If sleeplessly pushing a button every 108 minutes just doesn’t seem obsessive enough to you, you just may want to head the way of London’s Prince Charles Cinema: Beginning September 13th, the movie theater plans to screen all 121 episodes of LOST back-to-back, for a total of 80 hours of onscreen delirium, spanning four days.

Winston Rowntree has created an infographic illustrating the arc of watchability that is followed by most long running television dramas, and it simply contains too much truth not to post. From The Grace Period, to the three season long Plateau, through to the Zombie Years; fans of Lost and The X-Files should particularly relate.

No, actually, this is it: Weezer‘s upcoming album Hurley opted for the obvious — and also ridiculous — choice cover. After the Green Album and Red Album, this is clearly the natural progression. The record, due in stores September 14 on Epitaph, will employ the above image of Lost actor Jorge Garcia, who is grinning to have succeeded Jacob as the New Man in Charge.

The long-awaited date is upon us: At 12:34:56.7PM on August 9th, 2010, we mark the most hallowed of geek holidays — Sequential Day 2010! This sacred moment is up there with Sysadmin Appreciation Day.

Ready your video game-themed alcoholic drink canteens, because in honor of this annual occasion we’ve decided to count down 3 of the most beloved sequences in geek history!

Achievement Unlocked 2 (Armor Games)

Easy A? (Reddit)

Extracting gold from old motherboards (Tom’s Hardware)

Sneak peek at LOST epilogue (SL-Lost)

How one man reinvented the wheel (Jalopnik)

Reocities, the project to back up Geocities (MakeUseOf)

Sorry, but you’re not Don Draper. (Something Awful)

This just in: LOST director Jack Bender is reportedly the frontrunner for helming Moscow, the reboot of Tom Clancy‘s Jack Ryan spy franchise. Chris Pine will be playing the newest Ryan incarnation, starting afresh as a U.S. Marine graduate working under a Russian billionaire, before being embroiled in a terrorist plot. Bender hasn’t directed a feature since 1991′s Child’s Play 3, so it will be interesting to see what results. This comes on the heels of the announcement that LOST co-creator Damon Lindelof is attached to write the Alien prequel. (Vulture)

30 excellent costumes from Comic-Con 2010 (Neatorama)

What if Law & Order was a sci-fi show? (io9)

Literary journal explores the Rambo body count (Lapham’s Quarterly)

LOST‘s Apple II up for auction (TUAW)

The longest photographic exposures in history (ItchyI)

We preferred the original … (Presurfer)

Is a vaccine for stress possible? (Wired)

(title image via TeeFury via Sedentário y Hiperativo)

Damon Lindelof, a.k.a. the less grumpy of the two former executive producers of LOST, has just sealed the deal for his first solo screenwriting contract since the island adventures ended. Lindelof will be taking on rewrite work for a prequel for the Alien franchise, which could use a jolt of popularity. After all, when Joss Whedon was talking about cool props he has at home, he said “an alien egg, but I had to bury the franchise to get it.” Well let’s hope Lindelof can dig it up and give it some weird alien CPR or something.

For those of you worried that Lindelof might just start over and make up the whole prequel as he goes along, leading to an unsatisfactory, overly spiritual ending, never fear! Lindelof has already met with 20th Century Fox and Ridley Scott, who Fox wants to direct the feature, to discuss ideas for the prequel. See? Planning ahead. But, perhaps unfortunately depending on your sentiments toward the franchise, “the exchange of ideas between them sparked a take that could well turn out to be a free-standing science fiction film,” according to Deadline.

If you haven’t heard by now, the next network television show we ought to be salivating over is NBC’s upcoming series, The Event. Described by New York Magazine and io9 as evoking now-ended cult shows Lost and 24, The Event is a mystery-political-thriller-scifi-romance-hybrid that employs interconnected and non-linear narratives, and the occasional plot twist.

So what is The Event about, exactly? Warning: Minor description of the pilot episode ahead.

This morning, the 2010 Primetime Emmy Award nominations were announced. And while that’s generally exciting for a TV nerd such as myself, this is a system for geeks you’re reading on. So I have embarked on an epic mission: I am going through all the nominations (not just the elitist ones that actually get into the televised awards show), category by category, to provide a full-on geek perspective. The only ones that shall be skipped are those with no good geeky offerings, or the ones where you don’t even know what the name of the category means. In other words, here’s everything that matters to a geeky television viewer.

For reference and your personal knowledge-accumulating pleasure, here is the full list of nominees.

For those of you who care more about which shows prevailed, here is the nomination summary, that just states number of nominations per program without specifying the categories.

I’m going to be going in order through the categories as they appear in the full list linked above so that it’s easy for you to follow along at home. Ready? Let’s begin.