Before there was Reddit, there was Digg. It was a powerhouse in its day; a pioneer of user aggregated links where users could vote submitted links up and down. Though venerable, the company has been floundering for some time, and now it is being reported that Digg’s technology staff is being hired by the Washington Post.

In what we’ll doubtlessly look back on and declare a national day of mourning, Mozilla has announced that they have killed off favicons in the latest build of Firefox. The horrific changes will release sometime in July, with the goal of increasing user security, and aesthetically cleaning up the browser.

Burger King Japan is currently running an ill-advised promotion where you can add 15 strips of bacon to your Whopper for a scant 100 yen, or about $1.20. “Ill-advised?” you say, “that sounds awesome!” Yes, for the most part it does. The ill-advised part is that there is apparently no limit, as a reporter from the Japanese website RocketNews discovered when he ordered a Whopper with a whopping 1,050 strips, at the cost of around $80. There’s no telling if someone will attempt to one-up the record, but if anyone is even thinking about it, may God have preemptive mercy on their souls. Also their arteries.

Japanese newspaper Nikkei reports that Sony is cutting 10,000 jobs, which makes up six percent of its global job force, in order to bring the company out of the red and regain profitability. Though this is unfortunate for 10,000 employees, Sony consumers won’t be hit as hard, as the cuts are coming from divisions that will likely have little effect on most of Sony’s operation.

In a bit of sad news, Yahoo! has laid off 2,000 of its employees, registering as the largest wave of layoffs in company history. The layoffs will, as one might expect, trigger a restructuring of the company, though CEO Scott Thompson doesn’t only see doom and gloom.

In the 104 years since Canada’s introduction of the penny, there have been some 35 billion of the coins minted. However, in that time the purchasing power of the humble single cent piece has dropped dramatically, while the cost of minting pennies has risen. With all this in mind, Canada has announced that it will cease production of pennies next month.

Hello, Internet. Today is as good a day as any to be sad about things, so why not be sad about the death of both Yoda, 2011′s world’s ugliest dog, and an adorable mutant earless bunny? One of them died a peaceful death, at least, while the other one died a very quick, albeit ridiculously tragic death.

The USS Enterprise has set off on its final mission. No, not that one, the other one: CVN-65, the world’s first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. Now having served the U.S. Navy for 51 years, the ship’s final deployment is a journey to the Middle East. During its half-century service the ship has racked up a remarkable number of achievements, including critical action in the Cuban Missile Crisis, tracking the progress of John Glenn in Friendship 7, several combat deployments, and currently stands as the Navy’s oldest warship.

Artist Mike Gaboury dreamed a beautiful dream of an Adventure Time video game, and decided to share just a piece of that dream with us. Working in his spare time, and for no reward other than his love for the show, Gaboury animated the intro and start screen to an imaginary side-scrolling retro-style Adventure Time game. Though it’s just a fan project, it is a tantalizing to think of what a full-fledged AT game in this style would be like. See the video, after the break.

Perhaps almost as shocking as the initial MegaUpload takedown is the wide-reaching effects it has had on the Internet landscape as a whole. It persuaded FileSonic and other cyberlockers to turn off file sharing of their own accord, and played a part in convincing The Pirate Bay to retreat to a .se domain. Now you can thank it for the closure of BTjunkie, which voluntarily shut down today, for fear of legal action to come.