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Summary of Joss Whedon’s new online musical miniseries. I plopped down the $4 for a “season pass” in iTunes, and loved the first episode. Looking forward to episode 2 arriving in iTunes tonight.

The classic arcade game Defender, implemented as a Firefox favicon! A bit of a silly hack, but the idea of updating favicons dynamically (to alert users when they’re looking at a different tab) has some milage.

Quality! A 3D-sculpture of Twitter’s almost-ever present beacon of FAIL!

Michel Gondry’s next film involved Jack Black and Mos Def recreating movies amateurishly. Here, Michel Gondry recreates that film’s trailer amateurishly. Genius!

Avoid being Rickroll’d with this anti-rickrolling firefox plugin. A great example of Firefox’s extensions making the internet a safer place to be.

Large collection of loungecore covers. Hugo Montenegro’s version of “Na Na Hey Hey (Kiss Him Goodbye)” is my favourite so far.

I’m In Like With You branches out into wickedly-addictive multiplayer Tetris. They even let you play without joining the site.

“You are bidding on a rare chance to traumatize a treasured friend or relative with baffling, mind-numbing, mystery correspondence from abroad.” Hooray for the internet!

I want to move to Canada so I can see more PSAs like this. Freakin’ *AWESOME*!

Great Rands article. It’s a bit hit-or-miss describing me, but the section “Nerds are fucking funny” sums me up perfectly. “Humor is an intellectual puzzle, “How can this particular set of esoteric trivia be constructed to maximize hilarity as quickly as possible?”“

Google’s new text translation service was created by running machine learning over UN documents. Unfortunately, its “learning” for politicians’ names is.. erm.. “interesting”. Try also “Sarkozy sarkozy sarkozy”

(Since Google will probably fix this, at the moment it translates “Sarkozy is chirac” to “Bush is classless”)

Sounds fucking AMAZING! Do I dare buy a $300 console, just to play a $5 game?

New cupcakes bakery in Davis Square — Deep fried cupcakes? Be still my (clogged-and-barely) beating heart.

The whole of a *fantastic* behind-the-scenes documentary about the making of The Muppet Show.

Codec allowing you to reliably back your data up to dead-tree. You can print about 200kb to a sheet of A4, then scan it in later to retrieve your data.

Life (deliberately) imitating “art”.

Quite possibly the best movie “teaser” ever. No title, no cast list, no clue as to WTF is going on… But dagnammit, I want to see the film!

More on the BBC/MusicBrainz link-up — Not only are the Beeb paying to use MB data on their site, the music experts over there will be helping update MB. This can only be a good thing.

Compilation of the ZX Spectrum programs sometimes included with British pop singles in the 80s. “OH DEAR!! a bat bit you” I had no idea about the Urusei Yatsura track. Gonna have to give that a shot!

Why have I not seen this until now? Beautifully-made pitch-perfect re-casting of Pulp Fiction with Muppets. Sam the Eagle *is* Christopher Walken.