TECH

Internet radio booming but threatened [Mercury News] - With a growing audience of 54 million monthly listeners, Internet radio is one of the biggest trends in digital music

Toshiba’s XDE DVD Player: A Threat to Blu-ray? [PC Mag] - A new faux HD DVD player could be the latest hurdle in Sony’s dream of world-wide Blu-ray dominance. What exactly is Toshiba thinking?

Copy-and-paste comes to the iPhone…and it’s open source [CNET] -Not surprisingly, it’s not from Apple

ENTERTAINMENT

Lost Producers looking for large prop [Lost Spoilers] - Oh my, now if this is going to be in Season 5 then I’m even more excited because it’s either going to be The Black Rock or we’ve got Pirates….or both!

Iron Man Deleted Scene Online [Superhype] - The clip features Tony Stark throwing a party.

Midway Releases New Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe Teaser, below [Kotaku] : Woah! 

One guess who nipped out Google in market value this week by coming in at $158.8 billion compared to GOOG’s $157.2 billion.

One of the top innovators on the planet, that’s who…now bigger than Jesus?

I’m in Vegas with my brother Patrick for the Star Trek convention so more short shrift news for you. Note that while we’re staying in the Hooters hotel & casino today, this is not a Hooters girl above.

Justice League to Start Filming Next Year? - This is a great rumor, lets all cross fingers.

Labmeeting: A Social Network For Scientists - hey, scientist geeks are people too, ya know.

Diablo III designer comments on angry fan’s screenshots - So what we’re learning here is that the designer implemented the particular color scheme and lighting for a reason?

Greek mummy found in lead coffin - The first indication of embalming in Greece when the Romans ruled.

Google to serve up ads for NBC’s online Olympics coverage - Google on Tuesday announced that freshly-acquired DoubleClick will be used to weave video ads into NBC’s online coverage of the Olympics in Beijing

Today’s news is coming in bite-sized chunks again. Covering everything from a shortage of iPods to Arabic calligraphy to a possible breakthrough involving mucus in mice intestines. Enjoy!

Tech

- Stock Up On Your Apple Gear Now - Apple Insider warns that Apple is informing their resellers there will be a drought in the coming weeks.

- Google testing “AdSense for Games” in bid to shake up in-game advertising - Today GOOG has made few inroads into in-game adverts, the sleeping giant is awakening.

- Chatting with a Google Street View Driver.

- T-Mobile Sidekick 2008 Review. SlashGear has a hands-on review and unboxing video (youtube).

- Gmail certificate expiry snafu follows security upgrade - OOPS, Google allowed one of its Gmail SSL certificates to expire days after promising users improved webmail security

Typography

- Connect Four type. Remember the popular children’s game Connect Four? Here’s an interesting take on that game for a unique type.

- Type in Three Dimensions. This is so very cool, and here’s the ‘making of’ this incredible method of print using a 3D printer.

- Arabic calligraphy as a typographical exercise. This is one of my favorite blogs, if you dig fonts and the creativity behind getting the type just right, you should subscribe.

- Create your own font using FontStruct

Science

- Cracks appear in ice under Mars lander. How cool would it be if the cracks extended, and the weight of the craft broke through the ice plunging into water?

- Smart Contact Lenses. “Smart” contact lenses that measure pressure within the eye and dispense medication accordingly could be made possible using a new material developed by biomedical engineers at UC Davis.

- New technique to compress light could open doors for optical communications. Potentially opening doors to new technology in the fields of optical communications, miniature lasers and optical computers.

- Mucous breakthrough in mice holds promise for cystic fibrosis. A scientist successfully corrected the defect which causes the overproduction of intestinal mucous in mice.

Cool

- Go to Space With Your Frequent Flier Miles. Virgin Atlantic is offering customers with truckloads of points to compete for a chance to go sub-orbital on SpaceShipTwo. Beats using your points to buy a bundt cake

- Forever Geek points out this awesome Red Sonja poster

- How Snakes Got Their Fangs, oh sure we all were wanting to know this, right?

- Cardboard Cat Chaise. This is just goofy. But damn, it’s cool.

We’ll try something a tad different in the News category by linking to stories of interest hosted by bloggers or geeky sites I read and like. Last time I checked I have almost 200 feeds, surely there’s something good in there once in a while worth calling attention to, right?

It’s also a way to send them a little link love once in a while.

- Neatorama calls out a cool game by the mint-maker Mentos. The game is called the Mentos Kiss Fight. Instead of throwing punches in this fight, it’s kisses you’re tossing out. I wonder if you can kiss below the belt and if that’s bad sportsmanship?

- The Blingdom of God, as usual identifies the more bizzare holy artifacts like this Virgin Mary USB flash drive. It has a glowing red heart that ‘beats’ when it’s connected.

- The ChattyDM is one year old and hit quality post #400 last week. Swing on over and wish the site happy b’day on the special post.

- GeeksAreSexy informs us that PS3’s WipEout delayed for failing epilepsy tests.

- According to Forever Geek, if you don’t have that Nintendo Wii yet and you’re holding out for *another* holiday season, then you’re looking forward to another shortage.

- If you’re looking for adventure but not have to actually go out and do anything, then you should look at this review at SciFi Channel on the new Indiana Jones miniatures. These are classic scenes from the Indy movies immortalized forever in miniature statues like the fist fight on the prop plane in the first movie.

- Geek’s Dream Girl takes on some of your love life questions. This weekend it was Online Dating Etiquette 101: Do You HAVE to Write Back? Head on over, ask for advice, take her online dating pole.

- Kimberly at Young Black Professional Guide brings to our attention that folks are already organizing trips to witness history - the inauguration of Barrack Obama.

- This is a pretty good anecdote at textfiles.com from Jason Scott, one of the speakers at OSCON recently. I was reading it on my mobile while out at the mall with the wife this weekend and was laughing out loud with her giving me the stink eye for paying more attention to my RSS feeds on the phone than her shopping.