The Great Geek Manual

Art

• Gizmodo just concluded a Photoshop contest in which contestants were invited to submit Ways to Hilariously Ruin the Watchmen Movie. My favorite is the shot with Jar Jar. I don’t know which I enjoy more: the idea of Jar Jar dying or the way every new hit film dredges up the old bitterness.
• Help the Smithsonian choose the recipients of the People’s Choice Award by voting for your favorite of the Top 50 Photos of 2008.

Comics

• io9 selects 9 Comics to Follow Watchmen, explaining which comics you might want to read, depending on what aspects of Watchmen you enjoyed the most. My favorite part is when they recommend DC: The New Frontier. *LOL*

Film

• Film School Rejects takes a balanced approach to reviewing Watchmen in Watchmen: 10 Things I Liked, 5 I Didn’t.
• I honestly don’t know if this is for real or not, but the Torontoist has posted images of a newspaper ad for the upcoming film OneWeek that features promotional quotes from… YouTube.
• Popular Mechanics goes behind the scenes to take a look at The Making of Watchmen’s Dr. Manhattan.
• Premiere looks at 10 Movies That Would Be Better With An R-rating.

Internet

• Over at Short of the Week, you can watch The Mysterious Explorations of Jasper Morello, a short, animated Victorian science fiction film with a distinctive steampunk style.

Literature

• Free Fiction: Listen to “This Crowded Earth” by Robert Bloch at Librivox.
• Free Fiction: Read “The History of the Internet” by Charlie Anders at Flurb Magazine.
• Free Fiction: Read “Three Fancies from the Infernal Garden” by C S E Cooney at Subterranean Online.
• Should there be Statute of Limitations on Spoilers? It’s an intriguing question. I mean how long do you really need to hold in public discuss of your favorite plot twists?

Television

• If you haven’t been watching The IT Crowd, you should be. The show, though skewing towards British humor, is hilarious, especially if you’re a nerd.
• NBC plans to bring back “Heroes” for another season, though “why” is anyone’s guess. I think we can all agree that, somewhere, there’s a room full of chimps hurling darts at a cork board making all the programming decisions for the affiliates.
• Watch the Japanese Spider-Man TV series online at Marvel.com.

Video Games

• According to the Guardian, MMORPG Gold Farming is still big business.