The Great Geek Manual

Comics

• Interview: Geoff Johns on Green Lantern, Aquaman, and Justice League!
• News: Comic-Con badges go on sale this weekend. Get yours before they sell out!
• Batman should kill the Joker. No, he shouldn’t. Yes, he should. No really, he shouldn’t. What would Kant, Mill, Hobbes, Nietzsche, and Rawls think? Via: the tweetstream of @TalkPhilosophy.
• How a Three-Year-Old Girl Introduced Her Dad to Superhero Comics
• ScienceFiction.com makes an argument for the Top 10 Superman Foes.

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Art

• Large Hadron Collider Quilts
• The posters for The Avengers gets Gender-Swapped.
• Some Epic Hobbit cosplay!
• I’m seriously rooting for Dovakin Dragon Fighting Armor to become the new “Slave Leia” of cos events.
• I think all sculptures from here on out should be constructed of smartphones!
• The Art of Video Games is an upcoming Smithsonian exhibit on the evolution of video game art over the past 40 years.

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Audio Fiction and Podcasts

• Listen to “All the Young Kirks and Their Good Intentions” by Helena Bell.
• Listen to “Asteroid Monte” by Craig DeLancey at Escapepod.
• Listen to “Billions of Stars” by K. J. Kabza at Beam Me Up.
• Listen to “The Clockwork Atom Bomb” by Dominic Green at StarShipSofa.
• Listen to “The Derelict” by Felbrigg at Cthulhu Podcast.
• Listen to “The Ever-Dreaming Verdict Of Plagues” (Part 1) by Jason Sanford.
• Listen to “The Gravedigger of Konstan Spring” by Genevieve Valentine.
• Listen to “Incantation” by Jessica Reisman at Toasted Cake.
• Listen to “My Boogie Man” by Harley May at Cast of Wonders.
• Listen to “A Revelation of Cormorants” by Mark Valentine at Pseudopod.
• Listen to “Shadows Under Hexmouth Street” by Justin Howe at Ceaseless Skies.
• Listen to “Urchins, While Swimming” by Catherynne M. Valente at PodCastle.
• Listen to “Welcome Home to Our Fair City” by Captain Radio at Radio Revival.

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Every time society advances, it faces challenges from those people economically and emotionally invested in the past. Undoubtedly stone age flint knappers were less than happy about bronze-age technology disturbing their business model. The medieval church was none too pleased about printing technology breaking their hegemony over knowledge, but we’d never have had the Enlightenment without it. Today the media-conglomerates, governments and educational institutions that profit from gatekeeping knowledge of all kinds are pushing the Stop Online Piracy Act, and even more draconian legislation to try and hold back the flood of free knowledge that threatens their power. Unless we want to stay in the knowledge equivalent of the stone age, and miss the next enlightenment the knowledge revolution promises to bring with it, we should all redouble our efforts to make sure they lose. For centuries the book has been the highest symbol of knowledge. The object that has enshrined and preserved knowledge through history. The book is so inextricably linked with our concept of knowledge that for many people it is hard to separate one from the other. But for human knowledge to reach its full potential, we may have to let go of the book-as-object first, or open our thinking to a radically different definition of what a book is.

- “Are books and the internet about to merge?” by
Damien Walter, February 15, 2012.
First published to the Guardian.

Art

• ‘The Big Bang Theory’ reimagined as ‘Firefly’
• Can’t afford to buy the Lego Millenium Falcon Set? Well, sit back and watch the assembly video.
• In his “I Know That Feel, Bro” series, artist Chris Gerringer draws funny and unexpected parallels between our favorite pop culture characters
• Phone Booth Pop-Up Libraries in New York
• Up / Star Wars Mash-Up

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Art

• The best Rei Ayanami (from Neon Genesis Evangelion) cosplay you’ve every seen.
• Check out the world’s first spherical OLED
• Cost of Living is a funny short film about what it might be like to work for a company like the Umbrella Corporation.
• Eye-catching & Awesome Examples OF Fantasy Art
• Nuada & Nuala cosplay
• This Rule 63: Skeletor is actually terrifying.
• Steampunk Clockwork Creatures

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Art

• Babydoll cosplay gallery
• Clockwork creatures in glass
• The Game of Thrones Board Game is a work of art
• How Many Geeky References Can You Spot in This Image?
• If Orco was more hardcore: Masters of the Universe fan art.
• The Kinetica Art Fair is an amazing annual exhibition featuring multi-disciplinary new media art. It’s packed with devices that intertwine technology and art.
• R2-D2 Cross-stitch
• Sand Invaders

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