The Great Geek Manual

Art

• Check out this Lego Half-Life² photo gallery at Flickr.

Film

• Captain Kirk’s Dad, Chris Hemsworth has been cast as Thor. I’m happy to see them finally manning up on this film.
• Horror of horrors, Abrams Doesn’t Rule Out Shatner in ‘Trek’ Sequels.
• I don’t much care for Sandra Bullock, but Betty White always cracks me up. Watch Betty White tell off Ryan Reynolds behind the scenes of The Proposal.

Internet

• Print your own money using the Hasbro website.
• ScreenRant has posted photos of the BattleStar Galactica Prop Auction.

Literature

• Free Fiction: Listen to “Witch Girl!” at The Horrors of It All.
• Free Fiction: Read “Baby in the Basket” by Cecil Castellucci at Strange Horizons.
• Free Fiction: Read “Darkness Ends” by Gustavo Bondoni at Atomjack.
• Free Fiction: Read “The Ark” by Boyd Morrison at Manybooks.
• Free Fiction: Read “The Infinite when it was Two Digits Old” and “Counting up to Infinity” by Allen I. Fleishman at Cuphead.com.
• Gizmodo claims Asimov’s Laws of Robotics Are Total BS.
• Over at the Guardian, Robert McCrum discusses the End of Literary Culture, saying that “We should not rue the passing of a bookish golden age that never existed.”

Television

• Learn more about The Crocodile God, Sobek, the subject of the giant four-toed statue in the TV series, Lost.
• Screenwriter Josh Friedman says one last thing about his canceled show, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.

Video Games

• Author Charles Stross discusses Gaming in the world of 2030.