The Great Geek Manual

Art

• Over at Vice magazine you can download iPhone wallpapers and a mini-comic featuring 24 different artists’ takes on Where the Wild Things Are.
• The Telegraph is a bit late to offer its version of Marvel Disney mashups.

Film

• News: Twentieth Century Fox has paired up with Electronic Arts to turn “Spore” into an animated film, so it’s official. Hollywood is out of new ideas.
• An Animated Warhammer 40,000 Ultramarines film is coming to the big screen.
• Author Maurice Sendak has only one reservation regarding the upcoming adaptation of Where The Wild Things Are.
• Is it just me, or does 2012 look like it’s going to be a little over the top?
• New photos from the upcoming movie Avatar have been circulating around the internet. I can’t decide if the blue Jar-Jar like creatures are intriguing or incredibly lame, but I’m guessing that feeling is going to dissipate until I’m actually walking out of the theater.
• A second Official Trailer for Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island has been released.
• SciFi Scanner offers a Guide to the Real Classics of Fantasy.
• Stalked on a Spaceship! Rotten Tomatoes has posted a list of 10 Films Anticipating Pandorum.

Internet

• Cracked.com names 6 Brilliant Movie Scientists Who Suck At Their Job.
• Religious? You might want to consider joining Klingons for Christ [via Topless Robot]
• While reading Lev Grossman’s The Magicians, I came across this website for BrakeBills College.

Literature

• Interview: Dead Robot Society speaks with editor Juliet Ulman.
• Interview: Jocelynn Drake interviews The Scent of Shadows author Vicki Pettersson.
• Interview: On the Morning Media Menu, fantasy novelist Brandon Sanderson talks about writing The Gathering Storm, the next book in Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series.
• Interview: SFSite speaks with Mark Chadbourn, author of Destroyer of Worlds.
• I’m not sure whether to be jealous that they didn’t have this book when I when I was in school or embarrassed for students who have and actually use it now: The Manga Guide to Molecular Biology.
• New York magazine ranks this fall’s lineup of memoirs by fiction writers.
• NPR’s Morning Edition spotlights Return to the Hundred Acre Wood, an A.A. Milne estate-approved companion volume to the Winnie-the-Pooh canon.
• Over at Wasafiri, 25 acclaimed international writers choose 25 of the best books from the last 25 years.
• What does it cost to produce an e-book. Andrew Wheeler says it costs as much to produce an ebook as a physical book, but why does it have to be that way?

Television

• News: A new J.J. Abrams spy drama is coming to television.

Video Games

• Unreality has posted gallery of 15 Incredibly Hot Real Life Video Game Babes.

Writing

• Editor Unleashed has compiled a list of Great Blogs for Writers.
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch offers advice on When to Return to Your Day Job.