With legislation like SOPA threatening to destroy the Internet in a flurry of misaimed, poorly executed censorship, what’s a freedom of information advocate to do? That’s easy: Team up with others and work on a plan to launch a series of DIY satellites into low Earth orbit for the purpose of creating a completely uncensored Internet that lives in space. This is exactly the kind of plan that was discussed at the Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin. Also, they want to put an amateur astronaut on the moon. But first, space Internet.

The BBC has officially unveiled a new Doctor Who video game, titled, The Eternity Clock. Current Doctor Matt Smith and River Song, Alex Kingston, will be lending their voices to the game. While Doctor Who games have released in recent years — mainly PC adventure games — The Eternity Clock will be releasing for not only the PC, but the PS3 and, oddly enough, the PS Vita, as well.

The Doctor Who Christmas special, The Doctor, The Witch and The Wardrobe is quickly approaching, airing on BBC One on Christmas Day, at 7:00 pm. This year, we have a prequel mini-sode to watch, written by showrunner Steven Moffat and starring the current doctor, Matt Smith. It takes on somewhat of a LOST theme, with the Doctor stuck holding a big button or else something bad will happen; in this case, the ship the Doctor is on will explode. Check out the prequel after the break, and prepare to put all of your Christmas Day plans on hold for around an hour to watch what we can only hope is a Christmas special better than last year’s fantastic A Christmas Carol.

You would think that with the invention of spell check and the rise of digital text, the problem of spelling errors would have disappeared entirely. Maybe not from pen and paper correspondence, but at least from word processed text. Or you might have been thinking that around the time spell check was invented, because by now you probably know all too well how misspelled words can just slip right by you like they’re actively trying to. Yes, spelling errors are still occurring even in spite of those magical red squiggle lines, and according to a recent interview conducted by the BBC, they could be costing internet businesses millions of dollars.

At face value, the proposition that spelling counts for millions of dollars seems a little far-fetched, but when you think about the way we interact with digital media, it makes a lot of sense. First of all, there’s the issue of search engines. If your product is misspelled, you aren’t going to get nearly as many hits as you deserve, a situation that is made even worse by search engines that will correct a misspelled search term, robbing misspelled results from even getting any “a stopped clock is right twice a day” hits. On top of that, digital sales interactions are just plain sketchier than brick and mortar ones because you don’t get to see people right in front of you. Sure, there are plenty of reputable sites out there, but the minute you end up off the beaten path and see one too many spelling errors (or just one), you find yourself wondering if there’s a person at the other end or just a computer with a really bad dictionary.

The BBC and developer Three Rings, who are best known for the oddly fun Puzzle Pirates, have teamed up like a Time Lord and a man of the 51st century and announced they’ll be developing a free-to-play MMO based on Doctor Who, currently titled Doctor Who: Worlds of Time. Three Rings promises to divulge more details next week at GDC 2011, though the rest of us already know the details since we hopped in our fake police boxes and time traveled to the conference to get the details. No, none of us time traveled to the release date and played the game, because we all enjoy anxiously waiting in anticipation rather than playing actual games. From the press release:

“The game allows players to enter the TARDIS and be set a challenge by the mysterious Time Lord to help him defend civilized culture against infamous Doctor Who enemies.”

Apparently, the Doctor will be getting even less discriminating with the way he chooses companions, i.e. anyone who signs up for a game account.

(via Joystiq)

The BBC recently announced that it would be closing down around 200 of its websites, with 172 of them to be deleted from the Internet altogether, in an effort to cut costs. A person who is thought to be identified as Ben Metcalfe opposed this, and paid $3.99 for a VPS server to crawl and archive the data across all 172 sites, then shoved them all into a torrent and released it into the digital wild.

Everything looks excellent in slow motion, especially animals. They are regal, proud warriors, even if they’re domesticated cats and dogs catching a treat. When shot on high-speed film then played back to dramatic instrumental music, they are just the finest examples of their kind that ever existed. Behold! Animals in majestic slow motion!

Not only is this Indonesian hunter holding his breath for two and a half minutes (apparently he can hold his breath for five minutes at a time), he’s defying what we think humans are supposed to be able to do underwater. He’s working against serious water pressure, walking on the sea floor, 20 meters (just over 65 feet) below the surface. Walking and prowling for prey. If I was talking about a shark, this might be that impressive. But he’s just a dude. A dude who trained his body to become super-mammalian, and making those of us who hold our noses in the pool and get our food delivered look like the biggest disappointments in human anthropological history. You win this round, Indonesian hunter!

(BuzzFeed)

In a sketch from the BBC show The One Ronnie, comedians Ronnie Corbett and Harry Enfield poke fun at technology naming conventions and drop more puns in under three minutes than I once thought was humanly possible–or tolerable. It’s funny, though. Don’t worry.

(BBC via Engadget)

Thanks to the YouTube, a lost moment of brilliance has been recaptured from oblivion–the lost “Doctor Who” dance number pulled from Craig Ferguson’s Late Late Show two weeks ago.

Ferguson had planned to open the show with a huge puppet-laden, go-go booted dancer-filled musical number set to the famous Doctor Who music, complete with lyrics explaining the show to confused Americans–only to have the skit cut by producers.

>>>Find out why at Mediaite.