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• "Astronomers have sighted the smallest extrasolar planet yet orbiting a normal star—a distant world just three times the size of our own." (Via Sarah)
• Won't somebody please think of the ninjas?
• Warren Ellis is on a roll lately. He's got links to a couple of fascinating articles, one about new evidence that suggests that Machu Picchu was actually discovered forty years earlier than thought and was ransacked by a German businessman with the Peruvian government's blessing. The other reveals that NASA's Phoenix lander may have already found water ice in its first scoop of Martian soil. Then Ellis has two posts of his own arguing convincingly for the colonization of Mars, and calling The Singularity "the last trench of the religious impulse in the technocratic community."
• The Invincible Super-Blog digs up another gem from the Silver Age.
• We like The Wombats, and one of their songs can now be downloaded for free from the iTunes Music Store, thanks to the fact that it's been named the Single of the Week. Yay!
• Another very cool clip from Hancock has hit the web, courtesy The Ellen Show, of all places. This movie just keeps looking better and better.
• The voice cast of The Simpsons have just signed a four-year contract that will pay them each $400,000 per episode. All we can say is, we're in the wrong damn business.
• Oh good lord. Jason Statham is back in Transporter 3, which has a script by Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen and will be directed by Olivier Megaton. The release date is November 26, 2008, so we assume production is already well under way.

• Dungeons and Dragons 4th edition is on its way, and in order to promote it, Wizards of the Coast got the guys from Penny Arcade and the guy from PvP together and ran them through a one-day adventure. The shenanigans were recorded and are being released as a podcast. (Via)
• A spoiler about the surprise ending to T4 has been making the rounds on the net, but McG says only three people know the real ending to the film. Click here to read some more details about the plot from McG, but don't worry; there are no spoilers.
• Three-quarters of the 200 people who attended a free screening of Uwe Boll's Postal in Hoboken, NJ Friday night walked out long before the movie was over. (Via)
• Things have definitely gone too far when they're actually planning to make a video game adaptation of a movie that itself is an adaptation of a video game.
• WTF?! is a World of Warcraft parody that imagines what might happen if the finest minds in philosophy and psychoanalysis inhabited the world of WoW. Sounds like fun. (Via)
• Some details on the next James Bond video game.
• Oops! Some of the female character models in Age of Conan got an accidental breast reduction recently, causing a massive outcry from players. Developer Funcom has said: "We are working on a fix for this and your breasts should be back to normal soon." Pfft!
• Bruce Willis is in negotiations to play Adam "Kane" Marcus opposite an undetermined Lynch in the upcoming film based on the video game Kane & Lynch: Dead Men.
• In a recent interview, Ridley Scott said after 20 years of waiting, he finally got the rights to a book, and he'll turn it into a movie after he's done with Nottingham, the Robin Hood film he's working on now. He won't say what the book is, but apparently it'll be a sci-fi film. Hmm...
• Cinematical presents seven things you ought to know if you're making movies.
• You can see a simple little teaser trailer for Marley and Me at the official website. (Via)
• The video game adaptation of Avatar will be in 3D... on certain HDTVs.
• Transformers 2 began production in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania yesterday. Cinematical has links to set pics, and even a set video.
• The trailer for the remake of The Women can now be viewed online. Looks like they are indeed sticking to the "no men, only women onscreen" rule of the original film.
• Some Hindus are protesting Mike Myer's upcoming comedy, The Love Guru, and calling for worldwide boycotts of the film, but Deepak Chopra has given the movie his blessing.
• OK, usually when people talk about integrating a Gameboy with a platform, this is not what they mean. You're doing it wrong!
• Brittany Murphy was going to do the voice of the title character in the Tinker Bell movie, but now she's been fired and Mae Whitman has taken her place. Click through for the film's sordid production history, and a clip video, introduced by John Lasseter, which features Whitman doing the voice. (Via)
• Guy Ritchie is going to direct and co-write a movie based on a forthcoming comic book that is meant to reinvent Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. Apparently "the new Holmes would be more adventuresome and take advantage of his skills as a boxer and swordsman." Wow, this sounds like a really bad idea. (Via Jill)

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