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A steaming hot pile of our favorite things from around the internets.
- If you're like us, you were horrified when Twitter and Facebook crapped out yesterday due to denial of service attacks. Could crazies be to blame? At least Twitter has started filtering malicious URLs. And soon we'll be able to tweet directly from our brains (via)! Finally, here's an in-depth look at the 5% of most active users on Twitter (via).
- We wonder if somebody at this hacker conference was to blame for the DOS attacks...
- The full trailer for The Lovely Bones. Wow.
- The parties have settled in the Brütal Legend lawsuit. No details yet, but... whew.
- What that Toadstool guy really thinks of Mario.
- Cliff Curtis, who plays Fire Lord Ozai in The Last Airbender, says the movie is only the first in a planned trilogy.
- A new trailer for Where the Wild Things Are. Yep, still looks amazing.
- Apple's nonsensical rules for its App Store hit a new low as the company censors a dictionary (via Jill). Also, if you're thinking of getting an iPod Shuffle to use during your workout, you might want to think again: many customers are reporting that getting sweat on the thing can break it (via Sarah).
- This "Italian Spiderman" video is a bit offensive—but also funny. (Via)
- A Dr. Horrible sequel is in the works! Hoorah! (Via)
- An amusing and touching song: "Hey There Cthulhu." (Via Bob)
- An amusing public service announcement.
- 31 unbelievable high school mascots/logos. (Via)
- Apparently, you can now buy your own personal satellite and get it launched into space for you.
- There seems to be an odd trend developing with brands shortening their names. Here's a list of 20 more brands that could use shorter names. (Via)
- A very cool piece of art. (Via)
- Holograms you can touch and feel! (Via)
- Conclusive proof that Marvel is better than DC: Marvel beat DC in a softball game.
- Squirrel power! (Via)
- A look at how Harry Potter gets converted into 3D.
- 8 things on the web that should be thrown down a black hole.
- Now this is a cool headline: "Self-Assembling DNA Makes Super 3-D Nano Machines."
- 5 tips for raising your girl geek.
- Round 3 of the Best Superhero Movie of All Time Tournament.
- The best and worst vampire movies. Aww, we like Dracula 2000 and From Dusk Till Dawn!
- An amusing red band trailer for Zombieland.
- Korean pop star Rain is supposedly the front-runner to play the Bruce Lee character in an Enter the Dragon remake.
- New images from After.Life.
- Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje would like to play the Black Panther, please. We approve!
- Leonardo DiCaprio is involved in a lot of projects, including a Little Red Riding Hood film and an adaptation of Brave New World to be directed by Ridley Scott.
- The final cast for Machete has been revealed.
- An interview with Tim Burton.
- We didn't even know there was a web-based version of Photoshop at Photoshop.com, but apparently it's now the only free version of the software from Adobe, as the Album Starter Edition is being discontinued.
- The Wall Street Journal claims there's a new trend of coffee shops covering up outlets, banning laptops, or pushing out people who sit for too long. Really?? But... what's a coffee shop for besides sitting around with your laptop?
- Starcraft 2 has been delayed.
- A new line of stamps will celebrate classic '50s TV shows.
- A trailer for the film-within-a-film from Inglorious Basterds. (Via)
- The winner of the Star Wars Fan Movie Challenge.
- Syfy has hired Bryan Singer to produce a six-hour miniseries inspired by Mayan mythology. Aren't they already making a film about that called 2012?
- The PAX exhibitors have been revealed.
- Playing Guitar Hero with a real guitar!
- Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman talk about the script for the next Star Trek movie, Fringe's parallel universe, and the View-Master movie.
- "Producers of The Dark Knight and 300 are developing a futuristic take on Robin Hood."
- Fox promises to leave Joss and Dollhouse alone this time.
- A look at Syfy's Alice.
- Director Peter Berg is developing a new film version of Dune. Also, an area of Saturn's moon Titan will be named after a planet in Dune.
- News briefs: Alexis Denisof is going to be on Dollhouse, and James McTeigue will direct The Raven, wherein Edgar Allan Poe will head up an investigation into a serial killer.
- Fisticups: the mugs with brass knuckles as handles! Seems to go along well with this patch (via).
- Cool video with lasers and stuff.
- An unorthodox browser error.
- Terry Gilliam is apparently considering adapting a Philip K. Dick novel.
- Julian Togelius and Sergey Karakovskiy of the IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark have started a contest where the goal is to create a piece of software that can learn how to play Super Mario Bros. the same way that people do: by playing it over and over again.
- Disney, c'mon!
- When science fiction fans go bad.
- We are more pleased than we probably should be that a creationist theme park called Dinosaur Adventure Land will be seized by the government because its owners were convicted of tax fraud.
- Geekadelphia celebrates Global Geek Week with a video featuring 52 amazing geeks.
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