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A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you.
- Apparently the Wachowskis want to do Plastic Man next, but even if Warner doesn't let them do that, they might get the Superman franchise. Woah. Meanwhile, it looks like Warner wants Christopher Nolan to do a sci-fi movie called Inception as his next project, and not another Batman movie. Interesting choices, Warner!
- Okay, we still don't like Brad Pitt's "and I want my scalps" line, but now that we've seen the full trailer for Inglourious Basterds, we're feeling a lot better about the movie. It's looking pretty bad-ass!
- Chris's Invincible Super-Blog uses the work of Alan Moore to fashion some truly twisted Valentine's Day wishes. If you're looking for something a little cuter, consider lolcats!
- An online Watchmen arcade game is now available for play (via). It's a very simplistic beat-em-up in the style of Double Dragon. If you win (which you can do very easily by kicking a lot) you get to watch yet another trailer for the film. Meanwhile, the folks at Joystiq give us their impressions of the console Watchmen game.
- This brilliant short spoof video about an old woman teaching a class on Klingon language and culture is truly hilarious.
- Watch a Tarsem-directed commercial for Gatorade that parodies Monty Python and the Holy Grail (if it's possible to parody a parody...).
- Check out some steampunk action figure versions of Marvel comics characters, then vote for the five Marvel characters you want to see turned into official action figures (via).
- Lots of news from Activision Blizzard. We'll see three new Guitar Hero titles from the company before the middle of the year: Guitar Hero: Metallica, a DS title, and a greatest hits compilation (whcih they should probably just go ahead and title Guitar Hero: Milking This Thing for as Much Damn Money as We Possibly Can). There will also be a StarCraft 2 beta test coming up in the months ahead, and a number of other non-Guitar Hero games, even if the company's James Bond game has been pushed back to 2010. Despite being the #1 console, handheld and PC publisher in the U.S. and Europe, Activision Blizzard lost $72 million in Q4 2008.
- mental_floss reveals surprising stories behind 20 Muppet characters. (Via Jill)
- Tom Cruise may star alongside Denzel Washington in David Cronenberg's next film. Wha? Cruise would play a Russian spy who's the "mortal enemy" of an American intelligence character. Word is the film has Bourne-like franchise potential.
- Cinematical highlights a couple of fun geek knitting projects: Hobbit booties and knitted lightsabers.
- Josh Brolin and Anthony Hopkins have signed on to star in Woody Allen's next film.
- Download Squad celebrates real websites making fake stuff.
- ADrive sounds handy: it provides 50GB of free online file storage.
- If you're as obsessed with Twitter as we're rapidly becoming, you need to be able to update from anywhere! This Twitlet bookmarklet looks like a good way to do that.
- The folks at Game|Life got their hands on Dragon Age: Origins and they seem pleased.
- Two satellites ran into each other on Tuesday. It's apparently the first time this has ever happened.
- Geekadelphia takes a look back at the Pepsi logo through the ages and decides the latest one comes up wanting.
- A look at upcoming Star Trek toys. (Via)
- Matt Smith signed on for three years with Doctor Who, with an option for two more years.
- A fitness expert has announced plans for a class-action lawsuit against Nintendo, claiming that people are injuring themselves playing Wii games because Nintendo has not properly warned consumers that warming up is necessary before exercise.
- Nintendo's got a game coming out that consists of a bunch of minigames which "all revolve around putting words into a search engine and using the resulting hit count as a measure of progress and as the focus of multiplayer competition."
- Joystiq reviews Retro Game Challenge, which a love letter to old school gaming.
- Make your own House of Dead: Overkill desktop wallpaper.
- We weren't aware of the comic called Street Angel, but now there's a movie! Here's the trailer. It seems to involve skateboarding, ninjas, and an evil geologist. Nice!
- The best nurse in the world. (Via)
- The guy who did those cool Masters of the Universe paintings we posted the other day also did some cool Star Wars paintings.
- 1UP picks the greatest scenes from Street Fighter: The Movie. "Greatest" being a relative term in this instance. (Via)
- We're not sure we were even aware that Penn and Teller had a TV show called Bullshit! in which they call debunk misconceptions and popular fads, but we're excited to learn an upcoming episode will take on the video game violence controversy.
- In London, Warner Bros. will be putting coats on cats to advertise F.E.A.R. 2.
- Some of the tracks that will be included with Scratch: The Ultimate DJ.
- Sony is working on hybrid Blu-ray movie releases containing playable PS3 games. Smart!
- A Mirror's Edge mod of Tomb Raider: Underworld.
- Blockbuster will begin offering game rentals as part of its Total Access online movie rental service. Uh oh. They might just be one-upping Netflix there.
- Unsurprisingly, there will be a G.I. Joe game coming out alongside the upcoming movie.
- Joaquin Phoenix's bizarre Letterman appearance. Dude is either taking this joke a little too far, or is actually crazy. (Via @BRIANMBENDIS)
- The New Yorker's twelve favorite picks from the submissions to their recent Eustace Tilley cover design contest. (Via @swierczy)
- Dougray Scott, Joely Richardson, Brian Cox, Eddie Izzard, Jason Priestley, and Vanessa Redgrave have all signed on to star in The Day of the Triffids, a modern miniseries update of the classic sci-fi novel (previously adapted as an infamously bad movie in 1962).
- Disney has brought in a new guy to rewrite the script for its 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: Captain Nemo, McG's next directing project.
- John Malkovich will play a villain in the Jonah Hex movie. Also, apparently Josh Brolin's participation is official now?
- Eliza Dushku talks Dollhouse.
- Sci Fi Wire takes a long, loving look back at the previous eleven (!!) Friday the 13th movies.
- Mega Man on the Atari 2600, and Zelda II translated into Latin.
- Okay, this is just crazy. Apparently China has mobile execution chambers for criminals—essentially death buses. And it's suspected that the government is secretly harvesting the criminals' organs to sell to the West.
- A new study on the online habits of teens reveals that they spend an average of 7.25 hours a month looking at adult content. That's it?
- That is one sweet treehouse.
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thanx for the scratch link-
this games gonna be intergalactic planetary
Hey Jim- where can I get more info on scratch?
I'd suggest following a video game blog like Joystiq, or keeping an eye on SevenStudios.com, the website of the company that's making the game.
game looks illmatic