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Still 2 years from release, a massively multiplayer online game where everything is LEGO. Targeted at 8-12 year-olds, but plenty of adults who grew up with LEGOs, including yours truly, are more excited about the game at this point.

“Truly you have a dizzying intellect.”

Homer as a Rembrandt.

Andy’s review of the Drobo backup mechanism is the kind of tech review I can get my wife to read. (And I hope she’ll read it, as I think this is our solution for a home network backup system.)

Forget the Linux requirement of LAMP, Mac users. Now there’s MAMP: Mac, Apache, MySQL, and PHP, the latter three in one handy distribution for Mac OS X.

Science fiction and fantasy author Steven Brust has written a fan fiction Firefly novel, posting it for free. All you Browncoats, put your bibs on, okay?

“This little beauty fires 12 rounds of 10 mm steel balls in under 2 seconds…”

Coming June 4th. I may have to get the Jango Fett, since I have son Boba. I like the Yoda, too. I wonder if the right hand of Empire Strikes Back Luke comes off…

We love the Heroes-style figures in our home, and this line-up threatens to send me over the edge. Sail Barge Leia, Gree, Shaak Ti, Ewoks, the Millenium Falcon, AT-RT, Vader’s TIE Fighter, a Sandtrooper on a Dewback!

Indiana Jones comes to the Mighty Muggs line. Yes!

“Construct a building, then eat the bricks!”

Flash-based game featuring the LEGO version of Indiana Jones.

Shrink your Windows XP folder at your own risk.

Neat little piece from The Economist on Twitter. You are on Twitter, aren’t you?

If you’re looking for something new to decorate your computer’s desktop with, there’s a ton of great wallpaper linked to here.

After eight years of marriage, the first collaboration between singer-songwriters Derek Webb and Sandra McCracken. Great stuff.

A recap of LSU’s first baseball national championship year. I can tell you exactly where I was and what I was doing when they got that last out to win it all in Omaha. The Tigers were the team of the ’90s in college baseball.

No movie in 2008, Trekkies. But we Star Wars fans still get our new one. 😛

Tips from Kirk McElhearn on getting song lyrics in to iTunes and on to your iPod.

The good news: new animated Star Wars movie and television series. The bad news: it’s not done in the animation style of the previous Clone Wars television series.

If your iPhone camera is going wonky, and shooting blank squares, this is a possible fix.

Now if only AT&T would give its mobile users the option of adding wifi access to their accounts.

Walk for one minute, generate enough power for thirty minutes of mobile phone usage. They just need to get the size of the thing smaller for it to really be commercially viable.

Bust of the Predator alien, sans helmet, in LEGO.

Set of over 700 16×16 pixel icons in PNG format, for free.

Yes, it’s a real firearm. Yes, this guy really loves his lady to go to this length.

For my fellow Star Wars nerds, grab high-resolution images of the Star Wars stamps released last year.