The Great Geek Manual

Art

• Is it art? Alright, maybe not, but here are The 15 Most Surreal Pictures of Grimace Ever.
• Someone has gone to a lot of trouble to create a really excellent Voltron model of Legos.

Comics

• News: Warner Bros. & DC Comics Lose Rights To Superman’s Origin Story

Film

• Den of Geek makes a few really great calls in its list of the Top 10 potential sci-fi franchises Hollywood ignored, including The Night’s Dawn Trilogy.
• Director Quentin Tarantino lists his Top 20 movies since he started to direct movies back in 1992, including some rather interesting choices.
• GeekDad shares 9 Things Parents Should Know About District 9.
• io9 asks What Do District 9 And Moon Have In Common? and presents a side-by-side comparison.
• Online Engineering Degree has picked out the Top 25 Movies for Physics Geeks, but it kind of starts to stretch the limits of credulity when it names the Harry Potter series.

Internet

• Contrary Brin contemplates the best way to Feel Safe with Artificial Intelligence.
• Watch the animated version of Return to the Planet of the Apes online at Hulu.

Literature

• Free Fiction: Angry Robot Books has posted a free sample chapter of “Kell’s Legend” by Andy Remic.
• Free Fiction: Fantasy Book Critic interviews fantasy book author Kate Eliott.
• Free Fiction: I can’t help but to feel as if The New Yorker’s poem If A Clown smacks of desperate attention seeking, but it’s still funny.
• Interview: The LA Times interviews Lev Grossman.
• Interview: The New Yorker interviews Dave Eggers.
• Interview: SF Signal talks with author Cory Doctorow.
• The Guardian asks Could Dan Brown’s new novel spell the end for the printed word?