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Perhaps the way to everlasting fame and fortune isn’t to write such classics as “Imagine” and “Give Peace a Chance“, but instead be the creator of the fundamental theoretical physics behind the atom bomb.

While in the end John Lennon and Albert Einstein both stood for peace and freedom, one has ended up making a just a bit more after death.  That honor belongs to Einstein, who has an excellent green-loving company managing all his postmortem assets.

According to the Forbes’ ranking, he edges out many famous people include Lennon – finishing fourth overall behind Charles Schultz, the recently deceased Heath Ledger (who had a profit sharing contract for The Dark Knight), and Elvis Presley.

Not too bad for a paten clerk who’s been dead for 53 years.

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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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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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If you think you have a tough time packing your gear for the family camping trip, imagine what NASA has to go through to prepare for its next manned mission to the moon. This week NASA engineers conducted tests of the gear they’re planning to bring on the next lunar voyage, and Wired has a nice gallery up of photos from the event. They chose the Grant County ORV Park in Moses Lake, Washington as their location, both for its similarity to the moon’s terrain as well as apparently the similarity in local population (as evidenced by this shot). The thumbnail at right features what is obviously an extremely sophisticated Guitar Hero controller astronauts will be able to entertain themselves with during their tenure on Earth’s satellite.^*

* OK not really. But we do hope they at least get to bring Rock Band.

More NASA images:

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We are big fans of Twitter here at Legion of Geek and apparently so is the Phoenix Mars Lander. The little space rover that could is microblogging its trek across the Red Planet in a vain attempt at Internet stardom. The fact that we are blogging about it here is only helping it succeed in whoring its way into the digital age, but that is the sacrifice we make to bring the latest news to you, faithful reader.

[via Mashable]

Related schtuffs: Images from NASA

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