Things We Saw Today: How To Make A Pumpkin Keg

What an AMAZING idea for Halloween parties! You don’t even need to put beer in it, any beverage will work just fine. (via The Frisky) 

• Remember when we reported The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey was already getting an extended edition due next year? Apparently that was just a really big mistake. Or, “an erroneous mention.”(via Collider)
• George R.R. Martin has put forth his support for the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund for Banned Books Week. Read his special message at The Beat.

Guess this means I have to start playing Angry Birds again. (via TDW Geek)

• Studio Ghibli’s From Up on Poppy Hill, written by Hayao Miyazaki and directed by his son Goro Miyazaki, has cast Gillian Anderson, Ron Howard, Christina Hendricks, Jamie Lee Curtis , and Beau Bridges to voice the English language version. (via Collider)
• Autonomous robot sea turtles? Yup. (via Engadget)

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Jill Pantozzi is a pop-culture journalist and host who writes about all things nerdy and beyond! She’s Editor in Chief of the geek girl culture site The Mary Sue (Abrams Media Network), and hosts her own blog “Has Boobs, Reads Comics” (TheNerdyBird.com). She co-hosts the Crazy Sexy Geeks podcast along with superhero historian Alan Kistler, contributed to a book of essays titled “Chicks Read Comics,” (Mad Norwegian Press) and had her first comic book story in the IDW anthology, “Womanthology.” In 2012, she was featured on National Geographic’s "Comic Store Heroes," a documentary on the lives of comic book fans and the following year she was one of many Batman fans profiled in the documentary, "Legends of the Knight."

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