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It's becoming more and more readily apparent that a year can't go by without Sega releasing a new game in the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise, with 2013 possibly maintaining this perennial trend. Rumors have been circulating that the game developer and publisher is planning to unveil Sonic's latest adventure in mid-February with a potential release date set either for the fall or winter of this year. Presently, there are no specifics regarding the game's overall story, but a number of dubious details have been reported.

YouTube user BloodyRenegadeX makes detailed flip books. One of them happens to be of Sonic the Hedgehog escaping a flooded city, complete with checkpoint, and is very pretty.

(via Geeks are Sexy)

If you've ever wanted to spend eight minutes figuring out who the ten sexiest female characters in the Sonic the Hedgehog universe are, don't worry, we got you. No, I didn't realize there were ten female characters in the Sonic universe either.

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Sound familiar? According to early Facebook employee Ezra Callahan, the company's first president, Sean Parker (who you may remember as a villainous Justin Timberlake character in The Social Network), wanted to make Facebook's mascot a hedgehog and turn blue stuffed hedgehogs into Facebook's calling card. Suffice it to say that this is not what ended up happening.

True story: in the very early days of Facebook, Sean Parker wanted to make Facebook's mascot a hedgehog. We had early plans to build a local business program around each college on the site (a Yelp-like service similar to what later became Facebook Pages). As part of that, Sean wanted us to send each participating business a little blue stuffed hedgehog. Matt Cohler and I even sourced a couple companies to make them. Sean actually wanted us to get a real hedgehog for the office. Turns out they aren't street legal in California, or something, but I guess he found a way to obtain one in Nevada. Fortunately (or unfortunately, depending on your affinity for hedgehogs) Sean couldn't convince any of us to drive there to get one. The local business program was shelved mid 2005 (we decided a revenue product wasn't as important after the Accel financing), and Sean let his dream of the hedgehog go with it. If I'm not mistaken, a couple employees who live near the facebook campus own a hedgehog today. I won't name them in case they are, in fact, illegal, but I guess that sorta counts.

(Quora via AF)

According to Redditor Maggoty, this fantastic 58cm x 40 cm cross-stitch of the original Sonic the Hedgehog title screen took his wife 300 to 400 hours on and off over the course of two to three years. Judging by the looks of it, it was worth every minute.

This is just your friendly reminder to start planning, because Free Comic Book Day is in two weeks! If you don't know what Free Comic Book Day is, dwell in anguish no more:

Free Comic Book Day is the yearly date when you can show up at any participating store (usually one of the closest ones to you) and grab more than thirty comic issues for absolutely free. Yes, they're put out by a great swath of the industry's publishers. Yes, you can have as many as you want, as long as you don't take more than one of the same title. Yes, it is awesome.