A steaming hot pile of our favorite things from around the internets.

• This is truly beautiful news: icanhascheezburger.com is teaming up with Jones Soda to create lolcat soda. There's even a contest to create more lolcat images specifically for the soda bottle labels. (Via Sarah)
• Some photos apparently taken by a spy on the Star Trek set have made their way online (via). They give us a look at a uniform and a shuttlecraft. For more Star Trek spoilers, we turn to an interview with Simon Pegg wherein he reveals some small details about his role in the film.
• The U.S. military has been hard at work adapting Nintendo's Wii Remote for use in a new explosives-disposal robot. The idea is to take advantage of the Wii Remote's instinctive control scheme to allow the user to focus on data processing instead of steering a cumbersome robot.
• The price and system requirements for Penny Arcade Adventures: On The Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness have been released. Twenty bucks sounds reasonable to us!
• EW has some new exclusive images from Speed Racer. (Via)
• We are disappointed that Phillyist does not appear on this list of The Twenty-Five Most Valuable Blogs. (Via Eric)
• Warning: this is creepy. (Via Jill, via Mason)
• Dude made a lamp based on an MR scan of his own brain. Awesome.

• Nerd World offers A Nerd's Guide to Going to the Opera.
• It does seem a little hard to believe that one farm boy from a backwater planet could destroy a gigantic battle station just by shooting a couple of torpedoes at the thermal exhaust port. Thus the Death Star Destruction Conspiracy Theory.
• A film adaptation of Brave New World is in the works that could see Ridley Scott in the director's chair and Leonardo DiCaprio in the lead role of John the Savage. We could see how that might be neat, but we could also see how it might be absolutely awful.
• Word is Lindsay Lohan has signed on to star as Nancy Pitman, a once loyal member of the Charles Manson "family," in the movie Manson Girls. That oughtta straighten her out!
• Moriarty at AICN has apparently read J. Michael Straczynski's script for the film adaptation of World War Z, and his review is glowing. (Via)
• That movie Legion, about the archangel Michael (played by Paul Bettany) being the only one standing between mankind and apocalypse after God loses faith in humanity, now has the rest of its cast: Tyrese Gibson, Dennis Quaid, Jon Tenney, Charles S. Dutton, Lucas Black, Kate Walsh, Adrianne Palicki, Kevin Durand and Willa Holland.
• Probably due to a recently begun FCC investigation, Comcast has agreed to stop throttling BitTorrent traffic. Sort of. Actually, we're not really sure exactly what it is Comcast has agreed to do, because the company uses phrases like "capacity management technique that is protocol agnostic" to describe it, but it looks like a step in the right direction, anyway.
• Shiny Shiny got all meta and posted a top ten list of top ten lists.
• Is your obsessive gadget use destroying your sex life? That's what MSNBC says.
• Cool: plastic bag animal street art, animated by passing subway trains.
• Film critic Christopher Orr of The New Republic is tired of trailers that give away the movie, so he's performed a little experiment: he wrote his review of 21 based entirely on the trailer for the film. He updated the review today, after having actually seen the film, with a quick sentence saying he was pretty accurate and that the biggest surprise is that it was even worse than he thought it would be. Cinematical agrees.
• Spike Jonze's cut of Where the Wild Things Are has at least four supporters: Forest Whitaker and his three kids. Whitaker did a voice for the film, and he and his kids really enjoyed the screening they saw.
• In case you were wondering, Microsoft and its lawyers are perfectly happy about the modded Master Chief character appearing in Unreal Tournament 3.
• According to Def Leppard guitarist Phil Collen, Guitar Hero IV will include at least three of the band's songs: "Photograph," "Rock of Ages," and "Animal."
• Rockstar Games has just announced the Rockstar Games Social Club, "a new website that will extend your experience of Grand Theft Auto IV and all future Rockstar Games titles." Click through for more details on what it will include. For more GTAIV fun, check out the last trailer.

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