The Great Geek Manual

Film

• Actor Dustin Hoffman is to spearhead an initiative to put real science into Hollywood science fiction blockbusters.
• Is there really going to be another LOTR film titled The Hunt for Gollum, or is this an elaborate April Fools joke?
• SciFi Watch explains 5 Reasons Why the Star Trek Trailer Doesn’t Live Up to the Franchise.

Internet

• Listverse runs down 10 Fascinating Fictional Languages.

Literature

• Free Fiction: Read “Shakespeare in Hell” by Amy Sterling Casil at Elysian Fiction.
• Ian Sales offers up a scathing review of this year’s Hugo short story nominees.

Television

• The MythBusters’ Adam Savage Talks Tech, Obsessions, and Science. (Don’t forget that the new season starting April 1!)
• SFX names the The Best And Worst TV Episode Titles, but, surprisingly, omits any mention of Babylon 5 from the list of the best titles. Come on! How does one of these NOT make the list: “All Alone in the Night,” “Confessions and Lamentations,” “The Deconstruction of Falling Stars,” “The Geometry of Shadows,” “Shadow Dancing,” “Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?”
• Time Online welcomes the Death of Broadcast television.
• The Zeray Gazette briefly ponders the ramifications of the Economics of the Star Trek.

Video Games

• The free-to-play MMO Runes of Magic is a World of Warcraft clone. Like the Diablo II clone Dungeon Siege, Runes not attempts to improve on WoW by employing lessons learned by Blizzard in its design.
• The SciFi Channel’s Fidget suggests 10 Games to help you get over Galactica.