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The YouTube video History of Video Games is chock full of arcade goodness. How many can you identify?

The video featured at the web site I’m Voting Republican is a bit heavy-handed, but it gets its point across…

Although Pluto was stripped of its planetary status two years ago, it is now regaining some measure of respect, as similar newly discovered distant bodies will be named “plutoids.” The IAU is defining plutoids as “objects that circle the sun and are too small to be considered planets, but big enough to have a level of gravity that keeps them in a near spherical shape.” By this definition, Eris, an object discovered in 2003, will also be designated a plutoid.

This is all well and good, but I tend to agree with Ralph McNutt, a planetary scientist at Johns Hopkins University, who said, “I grew up with nine planets, I’m sorry.” :-p

Update: A Space.com article has some more information, including concern by some that this pronouncement is “just one more confusing term in the cosmic lexicon,” considering the fact that:

The term plutoid joins a host of other odd words – plutinos, centaurs, cubewanos and EKOs – that astronomers have conjured in recent years to define objects in the outer solar system, whose appearance seems to grow more complex every year.

Inspired by Princess Leia’s line “Darth Vader. Only you could be so bold,” Ironic Sans showcases some typographical Star Wars art in the post How bold can Darth Vader be? The Princess Leia graphic is pretty good, too…

Although the feature Photo Tampering Throughout History concentrates on more modern examples, it covers almost the entire history of photographic journalism:

Photography lost its innocence many years ago. In as early as the 1860s, photographs were already being manipulated, only a few decades after Niepce created the first photograph in 1814. With the advent of high-resolution digital cameras, powerful personal computers and sophisticated photo-editing software, the manipulation of digital images is becoming more common. Here, I have collected some examples of tampering throughout history.

If you liked the previous CSS Homer post, you may want to check out Ned Batchelder’s CSS Homer: Animated, in which he slows the rendering of the image so that you can see that it is only constructed of characters.

Nerve.com’s feature The 50 Greatest Comedy Sketches of All Time will keep you entertained for some time…

Before you throw away your next musical greeting card, you may want to consider the Instructables feature Make an iPod Speaker from a Hallmark Music Card. This sounds pretty cool; I’m going to have to try this…

Beer Suggest is “a niche wiki/social community for beer lovers.” Beer Advocate and RateBeer are also excellent sites along the same lines.

Way to look presidential. :-p