• The Man in the High Castle gets turned on its head in these maps that imagine a post-war Europe without Germany.
• Mad Men actor Jon Hamm talks to io9 about The Day The Earth Stood Still and explains that what Klaatu really needs is scotch and cigarettes.
• Actor/Writer Justin Theroux says Iron Man 2's villain has already been decided, and it's technological. Bummer. I'd have loved to see Fin Fang Foom.
• Biology in Science Fiction talks about the evolutionary origins of The Creature from the Black Lagoon. Funny, I didn't know rubber and latex could evolve.
• A man in Arizona has some wicked cool alien steampunk art.
• SF Signal's Mind Meld conducts an obligatory year-end list: Best genre-related media consumed during 2008, parts one and two.
• Slice of SciFi's Sam Sloan freaks out about the defense department's MKV, viewing it as the precursor to a real-life Skynet.
