The Great Geek Manual

Art

• I know it has made the rounds of the net already, but I never get tire of browsing photos of the Brooklyn Superhero Supply Store run by 826NYC.
• Over at Deviant Art, Sora1589 envisions Calvin, Hobbes, and Susie years into the future.

Comics

• A copy of Action Comics No. 1 is coming up for auction. Got a space hundred thousand?

Film

• Wil Wheaton may have liked it, but the Hollywood Reporter seems to think Watchmen stinks.

Internet

• The occasions on which we write by hand are growing fewer. Is the ancient art form of handwriting dying out? The BBC discusses the issue in its article, The slow death of handwriting.

Literature

• Free Fiction: Read The Ray-Gun: A Love Story over at Asimov’s.
• Not a Planet Anymore names The Top 5 Worst Jobs in Sci-Fi, topping the list with Red Shirt.
• There would be a lot less moaning across the blogosphere if readers would just take 10 Things to Remember About Authors to heart.

Video Games

• Gamasutra interviews Id software’s John Carmack and Marty Stratton to discuss Quake Live – its conception, technical specifics, and iPhone plans.
• Unskippable is a site that gives bad game cinematic sequences the MST3K treatment. The site features tedious cut scenes from games like The Bouncer and Dead Rising. The ones I watched were hilarious.