The Great Geek Manual

Art

• Marciotakara is one of those artists whose Deviant Art gallery deserves a bookmark, especially for comic fans. Right now, she’s got some great character art out.

Film

• News: Mark Millar Promises Kick-Ass 2 Set Up in Kick-Ass 1, which is good news so far as I’m concerned.
• Empire spells out Hollywood’s 10 Rules Of Time Travel. Is it just me, or are these different in the Star Trek universe?
• TotalFilm ponders 8 Spider-Man Villains For Bruce Campbell to play in the upcoming film.

Internet

• According to io9, the best cities are The Cities You Can Never Leave.
• In a recent CNBC interview, 50 Cent explained that Piracy Is A Part Of The Marketing. I have to say, it’s a really refreshing response from a music star.
• Newsarama counts down 10 of Fiction’s Biggest Brains.

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I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.

- Poul Anderson (Sometimes referred to as Anderson’s Law.

1662
John Flamsteed records his first astronomical observations during a solar eclipse from his home in Derby at the age of sixteen. He corresponds with other astronomers regarding the observations, beginning a long career that will eventually lead him to become the Astronomer Royal of England.

1835
Charles Darwin arrives at the Galapagos Islands aboard the HMS Beagle. Over the coming five weeks, he will study the wildlife, which will inspire his theory of natural selection.

1908
Automotive manufacturer General Motors is founded. Visit the official GM website.

1982
According to Twin Galaxies, Matt Brass scores a record-setting 425,230 points playing the arcade game Deluxe at the Modern West arcade in Helena, Montana. Visit the official Twin Galaxies website.

1983
Imagic eliminates forty of its one hundred seventy employees, due to the slowdown in the video game industry.
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Wow. It’s a sure sign that the pain of 9/11 is beginning to wear thin when they start working the event into parodies. Still, great video.

Source: College Humor

Art

• Geeks of Doom has posted a gallery of 25 Cosplay Babes of Dragon*Con 2009, but they are all beat hands down by The Best Poison Ivy Costume of All Time.
• Worth 1000 has an excellent gallery of Marvel/Disney Hybrids.

Comics

• Oops, wait! Spider-Man’s Villains: Not Rapists, Says Creator… just a naked cuddler.

Film

• News: Bruce Campbell to Play Mysterio in “Spider-Man 4″?
• An open letter to all Michael Bay fans regarding Megan Fox’s behavior on set has commenters speculating on its true source. Personally, I don’t think I’d want to work with either of these people.
• Entertainment Weekly counts down the 21 Worst Comic-Book Movies, starting with The Spirit.
• io9 spells out Shane Acker’s 9 Rules For Creating Great Post-Apocalyptic Movies, none of which are “The slutty girl dies first.” So technically, these don’t apply to horror films.
• Rotten Tomatoes looks back at 25 Memorable Slasher Starlets starting with Janet Leigh.

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Blu-Ray Re-Releases

• An American Werewolf in London
• Army of Darkness (Screwhead Edition)
• Deep Impact
• Hero
• Van Helsing
• X-Men Origins: Wolverine

Theatrical Releases

• This week’s cinematic offer in the horror thriller Jennifer’s Body, starring Megan Fox. Half horror and half porn, it promises to be the B-movie horror flick all the kids rent for Halloween next year.

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The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it intuition or what you will, and the solution comes to you and you don’t know why or how.

- Albert Einstein as quoted in Forbes magazine, September 15, 1974.