The Great Geek Manual

Art

• The Tiny Art Director tells the tale of an artist struggling to create art that meets with his daughter’s approval. Cute in a LOLCats sorta way.

Film

• Entertainment Weekly has a Watchmen Primer for all the Watchmen virgins out there.
• The first response to the Watchmen film is in from Wil Wheaton.
• How fraked up is this? The little kids who starred in the now world-famous Slumdog Millionaire are still living in the slums.

Internet

• io9 takes a look at the most ridiculous evil twins in science fiction.
• Not a Planet Anymore runs down a list of the Top 10 Doctors of Sci-Fi, but bizarrely, omits Dr. Who.
• SFX asks who The Greatest Screen Vampires of All Time are. Funny, I’m reading through the forums and no one has nominated the Twilight crew. Hmmm…

Literature

• Free Fiction: Read “Last Men in London” by Olaf Stapledon and “My Father, the Cat” by Henry Slesar at ManyBooks.
• Free Fiction: Read “The Man Who Saw the Future” by Edward Hamilton and “Reluctant Genius” by Henry Slesar at Feedbooks.

Television

• The fans are growing desperate. They’ve begun explaining Why you shouldn’t quit watching Dollhouse.
• Lisa Paitz Spindler has attempted to get a handle on the BattleStar Galactica series by creating her own BSG Timeline.
• With Conan O’Brien moving up the ladder to The Tonight Show soon, Manofest takes a look back at The 15 Funniest Moments in Late Night with Conan O’Brien History.

Video Games

• Despite the rising popularity of video games, PC Gaming is on the decline.
• Media Shift discusses the Gartner Hype Cycle as it applies to Second Life as Reuters closes its Second Life Bureau.