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Hello everyone and welcome to the news.....and in today's news, a Mr. Dylan Stephen Jayne has sued Google, the search engine (in case you didn't know) for a paltry sum of USD$5 billion. He sued Googledue to this, "I, Dylan Stephen Jayne, plaintiff, has [sic] a social security number that when the social security number is turned upside down in its entirety it is a scrambled code that does spell the name Google®."

Great. The five-page handwritten claim, the first page is what you see here, describes in entirety why he should get the $5 Bil and why other news outlets should not report on the outrageous court case, if there ever was one!

[via Digg]

Our office has been inundated with mooncakes boxes now that it's the mooncake festival. Favorite flavor so far? Still the classic lotus with single yolk. The most interesting flavor we got so far was a green tea mooncake with a milk core.

When we received this box from AMD recently with the Opteron Processor image on it, we thought a quad core processor lay inside. Instead 4 mini mooncakes greeted our eyes. Oh well, they're still equally sweet. *munch*

Think your granny has the ability to kick some alien butt? Wait till you see this Japanese oba-san racking up acheivement points in Halo 3. In Japan. Where the Halo 3 launch was meh. Unusual achivement, though! Gambateneh oba-san!

When you think the Japanese are not crazy enough over their hobbies, this piece of news shows you how fandom can get you in trouble. Six bureaucrats from Japan's Agricultral Ministry were reprimanded for editing the Wikipedia entry on Gundams at work. One of them has 260 articles to his name. 260 wikis!!

"The Agriculture Ministry is not in charge of Gundam," said ministry official Tsutomu Shimomura. LOL for us.

In other happenings, there's a new WiFi shirt available for you mobile warriors that goes blink blink whenever you wander towards a WiFi access point. The cooler thing is that the WiFi logo itself is detachable and stuck on to other good things such as your backpack, your car, dog/cat, kid..... It works with Wireless-B and G networks as well!

If you're looking forward to play the latest games from FatCatLim's Orange Box but lack the processing requirements of Valve's latest package, fear not because you can be saved by = HL2: Portal in 2D Flash!!!! Check out the screens below if you don't believe them!

Instant LOL, more screens after the jump!

In a shocking discovery a couple of days back, we found out that The Sims and Spore (we're still waiting for it!!) creator Will Wright was the winner of the 1980 US  Express run from NY to LA. Much like the Gumball 3000 road rally you kids get to see on TV nowadays, back then it was as crazy as it was illegal - you'll need police scanners, radar jammers and the likes of Valentine One. Who thought gamers were always geeks? he drove an RX-7 for crying out loud! :P

 See more stories at Wired

Poor Kotakuites Brian and gang have been so successful, they're being copied in a new Simpsons 'blog'. Check the screenshot below to see 'moetaku' in all its wonderful glory - I wonder when we would be our turn?

Check out the pic after the jump for Kotaku's response 

Our fellow man FatCatLim was so pumped up by getting Guitar Hero III last night, he came to the office today looking like this:

Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix and Freddie Mercury would be turning in their graves.....

Okay, not exactly IT related but Mainichi Daily News have reported that Hollywood is planning a live action movie based on the Dragonball series, with two of the cast members already confirmed for the movie. Copied and pasted from the original source...

Fox said in a statement issued Wednesday in Hong Kong that local comedian Stephen Chow will produce the live action movie "Dragonball" and James Wong, a former writer for the TV series "The X-Files" and director of "Final Destination," will direct.

Chow's credits include "Shaolin Soccer" and "Kung Fu Hustle."

Fox said Justin Chatwin, who played the son of Tom Cruise's character in "War of the Worlds," will portray the lead character Goku and James Marsters is cast as Goku's main enemy, Piccolo.

Marsters played the vampire Spike on the TV series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer."

"Dragonball" revolves around Goku's quest to protect Earth from evil forces who want to take over the planet and control mystical objects known as "dragonballs."

Fox said the film, whose budget was not announced, will start shooting later this year and will be released worldwide on Aug. 15, 2008.

Oh God. Oh. My. God. I don't know whether I want to see this train wreck or not, but I'm looking forward to how they're going to incorporate live action Super Saiyan hair when Goku powers up. That scene alone will be EPIC.

We were doing our usual stuff yesterday, oblivious to the fact that it's Haloween, but when we got online this morning with our usual teary, blood-shot eyes, we found out that loads of gaming company employees dressed up as the characters from Team Fortress 2!! Thanks to the dudes at kotaku, here's a roundup of what they did:

Bioware:

Blizzard:

EA:

NCSoft: 

This has to be absolutely cool - ala Minority Report style! The trick entails the use of an IR sensor, and trick 3M reflective tape, which is reflective enough to beam those  IR rays back to the sensor. Unfortunately, you'll have to wear them (the tape) on your fingertips, and a wee bit of hacking is involved. You can't emulate the wiimote buttons, too, so can someone port this to the PC? hehe

It was inevitable. You can have some moist, soft cake now :D

I don't play the Metroid Prime series, but I certainly wouldn't mind this lovely  custom-made poseable Samus Aran figurine. Though the face inside the helmet looks a little creepy. Click the jump for more photos of this figurine made by this talented Metroid Prime fan.   

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We don't know where our sudden Samus addiction came from, but the picture below is simply....stunning.  No doubt the beautiful Jenni Källberg's helmet mayb e a tad too big from the original, but hey, she's got the armor right, and just look at that hair! 

More pictures of Jenni here  

You've seen Hello Kitty on thongs and dildos. Now get ready to impress upon nature with Hello Kitty bicycle tire threads! Isn't there anything that Hello Kitty doesn't whore her name to? Don't know how well it actually grips the road, but wouldn't it be awesome to come across someone run down by a bike sporting one of these with Hello Kitty imprints across his face? Unless you're that someone that is. Available now for the handsome price of US$25.99 a piece.

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