CULTURE BUZZ – Creative Coffins designs iPhone casket. This ain’t no joke. In addition to the iPhone coffin, the company offers a number of other themed wooden, er…cardboard?, overcoats. All are custom inspired.

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The Best Links:

1. View Others…GTA IV, Halo 3, SNES, etc.
2. Creative Coffins

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.

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.”

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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.

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. Spoilers And Teases For Season 4 (Tread Lightly!)
4. How to Convince Ladies That BSG Is Not Star Trek
5. NBC Universal is Pulling Out All the Punches
6. More ‘Mega-Spoilers’! [You’ve Been Warned!]
7. Battlestar Galactica: The 8-Minute Recap
8. So…Who’s NOT Going to Die in Season Four? (Throw Us a Bone, Olmos!)
9. Hello, I’m A Cylon. And You Are…?
10. Your BSG Political Cheat Sheet
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

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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.

The Best Links:

1. Wired Gets The Scoop, Notes Competition “Turned Up To 11”
2. Gadget Porn Smackdown!
3. Engadget Editor Ryan Block Disagrees With Denton’s Stats Take
4. Gizmodo Owner Nick Denton Weighs In
5. Valleywag Asks Who’s Really Winning
6. Perhaps This Whole Thing is Being Overstated? A Little?
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.”

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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.)

The Best Links:

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)

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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.

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?

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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.

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

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