Daily Links

Here are some links for your brain, don't let the zombies get them.

• Quotes from the best cult films of the 80's. Source (80s Cult Movie Source)
• Issac Hayes' family sues label for rights to songs. Source (Star Pulse)
• Daniel Radcliff says nudity in his broadway show is treated like pornography. Source (Stuff)
• How To Talk Anyone Into Anything. Source (MSNBC)
• Sean Connery to write and release a new autobiography. Source (AP)
• Kristin Bell to role in main female lead in the new Astro Boy animated movie. Source (Cinema Blend)
• Scientists stop the aging process in a full organ. Source (Tech Nut News)
• 5 useful Photoshop effects for your photos. Souce (Themes Live)

Finally, here's a hysterical video from some dude who explains how being nice to girls gets your friends laid. Funny stuff from the guys at Funny Or Die dot com:

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Late night helping of tea and links. Watch out for ogres.

• Download 8 Hours of old school arcade cocaphony. Source (Kotaku)
• Top 10 Fictional Sports including, but not limited to, Quidditch. Source (Retro Crush)
• Historians conclude that the reason the confederacy lost the US Civil War was because of it's own deep divisions and not those hippy-loving yankees. Source (AJC)
• 6 Most Depressing Happy Endings to a movie. Source (Cracked)
• Barenaked Ladies frontman miraculously survives a plane crash. Source (Toronto Sun)

I don't normally gorge my audience with more than one video per Daily Links, however today is an exception because I really couldn't choose between the two. The first one is a tribute to Ted's band, The Worthless Peons from the hit NBC show Scrubs. It's a well-cut video of clips of many of their acapella songs which are hysterical.

The second is a remix from a series on A&E called Intervention. While Mind Your Own Damn Business does not condone drug abuse, nor doing anything as remotely stupid as huffing this dusting stuff, the video is hysterical. Call be a horrible person, but having a clip of a woman being completely blasted out of her mind to the tune "I'm Walking On Sunshine" as she's repeating it just makes me giggle.

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• Hayden Panettiere just did a photoshoot for ads for Dooney and Bourke, a handbag company. She's looking gorgeous, as usual. Source (Just Jared)
• Intel designing a new wireless power system which will eliminate the need for cords all together. Source (Yahoo! News)
• 25 Reasons why non-Mac users should shut their pie holes. Source (Mac Life)
• The Parallel Universe Film Guide. Source (Wiki)
• Critics THINK that the new Twilight movie will be competition against the Harry Potter franchise. They are delusionally mistaken. Source (Telegraph)

Finally, here's a clip of John Mayer playing "When It Rains" with Paramore at one of their shows in Pittsburgh.

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• Decendants of the Knight Templars sue the pope and the church for reparations. Funny how things come full-circle. Source (Forbes)
• Microsoft admits to spying on their customers. No surprises there. Source (Alley Insider)
• Indian state government encourages population to start eating rats to save on grain. Source (Yahoo! News)
• Construction of the new WTC building slowing down, I didn't even know they were at a "fast" pace from which to slow. It's been 7 years and nothing's been accomplished. Source (Newsday)
• 29 Terrific Instrumentals from bands who normally sing. Source (AV Club)
• Stephen Colbert's Top 7 Drug Moments. Source (Comedy Central)
  

Finally, here's a little music video that the guys from Mega64 put together. It's a music video for the song "Brainpower" by the electro-pop band Freezepop. Enjoy!

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• Blogger who writes about Best Buy parody t-shirt gets legal threat. Source (TG Daily)
  
• The Games That Pushed The Limits Of The NES. Source (Racket Boy)
• Top 100 Motivational Quotes. Source (Bold Words)
• The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee voted on Thursday to hold two top aides to President George W. Bush in contempt of Congress for refusing to cooperate in its probe of fired federal prosecutors. Source (Yahoo News)
• The Smashing Pumpkins are planning to release some new material on January 1. Source (Digital Spy)
• Blogger/Teacher gets third paper from child saying 9/11 was Iraq's fault. Source (Big Monkey, Helpy Chalk)
• The 10 Most Overpaid U.S. Jobs And the Little Effort They Require. Source (Career Journal)

Finally, here is the first aired commercial for McDonalds, featuring a very creepy, first redition of Ronald McDonald. If I saw this air at my age back then, I'm not so sure I'd be interested in eating McDonalds.

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• Some pretty funny Kids In The Hall clips. Source (Pajiba)
  
• The Bush administration was under court order not to discard evidence of detainee torture and abuse months before the CIA destroyed videotapes that revealed some of its harshest interrogation tactics. Source (Yahoo News)
• Blu-ray vs. HD DVD battle heats up as Christmas approaches. Source (Ars Technica)
• Imagine that. A lock of John Lennon's hair sold for $48,000 Wednesday in an auction of Beatles' memorabilia collected by the band's hairdresser. Source (iWon News)
• President Bush vetoed legislation Wednesday that would have expanded government-provided health insurance for children, his second slap-down of a bipartisan effort in Congress to dramatically increase funding for the popular program. Source (Yahoo News)
• A Guide to who is on the cover of Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band. Source (Beatles Max)
• Your brain depends on a variety of nutrients to keep itself balanced. Cheetos and beer are not on the list. The scoop on six snacks that will help kick your mind into gear. Source (Men's Health)

Finally, this video isn't new, but it's still funny as hell. It's a Japanese game show that takes place in a library. They each choose a card and the one with the skull and crossbones has to take the punishment. It's pretty ridiculous, especially the slap machine.

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• Alex Trebek Had A Heart Attack! Source (D-Listed)
• IESB.net has gotten hold of something called “the Black List”, a compilation of suggestions by over 150 film executives and high-level assistants. Each of these folks gave the names of up to ten of their favorite scripts written in 2007, and one of these scripts was Parker and Stone’s upcoming Paramount project, GIANT MONSTERS ATTACK JAPAN! The movie has been announced for release next year, and all anyone knew up till now is that it would be PG-rated. Source (IF Magazine)
• RIAA files supplemental brief in Atlantic v. Howell; argues personal copies ripped to computer are unauthorized. Source (Recording Industry vs. The People)
• Nasa says its robot rover Spirit has made one of its most significant discoveries on the surface of Mars. Scientists believe a patch of ground disturbed by the vehicle shows evidence of a past environment that would have been perfect for microbial life. Source (BBC News)
• NASA's fleet of THEMIS spacecraft, launched less than 8 months ago, has made three important discoveries about spectacular eruptions of Northern Lights called "substorms" and the source of their power. The discoveries include giant magnetic ropes that connect Earth's upper atmosphere to the Sun and explosions in the outskirts of Earth's magnetic field. Source (NASA)
• The new Super Mario Power Up! Energy Drink is a Nintendo marketing executive’s most delicious fantasy. Source (Coolest Gadgets)

Finally, here's a video of a commercial from 1982 featuring a young Jack Black plugging the Atari game Pitfall. It's really funny to see him so young.

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• RIAA is forcing a charity organization to pay fees so children can sing Christmas Carols. Source (Torrent Freak)
  
• Hollywood superstar Will Smith has revealed he has his eye on the greatest role of his life – to become President of the United States. Source (Daily Mail)
• Less than three months after it began, the 2007-08 television season is basically over -- and nobody won. Source (Variety)
• Fantasy movie The Golden Compass has shot straight to the top of the U.S. box-office chart, ending Enchanted's fairytale two-week stay at number one over the weekend. Source (Star Pulse)
• Big Brother U.S. Government Subpoenaed Amazon.com to Obtain Book Purchasing Records of Customers. Source (News Target)
• The cast of The Golden Compass - which stars Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig - have received death threats from religious zealots. Source (Now Magazine)

Finally, here is a video of an Indian song that they did a la Thriller. The ridiculous part of this video is someone added subtitles, not of the English translation but of what it sounds like the singer is saying phonetically. The video alone is hilarious, but the subtitles just add on to the comedy.

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• Countdown Special Comment: The NIE Reflects An “Unhinged, Irrational Chicken Little Of A President”. Source (Crooks And Liars)
• Talks Day #8: Moguls Walk From Talks After Issuing An Ultimatum To Writers; Both Sides Accuse Each Other Of Lying. Source (Deadline Hollywood Daily)
• Wake Up: A Guide to Living Your Life Consciously. Source (Zen Habits)
• The 22 Best Writing Tips Ever. Source (Writing Forward)
• Top Ten Fantasy Books. Source (Blue Sun Corp)

Finally, here's an interesting video about food breaking down, specifically fast food McDonalds. Particularly watch the fast-food fries, and the SPEED at which they start to break down.

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• Jack Black (who is barely recognizable these days thanks to modern day inventions such as bleach and razors) was apparently not thrilled about the gratuitous use of his ass in his new film, Margot At The Wedding. Source (Webster's Is My Bitch)
• A teenage suspect who secretly recorded his interrogation on an MP3 player has landed a veteran detective in the middle of perjury charges, authorities said Thursday. Unaware of the recording, Detective Christopher Perino testified in April that the suspect "wasn't questioned" about a shooting in the Bronx, a criminal complaint said. But then the defense confronted the detective with a transcript it said proved he had spent more than an hour unsuccessfully trying to persuade Erik Crespo to confess - at times with vulgar tactics. Source (My Way)
• Congress Creates Copyright Cops. Source (Slashdot)
• A Citi Investment Research analyst warned Wednesday that Netflix Inc. could be hurt by a recommended surcharge on online media rental services, whose return mailers often require manual processing. Source (CNN Money)
• With few clear signs that the five-week writers strike will end soon, the WGA faces the daunting prospect that the majors will lose patience with the slow pace of negotiations and make a take-it-or-leave-it offer as early as next week. Source (Variety)
• Sen. Whitehouse Reveals Secret DoJ Legal Memos: Bush Determines What Is Constitutional. Source (Think Progress)
• An Icelandic teen, MSNBC reports, figured out President Bush’s private phone number, and called it recently, leaving a message saying he was the president of Iceland and wanted him to call him back. Source (Big Head DC)
• Simon Pegg is an Englishman in New York for his next comic adventure, How to Lose Friends and Alienate People. Source (The Sun)

Finally, here's an old video, but it's a damn funny one. It's called "My New Haircut". The language in it is NSFW but 100% hilarious.

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• Stem cell research took another major step forward Thursday when scientists announced they had cured sickle cell anemia in mice using stem cells derived from adult skin. Source (Yahoo News)
• There are many useful uses for beer besides drinking it and having fun. Source (GoMestic)
• For years scientists have wrestled with a puzzling fact: The universe appears to be remarkably suited for life. Its physical properties are finely tuned to permit our existence. Source (Space.com)
• The CIA destroyed videotapes in 2005 showing the use of harsh interrogation methods on two terrorism suspects because the agency feared the tapes could be leaked to the public and reveal the identities of the questioners, the CIA director told employees today. Source (Washington Post)
• Thinking of switching to a Mac? Here's why you might. Source (USA Today)
• Father posts Guitar Hero 3 on eBay after finding his son getting high on the porch. Auctioning ex-christmas present off, posts story in description. Source (eBay)
  

Finally, here's the new trailer for the 2nd Chronicals of Narnia movie entitled "Prince Caspian"

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• A new U.S. intelligence report says Iran halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003 and it remains on hold, contradicting the Bush administration's earlier assertion that Tehran was intent on developing a bomb...Bush's national security adviser Stephen Hadley said in a statement..."But the intelligence also tells us that the risk of Iran acquiring a nuclear weapon remains a very serious problem." Source (Yahoo News)
• Fox News has refused to air an ad produced by the Center for Constitutional Rights that criticizes the Bush administration for "destroying the Constitution" by the use of renditions, torture, and other tactics. The ad, "Rescue the Constitution," which is narrated by actor Danny Glover, can be viewed here and here. Source (Media Matters)
• Following in the footsteps of Saturday Night Live and 30 Rock, Stephen Colbert and the writers on The Colbert Report will perform a live version of their show at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in New York Monday. Source (Broadcasting Cable)
• A Sweeny Todd movie review. Source (Ain't It Cool)
• With both sides back at the barricades, many believe the writers strike won't be resolved until March at the earliest. Source (Variety)
• Interview with Jimmy Jean-Louis, The Haitian from Heroes. Source (Chron)
• Antigravitational devices developed by a computer geek could eventually change the world as we know it. Or they may just blow a few holes into some barn roofs. The devices are known as "lifters." When charged with a small amount of electrical power, they levitate, apparently able to resist Earth's gravitational forces. Source (Wired)
• Rum is becoming more popular in wake of Johnny Depp's Pirates of the Caribbean films, retailers revealed today. Demand for the sailors' favourite has surged by 31% across all retailers in the past year to make it the UK's fastest growing spirit, according to analysts AC Nielsen. Source (Daily Mail)
• President Hugo Chavez suffered a stinging defeat in a vote on constitutional changes that would have let him run for re-election indefinitely, the chief of National Electoral Council said Monday. Source (Yahoo News)

Finally here is a funny video of a cat in zero-G gravity, clearly freaked out by its experience.

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• Either this confirms that the US Government is hiding the fact that UFOs exist, or Bush is just looking for another way to waste US tax payers money. Source (Funnbee)
• Their strike isn't over, but some Hollywood writers put down their picket signs last night at the request of Elizabeth Taylor. Taylor performed in A.R. Gurney's play "Love Letters" with James Earl Jones at the Paramount Pictures studio in Hollywood to benefit World AIDS Day. Source (WBIR)
• Jay Leno received criticism after most of his non-striking staff was laid off and given shitty ass holiday bonuses. Jay and NBC are apparently on damage control. Jay has agreed to pay 80 laid off workers for at least the next week out of his own pocket. It could be extended if the strike goes beyond that. Source (D-Listed)
• The state Attorney General's office (Oregon) this week filed an appeal in U.S. District Court in Oregon calling for an immediate investigation of the evidence presented by the RIAA when it subpoenaed the identities of 17 students at the University of Oregon who allegedly infringed music copyrights. Source (PC World)
• Japan's latest invention: The dental training robot that can 'feel pain'. Source (Daily Mail)
• I hate to use the “C” word, but there is no other way to say it. There is a national conspiracy to prevent renewable energy from becoming the primary energy source in the United States. Source (Op Ed News)
• File this under "straight out of left field" -- Activision, the publishing powerhouse behind the Call of Duty and Tony Hawk series; and Vivendi Games, owner of Blizzard Entertainment, which you probably don't need us to tell you is behind the Warcraft and Starcraft series, are coming together to form "the world's most profitable games business," cleverly named Activision Blizzard. Source (Joystiq)
• There has been no shortage of books chronicling the dystopia that is the Bush Administration. And in this job, I’ve read quite a few of them. None of them have made as powerful an impact as Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine. Source (Crooks and Liars)
• A partially mummified hadrosaur discovered by a teenager in the US may be the most complete dinosaur ever found, with intact skin that shows evidence of stripes and perhaps soft tissue, researchers say. Source (ABC News)

Finally, here is the newest episode of The Guild, a quirky online series, starring Felicia Day. If you like this one, check out the other episodes on their YouTube Channel.

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• A juvenile fan of the video game Halo 3 is accused of punching his mother after she forced him to end his game Sunday night and fighting with sheriff’s deputies as they tried to restrain him, according to reports released Wednesday. Source (Anxus)
• The south Jersey town of Vineland – or “shithole Vtown” as some locals call it – will host a massive three-day rock festival with camping this August. The Vineland Festival will be presented in a partnership between the company that resurrected Lollapalooza in Chicago and U.K. concert promoter Melvin Benn, who has managed the Reading Festival. Source (Gothamist)
• A federal judge has ordered the Bush administration to divulge documents related to immunizing telecommunications companies from lawsuits, saying they illegally opened their networks to the National Security Agency. Source (cNet)
• Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has said failure to negotiate a two-state solution with the Palestinians would spell the end of the State of Israel. He warned of a "South African-style struggle" which Israel would lose if a Palestinian state was not established. Source (BBC)
• A powerful Senate chairman acknowledged explicitly on Thursday that President Bush was not involved in the firings of U.S. attorneys last winter and therefore ruled illegal the president's executive privilege claims protecting his chief of staff and former adviser Karl Rove. Source (MSNBC)
• Since declaring his candidacy for president in February, Obama, a member of a congregation of the United Church of Christ in Chicago, has had to address assertions that he is a Muslim or that he had received training in Islam in Indonesia, where he lived from ages 6 to 10. While his father was an atheist and his mother did not practice religion, Obama's stepfather did occasionally attend services at a mosque there. Source (Washington Post)
• The Wagner Companies makes aluminum hand rails for staircases, but about a year ago they decided to start creating Festivus poles during the slow winter months. Source (Hojpodge)
• Xbox 360 adds new titles to its backwards-compatibility list, bringing the total to over 300 Xbox Original games you can play on the 360. Source (Major Nelson)

Finally, here's a classic video of Bert the Turtle teaching us the importance of Duck and Cover from the 50's. Because that would obviously be the best defense against a nuke being dropped in a town near you.

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• Windows is notorious for having useless features and CPU resource hogging programs/services enabled by default. Today’s post is about removing some of the useless services. Source (Mark Sanborn)
  
• Catholics getting their panties in a twist over "anti-religious messages" in the new Philip Pullman movie The Golden Compass. Source (BBC)
• Google investing in solar power to fuel their massive server farm. Source (Gizmodo)
• Tolkien's great-grandson arrested in the UK for possession of £3,000 worth of marijuana. Source (The Sun)
• 9 Legendary Cartoon Voices (and where else you may have heard them). Source (Mental Floss)
• British music industry major EMI wants to cut its funding to the industry's trade bodies, a source familiar with the situation told Reuters on Wednesday, which could deal a blow to the fight against music piracy. Source (Yahoo News)
• In the November 15 episode of NBC's "30 Rock," Alec Baldwin and Tina Fey, in their roles as Jack Donaghy and Liz Lemon, sang the praises of Verizon Wireless before Fey looked right into the camera and asked, "Can we have our money now?" At least in this case, art did indeed imitate life. Verizon said it handed over an integration fee to NBC, in addition to some marketing support, for the mini-commercial within one of the network's hottest shows. Source (Yahoo News)
• How to improve your concentration. Source (Life Hack)
  
• A 400-year-old book covered in a sheet of wrinkled human skin is going under the hammer in a bizarre auction. It is thought the skin was cut from the corpse of one of Guy Fawkes' fellow conspirators in the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. Source (Sky News)

Finally, here's an awesome video that was on Gizmodo today. It's a commercial from Norway promoting growth in the Engineering field, and it uses some sweet special effects, too bad trains don't normally do this, it would make riding on them a lot more entertaining.

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• Hollywood screenwriters have returned to the negotiating table, three weeks after beginning strike action. Source (BBC)
• Well, as if the Screenwriter's Guild hasn't suffered enough with the recent strike in the US, Sean Connery has come along and reduced the writers to tears by loftily announcing that he will never make another film again. Source (Holy Moly)
• The major fall update slated for the Xbox 360 now has a set release date and its first significant feature, Microsoft said today. The upgrade is now set to launch on December 4th and will incorporate Find Old Friends, a new service that will let users browse the friend lists of other gamers on the Xbox Live service. Source (Electronista)
• Collegiate Quidditch takes off — figuratively, at least. Source (USA Today)
• Earlier this month, the RIAA announced that it had sent off yet another wave of prelitigation settlement letters to college campuses across the US. This time, the recording industry targeted 16 schools, including almost the entire membership of the Ivy League. There was one notable Ivy school missing from the roster, one that has failed to appear in any of the RIAA's press releases: Harvard. Source (Ars Technica)
• HARRISON FORD is getting sick of the growing number of STAR WARS fans camping outside his doorstep. The Hollywood actor - who plays Han Solo in the hit sci-fi franchise - claims he is hounded by a group of wacky film fanatics praying to him as the leader of the Star Wars-inspired Jediism religion outside his Wyoming, U.S. home. Source (Contact Music)
• Republicans, taking a play out of the Democrats playbook, threaten to cut war funding if better progress is not made by the Iraqi government. Source (Charleston)
• The Federal Communications Commission is scheduled to vote whether or not to extend their gestapo rule on the airwaves to cable television. Source (Washington Post)
• Universal Music Group's CEO is like your cranky, out-of-touch grandpa who happens to run a huge record label. Source (Gizmodo)
• New York's "Vulture" section comes to the correct conclusion about the music biz -- but for the wrong reason. In commenting on the Wired profile of "Universal Music Group CEO/supervillain Doug Morris," the folks at "Vulture" have a yuck-fest over Morris' inability to come to grips with modern technology. Source (Huffington Post)

Finally, here's an old, but highly amusing video accompanied by the acoustic version of Radiohead's "Creep"

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Things have been slow because of the holidays. I should be posting again in full force starting tonight/tomorrow. Here are a bunch of awesome links, enjoy, and hope you all had a happy turkey day. Thanks to Joe from JoeBlog for help with the new design to the site. What do you all think of the change?

• There's actually a Jedi Academy in NYC. Here's an article with video. Source (Current)
• Interview: Director Dwayne Carey-Hill and Producer Claudia Katz on Futurama: Bender's Big Score. Source (Rotten Tomatoes)
• At least 20,000 U.S. troops who were not classified as wounded during combat in Iraq and Afghanistan have been found with signs of brain injuries, according to military and veterans records compiled by USA TODAY. Source (Crooks and Liars)
• Bryan Berg, cardstacker extraordinaire, tries to take down his world-record setting card tower with a leafblower. But it's made up of so many damn cards he barely puts a dent in it before the blower flames out. So he resorts to the most destructive tools around: his hands, crushing himself in a sweet avalanche of cards after a couple minutes of pawing that reminds us of New Year's in Times Square in more ways than one. Source (Gizmodo)
• The first new album from the Eagles in over a decade, "Long Road Out of Eden," has already sold more than a million copies, hitting Billboard's #1 in its first week. It's the kind of blockbuster that used to pay Christmas bonuses at the big record companies, only this album wasn't produced by a big record company. The Eagles released it themselves and are selling it exclusively through Wal-Mart. Source (Opinion Journal)
  

I'm told this is old, I don't watch Saturday Night Live anymore. But my friends told me about it recently and I found it hysterical. People Getting Punched Just Before Eating

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• Lebanese president takes a play out of Pakistan's president's book and calls a state of emergency in the country. Source (yNet)
• Boy argues with two white chicks about a seat at school. So naturally the appropriate response would be to burn a cross on his front lawn. Source (NY Daily News)
• Jack Black talks about the scrapped plan for his Green Lantern movie and how hysterical it could have been. Source (MTV)
• A Blogger's guide to avoid being sued for libel. Source (cNet)
• Top 10 Wierd Religious Practices. Source (Some Guy's Top 10 Blog)

Finally, CBS got creative with introducing the line up for a recent Colorado Buffs:

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• The discovery of the 390-million-year-old specimen in a German quarry suggests prehistoric spiders, insects and crabs were much larger than previously thought. Source (EiTB)
• Interview with Hayden Panettiere. Source (GQ)
• NBC is auctioning off Claire's cheerleader outfit from the first season of Heroes. Awesome. Source (NBC)
• 10 Survival Tips for Black Friday. Source (MSNBC)
• Former President Ford's book states CIA covered up JFK assassination. Source (Raw Story)
• We knew it was just a matter of time before something like this happened, particularly with Star Wars: The Force Unleashed headed to the Wii next Spring, but it's good to see a light saber attachment come early. Source (Engadget)
• The lawsuit against the author writing a spin-off story taking place after the last Harry Potter book is a hoax. This fan-fic, as long as it's not being published for profit, is not a target for an infringement suit confirms author and Rowling's agency. Source (Leaky Cauldron)
• Top 5 Tracy Morgan YouTube Clip. Source (Hoovaloo)
• Angela Kinsey, Angela from The Office, is preggers. Source (US Magazine)
• Hillary Duff looking extremely fine on stage. Source (Sexiest Celebrities)

Finally here's a video treat. The Igil, a single thread instrument that creates some awesome sounding music. Source (Fun House)

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• The U.S. Military is demanding that thousands of wounded service personnel give back signing bonuses because they are unable to serve out their commitments. (Because of injuries sustained fighting overseas). Source (KDKA)
• Gizmodo has another great Black Friday list if you're looking to score some normally-expensive electronics the day after Thanksgiving. Happy shopping. Source (Gizmodo)
• An Iraqi reporter is facing terror charges for helping insurgents in Iraq, though the US has not provided any kind of relevant or substantial evidence. Source (BBC World News)
• Scientists have made ordinary human skin cells take on the chameleon-like powers of embryonic stem cells, a startling breakthrough that might someday deliver the medical payoffs of embryo cloning without the controversy. Source (CBS)
• Sam Adams makes a limited produced beverage tip-toeing on the line of liquor and beer, and is apparently incredibly tasty. I'd like to get my hands on a bottle of this stuff. Source (Forbes)
• Follow up to my previous article on the alleged Harry Potter book being published by an another author aside from Rowling. WARNING - Article contains spoilers for those who have not read all 7 of Rowling's books. Source (Leaky Cauldron)
• Scott McClellan: "I had unknowingly passed along false information. And five of the highest ranking officials in the administration were involved in my doing so: Rove, Libby, the vice President, the President's chief of staff, and the president himself." Source (Editor and Publisher)
• Mozilla announced the official release of Firefox 3 beta 1 early this morning. The first Firefox 3 beta, which is available for download from Mozilla's servers, offers some hot new features for users and web developers. Source (Ars Technica)
• Bush preparing to high-tail it out of the country so he can't be prosecuted for war-crimes, buys nearly 100,000 acres in Paraguay for a new ranch. Source (Scoop)
• Red Hot Chilli Peppers suing Showtime and creators of the show Californication for copyright infringement on their hit song. Source (FMQB)
• VoteWatch is a widget for OS X Dashboard (10.3 and later), showing recent votes in the United States Senate and House of Representatives. Enter your ZIP code to see how your senators and representative voted! Source (John Haney)
• Craig Venter, the scientist who unsuccessfully attempted to map the human genome for profit, has applied for the first ever patent on a human-made life form. Venter has submitted his application at more than 100 national patent offices. Source (NewsTarget)
• Relating to the upcoming live-action version of Dragon Ball Z: Two major bits of Dragon Ball Z casting news for you: The roles of Goku and Piccolo have been cast. Source (IGN)

Finally, here's a quick video from a new episode of Family Guy. Peter as a House Cleaning person at a motel

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