The Great Geek Manual

Art

• Check out this photo gallery of Steampunk Ghostbusters… yeah, you read that right. Steampunk Ghostbusters.
• Simon Schubert creates art with nothing more than paper creases.

Film

• College Humor claims (not without merit) that the Star Trek reboot is a rip-off of Star Wars.
• Esquire is somewhat over-dramatically claiming that The Road is the most Important Movie of the Year.
• Kurt Vonnegut’s 1961 novel “Harrison Bergeron” is being adapted as “2081″ for the big screen. It looks good.
• The National Film Board of Canada, in association with the Cannes Short Film Corner has posted the 5th NFB Online Short Film Competition on YouTube.
• Pixar has premiered at Cannes, and the reaction has been altogether positive.

Internet

• At SFicons, you can Vote for your favorite sci-fi icons to help them win the SFIcons showdown. Klaatu or Gandalf, Darth Vader or King Kong? You decide.
• This Google Map will help you Find IMAX theaters and avoid phony IMAX screens. Confused? Gizmodo explains the difference.
• Discover Magazine spells out some intriguing Rules for Time Travelers.
• PC World points out Hotspots in the Online Video Underground where users can find a streaming video of just about any TV show or movie they can think of.

Literature

• Free Fiction: Read “The Defenders” by Philip K. Dick at Manybooks.
• Free Fiction: Read “Titanium Mike Saves the Day” by David D. Levine at StarShipSofa.
• Interview: Hardcore Nerdity interviews author Robert J. Sawyer.
• Madhulika Sikka, the executive producer of NPR’s Morning Edition, discusses The Mayhem of ‘Pride, Prejudice And Zombies’.

Television

• Gizmodo asks How Big Is the New Enterprise Compared to Galactica? Surprisingly (to my Geeky mind), the original Enterprise is smaller than the Galactica, while the Enterprise A is actually larger.
• Salon explains Why the original “Star Trek” still matters.
• Topless Robot picks out The 10 Most Shafted Characters from Lost.
• You may want to set your Tivo, Neil Patrick Harris is hosting the Tonys.

Writing

• Neal Asher shares his advice on how to become a writer.