The Great Geek Manual

Film

• The first trailer for Avatar is online now! It looks a LOT more like fantasy than sci-fi. Hmmm. The Sprout Blog reacts with a list of 10 Movies Avatar Unfortunately Resembles.
• Mashable argues that Twitter Can Bury a Movie. It Can Also Make it a Success.
• Pajiba looks back at The 11 Oldest Actors to Play Teenagers over the years.
• Publisher Weekly looks at Taking Millar’s “Kick Ass” from Page to Screen.
• Taki Magazine argues that District 9 is not an Apartheid allegory.

Internet

• io9 looks back at Dirt-Cheap Aliens Who Still Look Awesome.
• ISS points out some Common Supervillain Blunder.
• MSN claims that Science fiction’s robotics laws need reality check, saying that Asimov’s Three Laws don’t recognize current limitations… and evidently not realizing that they’re pretend.
• New Scientist looks at Why Geeks get the Girls. Note to self: Have this list made into a t-shirt for next night out.

Literature

• News: Three more Sookie Stackhouse novels planned.
• 20 best websites to download free Ebooks. (Also, don’t miss Part 2)
• Heathrow Airport has appointed Philosophical author Alain de Botton as the airport’s writer-in-residence.

Video Games

• According to “Health-Risk Correlates of Video-Game Playing Among Adults” (PDF), the average gamer is 35 years old, overweight, and depressed. Ouch.
• IGN offers up a History of Warcraft spanning the past fifteen years.

Writing

• The Rumpus author Stephen Elliott explains why he writes, saying, “We’re lucky to be writers. Nobody owes us anything.“