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- A 13-year-old hacker has done what 13-year-old hackers do and put together a handy packaged script that will crack open your iPod Touch, allowing you to access the file system and put whatever you want on there. (Via Sarah)
- Here's a wiki project we're kind of in awe of - and kind of horrified by. The entire Bible translated into kitty pidgin - better known as the language of lolcats. (Via Sarah)
- Movie ticket sales for the first week of October are at their lowest since 1999, down 27% from last year - and experts are blaming the recent release of Halo 3! Apparently everybody is staying home and playing with Master Chief instead of going out to the theater.
- Game|Life and Joystiq got their hands on a handful of big upcoming Nintendo releases in their final or near-final versions - Link's Crossbow Training, Super Mario Galaxy, and Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games. According to these guys, LCT is light on content, but a fun precision FPS; MaSatOG is for the kiddies; and SMG just might save Christmas (check out the trailer here, and try to ignore Joystiq's odd and pointless comments about a tiny Reggie Fils-Aime).
- According to some recent research, video games and video game systems are right at the top of people's Christmas lists this year - both the lists of gifts they plan to purchase, and those they wish to receive.
- The next-gen entry in Capcom's Bionic Commando franchise has been unveiled.
- Crazy little ad here for a movie about Jean Claude Van Damme called JCVD, and starring JCVD as JCVD.
- Rambo 4's title has changed again, this time to Rambo to Hell and Back.
- Rumor is that Bryan Singer wants to bring Terrence Stamp back to reprise his role as General Zod in the Superman Returns sequel. Dude, that would rule.
- The Bobacabana is a house, but it's also a display case for a pretty impressive amount of memorabilia, most of it Star Wars-related. Check out the photo gallery. (Via)
- Sweet: the iTunes Music Store is dropping the price of its DRM-free iTunes Plus music downloads from $1.29 to the regular 99 cents, apparently starting tomorrow. And in other excellent news for music downloaders, Led Zeppelin is finally going digital (via Sarah). Woo hoo!
- After a slow couple of months, the BBWW has put up a flurry of posts recently, the latest being this wonderful, sexy drawing by Philly illustrator Reau.
- Twisted Pictures, the producers of Saw, will be doing a loose remake of Fatal Attraction called Kept. Be prepared for the bunny to be chained up and slowly lowered into a blender this time around!
- Speaking of bunnies, could Lindsay Lohan be starring as a Playboy Bunny in Brett Ratner's upcoming Hugh Hefner biopic? Well, probably not, but a man can dream, can't he?!
- Sounds like it's official now: Chris Pine will play Captain Kirk.
- Rock Band will be available only as a bundle until 2008, which seems to mean you won't be able to buy any of the controllers individually this year. Sounds pretty lame to us.
- Eli Roth's next project will be Trailer Trash, a collection of fake trailers that he hopes will be "like Monty Python and the Holy Grail, which I consider to be the greatest achievement in the history of cinema." Well, the man has taste, at least.
- Time has selected the 50 Best Websites of 2007. You can see the complete list here. We think they made some pretty boring picks, but that could be us displacing our envy over not being included. They also have lists of the 25 sites they can't live without, and the 5 Worst Websites. (Via Sarah)
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