The Great Geek Manual

Art

• Family Business and Warhol Kombat pop culture from TastyPaints.com.
• Seven Hundred is selling Hello Kitty / Thundercats mashup t-shirts.
• Time has a gallery of photos from the new Harry Potter Theme Park in Orlando.
• Victor and Nora by No-Sign-of-Sanity is an amazing homage to Paul Dini’s Mr. Freeze.

Comics

• Topless Robot has a funny list of 8 of Professor X’s Biggest Dick Moves.

Film

• Interview: A-Team Director Sharlto Copley says its “Nowhere Near A Remake.”
• Hollywood.com has an infographic of Top 10 Grossing Summer Movies of All-Time.
• Movie Mobsters pick the Top Ten Sigourney Weaver Roles.
• PopMatters says, Don’t Blame Audiences for the Box Office Blues. “The success of Avatar and Alice in Wonderland shows it’s not the economy that’s keeping audiences away this summer… it’s the movies.”

Internet

• Fanboys point out 6 Weapon Technologies That Were Once Considered SciFi.
• Making the rounds of social networks, this is a video of the best laptop ever.
• PopCrunch has a list of the 10 Most Popular Non-Celebrities on Facebook.

Literature

• Interview: Cory Doctorow discusses his new novel For the Win.
• Interview: Fantasy Book Critic interviews Tad Williams.
• Interview: Hank Quense interviews Nebula Winner Eugie Foster.
• Interview: The Nebula Awards interviews China Miéville.
• Alisa Krasnostein has a guest post on The Invisibility of Women in Science Fiction.
• Publishing Perspectives says Shanghai is Hoping For an All E-textbook Campus.

Television

• Interview: Pink Raygun interview’s BattleStar Galactica’s Carla Robinson.
• IGN has posted the first photos from AMC’s upcoming The Walking Dead series. They are waaay more gruesome than I would have expected from basic cable.

Video Games

• The first commercial for StarCraft II has hit the air! Want! Want! Want!