There was a rumor that this was going to happen, and now it is confirmed: screenwriter extraordinaire Aaron Sorkin will be the one adapting Walter Isaacson‘s biography of late Apple CEO Steve Jobs for the big screen. Sorkin, most famous for his work on The West Wing, has already won an Oscar for his last script about a tech giant (The Social Network), so this will be familiar territory for him. Not that Sorkin couldn’t handle unfamiliar territory … oh, wait, just remembered Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. Never mind. We’ll take familiar territory.

By the shaking, jumping ghost of Jehosaphat! There is news about the next season of The Venture Bros.! While it’s a bit vague and containing no exact dates, Jackson Publick provided some straight-from-the-creator’s mouth information (to The Mantis-Eye Experiment) concerning the return of the show that started as a spoof and then formed its own universe. Part of this news: when the show will (possibly) be making its triumphant return to Adult Swim. Holy crap, it’s really happening, even if we can’t see it!

We all know that dinosaurs had it going on in the ruling the earth business for millions of years, but who would have thought that they’d also be creatures of sartorial elegance?

The fully accredited research institution known as Dapper Dinos has a wealth of evidence for this theory, all of it very convincing. We can tell by the pixels.

Kate Beaton, the historical maven behind Hark! A Vagrant recently surprised a lot of fans by announcing that she would be retiring from regular updates to her webcomic for the foreseeable future, in order reassess her career after publishing her wildly successful first book, and figure out where to go from here. As she said: “Webcomics are often cited as the future of comics and the internet and I don’t know what else, but the fact that no one has retired from them yet means that I, at least, rest a little uneasy in these shoes sometimes if only for the lack of having a dependable compass by which to steer the ship.”

But Beaton herself knows that her successful webcomic and bestselling book mean that she’s worlds ahead of prospective webcomics artists in experience, and in an effort to share the lessons she’s learned, she’s been taking questions on how to make it in webcomics, and answering the most popular ones.

I’m a Jewish man! We have hair down there. It’s funny actually, I’ve just been having a discussion with the guy who’s directing my new project. It might have a bit of nudity and he said, ‘Just to let you know, if you’re getting naked, no landscaping of any kind. This is the ’40s and you’re playing a Jew’. I was like, ‘Pretty much there anyway, mate! Not a huge amount of maintenance going on’. I mean, there’s a little bit obviously, for courtesy. This is way too much information, but I don’t like girls with nothing down there either. It freaks me out. You have to have something, otherwise it’s f**king creepy. - Daniel Radcliffe, when asked about the “fuss” made over his body hair when he performed nude in 2007′s Equus.

The more you know.

(via Digital Spy.)

Previously in Daniel Radcliffe

• Daniel Radcliffe Hosts SNL
• Daniel Radcliffe on Why Harry Potter Fandom is Better
• Daniel Radcliffe, et al Say Goodbye to Harry Potter, the World Drowns in Tears

It’s officially official, everyone: the new episodes of Arrested Development that will lead up to the feature film will run exclusively on Netflix! Production has already started on the new episodes and they are expected to hit the DVD/streaming service in early 2013. But you know what’s even better? Knowing, for sure, that this is really, finally, actually happening!

Graphic designer Jeffery Frankenhauser has determined the Michael Bay movies are made of death, explosions, and money, and that the number of explosions in his movies correlate directly with the amount of money it makes.

The category “Vital Information for Your Everyday Life” has never seemed so appropriate.

It’s happening, you guys! New York Comic Con has arrived, and contributor Theresa Romano has a rundown of five Very Important Things you should keep in mind while you peruse the wares, the crowds, and, well, the germs.

After four days of tense speculation over how ultimate a number of ultimatums actually were, Fox Television has renewed The Simpsons for two more seasons, which will neatly bring the show to at least twenty-five total seasons, 559 episodes, and a round quarter century of television history.

The official press release was light on information, merely saying the show would be back for two more seasons, listing some of its accomplishments (Emmys, theme park attractions, etc.) and then describing this year’s Treehouse of Horror and mentioning that the show’s 500th episode will air this coming February.

The folks at SF Signal have taken the exhausting task of taking all one hundred books and series from NPR’s viewer’s choice list of the greatest science fiction and fantasy books in history, and throwing them onto a flowchart that tells you which ones would suit you. I consider it pretty accurate, since following my own tastes across its twisting streams resulted only in finding my favorite books of the genres.

Although, these days I never really have to ask what I’m going to read next, because I just look at the books and series that people suggest should have been in our Power Grids and read those. But right! You probably want to see the whole thing. Click on.