Almost Exciting!

Watch out if you use the color Magenta and have “anything to do with phones, digital media… oh and just about anything on the internet.”

From the article:

Police in the western city of Duisburg [Berlin] found the 32-year-old man’s blackened remains by a set of cable cutters and pile of non-live cables he had already stolen.

Reuters has a clip, among other places.

I think this was on Digg awhile back, from Variety.com -He-Man returns to big screen.

Upon reading the whole article, I noticed that not only is He-Man looking to make a comeback, but also Speed Racer, Voltron, Street Fighter, and the DC Comics character the Green Arrow.

Most interesting was this line:

“Silver Pictures, which is turning the Japanese animated series ‘Speed Racer’ into a live-action film to be directed by Larry and Andy Wachowski…”

In case you aren’t fully aware, the Wachowski Brothers are known (probably most notably) for The Matrix.

I’ll have to look into these ‘new’ movies…

Man, there were a lot of great headlines today. Not enough time to talk about the ones I want to, so instead I’ll direct you to my “Shared Items” from Google Reader.

Perhaps that will supplement you for a bit. For a brief explanation of those items, see my author page (click my name above this post) for the last 10 headlines I’ve shared, and why that stuff even exists.

Peaces.

“Dr. Sha looks like any other Asian businessman in his dark blue suit and yellow tie, but he’s actually an eccentric spiritual healer who claims “the Divine” has given him the power to download “soul software” and heal a range of ailments.”

 Check it out. “Dr. Sha, a Healer With a Modern Spin: He Downloads New Organs”

Geeks and Nerds rejoice! A new Tolkien book, the first since 1977, is being published. Started by Tolkien himself and finished by his son, this will definitely be a must read.

http://www.tolkienlibrary.com/press/childrenofhurin.htm

“The Associated Press reports that one of Tolkien’s earliest stories, written in 1917, Narn i Chîn Húrin, Sindarin for “The Lay of the Children of Húrin”, has been edited by his son into a completed work and will be released next spring. The book will include a new map by Christopher Tolkien and a jacket and color paintings by Alan Lee. “It has seemed to me for a long time that there was a good case for presenting my father’s long version of the legend of the Children of Húrin as an independent work, between its own covers,” Christopher Tolkien said in a statement, published in a Harper Collins and Houghton Mifflin press-release, since the new book will be published by them in England and the United States respectively.”

From the Article:

Lately, the RIAA has been on a high-profile campaign to get college students that the RIAA believes have been involved in illegal file trading to settle lawsuits against them at a “discount”. As part of this strategy, the company has tried to enlist universities to help them identify and turn over the names of offending students. But it’s heartening to see that some universities aren’t spinelessly acquiescing to the RIAA’s demands.

If there were any doubt that the university is really irritated by the RIAA’s requests, it has requested that the RIAA pay the university to reimburse its expenses from dealing with this…

Read the rest at TechDirt…

UPDATE:
I read over at Consumerist that the school is actually charging them $11 for each complaint received. Of course, the RIAA denied the request:

In response to NU’s request, the RIAA’s Engebretsen said, “It is neither practical nor appropriate for us to entertain a reimbursement request.”

Article over at Omaha.com has more.

Woohoo! Like it’s actually going to work with any motherboards on the market in the next 2 years, but check this out…

From the Article:

IBM Research says it will demonstrate a new prototype optical transceiver chipset that “is fast enough to reduce the download time for a typical high definition feature-length film to a single second compared to 30 minutes or more over the best available connectivity today.”

Read the rest on ZDNet.

Today is World Day for Water, also known as World Water day. Wikipedia has some info and links, but is rather boring.

‘Coping with Water Scarcity’ is this years theme. The official site has more.

Using ground penetrating radar, NASA has discovered an ice deposit at Mars’ south pole so large that if melted, it would cover the entire planet under 30 feet of water.

(Via Kottke)

Is it not amazing - the detailed view we can get of other planets, but we still can’t predict earthquakes or weather here on Earth?