The Great Geek Manual

Art

• 100 Amazing Minimal Movie Posters
• Geek Wedding Cake Topper
• Guy Builds Life-size Landspeeder
• Party in the CIA is the Weird Al parody of the popular Miley Cyrus song.

Comics

• Interview: Andrew Chambliss talks to Newsarama about Dollhouse: Epitaphs. “It fills in a lot of the blanks about how the apocalypse came to be.”
• Comic-Con 2011 Programming Schedule
• Friday’s Whedonverse panels at Comic-Con.
• Thursday’s Whedonverse panels at Comic-Con.
• The Top 10 Zombie Comics – Ever
• Torchwood: Web of Lies is now available on iTunes USA. The 10-part companion to “Torchwood: Miracle Day” is billed as an “episodic interactive experience that fuses incredible motion comic graphics and gameplay to tell a digital-exclusive Torchwood story.”

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1595
Johannes Kepler publishes Mysterium cosmographicum (Mystery of the Cosmos) in which he describes an invisible underlying structure determining the six known planets’ orbits. His model is based on five convex regular solids. The path of each planet lays on a sphere separated from its neighbors by touching an inscribed polyhedron. An inscribed cube separates the spheres of the outermost planets, Saturn and Jupiter. Inside the path of Jupiter, an inscribed tetrahedron contains the sphere for Mars. Spheres for the Earth, Venus, and Mercury are respectively nested within a regular dodecahedron, icosohedron, and regular octahedron. Later, more scientifically complete orbital data will fit Kepler’s model surprisingly well.
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We’re living at a time when attention is the new currency: With hundreds of TV channels, billions of Web sites, podcasts, radio shows, music downloads and social networking, our attention is more fragmented than ever before.

Those who insert themselves into as many channels as possible look set to capture the most value. They’ll be the richest, the most successful, the most connected, capable and influential among us. We’re all publishers now, and the more we publish, the more valuable connections we’ll make.

- “Privacy is dead, and social media hold smoking gun” by Pete Cashmore (Mashable CEO), October 28, 2009.
First published on CNN.com

Portal 2 Music Video of the Day: Pedro Calvo‘s fantastic fan video for the Portal 2 closing song “Want You Gone,” as performed by everyone’s favorite demented computer villain.

Source: kotaku

In this new Nerd PSA, actor Nathan Fillion addresses an important issue affecting gamers worldwide: Swamp Ass. With these helpful tips gamers’ can dry their undersides out and end swamp ass.

In an attempt to expand its market share in South Korean, the European grocery chain Tesco has come up with a brilliant idea. Tesco has launched a virtual grocery store in the subway. While waiting to commute, customers can purchase food items by scanning QR codes with their smartphones at virtual shelves installed right in the subway station. A delivery service drops off the ordered items at the customer’s door by the time they get home.

1881
A patron of Edward Berner’s drug store in Two Rivers, Wisconsin is unable to order flavored soda water for religious reasons, as it was the Sabbath. Berner compromises by offering the man ice cream in a dish with the chocolate syrup that was previously only served as flavoring in ice-cream sodas, making the first ice cream Sunday. The dish’s name will later be changed to “Sundae.”

1908
Kinemacolor, the first successful color motion picture process, is demonstrated at a scientific meeting in Paris, France. The Lumière Brothers, who will go one to become two of the earliest film pioneers, are in the audience for the demonstration.

1937
Britain launches its 999 emergency services system and receives its first call at 4:20am.
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Privacy is dead, and social media hold the smoking gun.

- “Privacy is dead, and social media hold smoking gun” by Pete Cashmore (Mashable CEO), October 28, 2009.
First published on CNN.com