The Great Geek Manual

Art

• Check out the 4-Foot-Tall Fan-Made Freedom Gundam Paper Sculpture.
• Dennis Culver has captured Batman’s Rogues Gallery in his Deviant Art Gallery.
• Voyage to the Heart of Matter by Anton Radevsky and Emma Sanders uses cutting-edge pop-up-book technology to explain the Large Hadron Collider.

Comics

• ComicsAlliance has 6 term papers written by superheroes! I love Peter Parker’s.
• iFanboy explains How to Stop Worrying and Love Comics.
• In light of DC’s recent Wonder Woman costume change, Shawna Trpcic has posted photos of the Wonder Woman costume designs she created while pitching for Joss’ version.

Film

• Interview: ComicBookMovie interviews Director Matt Reeves of Let Me In.
• Interview: Vulture asks M. Night Shyamalan about The Last Airbender’s Reviews.
• AMC counts down the Top Ten Evil Movie Brits.
• The Guardian wonders Is James Bond past his sell-by date?
• MTV names The 7 Sexiest Lady Monsters In Movie History.

Internet

• Empire has compiled a list of 50 Movie Twitterers You Should Follow.
• How to Access the Internet (A Guide from 2025): “Welcome to the Internet! By following the simple rules below, you make sure your internet experience is smooth and risk free.”
• I honestly don’t know whether this is a joke or not, but the TV Hat claims to give users A movie theater experience absolutely anywhere!
• Yet another Wolfram Alpha easter egg: 1337 Math.

Literature

• Interview: Her Ladyship’s Quest interviews Milton Davis, author of Meji.
• Interview: Jonathan Strahan interviews Gary K. Wolfe. [Podcast]
• Interview: Suvudu interviews Scott Westerfeld, author of Behemoth.
• News: Study: Kindle and iPad Books Take Longer to Read than Print
• The topic of Electric Velocipede’s latest Twitter Panel is Do You Believe in Sci-Fi?
• The Millions offers this love letter to the art of storytelling: Between the Pages.

Science

• Where does a tree get its mass? Richard Feynman explains.

Technology

• Interview: Eric Schmidt discusses newspapers and the web with the Guardian.
• The BBS Documentary is now online to watch for free.
• Wil Wheaton rails (yet again) DRM.

Television

• Interview: Eliza Dushku talks about her time as Faith at the Pop Culture Expo.
• Interview: Emma Caufield talks about her love for her new movie, the comic book she’s co-created, and what she got out of five years on Buffy.
• Pioneer One is an original series from the writer and director of The Lionshare. In one sense, it is an experiment in crowdfunded “television”, beginning with a $6000 KickStarter budget. In another sense, it is an experiment in using a peer-to-peer distribution model (i.e., VODO’s “DISCO“). The show’s pilot, released two weeks ago, which can be downloaded or streamed, has been a huge success; is currently the best-seeded show on BitTorrent, and already has had well over 1 million downloads.

Video Games

• 7 Girls You’ve Dated And Their Videogame Console Equivalents.