Debating crime with Plato. Not going well. Considering employing the Sobatic method and applying a thoughtful kick to the face.

And he also encounters some other time travelers along the way:

Theodore Logan, and Bill S. Preston, Esquire, eh? You want a history lesson? I'M THE GODDAMN BATMAN, DUDES!

Expect plenty of bat-puns ("Just invented the Commissioner Gordian Knot.") and ancient mysteries resolved through bat-logic ("The real secret of the pyramids? Ancient Batsignal.").

TimeLostBatman [Twitter via reddit]

Today at noon EST (that's 9am Pacific time), Gaiman will begin an exquisite corpse story on the BBC Audiobooks America Twitter account with a single tweet. Other Twitter users can then contribute to the story with their own tweets (all tweets must include @BBCAA and #bbcawdio, cutting into those precious 140 characters). Once the tale reaches 1000 tweets, the BBC editors will edit it into a (hopefully) coherent story. An audio version of the story will be made available in the iTunes store for free.

Collaborative storytelling via Twitter may sound like a recipe for a narrative mess, but it has been done with some success. Just last month, the Royal Opera House premiered Twitterämmerung, a 20-minute opera whose libretto was composed by 900 Twitter users.

Neil Gaiman and the BBC Will Let You Twitter a Story For Them [EW]

Thank Steve Agee for this latest hashtag meme, but lots of other people ran with it:

StereoForBrains: First the whole Pluto thing, now we try and off the Moon. So much galactic dissing this millennium.
unsupervised: Not so full anymore, are you?
greatjoebivins: Hello! They've been HIDING WATER FROM US. Damn moon people. THIS IS ABOUT SPREADING DEMOCRACY TO THE MOON.
PrettyGeeky: Terrorists train by moonlight. The moon must be held accountable.
Woomer: We must strike first. The moon conclusively has tides of mass destruction.
virtualbri: If you want to get rid of werewolves and lunacy, you gotta strike the source.
Widgett: Oh and let's not forget, it was on the freaking Moon that the whole Jean Grey mess got started.
caradox: I seem to remember another plan to blast a moon. Endor.

King of the whole thing, though? Easily The Venture Bros.' James Urbaniak:

You're either with us or you're with the moon.
We don't want the next lunar phase to be a mushroom cloud.
Make no mistake: the majority of moons are peace-loving celestial bodies. Our issue is with the Earth's moon alone.
Flashing one's ass is now called freedoming.
We must fight the moon up there so we do not have to fight it down here.
The British gov't has learned that the moon recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.

If there's a better way to celebrate this disappointing yet still slightly insane moment in science, then we're yet to find it. Finally, Twitter has earned its very existence.

At War With The Moon [Twitter]

Or at least give us an interesting inanimate object to follow, like Claire's hair.

As part of a joint promotion for the show with Fox's Glee, Fringe stars Joshua Jackson and John Noble, as well as executive producers Jeff Pinkner and J.H. Wyman will be offering livetweeting (presumably on EST) during Thursday night's rerun of the first season finale of the show. The network promises the four will answer fan questions and tease upcoming episodes as well as talk about the episode itself.

Fox's 'Glee,' 'Fringe' in tune with Twitter [Variety]

For starters, you'll want to be following Team io9:

•@io9 (top stories from io9), @Annaleen (Annalee Newitz), @charliejane (Charlie Jane Anders), @mdellw (Meredith Woerner), @Graemem (Graeme McMillan) and @Jalopnik's auto-loving stringer @raywert (me!).

But we're not the only press covering the action. Here's the rest of the press-best:

•@elguapo1 (George "El Guapo" Roush) and @LatinoReview(Kelvin Chavez) from Latino Review

•@headgeek666 (Harry Knowles), @mrbeaks (Jeremy Smith) and @ericvespe (Eric Vespe) from Ain't It Cool News.

•@briantruitt (Brian Truitt) from USA Weekend.

•@iesb (Robert Sanchez) from IESB.

•@jamesrocchi (James Rocchi) from MSN Movies.

•@Laremy (Laremy Legel) from Film.com.

•@KorbiGirl (Korbi Ghosh), @moryan and @zap2ithanh from Zap2It.com.

•@slashfilm (Peter Sciretta) from /Film.

•@ThatChrisGore (Chris Gore) from Film Threat and G4.

•@JenYamato (Jen Yamato) from Rotten Tomatoes.

But it's not just the journalists, here's a few more you should follow:

•@SD_Comic_Con – The purported San Diego Comic Con Expert, seemingly ready to tweet and re-tweet the frak out of everything and anything with an #SDCC tag.

•comiccon09 – five random guys visiting Comic Con and twitpic'ing their way from booth to booth. For that you-are-there waiting-in-line experience without the #ExhaustiCon feeling.

•damiella – Marvel.com's "social media marketing gal." She's also addicted to sushi!

•comicconlive – The semi-official twitter account of the 2009 San Diego Comic Con.

Are we missing anyone? Leave them in the comments below and we'll promote relevant twitter accounts we missed to the front page.

Prison Break actor Wentworth Miller took to his Twitter to let his fans know that he's talking Bioshock. And later tweets seem to imply it's indeed the video-game's movie version.

This means a few things: that Hollywood is moving forward with the long-in-development film, budget problems or not. Plus it means actors like Miller are going to be getting a second look as they are a bit cheaper than the big Hollywood A-list actors. I'm completely for this. I like Miller — he's a solid actor in Prison Break — and I'm interested to see more from him. And I want to see who else they start to tap for roles in this film.

UPDATE: Sorry guys, I was had. Thanks to commenters pointing this out, looks like this Twitter might be a big fat fake. I apologize if I excited anyone (including myself). I wish it was true because I really would like this movie to be filmed.

Mangana lays out his case from the opening paragraph:

The 1977 classic movie, Star Wars, portrayed an epic struggle between a righteous outnumbered few (Rebel alliance) against a much stronger dominant government (Empire). The now well known story tells how a small group of activists can effect change by adhering to their principals as a source of power and focusing their efforts on the identifiable vulnerability of their adversary. A useful analogy may be drawn to the current situation of contemporary conservative activism.

We were waiting for Mangana to explain how the President's proposed civilian service corps is just like the clone army grown on Kamino, or how his planned reorganization of defense spending mirrors the Empire's disastrous centralization of its military power in a still incomplete Death Star, or how Joe Biden is totally the Bib Fortuna to Barack Obama's Jabba the Hutt (think about it!).

Instead, Mangana talks about how conservatives can use technology the way the Rebels did: to organize the uprising against the evil Empire. In particular, he says Twitter is the conservative path out of the wilderness. He points to the popularity of the TCOT (short for "Top Conservatives on Twitter") hashtag, a "call sign" used by conservative Twitterers.

Perhaps the clearest lesson Mangana draws from George Lucas's saga is the importance of positive thinking:

In Star Wars the Jedi were warned against using hate as a destructive force but instead to trust their principals. Similarly, Conservatives must avoid spending too much time being reactive (the antagonist) or negative and instead spend more time being protagonist for Conservative principals. This way they can begin to control the message.

He then moves on to make some of the more explicit connections between Star Wars and modern conservatism. Specifically, the Force is not so much an energy field as it is adherence to their guiding principles:

The recent departure of Arlene (sic) Specter can be likened to the lancing of an abscess to remove the nidus of infection which is necessary for a body to be healed. Similarly, the Republican party must purge out the Republicans In Name Only (RINO) if they do not immediately repent. The "force" of the Republican party is their conservative principals (sic), just like the Jedi Luke Skywalker, they must resist temptations away from this force.

So far so good - a Luke Skywalker reference is always a good idea. But Mangana's next Star Wars allusion? Not so much:

I am reminded of the classic battle in the movie "Star Wars" where the small force of the Rebel Alliance is attacking the much larger and stronger fleet of the Empire. They know that to win there is only one strategy, they must focus their attack on a specific area of vulnerability on the otherwise impenetrable Death Star. In the end, victory was achieved by "staying on target."

"Staying on target"? I'm not sure Mangana remembers the full context of the phrase "stay on target," since the only use of that phrase in the movie is right before an entire Y-wing squadron gets wiped out:

[American Daily Review]

This sudden and aggressive embrace of modern day technology is completely irresponsible, it's just like the time they brought a full-sized Terminator into San Diego Comic Con. Don't they know the machines are trying to manipulate us like cattle?

The "terminate me" iPhone App allows you to turn anyone into a damaged cyborg, with metal and red eyes showing beneath the artificial skin. It reminds me a little of the cylon detector app - but I'll give a special emoticon wink to the first person who can upload a baby duck terminator.

Now the upcoming movie Terminator Salvation has come to Twitter, with the recent launch of the Resistance2018 game. The premise: Twitter users can help in the fight against Skynet and the Terminators, earning points that bump them up the leaderboard, for... actually, I'm not really sure what. But I'm rather skeptical about becoming Twitter buds with all the Resistance fighters. I'm not too keen on reading John Connor tweets that he's "totally loling at Bizkit the Sleepwalking dog."

Artist David Krentz posted his concept art of Woola, from the same Paramount production that Favreau was in line to produce, and possibly direct:

Let's hope Andrew Stanton's Mars includes aliens with the same level of loveability mixed with scariness. [Twitter]

Michael Bay
The Transformers director offers egomaniacal musings on vegan grub, explosives, and beach volleyball. What’s not to love?
Soundbite: “Right now, I am combing my hair. Holy hell it's a breathtaking mane.”

William Shatner
Apparently the real Shat has started his own official Twitter feed, but we’ll always have a soft spot for his original, macho imitator.
Soundbite: “Khhhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaannn!!!!! There. I said it. Happy?”

Captain Picard
Ooooh, it’s on! At the risk of mixing metaphors, thus far fake Jean-Luc Picard has secured the lead over fake former James T. Kirk in the wackadoodle division.
Soundbite: “Captain’s Log: Did Horatio Hornblower ever have to put up with this?”

Dr. Walter Bishop
The brilliant/nutty doc from Fringe makes for bountiful fodder for satire in this more-creepy-than-deadpan offering.
Soundbite: "When given the option I prefer human test subjects as opposed to animals, simply because humans can better describe the type of pain."

Darth Vader
Or as he’s come to be known: nerd comedy gold
Soundbite: “Just realized I could totaly [sic] go SCUBA diving right now if I wanted to, no special equipment needed. It’s good to be me.”

Bad Horse
The Evil League of Evil leader riffs on villainy and reveals that he's a gadget hound.
Soundbite: “Developing a new superweapon; gathering ingredients. Wondering if I should make this hoof-triggered or telepathically controlled. Decisions.” (Meanwhile, we’re eagerly waiting for his spitfire take on Harry Potter’s provocative turn in Broadway's Equus.)

David Hasselhoff
Oh, ex-Knight Rider. Why are you so easy to make fun of?
Soundbite: “Deciding which leather jacket to wear.”

Aquaman
The curious trials and tribulations of superherodom’s most muscular swimmer gets immortalized. In yo’ face, Michael Phelps.
Soundbite: “Emergency over. Making some crab salad.”

Buffy Summers
The one-liners don’t even come near to rivaling Joss Whedon’s clever TV (or comic-book) scripting, but for sentimentality’s sake—and a quick Slayer fix—this will do.
Soundbite: “Ok. Seriously: Nigerian Masks and Hawaiian Tiki dolls are never a good thing to bring into the house.”

Zombie Attack
Which zombie attack? Well, any of them. Here, the walking-dead genre is imagined in a rather gripping play by play.
Soundbite: “I grab Greg and tear him away from the body. We run towards the exit as he tries to wipe the blood from his face.”

Within 24 hours of the creation of the Joker's Twitter account, "he" had close to 2000 followers, and was eagerly offering up 140-character versions of his particular brand of wisdom:

I love the sound of this Large Hadron Collider thing.

The news has gotten sooo dull since I've been locked up. How about Anarchy?!! RRRRRRandom Violence! Banana Peel Deaths...

All of this chit-chat is heartwarming, really. Now that we are all acquainted are any of you twits going to assist in my emancipation?

Not that all of the 30 tweets in the first 12 hour period - apparently that internet access for inmates of Arkham Asylum is pretty good - were entirely random; the Joker also chatted with other Twitter users, threatening them and critiquing their senses of humor ("Hey I've got a joke for you twits: What do you call a half naked dead guy nailed to the wall?" followed by "The answer was ART. If any of you twits try to steal a punchline again you can be sure you'll have a front row seat to my artistic side.") in between complaining about Batman's dress sense and the necessity of medication ("Why so sedated?"). Before he retired for his first night, however, he did have a particularly interesting final message to impart:

Oooooh everyone is so bold and brave while I'm locked up in Arkham. You'll be singing a different tune once I've secured my early release.

"bold and brave"? Just like the upcoming new Batman cartoon on Cartoon Network, Batman: The Brave And The Bold - who said that cross-promotion doesn't work? - but that mention of an early release is what seems particularly interesting. Will The Dark Knight appear on DVD and BluRay before its planned December date?

Keep watching the internets for more news, but one thing's for sure - Don't ask the Joker. That guy's nuts.

[The Joker on Twitter]