The Great Geek Manual

Art

• A guy over at the Superhero Hype forums has put together an amazing homemade War Machine costume based on the preview of Iron Man 2.
• SuperPunch has announced the winner of its SciFi Fairy Tale Contest.

Comics

• CBR takes a look at the 50 Best Comic Covers of 2009, and its list includes surprising little cleavage for a comic gallery.
• Listverse names the Top 10 Filmable Batman Villains (who would make great movie villains), beginning with Clayface.
• Super Hero Nation share Eight Surprising (and somewhat disappointing) Facts About Writing Comic Books.

Film

• News: Avatar passes $1 billion at world box office.
• HISHE envisions How the Wizard of Oz should have Ended. It’s even funnier than their version of how Twilight should have ended.
• Is blue the new black? The BBC explains Why some people think Avatar is racist.
• New York Magazine points out Five Reasons Avatar Still Won’t Win Best Picture.
• Rotten Tomatoes looks forward to the Top Movies of 2010.
• Smart Money reveals 10 Things Movie Theaters Won’t Tell You.
• The TimesOnline explains How the hit book The Road became a film.

Internet

• TeleRead explains The ABCs of e-book format conversion, using Calibre.

Literature

• Interview: BookBanter interviews master of fantasy Guy Gavriel Kay.
• Interview: Clarkesworld Magazine interviews Lucius Shepard, author of the upcoming The Taborin Scale.
• Interview: Innsmouth Free Press interviews illustrator Dave Carson.
• Interview: The Jakarta Post profiles Neil Gaiman, “The Prince of Stories.”
• Interview: The Science of Fiction interviews editor John Klima.
• The Guardian remembers Arthur C Clarke and his upbeat (slightly ridiculous) predictions for the future.
• Mike Resnick look into the future and It Ain’t Got a Lot of Dead Trees in It. He’s not happy about that, but he doesn’t want to be left behind either.
• NPR profiles two Authors who Mix Science and Religion, Karen Armstrong and Margaret Atwood.

Science

• Daily Galaxy looks back at Stephen Hawking’s famous lecture on Life in the Universe, in which he asked: “What are the chances that we will encounter some alien form of life, as we explore the galaxy?“
• The Long-Lived Mars Rovers Begin Year 7 on the Red Planet.

Television

• News: Time Warner and Fox Work It Out.
• The first trailer for Season 5 of Doctor Who, featuring the eleventh Doctor is finally up, and it is goosebump-raising good. I honestly thought David Tennant was the best Doctor ever, but Matt Smith doesn’t look to be too shabby of a replacement.
• Is it just me or is Hulu mocking Heroes?

Video Games

• News: The Kokomo Perspective has a story on how police used World of Warcraft to catch a fugative.

Writing

• Super Hero Nation burst your bubble with Eight Facts About Writing That Surprise Young Novelists, starting with that fact that most authors make less than minimum wage, when all is said and done.
• The Write Rants debunks Misconceptions About Self-Publishing. [Part 2, Part 3]