The Great Geek Manual

Art

• Calvin and Hobbes: The Video Game
• Etsy’s GeekyGamerShop is selling super-geeky bowties. The Minecraft Creeper Bow is my personal favorite, but you can’t go wrong with one featuring the guy Who made the bow tie cool again.
• Super Mario Bros Fish Tank
• You know you’re marrying a cool chick when she let’s you have a Minecraft Wedding.

Comics

• The cover of Every Issue of the Avengers for your browsing pleasure… if you can enjoy browsing comics without a middle aged man in a ponytail snarking at you from behind the trading card counter.
• Sherlock’s Benedict Cumberbatch and Steven Moffat Visit Marvel Comics
• Will Alan Scott, DC’s Original Green Lantern, Be Reintroduced As A Gay Man? Hope not. There are just too many better choices in the JSA continuum.

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Aperture: Lab Ratt is a live action interpretation of VALVe’s web comic
‘Portal 2: Lab Rat’ and follows the story of the schizophrenic hero
behind the walls; Doug Rattmann. You remember Doug, the guy who did all the paintings you find tucked behind the walls in the game. It starts a little slow, but once things start to go poorly, the flick really hits its stride.  

Lab Ratt runs for 14 minutes, so have some cake handy before hitting play.

All the effort in the world won’t matter if you’re not inspired.

- Diary by Chuck Palahniuk, 2003.

“You’ll be you’ll be my Superman, my Bruce Wayne.
You’re Peter Parker without his Mary Jane.
Let’s go to the world of comic books and lose ourselves there, where you’ll be my hero in the air.”

Director Finn O’Hara re-made the classic viral video ‘Leeroy Jenkins’ into a short film for the CFC Worldwide Short Film Festival, which will be held June 5 -10, 2012. Taking place in downtown Toronto, the CFC Worldwide Short Film Festival (WSFF) showcases specially-themed 90-minute programs, with each program offering from 5-20 films — all for as low as $10 a ticket! WSFF is North America’s largest venue for short film exhibition, industry programming, and marketplace.
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“Skyrim Gets Played”, a Skyrim gangster rap song witten and directed by RAWN. It’s available for purchase on iTunes.

Audio Fiction and Podcasts

• Listen to “Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning” by Heather Birrell at Miettecast.
• Listen to “Dust Bunny” by Matthew C. Dampier at Pseudopod.
• Listen to “Endless Encore” b Will Ludwigsen at Drabblecast.
• Listen to “Hawksbill Station” by Robert Silverberg at Escapepod.
• Listen to “The Morandini Genie” by Michael Haynes at Cast of Wonders.
• Listen to “Mother of All Russiya” by Melanie Rawn at LightSpeed Magazine.
• Listen to “Nora’s Thing” by Will Ludwigsen at Drabblecast.
• Listen to “Sleepers” by Jon Ingold at StarShipSofa.

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Audio Fiction and Podcasts

• Download “A Hunger for the Infinite: A Galactic Center Story” by Gregory Benford.
• Listen to “Fable From a Cage” by Tim Pratt at PodCastle.
• Listen to “The Homecoming” by Mike Resnick at Escapepod.
• Listen to “In The Cemetery of Frozen Ships” by Suzanne van Rooyen.
• Listen to “Isolation Point” by John Shirley at Tales to Terrify.
• Listen to “In The Cemetery of Frozen Ships” by Suzanne van Rooyen (Part 2).
• Listen to “Movement” by Nancy Fulda at Escapepod.
• Listen to “Transfer of Ownership” by Christie Yant at Drabblecast.
• Listen to “Tricentennial” by Joe Haldeman at StarShipSofa.
• Listen to “The Women Who Watch” by Thomas Owen at Pseudopod.

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