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The Whedonverse Continues on… YES!

It’s no secret that I’m fan of Joss Whedon. I even have a little Whedon-erse shrine in the corner of my living room that’s dedicated to the EVIL GENIUS mind behind BTVS, Angel and Firefly. Others might know other work he’s had a hand in: Titan AE, Alien Resurrection, Toy Story, and a few episodes of Roseanne.

Things have been quiet in the Joss-Whed-verse for awhile now and for those who have been following him (more like skulking, stalking, pretending to be trees on his estate) then you’ve heard the talk of his latest project: Dollhouse!

Well… oh ye Jossey-Whedon-verse fans, I came across this on ‘Aint it Cool News‘ and my Whedo-uverse passion has been lit again.

On the list: Eliza Dushku as Echo (Faith from BTVS)
Amy Acker (Fred from Angel) … and other people

Apollo 14 astronaut says “aliens are real”, pats Mulder on the back comfortingly

Edgar Mitchell is not only an astronaut, but someone who's interested in paranormal phenomena.  While on Apollo 14, in addition to doing cool back flips and science stuff, he conducted private ESP experiments with friends back on Earth.

Portal: Still Alive - the map pack saga

News of a Portal map pack was released at E3, but details were frustratingly vague.  Scouring the internet for details was equally frustrating, as the project history is fairly nontraditional.  Here's the deets, as far as I can tell.

World of Warcraft, pizza and red bull

All of this morning's deals spring fully formed from the head of Amazon.com.  You can get World of Warcraft Battle Chest (for PC or Mac) on the cheap, along with a nifty do it yourself pizza oven so you can gain sustenance while playing.  What's that?  Something missing?  Oh yeah, how about a case of Red Bull to go along with your all night game playing, pizza eating experience?

Why can’t we all be a little more gruntled?

Gruntled.  Now there's a word that you just don't see anymore – in fact, we may never have seen it.  What?  You don't know what Gruntled means?  Let me use it in a sentence. Larry was so gruntled today, he didn't even haul off on anyone with an assault rifle. Gruntled. The opposite of disgruntled.  Sometime back in our murky past we added the prefix 'dis' to the fine word gruntled and then gruntled ambled off to the word graveyard never to be seen again.

Score up to $125 off your new GeForce GTX 260 or GTX 280 card

NOTE:  This one slipped by my calendar radar - unfortunately the deal is over, unless you've purchased your card between the end of June and the first two weeks or so of July.  Sorry folks. If you were looking to upgrade your graphical performance to freakishly large 3dmark06 scores but were a bit turned off by the price of the new GeForce 260/280 cards - now’s your chance to get a little scratch back.

Morning game deals - SimCity and Spiderman plus a keyboard

Grab yourself a new gaming keyboard, the SimCity Box and Spiderman: Friend or Foe for the Wii in this morning's deals.

Goodie 2-Shoes: Goodie concept if implemented correctly

When I first came across this product, they were trying to sell the idea across as 'Hi-Tech' in the blogosphere arenas. Initially with that in mind, it was a huge turn off for me. I first spotted it on a highly profile gadget blog and walked away with the idea in my head without exploring it further. I followed the tree of site to site branches in order to see what exactly it was that I was looking at and noticed that with each new blog, the idea was mutated.

Extreme Chairing - when wrestling goes wrong

Now I see why people like to watch professional wrestling.

10 reasons I’m glad I don’t have a new iPhone

Now that the new iPhone is sweeping the nation (hey, almost 0.0034% of the US population has one) there are lots of reasons to go pick one up.  I unfortunately will not be doing so for a variety of reasons, mostly centering on green things that fit into pockets and don't come out of anyone's nose.  Since I'm not getting one, I've sat back and picked through my . . . thoughts to compile a list of 10 reasons why I'm glad not to have a new iPhone!