A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you.
- Some Oscar stuff: seven outrageous Oscar disqualifications; how to fake your way through any Oscars conversation; spoiling the ending of every Best Picture winner, plus all five of this year's nominees, in under five minutes; and a list of what are supposedly the winners of all of this year's Academy Awards.
- Jailbreaking your iPhone may soon be an illegal activity.
- Finally, a universal cell phone charger is on the way!
- A super hot Zelda tattoo.
- Dude had an interesting auction on eBay: he says he'll follow you around for three days dressed as a clown and scare the crap out of you. (Via)
- An interesting article about Keita Takahashi, the weird dude who made Katamari Damacy and the soon-to-be-released Noby Noby Boy.
- Your daily load of Watchmen junk: DC Comics has put together a list of the next graphic novels you should try after reading Watchmen; a number of the main characters of Watchmen drawn as food; a discussion of the various different cuts of Watchmen, with their various different running times, and what had to be cut to get it down to the theatrical length; and finally, some nice character portraits (this time not as food).
- A really great analysis of what people are looking for, and what they're not looking for, on the website of a brick and mortar business. (Via @BeaucoupKevin)
- An incredibly detailed breakdown of the samples on Girl Talk's great album, Feed the Animals. (Via Anthony)
- Hilarious Diablo III shirt. (Via @Agent_M)
- Read about a crazy, shape-shifting, iPhone-controlled electric concept car.
- One big part of the new stimulus package is transparency; all the stimulus-spending data will be posted at a new government site: Recovery.gov.
- The second Googlephone is the touchscreen-only Magic.
- Five of the films screening at SXSW will be available simultaneously for you to watch at home via IFC's on-demand system.
- Breckin Meyer's writing a screenplay called Superguys, described as "Ocean's 11 with idiots set at Comic-Con." Awesome.
- Mickey Rourke says, "Right now, we're not doing Iron Man 2." That is sad.
- Just about every geeky thing you can think of, all in one place: it's Goon City! (Via @Agent_M)
- Vanessa Hudgens might take the lead role in a film adaptation of a comic book called Dead @ 17, about a girl who is killed and then reborn to fight demons.
- More Scott Pilgrim cast photos have hit the 'net.
- Robert Rodriguez will both write and direct a new futuristic thriller for Dimension called Nerverackers. It's set in the year 2085 and tells the story of "an elite unit dispatched to quell a crime wave in a theoretically perfect future society."
- A new, safer way to shorten URLs.
- Download Squad pulls together a random assortment of weird links.
- Hulu's getting its videos pulled from TV.com and Boxee.
- Look out for falling Tetris blocks.
- Beware zombie Mario! Also, a great Mario-themed road sign hack.
- G4 is laying off some folks and cutting down X-Play and Attack of the Show to three and four episodes a week, respectively.
- Blizzard says the Ulduar raid dungeon included in the upcoming 3.1 update of World of Warcraft will be the game's "most ambitious raid to date."
- The sequel to Dragonball: Evolution has already been written. Meanwhile, director James Wong and star James Marsters explain some of the changes they made to the story and why.
- The rumor came out recently that Warner Bros. had asked for reshoots on Sherlock Holmes, but Warner Bros. says, "It is not true that Warner Bros. has asked for any reshoots on Sherlock Holmes. The inserts and pickup shots being completed next week, which have long been part of the schedule, do not involve any cast, and are a standard part of filmmaking."
- Word is that Arnold Schwarzenegger will be playing himself in Sylvester Stallone’s The Expendables. We can also apparently expect to see Eric Roberts, Mickey Rourke, and Danny Trejo.
- The British superhero-spoofing sitcom No Heroics is coming to the US.
- You can follow the exploits of Captain Britain on Twitter! (Via)
- It looks like Ang Lee is the latest director to attempt a film adaptation of Yann Martel's fantasy novel, Life of Pi.
- The House of the Dead: Overkill developers say they'd love to do Virtua Cop or another light gun game for Sega.
- Industry professionals weighed in and have predicted that Nintendo and Activision will be the most profitable platform holder and publisher, respectively, of 2009.
- How about that DSi? You can now preorder it at Amazon and GameStop. A launch title has also been announced: Rhythm Heaven.
- The Pac-Man ghosts, now improved! (Via)
- Food chain friends.
- Could Dee Jay and T. Hawk end up in Street Fighter IV? Maybe. Meanwhile, here's another positive review of the game.
- An Android version of Guitar Hero is on the way. Meanwhile, Lynyrd Skynyrd got its name misspelled on the box art for Guitar Hero: Metallica. Admittedly, Lynyrd Skynyrd is hard to spell, but you've gotta get it right when putting it on the cover of your rock and roll video game!
- The trailer for a 3D animated sci-fi film called Battle for Terra, which is sort of like Battlestar Galactica, if BG ended with humanity attacking and invading a planet full of cute little monsters. And who knows, maybe it will!
- One of the screenwriters for Green Lantern says the movie is moving forward. Hopefully he's right!
- Somebody taught a robot to play rock-paper-scissors. Well... that's better than teaching it to kill humans, we suppose.
- You can now buy a geeky T-shirt designed by Wil Wheaton on shirt.woot.
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