The Great Geek Manual

Many people believe geekdom is defined by a love of a thing, but I think — and my experience of geekdom bears on this thinking — that the true sign of a geek is a delight in sharing a thing. It’s the major difference between a geek and a hipster, you know: When a hipster sees someone else grooving on the thing they love, their reaction is to say “Oh, crap, now the wrong people like the thing I love.” When a geek sees someone else grooving on the thing they love, their reaction is to say “ZOMG YOU LOVE WHAT I LOVE COME WITH ME AND LET US LOVE IT TOGETHER.”

— “Who Gets To Be a Geek? Anyone Who Wants to Be” by John Scalzi, July 26, 2012.

Art

• Custom Built Guitar2-D2
• Learn the rules of Walter White’s superlab with this Breaking Bad poster
• Firefly / Peanuts mash-up t-shirt
• Pixar’s 22 Rules to Phenomenal Storytelling
• Star Wars Villains as Kids Will Force Choke You With Cute. (From Etsy)

Comics

• Interview: CBR has a short video interview with Joss Whedon at SDCC.
• 10 Graphic Novels That Would Make Awesome TV Shows
• Comics Books Are Not Sexist, But They Are Not Feminist Either

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Art

• Adorably Evil NES Papercraft
• Dark Knight Sigmund Freud
• TARDIS shed and Dalek
• Thor Cupcakes
• The Tokyo Skytree Mural is a few pencil strokes short of being the world’s best Where’s Waldo challenge.

Comics

• Interview: Grant Morrison Stepping Back From Superhero Comics
• 5 Essential Women in the Batman Universe
• 5 Reasons You Should Start Reading Batman Comics Now
• Rare Batman Comics That Everyone Should Read

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A cover of the Star Trek theme by TheHumanTim.

A tribute to astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson.

Art

• Apollo 11 Tribute in Legos
• Family Guy / Star Trek Mash-Up
• How will museums work in the age of the iPad? Leo Caillard speculated in “Art Game“
• The Joy of Maps
• Readable Book Hotel Bedcovers

Comics

• Interview: Dark Horse’s Scott Allie talks Buffy books, possible Firefly comics.
• News: In The Wake Of The Aurora Tragedy, ‘Batman Incorporated’ #3 Delayed
• Great New Yorker piece on how and why Batman stopped carrying a gun in 1939.

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Art

• The 10 greatest comic artists of all time
• Bigger On The Inside: A Timeline
• Film Map: plots the landscape of movies
• A Map of Westros from Ice and Fire
• Star Wars Travel Posters
• What is Graphic Design?

Comics

• Interview: ComicVine kicked off San Diego Comic-Con 2012 with an interview with the Co-Publishers of DC Comics, Jim Lee and Dan DiDio.
• Interview: Fanboy Comics catches up with artist Georges Jeanty (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) at San Diego Comic-Con 2012 regarding Buffy: Season 9
• Interview: This is the Spotlight on Jim Lee panel that took place at San Diego Comic-Con 2012. (Part 2, 3, 4, 5)
• Women in comics and the tricky art of equality

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Audio Fiction and Podcasts

• Listen to “Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves” by Sir Richard Burton (Part 2).
• Listen to “The Appliance Of Science” by Sheila Crosby at Dunesteef.
• Listen to “Bread and Circuses” by Felicity Dowker at Tales to Terrify.
• Listen to “The Caretaker” by Tom Rockwell at Escapepod.
• Listen to “Digging” by Ian McDonald at StarShipSofa.
• Listen to “Gordon, the Self-made Cat” by Peter S. Beagle at Lightspeed Magazine.
• Listen to “Lizardfoot” by John Jasper Owens at Pseudopod.

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