The Great Geek Manual

Film

• Kevin Smith and the /Filmcast Crew have posted a one hour, forty-five minute review of Watchmen.
• The Spout Blog nominates 5 Comic Strips That Should Never Be Turned Into Movies, to which I would like to add Dilbert, Penny Arcade, and XKCD.
• Terminator Salvation has a new poster >>>.
• Watchmen screenwriter David Hayter begs fans to see the movie again… fans agree and download it.

Internet

• How Science Fiction Found Religion. Once overtly political, the genre increasingly employs Christian allegory.

Literature

• Free Fiction: Listen to “Sweet, Savage Sorcerer” by Esther Friesner at PodCastle.
• Free Fiction: Read “White Stone” by Genevieve Valentine at Fantasy Magazine.
• I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, Harlan Ellison is far and away the whiniest bitch ever to set pen to paper. This week, Ellison is suing CBS Paramount over “City on the Edge of Forever,” the classic Star Trek episode. P.S. For further evidence of deuche baggery, read about the time Ellison pulled a gun on Ted White.
• Paul Levinson discusses Asimov’s Foundation and Herbert’s Dune Trilogies as Sources of Philosophy in his podcast Light On, Light Through. Specifically, he ponders how the books address the issue of what can we know about the future.

Television

• Fans of the series will want to read The History and inside look at BattleStar Galactica. Part trivia, part group interview, the article is chocked full of little-known facts that are certain to pop up at this summer’s Cons.
• No sooner than they cancel the series, Terminator’s ratings bounced up twenty percent.

Video Games

• As Linden Lab Cracks Down on Adult Content in Second Life, it looks like the game’s days are numbered. I mean, if you can’t gamble and you can enjoy a peek show, what good is having a second, digital you?
• Really, really hardcore fans can download classic arcade game sounds recorded by a fan on a cassette recorder.