Internet pirates, that is! The French parliament is voting on some law about cutting off internet access for people who download stuff on peer-to-peer networks, and this picture is about that. Sounds bad! But more importantly, stormtroopers have FINALLY met pirates in what is sure to be a battle for the ages.

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1. Read the explanation of the evil French law this image is protesting here.
2. The Secret Life Of Stormtroopers [PIC]
3. French “three-strikes” copyright law passes — but may be dead anyway

CULTURE BUZZ: Here is a system, courtesy of Tumblr Liana , to devise an exotic name worthy of an NPR show (like Nina Totenberg or Renita Jablonski). Add your middle initial to your first name, then tack on the smallest foreign town you have ever visited. I am Amandak St. Milo, and I will be hosting a variety show/Tim Riggins Appreciation hour. Tune in tomorrow at 5.

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1. Created by Liana
2. Your NPR Name: Two Words To A More Interesting You
3. Are you Soterios Johnson?
4. NPR get in on its own fun!
5. Your NPR Name, Like Your Drag Queen Name Only Unpronounceable
6. Flavorwire also enjoys the game.

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When geeks and apple pies intersect, amazing things can happen. Step-by-step instructions on how to make your own Apple apple pie (for best results, use carbon-dioxide laser for the lattice work).

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This T-shirt has a built-in speaker so you can play seven different drum sounds by tapping your chest. I love how committed this guy is to rocking out, novelty-T-shirt style.

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The Best Links:

1. ThinkGeek : Electronic Drum Kit Shirt
2. March to the Beat of Your Own Drum
3. Clothing: Drum Kit Shirt Turns You Into a Robotic Bobby McFerrin

A user on Deviant Art has created some gorgeous, conceptual art inspired by Nintendo in its infancy. Admittedly, we’re a sucker for anything remotely reminisicent of Mega Man .

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1. More Of Justin Buonvino’s Art
2. “I’ve Always Wanted to Know What the Original Zelda Would Look Like in 3-D.”

A funny and fairly accurate portrayal of how a kid becomes a geek. There’s only one way to get to ‘Girls,’ and it’s through exposure to sunlight, not D&D (via Scribbling ).

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SCIENCE BUZZ: A mad scientist creates a clickable periodic table with a video for each element. Now you can geek out to videos about magnesium, argon, and plutonium. Get ready to find your inner geek !

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1. Watch The Videos Here!
2. Proof That Geeks Read BuzzFeed!

TECH BUZZ: Google as a unix shell. Surf the true geek way; just type h to get a list of commands, and you’re off! You can do web search, Google blog search, wikipedia search, and more, all from the convenience of the command line.

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The Best Links:

1. Goosh.org - the Unofficial Google Shell
2. “This is quite possibly the coolest thing I’ve seen in a good while.”

TV BUZZ: The buzz is strong for the fourth and final season of Sci-Fi Channel’s brilliant “reimagining” of the chintzy series from the 70’s. So why aren’t you watching? It’s won a Peabody, for frak’s sake! Plus, The Wire ‘s over, and it’s not as if White People have anything else to do.

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The Best Links:

1. A Complete Primer On the Smartest Sci-fi TV Show …Maybe Ever.
2. Annalee Newitz on Why Battlestar Galactica is “The Best Political Drama” On Television
3. How to Convince Ladies That BSG Is Not Star Trek
4. Spoilers And Teases For Season 4 (Tread Lightly!)
5. Your BSG Political Cheat Sheet
6. Hello, I’m A Cylon. And You Are…?
7. NBC Universal is Pulling Out All the Punches
8. More ‘Mega-Spoilers’! [You’ve Been Warned!]
9. Battlestar Galactica: The 8-Minute Recap
10. So…Who’s NOT Going to Die in Season Four? (Throw Us a Bone, Olmos!)
11. BSG is “Capable of a Deeply Involved Allegoric Intelligence the Likes of Which You Almost Never Get.” …In A Good Way, We Swear.
12. The Colonial Fleet Does ‘Letterman’
13. Nick Denton <3 BSG
14. Joss Whedon, Seth Green, South Park Creators <3 Battlestar Galactica
15. You Think ‘Two and a Half Men’ Could Offer Such Stunning Merch? Doubt It.
16. When BSG Breaks Hearts
17. Make Baltar Your Homeboy
18. Galactica To The Rescue! [Coolest Sequence Ever]
19. Vintage Footage of BSG ‘78 (Or “How They Spun Shit Into Gold”)
20. Frak Galactica, Says One Angry Fan Upset With the Season 3 Finale

TECH BUZZ: Engadget and Gizmodo, the Web’s undisputed champion gear blogs, fight to the death for page hits and credibility. It’s like Ali vs. Frazier, only where these guys pack a punch is in their ability to out-liveblog one another.

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The Best Links:

1. Wired Gets The Scoop, Notes Competition “Turned Up To 11”
2. Engadget Editor Ryan Block Disagrees With Denton’s Stats Take
3. Gadget Porn Smackdown!
4. Perhaps This Whole Thing is Being Overstated? A Little?
5. Gizmodo Owner Nick Denton Weighs In
6. Valleywag Asks Who’s Really Winning
7. ANNOUNCED: Throwdown At Flagpole!
8. Subtle Message: Gizmodo is High-brow
9. “Engadget & Gizmodo Are Just Two Immature Little Kids Attempting to Reap the Benefits of a Journalistic Profession Neither Truly Understands.”

FOOD BUZZ: Specialty cakes - Yoda, the Kindle, an Atari - are a growing sector of the baking industry. Actually, a lot of these look lovingly homemade. Aw, geeks, you make the bestest cakes! (This is the year-round version of geek pumpkins .)

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1. Super (Mario) Cake!
2. Kindle Cake is Baked Gadget Goodness
3. Helio Ocean Cake
4. This Is Why You Don’t Marry A Nerd
5. From Futurerama to Atari Pacman
6. Tech Geek Cakes
7. There is no Try. Geek or Geek Not (Yoda Cake)
8. Assembling a Tux the Linux Penguin Cake
9. A Transformers Cake (For The Groom, Obvs)

TECH BUZZ: Toshiba confirmed rumors that they would permanently halt production of the HD DVD. And who can blame them? Watching Planet Earth on Blu-ray makes the HD version look like a coloring book.

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The Best Links:

1. Toshiba Quits HD DVD Business
2. HD DVD Prounounced Dead
3. HD DVD Is Dead, Please Move On With Your Life (Read The Press Release!)
4. HD DVD vs. Blu-ray: Meaningless Battle?
5. Things We Lost In The [Format] War
6. What’s Next for DVDs?
7. Will Xbox 360 Add On Blu-ray?

TECH BUZZ: A new sport where competitors race to detangle bundles of CAT-5 ethernet cables. Ok, yeah. We read about this on BoingBoing . It’s probably the most quintessentially BoingBoing thing ever. Well, now you know what those IT guys are going to be doing this weekend.

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The Best Links:

1. Speed Cabling Official Website - Get Rules and Event Info
2. Introducing Speed Cabling - Watch a Video
3. And We Have a Winner!
4. “Telegraph” Investigates the Seedy (not Really) World of ‘Speedcabling’
5. The First Ever Cable Untangling Championships