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Ridiculous Taiwanese "news network," NMA TV, rings in 2011 by showcasing a fight between Father Time 2010 and Baby New Year 2011. The video features an old man sneakily kicking a baby in a top hat in the face, and a retaliation of floating bicycle kicks. Though Father Time 2010 loses out, Taiwanese CGI declares the year ends on a cliffhanger, as many of 2010's biggest issues begin to gang up on Baby New Year 2011.

Did I mention the baby in a top hat is wearing a diaper and has a gun? Because the baby in a top hat is wearing a diaper and has a gun.

(via Mediaite)

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No, this isn't a teaser poster for a Minecraft or Cave Story movie. This is a picture taken within the Vietnamese cave, Hang Son Doong, the world's largest cave. Even though it's the world's largest cave, it was only discovered around twenty years ago, and features a segment inside that can fit a half-mile block of 40-story buildings. The cave also features an underground jungle, which you can check out past the break.

While the actual number of downloads has dropped, both LOST and Heroes topped the list of TV's most downloaded shows, proving that geeks watch the most popular sci-fi shows on TV, just not on the actual TV machine. Heroes had actually topped the list in 2009, but the media surrounding LOST's final season most likely drew more viewers than Heroes' cancellation. According to TorrentFreak, "the most downloaded episode of Heroes is still exceeding the average viewership on US television." Dexter, which moved up to third on the list, also experienced more downloads than TV viewers.

Either that or he's trying to convince some parental units that he can TOTALLY stay up until midnight, mom, GOD! (via Neatorama.)

A while back, it was a very sad day. Mark Wahlberg took it upon himself to announce a few adaptation-murdering details regarding the Uncharted movie, which included himself cast as the lead of Nathan Drake, and the addition of Nathan's father and uncle, who haven't even made an appearance in the video game series (so far, not counting the theory that Sully, Nathan's older partner-in-crime, is related to Nathan in some way). Well, it turns out there's been a few developments regarding what once seemed to be concrete details, in that, thankfully, said details may not be so concrete, including a video of a fan personally petitioning David O. Russell, the film's director, to nix Mark Wahlberg in place of Nathan Fillion. Read on past the break for details that might make you feel a bit better about the fate of Nathan Drake's Hollywood appearance.

BoingBoing has unearthed a 1982 video featuring raw footage of Bill Murray, complaining (comedically) about dumb technological advancements of the early 1980s like digital watches ("People have hands, I think watches should have hands"), talking dashboards in cars ("I would put my foot right through that dashboard"), and robots ("R2-D2...he was funny, he was cute, he's a fine, fine actor").

On the heels of Barnes & Noble's Nook, Amazon has started implementing a new feature that allows Kindle users to "lend" their e-books to other Kindle users. The only catch is that unlike the B&N device, the ability to lend e-books will depend on the book's publisher. If the publisher has allowed lending, the option will appear in the Amazon listing (as pictured above) and will leave the original user's collection for 14 days. (via Wired)

The main man of the House of Ideas will be getting a particular honor next week, when he gathers with guests to unveil his very own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The Walk of Fame honors five different categories of the pop arts: motion pictures, television, audio recording, radio, and live theater.  Comic books are not among them, but it would be difficult to argue that Stan Lee's work hasn't made significant contributions to the television and movie canons. It would seem that Lee has been nominated for the star on the strength of his television career, as the Walk of Fame press release takes pains to highlight it:

In 1981 Stan Lee transformed his Spider-Man and Hulk creations into Saturday morning and syndicated television cartoons. When Marvel Comics and Marvel Productions were acquired by New World Entertainment in 1986, Stan's horizons expanded even further, giving him the opportunity to become more deeply involved in the creation and development of filmed projects for both the big and small screen. He supervised such diverse animated series as X-Men, Spider-Man and The Hulk. To date, Stan's characters have populated over 24 separate television series, all of which continue in syndication around the world.

Sure, Minecraft is awesome and everything, but anyone who has played both Minecraft and LittleBigPlanet know full well LBP creations generally blow Minecraft creations out of the water. LittleBigPlanet 2 is no exception to this sentiment, having churned out wildly impressive creations during the beta phase of the game.

Created by LBP2 players Boss_Mob, SaggySackBoy, tomatenbrei and daFRED94, this LBP2 level recreates Windows XP, complete with loading screen, Windows Media Player, Recycle Bin, a few games, Internet Explorer, etc. More impressive, this level is currently a beta, meaning there's more to come.

(PlayStation LifeStyle via Joystiq)

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A highly sophisticated study by the University of Salford has proven the obvious: the bigger the whoopee cushion, the sillier the video will be. I'll bet you didn't know that whoopee cushions the size of beanbag chairs actually existed. Well, now you know, and now you know you want one in your home. (via URLesque via Doobybrain)

In its never-ending struggle to completely control what its citizens can and can't see on the internet, China has now banned all internet phone calls not made over one of two state-owned telecom networks.  According to The Telegraph, China is the world's largest market for internet phone calls, so the loss of the market for all other internet phone calls is not trivial.  Does this really specifically connect to Skype, though? Yeah, according to the state owned newspaper The People's Daily:

[This] is expected to make services like Skype unavailable in the country.

A 37-year-old Pennsylvanian, Jody Lynn Bennett, is wanted by police for allegedly stealing a Game Boy and a Game Boy Light out of the coffin of the boy pictured to the left, Bradley David-McCombs Jr., who died in a car accident on Christmas morning when he lost control of his SUV and slammed into a pole.

In 10 years, we've become more wired, more prone to earthquakes and natural disasters, and more likely to pirate movies than buy tickets to see them. We've also all moved to the city after rendering more species endangered. (Thanks, no doubt, to the Angry Birds phenomenon.) See the full-size infographic at io9. (via io9)