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- Time picks SNL's ten most dubious hosts. The host from the most recent episode, Michael Phelps, makes the list (via Sarah). Phelpsy's episode wasn't all bad, though; after all, it also included the Space Olympics (via).
- More sad news: Richard Wright, one of the founding members of Pink Floyd, has died at age 65 after battling cancer. (Via Sarah)
- Today's item about the Large Hadron Collider: somebody hacked into part of the computer system. Woah, woah, woah. They've gotta lock that shit down. We don't want anybody hacking into any part of something that could even theoretically destroy the Earth. (Via Sarah)
- Both Joystiq and Game|Life got their hands on the finished version of Fable 2.
- Cinematical has a couple of interesting tidbits here about a Hebrew-language film that Natalie Portman is planning to direct, and a documentary that Jack Osbourne is planning to make about his dad, whom some call... Ozzy.
- Adam Arkin has landed a role in the Coen brothers' next flick, A Serious Man. Also, Alicia Keys, after recording the theme song for Quantum of Solace, says she'd like to be a Bond girl herself. She also says the movie is "damn good."
- Somebody snapped a photo of Eva Longoria-Parker leaving Marvel Studios with an armful of comics. Speculation is that she might be in the running to play the Wasp, who was one of the original Avengers. And actually, we could see that.
- Rock Band has a code that will instantly unlock all the songs. The same code will work in Rock Band 2, but now it's even better; it will add an item to your menu so you can unlock all the songs whenever you want, and you'll never have to enter the code again.
- The rumor is that Blizzard will release Diablo 3 before Starcraft 2, despite the fact that the latter game was announced first.
- Joystiq has the details on what will be included in the Wrath of the Lich King Collector's Edition. Meanwhile, the American military and intelligence communities are afraid that terrorists will use World of Warcraft to plan a real attack, and one Pentagon researcher has detailed how this might happen.
- Game|Life says that in his second episode, Strong Bad is still awesome.
- Key members of the Metroid Prime development staff left Retro Studios earlier this year and started up their own development house. They've now signed an exclusive publishing deal with Electronic Arts to create new games for PS3, Xbox 360, and Wii. In similar news, an analyst suggests that the visionaries behind Grand Theft Auto might leave Take-Two when their contract is up in February 2009, and thus spark a bidding war for their services.
- Best Buy is going to buy Napster for $121 million.
- Collectors were excited to learn that a cache of lost Virtual Boys was found in Dubai.
- Sony Online Entertainment just revealed that the story behind DC Universe Online will be written by beloved comics author Geoff Johns.
- After reading about it a bit, we kind of hope this Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem thing takes hold. It's a kind of DRM that would make your digital content equally accessible from all participating devices.
- Congrats to George Takei and his partner for finally tying the knot! There were some great Star Trek touches to the ceremony: Walter Koenig and Nichelle Nichols were best man and best lady, and the favors were Japanese tea-ceremony treats in boxes printed with the phrase: "May sweet equality live long and prosper." (Via)
- The Conduit will have no downloadable content, and will probably also feature the use of the universally hated friend codes. Blurgh.
- Retro revivals seem to be big in the video game world at the moment, so Wii Fanboy selects the top five old franchises it would like to see come back.
- Some cute and unexpected paper craft characters, including Alex of A Clockwork Orange, Edward Scissorhands, Andy Warhol, and Barack Obama.
Image of Richard Wright via Flickr user ambro91.
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I hope George Clooney's work with the Coen Brothers extends into A Serious Man, where it would be cool to see him cast as Adam Arkin's brother. Those two could totally pass as siblings . . .
Also, Quantum Of Solace is gonna rock!!!! I can't wait for that one . . .
You know, I never thought about it before, but Adam Arkin and George Clooney are quite similar looking, aren't they? I don't remember reading anything about Clooney being in A Serious Man (and he doesn't show up in the cast list on IMDB), but you never know.
I am also very much looking forward to Quantum of Solace, despite the rather odd title. Here's hoping it lives up to our expectations...