Images from upcoming A SCANNER DARKLY animated movie by Linklater, based on the book by Phillip K. Dick.

http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=19085

Other movies based on PKD's work:

Blade Runner (1982)Based on "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?"
Screamers (1990) Based on "Second Variety"
Total Recall (1992)Based on "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale"
Confessions d'un Barjo (French, 1992) Based on "Confessions of a Crap Artist"
Impostor (2001) Based on "Impostor."
Minority Report (2002) Based on "The Minority Report."
Paycheck (Christmas 2003) Based on "Paycheck."

The animation style looks to be similar to that of Linklater's Waking Life, which was excellent.

New and improved keyboard, for my fellow geeks.

http://www.hotlush.com/rofl3000/

via http://www.bluesnews.com, a lovely gaming site with daily tidbits like this.

More Machinima: Coming to a Sundance Festival near you... or nowhere near you, depending on where you live.

http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/07/1826227&tid=97&tid=204

Flickr is awesome, and this is why. Witness teh awesome powah of the global village:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackthought/2293440/

I was just looking for picutres of Akihabara, Japan, and this came up. I heart the intertron.

120-year-old tortoise adopts baby hippo!
Some people in Kenya rescued a dehydrated baby hippo that had been separated from its herd. The released it into an enclosure in a sanctuary, and it ran over to a giant tortoise, and is now "inseparable" say officials.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=753&e=1&u=/nm/20050106/sc_nm/kenya_hippo_dc

again, via Boingboing.
If you read Fark.com, Boingboing.net and a couple of other blogs, there's probably not much reason to read this one... =/

Great shirt: HOME TAPING IS KILLING MUSIC (AND IT'S FUN) http://www.downhillbattle.org/postal/index.php

via http://www.boingboing.net

Praise jeebus, mouse gestures are available for Firefox.

I did a search on the Firefox homepage for "gestures" and stumbled onto their "Extensions" concept.
Turns out there's all sorts of upgrades available, created by those with time to spare.
https://addons.update.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application=firefox&id=39&vid=810

I've been using Avant Browser for some time, which is a third-party upgrade for IE, but I've grown tired of IE's security flaws. I liked Firefox (fast, pretty, secure) but can't live without mouse gestures: to go Back, you hold down the right-mouse-button then press the LMB, to go Forward hold down the LMB and click the RMB. Doesn't sound like much, but I do a metric shit-ton of browsing every day and this is a massive improvement. Download and rejoice!

http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/

Or, if you don't want to switch to Firefox, give Avant Browser a shot:
http://www.avantbrowser.com/

Get Your War On.
You've probably heard about it, but maybe you haven't been there in a while.
It's still awesome.

http://www.mnftiu.cc/mnftiu.cc/war.html

For those who haven't seen it: it's a webcomic, mainly involving office-workers discussing politics. Sounds zany, I know. Go read it, it's Daily Show-grade material.