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- In case you were waiting for the official word, yes, the WGA strike is really officially over now, and everyone is expected to go back to work immediately. Our long national nightmare is over.
- Even though Microsoft recently spent $240 million to buy a 1.6% stake in Facebook, Bill Gates recently decided to stop using the site because he was tired of dealing with the 8,000 friend requests he was getting every day. If he ever wants to actually delete his account, though, he might want to read this New York Times article about how it's nearly impossible to do that (via Jill).
- Will Wright's long-awaited universe-building game Spore finally has an official release date: September 7th. PC, Mac, Nintendo DS, and mobile phone versions of the game will come out simultaneously on that date, and word is that a creature-editor-only edition will be available even sooner. Joystiq has their first impressions of the mobile, home computer, and DS versions of the game. Finally, you can find a new trailer for the game on the official website.
- Diesel Sweeties has geeky Valentine e-cards for you and your sweetie's enjoyment. (Via)
- Consider the Swear Bear as an unconventional gift for your valentine tomorrow. He or she will either laugh heartily, or never want to see you again.
- Apparently James Cameron still has a little bit of power over the Terminator franchise after all. Cameron just directed Sam Worthington in his film Avatar and recommended the actor to McG, who has now cast Worthington to star in his upcoming directorial effort, Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins.
- They're making BioShock into a cell phone game? That better be some phone... Meanwhile, in similar news, BioWare and EA have announced that their controversial and critically acclaimed sci-fi RPG, Mass Effect, will be coming to PCs this May.
- Super Smash Bros. Brawl has sold 1.08 million units in Japan in the 11 days since it was released, making it the fastest-selling Wii game in Japan.
- Some pics from an amusing photo shoot that Will Ferrell and Heidi Klum did as part of some cross-promotion for the Sports Illustrated 2008 Swimsuit Edition and Ferrell's upcoming flick, Semi-Pro.
- The Vietnam War has been the basis of many great films. It's such an inherently dramatic and powerful subject that it may actually be difficult to make a bad film about it. But if anybody can do it, Uwe Boll can! And he's trying. Check out the trailer for his upcoming 'Nam flick, Tunnel Rats.
- This sounds like quite a film: Legion is about "what happens when God loses faith in humanity and sends his legion of angels to wipe out the human race for the second time. Mankind's only hope lies in a group of misfits holed up in a diner in the desert who are aided by the archangel Michael." Paul Bettany has just signed to play Michael. Should be interesting!
- Download Squad, inspired by the keynote speech at the Pennsylvania Educational Technology Expo and Conference this Monday in Hershey, PA, has put together five ways to improve technology in education.
- D:Scribe is a fountain pen that lets you write a message longhand and then send it as a text message or email. That's hot.
- Now there's even blu_ray makeup. Time to give up, HD-DVD!
- XPN has a free MP3 download of a song by a pretty cool band called King of Prussia. No, they're not from around here, but their music is good anyway.
- A woman has started a blog based around movies - and on the idea that she's going to kill herself in 90 days. Cinematical thinks it's all a put-on, but it's still pretty disturbing.
- The inevitable Valerie Plame biopic is being directed by Doug Liman with Nicole Kidman starring as Plame.
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