• Congrats to the navy for a great shoot down. No, seriously. Here’s the video. Anybody who thinks that is an easy thing has no idea.
• Speaking of which, they are starting to see broken up pieces of the bird entering the atmo.
• To add to the fun, the satellite shoot-down took place just as the moon was going through an infrequent lunar eclipse. I took a look at it during a few phases of the eclipse. A pic of the eclipse I took with my nifty new Canon PowerShot S5 IS camera is featured on this post. I know I could have taken a better shot, but I’m still kinda getting used to the controls on the camera, and it was frickin’ freezing out (nearly zero degrees). Still, the pic turned out pretty good for being only a partially manual shot.
• Occasionally, The Onion will have a news story that just strikes my funny bone perfectly. This is just such a story. I was tearing up, laughing so hard while reading it.
• Oooooh, David Fincher is directing a graphic novel adaptation, Black Hole. I’m there.
• Then there’s word that Leonardo DiCaprio is involved in a LIVE ACTION remake of Akira. I’ve got no idea if they can even come close to making it work. I like Akira, and I’ll admit that the last act of the movie makes zero sense. I have to imagine them reworking it, somehow. But if they could somehow bring the first 30 minutes to life, with anywhere near the style that the animated film has, I’ll wanna see that.
• More and more cast members are being added onto the roster for the Buffy Paley Center event. Now Alyson Hannigan and David Boreanaz have joined in on the fun. But hey, if Alyson is going, where’s Alexis Denisof?
• Coolness…
• Was your science fair project better than these? Too funny…
• The HD-DVD walls continue to crumble. The major remaining HD-DVD supporting studios, Paramount and Universal, have officially jumped ship as well.
• Help Stop Darth Weinstein. I haven’t actually seen Fanboys yet, though I’ve wanted to for some time. The reason I really want to see it just goes to underline the true nature of Fanboys in general. I want to see it because it stars Kristen Bell. Doesn’t hurt that it’s about Star Wars/fans. But yeah, this movie has had a stupid, tumultuous history trying to get to an actual release.
• Here’s an amusing little entry in the GMail Team Blog
• Congrats to Monk for a seventh season pickup
• iPaper - a hopeful new attempt to kill the PDF. It’s certainly a faster platform (what isn’t?).
• A nifty presentation of the newest version of the $5 bill (and some cool pics and info on previous versions)
• The Sharper Image has filed for chapter 11
• Gotta love code developers (credit for this one goes to Drupal’s always-excellent and fun Jeff Eaton)
• Meanwhile, Juno continues on it’s steady run

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