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How do you measure a video's popularity on YouTube? Conventional wisdom says; "look at the number of views", but just because a video has a huge number of hits means that everybody enjoyed what they saw: It's implied, but not clearly stated. That's why the internet has "like" buttons. After all, "liking" something, whether you do it on YouTube or Facebook or Google+, acts as an endorsement what you saw. The barometer for judging the king of random internet videos will likely be a hard-fought internet for years to come, but in the meantime a new contender has earned a solid claim to the throne. The Guiness Book of World Records named everyone's favorite K-Pop hit, PSY's Gangnam Style, the most "liked" video in the history of YouTube.

2012 marks the 20th anniversary of the mouthy pink puffball, Kirby, and Nintendo wants to do something special. The big N is already planning to release a Kirby's Dream Collection next month, which will bring back some of Kirby's adventures on Game Boy, SNES, and N64 for the Wii, but that just doesn't seem like enough. To up the ante, Nintendo is planning on breaking a world record in Kirby's honor at PAX Prime next weekend in Seattle. What are they going to do exactly? Why, set the record for "most chewing gum bubbles blown simultaneously," of course!

Battlestar Galactica gets online beta date (Eurogamer) Handmade Beowulf socks for wearing and reading (The Sanguine Gryphon) Little Big Planet 2 Launch Event Seeks to Make Guinness Book of World Records (Destructoid) Pixar plays it old school, builds a Studio Ghibli-inspired zoetrope (Tor) Woman seeks corporation for good times, marriage, romantic political statement (The Palm Beach Post News) A fully functional Antikythera Mechanism built out of Legos (NatureVideoChannel on YouTube) Own a fully functional car from Captain America for less than $10,000 (Screen Rant) (Pic via Reddit)

Actroid-F is a remarkably realistic robot with the most human of facial expressions, as you can see in the video above; the Guinness Book of World Records marks it as the “first true android.” Has robotics finally crossed the Uncanny Valley? Or is this even creepier than robots that we know for sure to be [...]

That takes chops. (And a little bit of obsessiveness.) Engadget associate editor Darren Murph has been recognized by Guinness World Records Ltd. as the professional blogger who has written the most blog posts ever: 17,212 as of July 29th. Engadget puts things into perspective:

That's single posts on Engadget, Engadget HD, and Engadget Mobile, not duplicated work. We obviously couldn't be more proud of Darren and the work he's done (and continues to do) here, and we think this is an amazing feat for one writer. Of course, this is the guy who did 59 posts in a single day at CES 2008. Seriously. To put it in perspective, his current word count is at 3,389,148. That's War and Peace about six times over.

Congrats, Darren! (Wonder how far Andrew Sullivan and the Daily What dude are from catching up?) (via Engadget | Darren Murph's author page)