The Great Geek Manual

Art

• OddFae presents this Monster under Glass, titled “Steampunk Oddfae.”
• Stéfan’s Stormtroopers 365 is an awesome Flickr stream featuring everyone’s favorite action figure in a variety of fun poses.

Film

• Colin, a British zombie movie that cost just £45 to make has become a hit at the Cannes Film Festival.
• The Future of Classic blog remembers Actors who were Miniaturized.
• A side-by-side Comparison of Terminator 2 and 3 reveals an enormous number of similarities.
• SciFiCool names Sci-Fi’s Top 5 Toughest Gals

Internet

• io9 explains How to Turn a Robot Evil, In Nine Easy Steps, to which I would add (from Asimov): “Prove humanity is incapable of caring for itself.”
• io9 counts down Science Fiction’s ten most murderous robots.
• LiveScience names 5 Reasons to Fear Robots.

Literature

• Free Fiction: “The Brazen Android” by William Douglas O’Connor, is a 19th century science fiction tale based on the myth of the Brazen Head, a steam-powered head that told fortunes. Read the book at Google Books, or listen to the book at the Internet Archives.
• Free Fiction: Listen to “Old Crompton’s Secret” by Harl Vincent at Maria Lextrix.
• Interview: Brandon Sanderson discusses the conclusion of The Wheel of Time series.
• Interview: The Search Engine podcast-interviews Cory Doctorow.
• John Langdon’s Official Website is a mock-up created for the film Angels & Demons. It features a Gallery of Ambigrams

Television

• For the true TV addicts out there, Entertainment Weekly has an update on Fall’s Television Line-Up. The good news at the moment is that newcommers Castle and Better Off Tedd will be back. The sad news is that Kings, Pushing Daisies, and Reaper are canceled, which is too bad, because they were watchable, if uninspiring, programming.
• Fox execs explain why they kept Dollhouse and killed Sarah Connor.
• I don’t think there will ever be a definitive list of hte 10 Sexiest Women of Star Trek, but BuyCostumes.com takes a stab at it.

Writing

• Writers Should Not Blog About Writing says writer Jeremiah Tolbert on his blog.