The Great Geek Manual

Art

• The Lego Matrix features a series of scenes from The Matrix recreated with Legos.

Comics

• AV Club has compiled a great list of The best comics of the ’00s.

Film

• News: Straczynski says that his script for a potential Silver Surfer movie is complete, but that development on the film has stalled.
• Watch Pieces of April over at SlashControl for free!

Internet

• College Humor envisions 5 Star Wars (Facebook) Status Updates.
• GeekDad puts a Thanksgiving twist on some of sci-fi’s best lines!
• Noveller, for those novels you write throughout the day. (At the noveller site, try signing up. Hysterical!)

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Art

• These Ketchup packets protesting landmines are both funny and little disturbingc.
• Su Blackwell is an artist who creates amazing paper sculptures from and based on books.

Comics

• SciFi Scanner reminds us of 10 Reasons Comic Book Movie Fans Are Thankful.

Film

• Interview: Cinematical interviews The Road Director John Hillcoat.
• The Dallas Observer has compiled a nostalgic list of the Top 10 Thanksgiving Dinners in Movies. My favorite is Pieces of April.
• I laughed my ass off at this: The Top 20 Unfortunate Lessons Girls Learn From Twilight. It’s just sooo true.

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I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land.

- Jon Stewart

Resources

10 Free Server & Network Monitoring Tools that Kick Ass – When you have a website or a network, it’s helpful to be aware of any issues as soon as they occur. There are open source and freeware server/network monitoring tools that will supervise your infrastructure for any issues that may arise. These tools are meant to aid you in avoiding being taken offline and evaluating if your resource needs has outgrown your infrastructure.

20 essential free apps for your new Windows 7 PC – Here are 20 free Windows 7 applications that stand out in terms of quality of results you get of them. Ninite is a quick and easy way to download most of these applications into a single customized installer.

The Go Programmning Language – Go is Google’s new programming language. Watch a video introduction. Supposedly, it compiles faster than c/c++ and runs just as fast.

Google Wave Cheat Sheet – Church Tech Matters has compiled a list of commands for Google’s new Wave service.
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At first, I tried to ignore it. I’d been burned by sci-fi comedy cancellations too many times. But over the last two years, Chuck has slowly but surely wormed its way into my heart. It’s surprise season two finale cemented its place as one of my favorite comedy series ever.

Thanks to that great finale, fans across the internet fought for NBC to renew the series, and against all odds, the network has pick Chuck up for another nineteen more episodes, beginning with a two-hour premiere on Sunday, January 10th.

To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.

- Leonard Bernstein

As our brain is plastic and remoulds itself in accordance to our daily activities, prolonged computer use can have a profound effect on the way we think, feel and behave. We can learn to react more quickly to visual stimuli and improve many forms of attention. We develop a better ability to sift through large amounts of information rapidly and decide what’s important and what isn’t. In this way, we adapt to cope with the massive amounts of information appearing and disappearing on our mental screens from moment to moment.

- Dr Gary Small of UCLA in “What the web is teaching our brains,” November 24, 2009.

Despite the dwindling amount of content posted here over the last week, I’d like to assure all (both) my readers that I am not, in fact dead. I’ve just had a computer melt down.
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