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- The Last Wheel of Time book is going to be continued, in three parts, and the first part will be released a week earlier.
- Kentucky Fried Dinosaur anyone? Hans Larsson, a Canadian researcher, hopes to bring back dinosaur traits by flipping genetic switches in chickens. While this could lead to hatching live prehistoric creatures, there are no plans for it now, due to practical and ethical reasons.
- Governator Schwarzenegger has announced via Twitter that he does still have the Conan sword, and that its on display in his office. Then he muttered something about crushing the budget and driving it before him.
- There is a twilight sex toy called the Vamp, it does sparkle, it does retain cold for that authentic experienced. This has led some to declare that “sparkle cocked” is the new “nuked the fridge”.
- The first Farscape comic is available in todays issue of Previews, Diamond Distributors catalog. Fan support of the miniseries is credited with the ongoing success.
- There is a black hole at the heart of the M87 galaxy, and new analysis puts its mass at the equivalent of 6.4 billion suns, twice as large as originally predicted. If this is true, its massive enough for our radio astronomy techiniques.
- GI Joe may have quickly tumbled from the charts in America, but its the number one movie internationally, and has made over over $91 million internationally nearly matching the 98 million domestic. This has led to Paramount virtually guaranteeing a sequel.
- In Minneapolis, a legendary bar died, and in its place rose an undead creation, “Donny Dirks Zombie Den”. The zombie themed bar has been described as classy kitsch and the bartenders dress like Shaun of the Dead.
- David Tennant is leaving Dr Who, but very few people know how. The BBC kept the non-essential cast from seeing the full script. The actors left out said they understood and it makes it more exciting for them.
- Amino acids, some of the building blocks of life, have been found on a comet called Wild 2.
- A paper published in the Forensic Science International claims that DNA evidence could easily by fabricated by a biology undergraduate. There are some ways to determine whether its been faked, but most labs don’t take such steps.
- A third X-Files film is tenatively being prepared for shooting to take place by 2012. It has not yet been decided whether its a reboot or not.
- Robert Downey Jr is in talks to play Lestat in the next adaptation of Anne Rices vampire Chronicles.
- Sony Pictures is debating rebooting the Spiderman franchise if the original cast doesn’t sign on for 5 and 6 as the scripts have already been laid out.
- She’s only a halfblood! Actress Emma Watson’s distant relative was Joan Playle of Essex County, England, an English woman convicted of witchcraft in 1592.
- Jericho…won’t…die! It’s been cancelled twice, but now has a comic book season coming out, and talks of a two hour movie are still on the table.
- After thirty years of talking about it, it’s been announced that original Alien director Ridley Scott will be back for the new entry in the franchise.
- Blizz Con happened, Monk was announced for Diablo 3, New Expansion for WoW called Cataclysm, Starcraft 2 still will not have LAN support.
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