The Great Geek Manual

Comics

• io9 suggests 10 Essential Superman Comics To Help You Forget Smallville.

Film

• Boston.com offers up a list of the Top 50 Scariest Movies of all Time.
• Movies Oddity picks the 20 Best “New York” Movies, beginning with The Warriors and ending with Taxi Driver.
• With Adrien Brody and Topher Grace cast in the next Predator movie, it looks like the aliens will win.

Internet

• MySpace stops an artist from uploading his own music, claiming it belongs to distributor Warner.
• Roger Ebert now has joined Twitter! The man known for his prose is just a twit like the rest of us, now.
• What does Google’s treatment of the Usenet archives tell us about Google Books?

Literature

• Interview: David Anthony Durham, author of Acacia, discusses writing.
• Interview: Innsmouth Free Press talks with steampunk author Myke Amend.
• Interview: Tor.com talks the art of Leviathan with Scott Westerfeld.
• Admit it. The Book Industry is in Trouble. But Piracy is Just a Symptom..
• George R.R. Martin reports satisfactory progress on his latest book, thank you very much. Please stop writing.
• SFF Media explains Why science fiction authors just can’t win.
• Spock makes Mike Brotherton’s list of Heroes for a Scientist of My Generation.
• Stomping on Yeti suggests 10 Ways to use Time Travel to Fix the Short Fiction Market.
• The upcoming book Finch has a soundtrack, and it’s not half bad, though I keep imagining a French nouveau animation.
• YES! Someone finally gets it! The Huffington Post explains Why We Need $4.00 Books. “Most books are too expensive. Compared to lower cost alternative media sources, books are becoming niche consumables like caviar.”

Television

• Automopedia reminds us of 10 Fantastic Cartoon Science Fiction Ships.
• The Dollverse claims that DollHouse is at risk of being pulled off air, though that’s nothing new.
• Review St. Louis counts down Television’s Greatest Geeks, starting with (who else?) Screech.

Writing

• Mike Allen talks about the The Speculative Poetry Scene.