The Great Geek Manual

Art

• Sci Fi Wire offers a gallery of 10 Great Sci-Fi Obama Poster Mash-Ups, starting with Optimus Prime.

Film

• DailyFill names 10 Unintentionally Creepy Animated Films, starting with Watership Down.
• John Scalzi picks Ten Directors Who Really Need to Make a SciFi Movie.
• Pop Eater looks back at the Best Alien Movie and Television Invasions.
• PopMatters rants that The Fourth Kind is NOT the truth. It is a piece of fiction using other pieces of fiction to verify its already fake plotline. io9 also warns that The Fourth Kind Is A Hoax.
• Sci Fi Wire explains Why the Stargate movie still holds up 15 years later.
• The Terminator franchise is doomed. Den of Geek explains why.

Internet

• CHICK is a new webseries that follows a woman who trains to become a superhero at a Los Angeles academy. When she catches her boyfriend cheating on her, she goes over the edge.
• The Internet continues to buzz about the secretive Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement that would put every ISP on a three-strike system.

Literature

• Interview: SA Current interviews Jeff VanderMeer, author of Finch.
• News: Google Book Settlement Judge Says Photographers Not Authors.
• News: The Online Price War Over Books Has a Fresh Twist (Or Two).
• Angela James looks at the type of books she doesn’t buy in digital format and discusses her fantasy e-reader.
• Ebooks in perspective: the iPod moment can’t happen until the CD is dead.
• Tiny little books! They’re Russian, so I read them, but they’re adorable.
• Watch the book trailer for Imager’s Challenge by L.E. Modesitt, Jr.

Television

• News: ABC’s V premiere scored big ratings.
• According to the Los Angeles Times, TV networks are selling fewer ads, despite industry-wide price reductions, marking the first time in years they have failed to leverage their audiences to boost ad prices.

Video Games

• News: Blizzard launches real money in-game pet store.

Writing

• The Book Marketing Maven explains Why Authors Need an Editor.
• Hey, There’s a Dead Guy in the Living Room offers a tongue-in-cheek explanation of Ten reasons publishers don’t offer feedback on Submissions.