Let's get the "Word on the Web" and check out some recent topics of interest and discussion from the tech, literary, library, and arts and entertainment sections of the World Wide Web in July 2014.

• Can it really be true? Are they finally going to bring a Neil Gaiman book to all of our television screens?! And Bryan Fuller from Pushing Daisies is also involved?! American Gods is coming soon!
   
• In other television news, the nominees for the 66th Emmy Awards were recently announced. I foresee a lot of binge-watching in the not too distant future!
   
• Hold onto your broomsticks: J.K. Rowling recently wrote an entertaining update on the goings-on of grownup Harry, Ron, and Hermione in the guise of a report from the Quidditch World Cup.
   
• Go exploring through Philadelphia—on a much smaller scale—with this ambitious Lego rendering of the city. Legos + 3D modeling software x your imagination = maker culture coolness!
   
• Technical.ly Philly gives us the 411 on Philly's new Chief Data Officer Tim Wisniewski and his plans to advance Mayor Nutter's open data policy.
   
• Ever wonder what billionaires like Bill Gates and Warren Buffet kick back with when they want to read a good book? The answer is John Brooks' Business Adventures.
   
• Remember the Philadelphia Science Festival that took place back in April? Well, one of the events that the Free Library was involved in, the awesome Rube Goldberg Machine world record attempt, has been nominated for Story of the Year in the 2014 Philly Geek Awards! Winners will be announced on August 16th.
   
• Continuing the fight for Net Neutrality, the ALA filed their respective comments to the FCC on July 16th, urging them "to adopt the legally enforceable network neutrality rules necessary to fulfill library missions and serve communities nationwide." Many others throughout the United States did as well, so much so that the "overwhelming surge in traffic" crashed the FCC's servers, yet again!
   
• Read the oral history of The Terminator and it's influence in pop culture over the past 30 years. Fun fact: the film was added to the Library of Congress' National Film Registry in 2008!
   
• Excited about all the new Star Wars movie news? Check out the animated 60 second version of Star Wars: A New Hope below for a bit of nostalgia and a good laugh:
  

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