The Great Geek Manual

Art

• Cracked.com ponders what it might look like If Video Games Were Realistic.
• Steamfashion has posted a gallery of Steampunk Star Wars Costumes!

Film

• News: Spider-Man 4: Kirsten Dunst Confirmed & Same-Day IMAX Release.
• According to The Los Angeles Times, the next Starfleet goes Guantanamo? ‘Star Trek’ team hints that the next film will reflect contemporary war issues“>Star Trek will reflect contemporary war issues.
• IGN names the Most Wanted DC Movies, starting with Gotham Central. Meanwhile, Den of Geek fires back with the Top 10 unmade Marvel films.
• No, Cracked doesn’t name JarJar as one of the 6 Star Wars Character Too Retarded for Film… but they should.
• Topless Robot has compiled a really excellent list of The 10 Greatest Time Travel Movies Ever.

Literature

• Interview: Book Banter talks with Mike Carey, author of the Felix Caster series.
• Interview: Suite101 has an interview with sci-fi author Hal Clement.
• An open letter To the people who still do not understand what Google is trying to do with books.
• Bibliophile’s Bookshelf has been compiling a massive list of The 101 Best of the Fantasy Genre. I was rather proud to discover that I’ve read almost all of the top 150 books, but I was utterly bewildered by the breadth of titles I’d never heard of that also made the list.
• Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt asks Book Settlement Critics, “What’s Your Solution?“

Television

• It’s official, Katee Sackhoff has no more idea what happened with Starbuck than anyone else.

Writing

• Mashable rounds up a list of software you need to Write a Novel Using the Web.