A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you.
- So have you guys heard this crazy story yet? The Mayor of Pittsburgh, in support of the Pittsburgh Steelers' upcoming AFC championship game versus the Baltimore Ravens, actually legally changed his name from Luke Ravenstahl to Luke Steelerstahl. The change may only last for a week, but still—that's dedication to your team! We think Mayor Michael Nutter should change his name to Michael Cardinal-Killer. (Via Jill)
- McG wants Will Smith to play Captain Nemo. Seems like an odd choice, but we'll always be there to support our man Will Smith. And here's more from McG about what he wants to do with 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.
- Supposedly Emily Blunt is currently the front runner to play Natasha Romanov AKA The Black Widow in Iron Man 2.
- YouTube is using a new technique to combat copyright violations on its site: removing the audio and leaving the video. (Via Jill)
- Steve Jobs is taking a medical leave of absence from Apple until the end of June, saying "my health-related issues are more complex than I originally thought." Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook will take over while Jobs is gone.
- Star Wars: Retold (by someone who hasn't seen it) is absolutely one of the funniest things you will see today. (Via Jill.)
- The world suffered a couple of big losses recently with the deaths of Ricardo Montalban and Patrick McGoohan.
- As a fond farewell to W., Slate presents the top 25 Bushisms of all time. It's really hard to believe the people of America elected this guy to the highest office in the land, twice. Thinking about it makes us want to go cry in our beer all over again. So let's just move on...
- This unique ad for Coraline features the art director's dancing mustache.
- Feast your eyes on the Cadillac WTF, a car for the future! (Via Jill)
- A very creepy clip from The Informers, the film adaptation of the Bret Easton Ellis book which will soon be premiering at Sundance.
- A very dark alternate ending to Pineapple Express.
- Universal Pictures is putting a crew together for a re-adaptation of East of Eden.
- Yet more from director Andrew Stanton on John Carter of Mars. We think it'd be way funnier if it were Jimmy Carter of Mars, but maybe that's just us.
- Brendan Fraser and Harrison Ford are going to star together in a movie called Crowley. Sadly, it's not about Aleister Crowley. Boo!
- Jackie Chan is in negotiations to play Mr. Miyagi in a Karate Kid remake. We have to admit, that makes perfect sense.
- Blockbuster just made a new partnership which suggests it might be planning to bring a video on demand service to the Wii.
- An online app for automatically generating an image mosaic.
- Alternative web browsers are finally showing up at the iPhone's App Store.
- In most games the object is to not die, but in Karoshi Suicide Salaryman the whole point is to kill yourself. And you have to solve puzzles to do so! It's surprisingly clever and fun. (Via)
- How big are you on Twitter? Check your Twick Size. (Via)
- Another installment in the ongoing series, "What Can't You Do with USB?": a USB Boob Warmer!
- Read early issues of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles online here. (Via)
- Game|Life is pretty disappointed with Lord of the Rings: Conquest, and indeed it does sound quite lame.
- Zork is coming back as a browser-based massively multiplayer online game called Legends of Zork.
- Video montages of all the Ultra Moves and Super Moves in Street Fighter IV. Some are more impressive than others; Ryu's Ultra Move is particularly disappointing.
- Who knew that watching a hedgehog eating a carrot could be so entertaining?
- Weezer's video for "Pork and Beans" has been updated to include even more internet memes! Plus now it's like a video about the video. It's crazy extra super postmodern!
- A gameplay video for Bit.Trip: Beat reveals that it is even more retro than you might have imagined. It also looks pretty cool, and pretty difficult. We are mighty intrigued!
- Batman and Joker from Tim Burton's 1989 Batman film have now been Simpson-ized at Springfield Punx.
- Crow, Tom Servo, and Wall-E LEGO minifigs.
- Star Wars invades the Renaissance (via), and a monster grabs the space shuttle (via).
- A recent Nintendo patent suggests the possibility of a direction-sensing DS card.
- The top 10 most rented video games of 2008.
- Supposedly the upcoming episodic Watchmen video game will be "canon," so to speak.
- Sony says the PS2 remains important to the company and its plans.
- Sci Fi Wire gives us the latest updates from McG on Terminator: Salvation, and also describes in detail the footage he screened for Sci Fi Wire and other representatives of the press.
- Lee "Apollo" Adama (Jamie Bamber) talks about the final episodes of Battlestar Galactica.
- The second part of Sci Fi Wire's interview with Katie Lucas (we posted the first part yesterday).
- J.J. Abrams talks Fringe; he says it's just hitting its stride! Sci Fi Wire also has some potential spoilers for the second half of the first season.
- Diablo Cody on Jennifer's Body. She's seen an early cut of the movie and is relieved to see that it works.
- The new live-action adaptation of The Sorcerer's Apprentice will have a greatly expanded story, and will be set in modern-day New York. Anybody else get the sense this movie is going to be a complete disaster?
- J.J. Abrams defends his take on Star Trek.
- Sci Fi Wire writes an article from the future, looking back on the best and worst sci-fi movies of 2009. Clever!
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