• The Racialicious TV Upfronts Roundup
• Race + Comedy: W. Kamau Bell Rises Above The Curve With New Show
• Lost’s Terry O’Quinn and Vanessa Williams in new ABC Supernatural Natural Drama in the Fall “666 Park Avenue.”
• Boondocks Season 4

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Topics: TV!  We discussed the scorecard and talk about the tv shows being renewed and cancelled.  We wonder why Whitney was renewed, how Fox hates sci-fi shows, and Community being renewed.

Nerdtastic News:

• ‘Harry Potter’ series coming to Kindle Owners’ Lending Library
• USPS to ban overseas shipments on tablets, smartphones, more
• Cubby is like Dropbox
• HBO Go coming soon to Android tablets
• List of Canceled and Renewed Shows So Far (Scorecard)

Video Games Coming Out This Month

• Fable Heroes
• Call of Cthulu
•  Mine craft
• Starhawk
• Street fighter x Tekken for PC
• Battleship ( The movie came out last weekend)
•  Game of Thrones
• Max Payne 3
• Diablo III
• Hitman Sniper Challenge
•  Tom Clancy Ghost recon
• Men in Black: Alien Crisis

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Topics: SPOILER ALERT!! We will be discussing The Avengers movie.. so if you haven’t seen it.. don’t listen to this episode yet!  Also, we discuss the latest episodes of Mad Men, Scandal, The Voice, and Girls (HBO)

Nerdtastic News:

• Pirate Bay blocked in UK
• Crowdfund a feminist SF anthology, a Falloutwebseries, and affordable lab equipment
• Crowdfund female-friendly smut, overlooked fairy tales, and steampunk Sherlock Holmes

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Topics: Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes, Young Justice,  Thundercats, Legend of Korra, Fringe, Eureka, Supernatural, Game of Thrones, RuPaul’s Drag Race

Nerdtastic News:

• Red vs Blue Season 10 teaser
• Fringe Gets a 5th season (finale)
• Nintendo reports 461.2 M in losses
• No One Likes Peter Jackson’s New ‘Hobbit’ Footage
• Hulu to become like HBO Go

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Topics: God of War:Ascension Trailer, The Hobbit movie, Google Play, The Nerdist, CISPA, The Legend of Korra

CISPA (Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act):

• Say Hello to CISPA
• Facebook Defends CISPA
• Act now: House to vote on CISPA Thursday

Nerdtastic News:

• This Internet provider pledges to put your privacy first
• God of War: Ascension Game Trailer
• Build Your Own VPN
• Avengers Booty Ass-emble
• The Hobbit May Change How We Watch Movies
• Braille Phone
• Google Play Store selling unlocked Galaxy Nexus

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Topics: We welcome our special guest, Fancy Fembot from Sci-Fi Party Line podcast, C2E2, Wii U, Sci-Fi show squees, Moribito:Guardian of the Spirit anime review

Where to find Fancy Fembot:

• Her Blog: http://fancyfembot.com/
• Sci-fi Party Line Podcast Site: http://scifipartyline.com/
• Costume website: http://spacecitycostumes.com/   [she sews ya'll!]

Nerdtastic News:

• Nerd Music in 8bit
• Electric Delorean
• Wii U is going to be $300
• Nasty Gamers more likely to lose?

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Topics: The Legend of Korra, Iron Man 3, Facebook & Instagram, Fresh Hell web series, The Guild web series, Under-representation in gaming community, Mad Men, The Voice, Game of Thrones

Nerdtastic News:

• The Legend of Korra: interactive tour of Republic City!
• Ben Kingsley in Iron Man 3
• Fresh Hell 2nd Season
• The Guild New Seasons starts on Geek And Sundry 

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Topics: Twins movie sequel, self-driving cars, Instagram, Hunger Games, Best Female Video Characters, Best Female Comic Book characters, GOP War on Women, new video games coming out, Sony’s New Console

Nerdtastic News:

• Today in yes, really: Twins sequel Triplets in the works with Arnold Schwarzenegger, Danny DeVito, and Eddie Murphy
• Self-driving Google Car
• Instagram Hits Android; iPhone Users Lose Their Shit on Twitter
• Best video game female characters
• Strongest female comic character
• GOP war on women
• New video games out this month/week
• Speculation on Sony’s Next Console

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Topics: Hunger Games, Fake Geek Girls, Mad Men, Doctor Who New Companion, Marvel & T.I.

Nerdtastic News:

• Gaming Can Inspire healthy behavior
• Another comedian takes Louis C.K.’s route as Net entrepreneur(Aziz Ansari)
• Pirate Bay’s robot drone idea could not work
• Marvel in talks with T.I. about superhero franchise
• New Doctor Who Companion
• Racist comments about Awkward Black Girl
• Fake Geek Girls?
• John Carter Sequel?
• Michael K. Williams will play Old Dirty Bastard in a movie about ODB aka Big Baby Jesus

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Topics: Supernatural, Street Fighter Vs. Tekken, Dr. Horrible, The Walking Dead, New movie trailers, Cougar Town, Community, 3DS

Nerdtastic News:

• Ex-Microsoft Employee Launches ‘Fixing Windows 8′ Site
• Game Gear emulation outclasses the other 3DS Virtual Console games
• Dr. Horrible sequel?
• Felicia Day Guest Stars on Supernatural
• Danai Gurira Cast as Michonne in The Walking Dead
• Prometheus Trailer
• Dark Shadows Trailer

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Topics: Bank of America Being A Douche, Big Bang Theory, Key & Peele, AbleGamers, Homeless Hotspots, Supernatural, Street Fighter Vs. Tekken, Upcoming new games

Upcoming Conventions This Weekend:

• Wondercon in Anaheim, CA (Comic book)
• Omnicon in Cookville, TN (SF/Fantasy)
• All-con in Addison, TX (SF/Fantasy)
• Momo-con in Altanta, GA (Anime)

Nerdtastic News:

• Bank Of America being a douche AGAIN
• Michael Jackson back catalog stolen in Sony hack
• LulzSec Leader Betrays All of Anonymous
• Stephen Hawking Guest Starring on Big Bang Theory
• Marvel reveals augmented reality for comic books
• AbleGamers: Video Games News & Reviews for the Disabled Gamer
• Homeless People Used as Hotspots at SXSW

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Topics: Google’s Siri rival, Google Play, Women’s History Month, Cross Assault, Assassin’s Creed III, Nook Tablet, American Airlines suck

Movie Trailers:

• Avengers Trailer
• Men In Black III Trailer
• Brave Trailer
• Brave Japanese trailer gives more info!:

Nerdtastic News:

• Google may be planning Siri rival
• Android Market + Google Music + eBookstore will become part of the new digital entertainment cloud called Google Play
• Terra Nova Finally cancelled
• Celebrate Women’s History Month by watching these docs
• Cross Assault & How Sexual harassment is SO IN
• Assassin’s Creed III  Game Trailer
• Razor Blade Gaming Laptop

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Topics: Justice League DOOM Review, AT&T Get Throttled, Netflix losing some Starz, iPad 3, Women in media

Nerdtastic News:

• AT&T Loses Data Throttling Case: Unlimited Actually MEANS Unlimited
• Netflix to lose 20 best movies?
• Violent Video Game bill tossed out in Oklahoma
• iPad 3 to debut March 7th
• She Has No Head! – No, it’s not equal
• Women of All Ages Have flat out  rejected “John Carter”
• The 5 Most Ridiculously Sexist Superhero Costumes
• The 8 Stupidest Defenses Against Accusations of Sexism

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Topics: Smallvlle comic book, new Sherlock tv show, Journey, NAACP Image Awards, Justice League

Nerdtastic News:

• Sequel to Flower: Journey
• Ghost Rider anyone, Nicholas Cage? – if that is your real name
• Falling Skies get a Second Season
• Justice League: Doom animated movie to released this month
• Smallville comic book series
• R.L. Stine does short horror via twitter
• CBS is for reals about doing Sherlock. Jonny Lee Miller is set to star
• Breaking Bad’s Giancarlo Esposito Is Coming to Community
• Kingdom of Gods nomintated for Nebula award. So was Attack the Block!

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Topics: Happy Valentine’s Day!  Google Wallet, The Grammy’s, IT Crowd, Transformers 4, Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter, and what geeks would like on this day of AMOR

Nerdtastic News:

• Google Wallet Disables Prepaid Care Use
• Nicki Manaj Possessed?
• IT Crowd is not coming back for a 5th season
• Transformers 4
• Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter Trailer

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Topics: It’s our 50th EPISODE!!! Celebrate with us as we look back on fan favorite episodes and fan submitted questions.  We also talk about the latest episode of Glee, premiere of Smash, and The Voice.

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Topics: Very Smart Brothas Clusterfuck, Conan O’Brien’s new show about geeky women, Kevin Smith’s new reality show “Comic Men”, Gingers,  Pinterest, our epic dislike of the Glee “Michael” episode.

Nerdtastic News:

• CBS greenlights Conan O’Brien’s new show about geeky women
• Kevin Smith’s new reality show “Comic Men”
• Why No Women in “Comic Men”?
• How Kevin Smith Said I was Perfect 
• Pinterest

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Topics: SOPA, PIPA, & ACTA — The war over Net Neutrality, MegaUpload shutdown, The Arkh Project, Con or Bust, DC doing crazy ish, Google going to the dark side, Static Shock Cancellation

Nerdtastic News:

• MegaUpload Got Shut Down Before Unveiling MegaBox 
• Stop ACTA
• The Arkh Project
• Con or Bust (Helping POC travel to SFF conventions)
• Google just got evil (but De still loves them)
• DC Acting Kinda Racist…
• Static Shock Cancelled
• DC redesigns it’s logo, again after a suing “mishap”

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Topics: Betty’s White 90th birthday, Michael Fassbender being a jerkwad, The River tv show, another Paranormal Activity sequel, Awkward Black Girl Finale, SOPA Blackout

Nerdtastic News:

• Youngest female Microsoft Certified Professional dies at 16.
• From the writers of Paranormal Activity: Another PA sequel
• ABC’s new show,“The River”
• 5 Apps to help clean up your Android device
• Notification Control – launchpad to control email notifications
• Giving Siri a run for her money

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Topics: Angelina Jolie, Doctor Who (duh), Hip-Hop Fanfiction, Comcast, Star Trek, great big brothers, holiday break stories and banking horror stories

Nerdtastic News:

• Angelina Jolie wrote/directed a movie
• 10 Most useful Nook tips & tricks
• Hip Hop Fan-fiction
• 1st Black Woman in space is doing big things
• Amazing new Camera, Phone, or is it both?  – The WVIL
• Comcast rolls out live streaming… can we say LAAATTTTEEEEE!!!!!
• NNN is on Paper.li
• Brother sticks up for little brother’s video game choices
• “Shit White Girls Say to Black Girls” causing issues
• Clever Conceptual Photos

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Topics: Geeky Gifts, Best and worse Tablets of 2011, SOPA, season finales of Dexter and Misfits.

Nerdtastic News:

• What can T-Mobile do if AT&T Deal Fails
• Sprint Disables Carrier Q on phones
• Santa Calls from Gmail
• 10 Worse Tablets of 2011
• 5 Best Tablets of 2011
• SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) – This bill will pretty much allow Internet censorship.
• Stop American Censorship
• SOPA revised but still reviled
• SOPA Attracts Plenty of Supporters During House Debate

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Topics: Video Game Awards, All American Muslim, Google+, Website tracking torrent habits, movies coming out soon, Awkward Black Girl, Glee, Supernatural.

Movies:

1. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
2. The Adventures in Tintin
3. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
4. Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol
5. Pariah

Nerdtastic News:

• Melissa appears as a guest on the THOOM retro comics podcast
• All American Muslim Loses some Tools
• Be Wary of Group Messaging in iOS 5 If You Don’t Want to Reply All [IPhone]
• Google+ Further Penetrates Google Contacts and Gmail
• Control Windows Media Center with you voice:
• Have this website been tracking your BitTorrent habits?

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Topics: NNN welcomes Shareef Jackson back as a guest host!  Female Orgasm, cable management, Operation Cubicle, Male Privilege in the Nerd world, Walking Dead, GamePro, Kindle Fire beating the iPad, the decline of blackberry, and Carrier IQ.

Top Country Downloads of the Month:

1. United Kingdom
2. Canada
3. Germany

Nerdtastic News:

• Female Orgasm Scanned
• Innergie Magic Cable Duo Charges Just About Any Phone In Existence with One Cable
• Nerds and Male Privilege
• GamePro shutting down
• Kindle Fire doing well against iPad
• Is RIM dying?
• Taking huge hit on discounting playbook
• Execs Getting Drunk
• Carrier IQ – Rootkit that can tracked everything on your phone
• What is Carrier IQ?
• How to remove Carrier IQ from Android device
• How to remove Carrier IQ from iOS device

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Topics: Nerdgasm Noire is on Last.fm, Tyler Perry wrote something awesome, The Virgin Diaries, Merlin, African American Women in comic book industry.

Nerdtastic News:

• Nerdgasm Noire Network on Last.fm
• Tyler Perry Open Letter to Penn State 11 year old
• The Virgin Diaries
• African-American women take on the comic book industry by Erika D. Peterman
• Ormes Society – Organization supporting African-American women who create comics & promote diversity within the industry.

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Topics: Princess Tutu anime, Rocky the Musical, Arrested Development coming back, The Munsters Remake, American Horror Story, Black geek Girls, Spotify losing record labels, and movies of 2012.

Nerdtastic News:

• Rocky The Musical
• Arrested Development returning
• The Munsters remake
• Letting my Black Geek Girl Flag Fly
• Record Labels bailing out on Spotify

Movies of 2012
Ghost Rider 2
Dark Knight Rises
Underworld Awakening
The Hunger Games

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Topics: Android might lose Flash, Verizon Phone Comparison, Black In America Series, Maria J’s article on Humger Games, video games coming out this week, and Community may get cancelled.

Nerdtastic News:

• Android Might Lose Flash, iPhone still never got it
• Google Apps Inventor Closes
• RAZR vs Nexus Galaxy vs Rezound – Verizon Network
• Black In America’s Blacks In Tech series swings and misses
• The Root’s Joel Dreyfuss calls out Soledad & Co for ignoring Black Tech Entrepreneurs
• Community being benched

Video Games Out Week of 11/14
Assassin’s Creed
Halo (Hullo!) CE
Saints Row 3
Marvel v Capcom 3
Dynasty Warriors 7
Legend of Zelda
Final Fantasy V
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Topics: Video game releases this week, Arkham City, Gears of War, Google is having a weird couple of weeks, Flexible Smart Phones, more reality tv, and Kindle Fire versus Nook Tablet.

Nerdtastic News:

• Flexible Smart Phone
• MacBook Air-Like Update
• Pluto still not a planet but Eris can still kiss it’s ass
• Nelson Mandela’s Granddaughters’ New Reality TV Show being pitched to American Networks
• Kindle Fire Vs Nook Tablet
• Truck with Modern Warfare 3 games hijacked with tear gas

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Topics: Community Halloween Episode, Season Premiere of Misfits, Grimm vs Once Upon A Time, Underwater Lego Men, Dr. Who Video Palooza, Netflix loses Starz, Zachary Quinto on American Horror Story, Samsung Galaxy Nexus, Smart little girls and the world has 7 billion people.

Linkage:

• Underwater Lego Man invades the beach
• Dr Who Video Weekend Palooza
• Samsung Galaxy Nexus has no Gorilla Glass
• Little Girl Saves her mother’s life
• Netflix is still losing Starz, but not ABC/Disney
• Will Zachary Quinto get you to watch American Horror Story

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We discuss fandom and its hate for black women characters trend and people using the Amber Cole situation for their own selfish platform.

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We talk with Joe Currie from Strictly Underground Entertainment (independent comic book publisher) about his company, the debut of his comic: Punx Of Rage and The Walking Dead Season 2 Premiere.

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We discuss Gears of War 3, Facebook iPAd app, Amazon vs Barnes & Noble, new Wonder Woman origin story, and Arrested Development possibly coming back.

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We discuss Gears of War 3, Lego Game Series, iPhone 5, Kindle Fire, The Simpsons, Dexter and Doctor Who.

We discuss DC Reboot, Avatar Theme Park, Google & AT&T Anti-Trust problems and impact of social networks on activism.

We discuss Dragon*Con, Netflx/Quikster, Google Wallet with our special guest host, Maria J!

We discuss Google’s purchase of Zagat, great actors in sci-fi, Marty McFly shoes, and Prostitution Tax Machine with special guest co-host Justin LeGrande (8Bit Animal) from Character Select.

Discuss NASA Tweet-Up, Mad Men, SyFy Stupidity with Guest Host, Shareef Jackson from Character Select.

Discuss robot arms, Doctor Who, Colombiana and gaming+relationships.

We discuss last issue Secret Six, latest episode of True Blood and Wizard World Comic Con Chicago.

We talk about L.A. Banks, Wizard World, True Blood & Character Select.

Discuss cartoons we loved as a kid and as an adult.

We get real random…

Torchwood: Miracle Day, Weblog Awards, The Boys comic.

Amazon Cloud Player, Google Music, Google+.

True Blood Season Opener, Marvel Anime Project, Computer Geek Hoarders, The Geek Divide

BatWing, Maya Angelou is over-rated & other unpopular opinions.

Discussions around reading, SciFi summer lineup and Doctor Who.

X-Men: First Class movie, Gantz, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.

Social Networks, WisCon & Butt-Hurt Fanboys.

Discuss latest tv show cancellations, upcoming new tv shows, and nerds vs geeks.

If you gonna hate on someone’s state, make sure your state ain’t on some BS.