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The Telegraph is reporting on a 19 year old music graduate formerly named George Garratt who changed his name to “Captain Fantastic Faster Than Superman Spiderman Batman Wolverine The Hulk And The Flash Combined!”

Captain Fantastic says that he “…wanted to be unique,” and that he “decided upon a theme of superheroes.”  Apparently he’s just a tad too unique now, his grandmother is reportedly not talking to him anymore.

But really kudos to him for changing his name.  And good luck to him on those college tests where you have to fill out scan-trons.  Hopefully his super powers include something to fix that.

And clearly, he has a better name than you do.

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Those of us on these intertubes that frequent the likes of 4chan and other such pits of darkness know of the NSFW site fukung.net.  It’s a little gem of the web that has some seriously funny (and messed up) comedic material.

With the general election today Battlestar Galactica fans will no doubt be interested to know that Saul Tigh and Laura Roslin have joined forces and are running under the McCain/Palin ticket, at least according to these photos from Fukung.  Not that such a revelation will change my vote at this point, but hey, Battlestar Galactica for the win.

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Monday through Friday at noon LunchtimeTV presents a show, a clip, a movie or any other amusing video we can get our hands on to entertain you during the middle of the day. Or night. We don’t judge.

Those crazy kids at EQAL that trailblazed into virgin webisode territory with “Lonely Girl” then with “Kate Modern” are back with their new series “LG15: The Resistance.” The first episode (above) is a little shaky, but shows you that they are continuing down the narrative road started so successfully with “Lonely Girl,” particularly the secret societies, rampant paranoia and building tension.

Being a webseries, the LG15 people are all over the interactive thing. Along with the weekly upload of a new episode every Saturday, there will also be daily uploads of character videos, text blogs and live chats. Also you can find behind the scenes pages, a Flickr photostream page and a wiki to tie together all the shows. This season will be shorter than its predecessor, but we’re sure they have something up their sleeve right after this series concludes.

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As announced at ComicCon this year at the Joss Whedon panel, the “Dr. Horrible” DVD release will contain video applications of the top fans who want to get into the Evil League of Evil. A new site has gone up today listing all the details. In short make it under 3 mins, don’t include copyrighted music, logos, etc., and keep it relatively clean. If you need inspiration, check out this analysis of the current League.

Go forth and use the unholy power of evil persuasion to be part of the DVD release or, as the site so eloquently states, “Make the bad horse gleeful, or he’ll make you his mare.”

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Scouring the interwebz so you don’t have to. Well, you will anyway, but at least with the list below, you’ll find something of interest.

Internetz

• A whole site dedicated to space ship concepts? Yep.
• Looking for a Victorian-era, Steampunk journal with diary entries, exceptional imagery and a wiki? Dr. Roundbottom has you covered. [via tor.com]

Music

• An ode to Summer Glau. Why haven’t we thought of this sooner?

Television

• Five changes to “Heroes” that could save the show from mediocrity.

Travel

• New tour book for Britain guides you to notable filming locations for “Doctor Who.” [via io9.com]

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The weekend looms and in your hurry to make plans, you may have missed these headlines from around the nets.

Television

• But where’s “The Middleman”?: 10 SciFi/Fantasy series that lack resolution

Film

• The Dr. Horrible effect: “Evil Dead: The Musical in 3D” is full steam ahead.
• Some evil never dies: Chucky clones on the loose in the streets of New York.

Contests

• Win a book, lose your self-respect: Write the worst last line of a genre novel
• Win a book, lose your self-respect part 2: Penning author approved fanfic may win you a signed copy

Gaming

• Frag for charity: Get sponsored to play video games to benefit kids with cancer

Science

• What’s next? X-ray glasses?: Bionic lenses coming within years

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We tore ourselves away from Spore long enough to check out these links for you.

Games

• Video diary: Game producer talks Star Wars: Unleashed on the Wii

TV

• Vampire dating service: “True Blood” continues its ARG tactics
• iTunes in HD: Download free shows while they last
• Whedon writes: “Dollhouse” shuts down for more script doctoring

Books

• Listmania: SciFi/Fantasy best selling books of the week

Comics

• Because good stories never die: “Angel: After the Fall” #12 reviewed

Gear

• Android imminent: Google’s new iPhone competitor may be arriving in weeks

Productivity

• Incoming apps: Top 10 lifehacking programs not yet released

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about:internets Easter Egg in Google Chrome.

[Via Accettura and Waxy.org]

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In unveiling their new Open Source browser, Google Chrome, the big G tapped famous comic book artist and teacher Scott McCloud to explain it narrative panel style. Clever? Yes. Publicity generating? Yes. Smart? Not so much.

Given the comic book style, you’d think Google was trying to explain their vision to the masses. But by page 3 they’re delving into the murky depths of asynchronous APIs and single-threaded web processes. You’d think the user friendly comic style would have kept the message non-technical, but the average web surfer pleasantly drawn in by the friendly  presentation will be quickly turned off by the quick descent into Programming 101.

Ok, so then maybe it’s aimed at programmers, then what’s with the simplified tone? Is it meant to draw in weekend coders who may be put off by a dense engineering manual? Shouldn’t reading a spec sheet or understanding the basics of browser functions be a pre-requisite to submitting third-party addons?

Can anyone explain this to us poor confused LoG folk who just want browser that doesn’t crash, open us to attack or grab all of our available computer memory until the whole system locks up?

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Culling useful links for geeks from around the intarwebs since July 2, 2008:

• Get stuff: 30+ places to download free music
• GTD FTW: How to set Gmail as your default email client in Firefox 3
• Lunar eyecandy: Man on the Moon, Future and Past
• The digital living room: The Roku box to expand beyond Netflix. Living room Trojan horse?
• Drunken superheroes: Cinematical’s Hancock review
• Keep that 2g iPhone? Original iPhones can be deactivated and used as WiFi iPods

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