The Great Geek Manual

Comics

• The readers of Comic Book Resources has voted on The Top 25 Comic Book Battles of all time.

Film

• I Was Trapped In A Movie Theater With Teenage Twilight Fans is a great look at Twilight phenomena from the perspective of someone who isn’t a teenage girl.
• The LA Time rattles off the long sad list of remakes of classic sci-fi films Hollywood will be butchering in the near future.

Literature

• Free Fiction: Listen to “Marionettes, Inc.” and “There Will Come Soft Rains” by Ray Bradbury, read by – wait for it – Burgess Meredith at Zombie Astronaut. Try not picture him a purple top hat.
• Harlan Ellison says “‘Sci-Fi’ is a debasement,” and even though I realize that he means that the abbreviation is derogatory, I still say that Ellison is far and away the whiniest bitch ever to publish.

Television

• io0 counts down the 45 Coolest Moments In Doctor Who’s History. Why not fifty or an even hundred, I don’t know, but they do a fair job picking out the moments.
• Over the weekend, a clue to who the next Dr. Who might be was leaked.

Video Games

• 20 Video Game Commercials That Will Make You Nostalgic.
• Alt Text names the Top 5 Most Guilt-Inducing Videogames, dubbing World of Warcraft the “Guilt Parfait” of video games.
• Cheryl Olson, author of “Grand Theft Childhood: The Surprising Truth About Violent Video Games and What Parents Can Do” says that video games are like books, healthy if age appropriate. It’s a refreshing take on game violence.
• GameRadar presents 101 game facts that will rock your world and The Surprising Origins of Your Favorite Games.