The Great Geek Manual

• The Atlantic.com asks the very legitimate question, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” Short answer: Yup.
• Deputy Dog has posted a gallery of amazing Geeky Stained Glass artwork gathered from around the web.
• Deputy Dog has posted a gallery of Photos of Irrigation Systems that look like modern art from above.
• A Livejournaler namer Absinthetic made a cool Wonderland Expedition Kit for his girlfriend on her birthday.
• Movie Moron takes a look at the Top 10 Star Wars Quotes and what makes them great.
• PlanetSurfer has rounded up the Top 10 Geeked-out Bento Boxes.
• Tag-O-Matic is a great tool for discovering sites similar to your favorite bookmarks.
• These delicious Space Invader cupcakes look too good to eat.

• Amazing! A man successfully gets the price of Microsoft Windows Vista refunded by HP, as offered in the software EULA. Of course, it took some work.
• Are we living in The Golden Age Of Geekdom?
• Cracked.com shares 5 Things Hollywood Thinks Computers Can Do but really can’t (yet).
• Google’s Knol collaborative encyclopedia finally went live after seven months of hype.
• If you’re an old fan going to the new X-Files film this weekend, you may appreciate this exhaustively thorough X-Files Timeline, with which you can refresh your knowledge.
• I don’t usually post recipes, but there is something very bachelor-esque and nerdy about using a microwave to make Chocolate Cake In 5 Minutes!
• Wired shares photos from the first day of Comic-Con 2008 and highlights some of the more outrageous costumes in a separate gallery.

• 50 Websites that make Cable TV Obsolete.
• The Boston Globe has recently featured a wonderful article on How to Nap.
• Ever wondered what Stone Henge would like if it were constructed of refrigerators? Wonder no more.
• Finally, a good use for Twitter! Twitter Timeline During Zombie Attack.
• I’m not a big reader of Christian Today, but 50 Facts that Should Change the World is definitely worth a once-over.
• The Simple Dollar suggests 100 Things to Do During a Money Free Weekend, completely forgetting surfing the web for lists.
• Something Awful reveals Issac Asimov’s full 30 Laws of Robotics. Turns out, robots kind of assholes.
• Slobs of Gaming present The 10 Greatest Pieces of Gaming Merch We’d Kill For.
• Web Urbanist has posted a gallery of 20 Examples Of Hilariously Geeky Art And Graffiti.

• 15 Unusually Brilliant Book Shelving Systems from the Web Urbanist
• 65 things that look like Pac-Man for the game-obsessed.
• A 150 foot-wide crop circle representing Pi appeared in a barley field near Barbury Castle in Wiltshire, England.
• Enjoy puns? Check out this gallery of the 50 Best Pun Establishments at VH1. (The Merchant of Tennis is a little over the head of their average viewer, I think.)
• PCMag outlines 8 Geeky Ways to Save Gas.
• The top ten IT health risks and how to properly combat them.
• Three useful Firefox 3 ‘awesome bar’ hacks.
• Toxel.com is a blog about advertising, but not that boring “click here” stuff all the others are about. Toxel is a gallery of memorable real-life advertising such as these 24 Clever Advertisements, these 24 Unforgettable Advertisements, or these 14 Creative Advertisements (Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3).
• Zoomii is an astounding online bookstore that allows you to explore books as if you were in a physical store.

Comics

• io9 poses the question How Far Is Gotham City From Metropolis?. There is, of course, no good answer. Both cities were short-sightedly written as stand-ins for New York City.

Film

• Against all good sense and every fan who has ever posted to the net, Jeph Loeb defends the possibility of Robin appearing in another Batman film. What the hell?!
• It’s only twenty seconds long, but it’s a must-see! Hellboy on Inside the Actor’s Studio.

Internet

• Atom films has posted its 2008 Star Wars Fan Movie Challenge Finalists. Watching the video is a great way to kill a few hours, and since voting doesn’t end until July 10th, there’s still time to vote.
• Samurai Gunslinger has posted a gallery of The 15 Sexiest Women of Sci-Fi. It’s not very informative, and it’s really not safe for work.

Literature

• Interview: The Book Show of Australia has an interview with Neil Gaiman.
• Split Atom offers an opinion as to 32 Sci-Fi Novels you should read. Many of them are classics. All of them are highly recommended.

Television

• Geeks of Doom speculates on 10 Ways To Make a Kick Ass Version of ‘Space: 1999′ in light of the news of an upcoming revival of the series.

• After a bizarre post on Something Awful to a website called Notes to Mary, which featured a series of threatening letters from a high school student named Robert to a girl name Mary. The forum users decide that they were being baited into an ARG. The game spreads to other forums, expands to Flickr and IRC, and the clues started rolling in fast and thick. After days of frantic collaboration, the elaborate puzzle was solved and the the players were rewarded. How? With a Rick Rolling, or course.
• Daily Gyan features The Ultimate Tweaker’s Guide To Firefox3.
• Have you ever met someone who made you completely geek out? If so, How to avoid being “fan boy” or “fan girl” when building relationships with people you admire might be the article for you.
• Nuke the Fridge: You know its an internet phenomena when Newsweek takes notice.
• Play the Star Trek version of twenty questions, 20Q.
• The Website is Down! is a short movie based on real-life tech support horror stories.
• Who Needs a Computer Science Degree When There’s Wikipedia?

• 25 Reasons Why Cable Technicians Hate You. ‘Nough said.
• Bind your own pages together to make your own journal or scrapbook with this tutorial on How to Make a Hardcover Book from Simon Fraser University.
• College@Home’s listing of 100 Useful Niche Search Engines You’ve Never Heard Of provides a number of useful alternatives to the all-encompassing Google search.
• Lifehacker already has a Power User’s Guide to Firefox 3 available.
• The movie hasn’t hit theaters yet, but there’s already an adorable Lego version of Wall-E.
• My Two Dollars explains Thirty-five ways to watch television without cable or satellite.
• Techcult explains The top twenty-five best high-tech pranks.
• This 3,800-Piece Death Star Diorama is even fun to look at!

Phi is the Greek letter that represents the mathematical constant known as the Golden Ratio.
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• Creative Closeup has 100 Exceptional Free Paper Models and Toys for your decorate your desk with!
• Elite by Design offers links to 105+ Logo Design Tutorials And Resources.
• Here are 5 Keyboards You Actually Can Eat.
• Life Clever offers suggestions on 10 Free Web-based Alternatives to Photoshop for those of you who haven’t gotten around to pirating it yet.
• Lifehacker recounts the Top 10 Harmless Geek Pranks
• Mobile Commandos knows 10 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Cell Phones.
• OObject has posted galleries of 15 Architectural Movie Locations and 12 Spectacular Sewer Systems that should be movie locations.
• The Web Squeeze has an excellent list of 40 Free Stock Photo Sites.

Once upon time, the IRC was the Internet’s hottest scene. Its labyrinthine assortment of networks and channels attracted the most dedicated and interesting computer users around the globe into one massive community even as its strictly enforced etiquettes filtered out the clueless masses.

Those day are long past, as are the days of raucous newsgroups and open, botless chatrooms. There remain, however, small followings of hardcore users who cleave to medium as the last refuge of the old skool leet. They’re the geeks who swap old Phrack magazines despite the fact that they all own cellphones, the nerds who argue the merits of the various recipes found in the Anarchists Cookbook in a climate where discussing explosives publicly can get your front door kicked down, and the pirates who’ve been swapping files since before Napster. The last remnant of the crowd that lured the children of the eighties onto the web in the first place. Among these users, corners of IRC still flourish.
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• Inc.com’s Understanding Geeks: A field guide to your tech staff is a classic, but I can’t quite believe it was actually written by a real IT professional.
• ItSecurity has compiled an illuminating list of the Top 10 Most Famous Hackers of All Time.
• Wired’s article on Security Advice from notorious hacker Kevin Mitnick is a bit old, but it bear re-reading.
• The Wired How-To Wiki features a great tutorial on how to Build a $150 Linux PC.
• Vanity Fair, of all magazines, has posted an outstanding oral history of the Internet, complete with soundbites.
• WTF! is a great side-scrolling Flash-based parody of World of Warcraft. It’s absolutely free to play and comes in a compact 10MB download.
• You Know You Are a Geek If…

• 50 Ways to Get Rid of Your Blind Date, just in case anyone who reads this blog actually dates.
• Caravaneer is a Flash game in which you play caravan leader in a post-apocalyptic world where towns and cities have formed around the occasional desert oasis.
• College@Home shares the 40+ Most Useful Mashups for College Students.
• Cracked.com recounts 5 Innovative Ways the Gaming Industry is Screwing You.
• Kongregate is a little Flash game with no storyline and nearly no graphics, but man, is it ever addictive.
• Oddee has a gallery of Amazing Paper Sculptures that worth a look if you’re an origami fan.
• So, you don’t think there’s anything Geekier than playing D&D, huh? How about listening to recordings of other people playing D&D, specifically, Tycho and Gabe from Penny Arcade and Scott Kurtz of PvP play a game to promote the upcoming release of the 4th edition!
• Webware has rounded up the 100 Bes Web Apps of 2008, as decided by its readers. Not a lot of surprises.
• When you map it all out, it turns out that the Internet is really beautiful, despite the high slash fic content.

• 25 Reasons to Convert to Linux. It speaks for itself.
• BBSpot shares the top eleven signs that you are at a Geek BBQ.
• DailyBits has rounded up a great list of 18 Undiscovered Websites Every Gamer Should Know.
• The Great Web Design Gallery Roundup is a directory of some of the best CSS tutorial sites on the web.
• Linux Haxor presents a gallery of the 10 Most Beautiful Looking Linux Desktop.
• PC World has posted a list of 26 Tricks to Help You Tame Google Calendar.
• Read the full-length e-book The Secret History of Star Wars online now.
• Slobs of Gaming presents a gallery of The 11 Most Scorching-Hot Female Cosplayers Ever in which the Link Twins are robbed.

• An article on Sex and Sexuality in science fiction from Wikipedia.
• AnimeAmy has been posting custom My Little Ponies, the best of which is Master Chief Pony.
• Camera Porn has compiled an excellent list of 60 Photography Links You Can’t Live Without.
• Dribbleglass has a collection of Handy (hillarious) Latin Phrases.
• Everything 2 presents The Anime Laws of Physics.
• For you physics geeks out there, Neatorama presents 5 Scientific Laws and the Scientists Behind Them.
• Oddee has posted a gallery of the 15 Amazing Paper Sculptures.
• Pingdom knows Nine Things You Didn’t Know About Search Engines.
• Sergei Frolov has a fantastic collection of over 150 Soviet-made calculators
• Smashing Magazine has yet another excellent collection of Really Stunning Desktop Wallpapers.
• Want to see something really creepy? Check out these Man Babies, Photoshop’d pics of men and kids with their heads transposed.