A steaming hot pile of our favorite things from around the internets.
- The LEGO Architecture brand is going to offer Frank Lloyd Wright building sets! Awesome. (Via)
- Hilarious: Death Star briefing as PowerPoint presentation. (Via)
- Surely you already love The Dandy Warhols' fantastic song "We Used to Be Friends," what with the Veronica Mars connection and all. But a puppet music video makes it even better (via). Also check out a very cool video for Nyle's fantastic track "Let the Beat Build" (via). He don't need no sample! He's got a girl with a banjo!
- A first look at M. Night Shyamalan's The Last Airbender. We are deeply worried this is going to suck. (Via)
- Terminators are huge on the internet! Looks like the army is actually building the damn things (didn't they see the movies?!). Both Cinematical and Sci Fi Wire are trying to work out the various paradoxes and problems with the Terminator timeline. Terminator in 30 seconds re-enacted by bunnies (via). Nerd World's notes on Terminator Salvation.
- Very cool trailer for the upcoming sci-fi film Surrogates. Only issue: looks like they gave away the whole movie!!
- For some reason, this totally cracked us up. (Via)
- TuneCore is poised to partner with Amazon on an on-demand CD-printing-and-distribution service.
- Data.gov has launched to mixed reviews.
- Tweeting the Mona Lisa.
- The judge assigned to review whether the trial judge in the Pirate Bay trial was biased has now been removed... for bias. D'oh!
- "If you have a wireless router, a cordless phone, remote car-door opener, baby monitor or cellphone in your house, the FCC claims the right to enter your home without a warrant at any time of the day or night in order to inspect it." Wha?!
- Craigslist finally got tired of being badgered by South Carolina's attorney general and sued him. Now he's backing off.
- Flu pandemics could be sealed in glaciers or frozen lakes, waiting to be released. Great.
- Cinematical picks seven great time travel movies. One of these we don't like, and another we've never seen, but the rest are excellent selections.
- Woody Allen got a $5 million settlement payout from American Apparel.
- Twilight actor fights off Twilight fans.
- An amusing web comic about the Dollhouse/Terminator conflict. (Via)
- Ooh! New version of Chrome!
- Make any Windows app always stay on top.
- Microsoft will demo its new search engine to the public next month.
- Download Squad asks: Can software determine the aesthetic value of a photograph?
- David Tennant and Russell T. Davies are saying good-bye to Doctor Who.
- How about a free, live Bat for Lashes track?
- An amusing new clip from Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
- Captain America says hi. (Via)
- Street Fighter II, reduced to its essentials.
- Jack Black getting pumped for BrĂ¼tal Legend.
- Sci Fi Wire provides a handy rundown of all the upcoming sci-fi and fantasy shows on TV. And they have promos for a couple of these shows.
- Wondermark is reporting live from the World Beard & Moustache Championships!
- The 10 most disturbing books of all time. We've only read three. (Via)
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