• Great White Snark lists the five best sci-fi apocalypses. Death by amorous Marilyn Monrobots is not there, but a plague that only kills men is.
• Sci-fi novelist Mike Brotherton declares Armageddon the worst sci-fi movie ever, and Bad Astronomy agrees.
• Michael Bay claims to have written Transformers 2 already. If by "write" you mean "smashed together Transformers action figures while making explodey sounds with his mouth."
• I wasn't the only one to think of 2010 when Roy Scheider died: io9 lists reasons why 2010 is better than 2001.
• More Black History Month from a sci-fi perspective: The ten greatest black superheroes.
• Lost will only get an unlucky 13 episodes this season.
• SF Signal quizzes a gaggle of sci-fi editors and authors about the purpose of short fiction in a novelist's world.
• The retro-futuristic space art of John Polgreen would make excellent desktop wallpapers.
• Eric Bana's much ballyhooed "Nero" role in Star Trek XI is apparently little more than a cameo.
• And speaking of Trek XI, Paramount has now optioned an entirely new logo.
