• This list of faves and least faves, the staple of any Bond conversation, is described as a “Bluffer’s Guide to Bond.” Well, I suppose if you’re bluffing, it’s as good as any other.
  • Writer Susan Hazlett is eloquent about the anticipation and excitement she feels just before a new Bond film opens. We feel you.
  • Both New York Magazine and the LA Times wax poetic about Tom Ford as Bond’s new designer.
  • Newsweek writer John Barry (unrelated, as far as I know, to the Bond composer) hasn’t liked a Bond film in 46 years, and wishes the movie spy was more like Fleming’s spy.
  • Robert Davi (Sanchez from Licence to Kill) makes his directorial debut.
  • Terrific little article on the technology of James Bond.
  • Not to toot my own Walther, but this CTV article reads just like a chapter out of the Ultimate James Bond Fan Book. (Specifically, the one called “He ain’t Bond, he’s Superman.”)
  • A quick rundown of Bond music trivia and opinions from Sign On San Diego.
  • Here’s an interesting article on the Vesper (the drink Bond partakes of again in Quantum of Solace).
  • A neat little Bond quiz with a few questions that are more challenging than average.
  • IGN discusses Walthers and James Bond.
  • Does every era get the Bond it deserves?
  • You’ll love this lavish slideshow of Bond girls.
  • An amusing look at some sexist statements from Bond novels via io9.