The Great Geek Manual

Comics

• Over at Nerd World, they’re asking “Is Kick-Ass the New Watchmen?,” which in itself is pretty kick-ass as I myself was explaining the similarities between the two series to my brother the evening after we went to see the Watchmen film together. If you’re not reading Kick-Ass, you ought to peruse an issue next time you’re in a comic shop. It’s great series with a refreshing take on the whole medium.

Film

• CNet has a great round-up of the Top 10 Movie Recommendation Engines on the web, more than one of which is going into my bookmarks.
• SFX lists the Top five science errors in Sci-Fi.
• A Strange Eye takes a stab at choosing The 5 Worst Science Fiction Movies of All Time, but whoever picked them never saw Flash Gordon.
• Why is Blockbuster Suffering? Simple, Says CEO Jim Keyes. Because the Movies Suck.

Literature

• Free Fiction: Listen to “Faery Cats: The Cutest Killers” by Lucy A. Snyder and “Immersed in Matter” by Nina Kiriki Hoffman at PodCastle.
• Free Fiction: Read the Hugo-nominated “Exhalation” by Ted Chiang at NightShade Books.
• It strikes me that none of the books on the Times’ list of 10 Spectacular Second Novels is actually a Sequel.

Television

• Alex Proyas talks about plans for his adaptation of John Christopher’s The Tripods.
• Carl Sagan’s legendary Cosmos series is now available online at Hulu for free!
• Check out these minor astronomical Battlestar Galactica Finale Goofs… I wonder if they’ll be corrected for the DVD collection.
• MacWorld shares Ten business lessons from Battlestar Galactica… sorta the latest carnation of “All I Really Need to Know I Learned from Watching Star Trek.”
• Slice of SciFi chooses their Top Ten episodes of Battlestar Galactica.

Video Games

• Cracked names 12 Video Game Characters With Undiagnosed Mental Disorders.

Writing

• Author David B. Coe asks of his fellow writers, For Whom Do We Write?
• Author David B. Coe also explains Why you Should Divide your Book into Chapters. The obvious answer being that your readers’ bladders are only so large.
• Damien G. Walter ponders the question To self publish or to not?