This officially licensed desk lamp is not only Tetris themed, but each tetromino lights up when stacked on top of one that is already lit. That also means you can be a lunatic person and rearrange the pattern every single day you sit down at your desk, being the centerpiece of your boring office’s only fun. The desk lamp is slated to release toward the end of this year in September 2012 for $50, so you’ll have to wait around until then to intricately stack terominos on your desk, but have them light up instead of clear.

MegaUpload founder Kim DotCom was released on bail today, being put in jail when MegaUpload was taken down by the federal government. He was indicted in the United States for criminal copyright violations and racketeering, and was subsequently arrested in New Zealand last month. Until now, two judges in New Zealand denied two requests for bail, but a judge who heard another request for bail today decided DotCom was not enough of a flight risk to deny bail.

In an attempt to muscle in on the streaming video market, Comcast will be launching their own streaming video service starting tomorrow, dubbed Streampix. However, Streampix isn’t a standalone service, so Netflix need not shiver (or laugh defiantly) in their boots just yet, as Streampix is only available to Comcast customers who are subscribed to either the double or triple-play package, which is some combination of Internet, television, and phone service. For those that can subscribe to Streampix, they’ll be happy to know that it’ll only cost an extra $4.99 per month.

Everyone seems to have the same reaction to this video: You aren’t really on board, but then he is breakfast and you’re right there with him.

For those British folks that routinely get annoyed when choosing a language in anything from operating systems to video games, Microsoft hears your charmingly accented pleas, and is finally including an English language option in Windows 8. Your kind of English. English English.

The astronomical cost of building a real Death Star (GeekSugar)

Ancient computers still in use today (Macworld)

Full, amusing summary of the Kingdom Hearts series (Google Docs)

Ants remember the smells of their enemies (BBC)

App developers are making more money on Amazon than on Android (TechCrunch)

NASA finds relatively recent geological activity on the moon (NASA)

A 14-year-old is about to graduate from college (Star Tribune)

(title pic via reddit)

Walking through the darkness of your bedroom, you suddenly a feel wet, slimy tendril wrap around your neck, lifting you off your feet toward the ceiling. Unfortunately, you don’t have a gun on your person because you thought your bedroom was pretty safe, and instead of shooting your way free, you are pulled up toward the Barnacle and experience an unfortunate death on a ceiling. At least, that’s how it’d be if this sweet Half-Life Barnacle lamp created by Daniel Ritthanondh wasn’t just a sweet lamp, and was actually the bane of your walking-through-a-dark-hallway existence. Check out another picture after the break, featuring the actual lightbulbs.

Television’s favorite manly man with a secret heart of gold, as well as a secret lust for riddles and soft jazz, Ron Swanson, has his own page on the Internet Movie Database. No, not the listing of the character that Nick Offerman plays, but Ron Swanson himself, as if he were a real life person that contributed to the movie and television industry. Interestingly, Ron Swanson’s IMDb credits end in 1996, one year before Nick Offerman’s credits being in 1997. I mean, you’ve never seen both Ron Swanson and Nick Offerman in the same room, right?!

Double Fine surpasses $2 million on their Kickstarter (Kickstarter)

Found art on Google Street View (9-eyes)

Can you identify this UAV flying over Uzbekistan? (Flightglobal)

The days on which Windows will die (TechCrunch)

Maddie the coonhound, standing on things (BuzzFeed)

Iranian engineer claims downed U.S. drone was hijacked (CS Monitor)

9 sites that will instantly lift your mood (GeekSugar)

(the Internet is weird, guys)

You guys like shirts, right? You know, that thing you drape over the back of your chair because you only wore it for four hours that day and really can’t warrant throwing it in the laundry already? But then you just leave it draped over your chair for days and keep leaning against it because you use your chair quite frequently, and the it eventually gets wrinkled and dirty enough to the point where you just decide to throw it in the laundry anyway? You want a free one? T-shirts.com was awesome enough to provide us with five t-shirt giveaways, just for you! All you have to do is create a caption for the above picture and drop it into the comment section of this post, and we’ll choose the winner, judging the caption on a combination of creativity and relevance to the picture. Head on past the break for more details, and to leave us your own caption for a chance to win a free shirt. They have some nice shirts over there, including these superhero t-shirts, so you should take the minute and try your hand at a caption.