A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you.
- Star Trek opens tomorrow, so we've got plenty more Star Trek-related links for you today: Star Trek cakes (via Sarah); a lengthy (but very good) video essay on Spock (via Dan); Kirk, Spock, and McCoy enjoying a playground (via); a Star Trek desktop wallpaper; Star Trek iPhone apps; Karl Urban on playing Dr. McCoy; more pics from the movie; and finally, what Wil Wheaton thinks of it.
- More news on the Game of Thrones HBO pilot! Tom McCarthy will direct and Peter Dinklage will play Tyrion. (Via)
- Dude! New pages from Batman and Robin. Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely FTW! (Via)
- Activision has officially announced Guitar Hero 5, Band Hero, and DJ Hero, all coming this fall. Here are a few pics of the DJ Hero controller, and some details on the controller for Scratch: The Ultimate DJ. At long last the full set list for Guitar Hero: Smash Hits has been revealed (via). But maybe it's time to leave the whole rock and rhythm genre behind: revenue is down, and EA expects Rock Band to lose $400 million in 2009. Good God!
- New pics from Sherlock Holmes.
- Threat Level argues that copying DVDs for personal use should be legal. We agree whole-heartedly.
- Even a picture of Chuck Norris can strike fear into burglars. (Via)
- Chewbacca feeds a chipmunk. (Via)
- Ten people banned from Britain.
- The top 10 Avengers foes. (Via)
- A look at a new sport: sabersegging. (Via)
- Donald Faison on his Star Wars idea: The Chronicles of Lando Calrissian. (Via)
- 3D Realms, the developer of Duke Nukem Forever, has been shut down, which means we probably won't ever get Duke Nukem Forever, as many suspected.
- Gadget gallery! Always a good time.
- Refrigerated glove box!
- What a surprise: the FBI is doing a terrible job at managing its terror watch list.
- Gadget Lab reports after a hands-on experience with Amazon's Kindle DX.
- Wired presents some cheat codes for everyday life, and some short synopses of confusing stories.
- Katie Holmes will star in a remake of the '70s TV movie Don't Be Afraid of the Dark, which will be written by Guillermo del Toro and Matthew Robbins and directed by del Toro protege Troy Nixey.
- A trailer and description of an interesting upcoming project: the James Hyman / Quentin Tarantino Movie Mash-Up.
- Pretty interesting trailer for a sci-fi film called District 9 produced by Peter Jackson.
- Dress like an action hero.
- The Barbarella remake is dead.
- Bradley Cooper could play Green Lantern. We like the guy, but not for this role. Meanwhile, the film's release date, along with that of Zack Snyder's Sucker Punch!, has been pushed back.
- Some big changes are coming for Twitter's search app. Also, how about a Twitter client and music player in one?
- Heh. This is a pretty great commercial. (Via)
- Three must-have Firefox add-ons.
- Angry Alien reveals a list of its upcoming bunny projects.
- Photoshop mash-ups of movie posters and video games. (Via)
- A previously unpublished work by J.R.R. Tolkien, consisting of two long narrative poems written in a traditional Norse meter, just hit bookstore shelves.
- At Disneyland, photos are snapped of you while you're on various rides so the park can try to sell them to you afterwards as souvenirs. Apparently Disney had a whole group of employees on staff just to scan these photos for nudity. Well those employees have now been reassigned, so flash away, ladies!
- We already saw the Kindle and the Shuffle doing Blade Runner; now you can see them do Star Trek II and Empire Strikes Back. (Via)
- Eminem will fight zombies in an upcoming iPhone game.
- Texas may require sex offenders to report their gamertags.
- Blizzard is opening beta test opt-in for Starcraft II.
- McG talks Terminator: Salvation and Chuck.
- Sci Fi Wire reports from the set of Dead of Night, and shows off an exclusive pic.
- Guillermo del Toro could get on board to produce a horror film called Mama by two debut filmmakers, whom he would also mentor. The film would be a feature length version of an acclaimed Spanish-language short.
- A look at the set of Clash of the Titans.
- Sexy, old school hover scooter.
- A race car made out of plants, fruits, and vegetables that runs on chocolate. We live in the future!
- The periodic table of superheroics.
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cant wait to play this scratch game...gorillaz has me sold