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A steaming hot pile of our favorite things from around the internets.
- This video is pretty brilliantly made. It looks like it's going to be your typical home-made teen party video, but then... well, let's just say drunkenness and lightsabers don't mix. (Via Steve)
- Battlestar Galactica season 3 gag reel, complete with political commentary, clips from random other shows and movies, and a BG rap! If you're not caught up, stay away, as spoilers abound. But if you are, enjoy! It's pretty funny. Oh, but make sure the headphones are on, people. Sometimes they forget to say "frak" instead of the other word. (Via)
- Some New Zealand fisherman caught themselves what is probably the first intact adult male colossal squid ever, and also probably the biggest squid ever caught. Colossal squids are apparently about the same average length as giant squids, but even heavier; this one weighs about 990 pounds and is about 33 feet long. Fear its mighty tentacles! (Via)
- Fun with keyboards! A steampunk keyboard mod (via), and computer key stools.
- This is brilliant: HySpace. It's MySpace, but in Hyrule! (Via)
- Microsoft is not having the best week ever. Google just released their Google Apps package, which is very similar to MS Office, but cheaper and delivered online (but it may or may not be a true Office-killer; see Wired's analysis), and now Microsoft has been ordered to pay $1.52 billion to a telecommunications equipment maker for violating two patents having to do with converting audio into the MP3 format.
More after the jump...
- In other silly computer-related legal news, LucasArts is opposing Digg.com's attempt to register "Digg" as a trademark because apparently they think it would be confusingly similar to their computer game The Dig. Yeah, because the ten people who remember that game would really confuse it with a news aggregation website...
- Ryan Murphy will be directing a dramatization of the troubles Hitchcock went through to make Psycho. It's called Alfred Hitchcock Presents, and the rumor is it'll star Anthony Hopkins as the director and Helen Mirren as his wife, Alma Reville. Sounds great! We'll be looking forward to this one.
- Forward motion is occurring on the Justice League of America live action movie, people! They've hired writers and everything! Of course, this probably means they'll spend three years writing a script, then throw it out and hire ten other people. But still. Forward motion!
- Disney and Jerry Bruckheimer Films are planning to bring the Prince of Persia video game series to the big screen. We're kind of hopeful, but at the same time, filled with dread...
- We weren't sure how to feel about the idea of Martin Scorsese doing a family film (how will Joe Pesci do his regular cameo if he doesn't get to curse like a sailor and hit people with bats?), but then we read that it was "about a 12-year-old orphan who lives in the walls of a Paris train station in 1930 and a mystery involving the boy, his late father and a robot." Dude, that's awesome. We can't wait.
- Oh, man. We so want the Star Trek Voice Operated Dimmer. Tell your lights to dim, and Majel Roddenberry's voice will respond, confirming your command! Nothing could be more romantic. After you dazzle your loved one with that kind of thing, just present her with a binary wedding ring and seal the deal.
- It's true - Nintendo is no longer making GameCubes, or games for the GameCube. Sigh. This makes us a little sad inside.
Image Credit: Flickr user Random J
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