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I’ve been psyched about a Harold and Kumar sequel ever since I first heard about it, but the poster above sealed the deal for me… 🙂

The 56 geeks poster is hilarious; check it out on flickr…

strange maps posts about The Reeves (Equinational) Projection map of the world, in which every country is the same size. Pretty interesting…

Virginia Heffernan of the New York Times noted something interesting about the DVD releases of Sesame Street: a warning reading “These early Sesame Street episodes are intended for grown-ups, and may not suit the needs of today’s preschool child.” WTF?! NPR also weighed in with a story. This is just wrong…

Steam Trek is a fun Steampunk interpretation of Star Trek…

The World Freedom Atlas is:

a geovisualization tool for world statistics. It was designed for social scientists, journalists, NGO/IGO workers, and others who wish to have a better understanding of issues of freedom, democracy, human rights, and good governance. It covers the years 1990-2006.

Those of you who have ridden the DC Metro may have seen the work of Cool “Disco” Dan, one of the most prolific graffiti artists of Washington, DC. I came across a great MetaFilter post that linked to an interview with him (YouTube video, a graffiti.org featured artist gallery, and a Washington City Paper article entitled “The Last of Cool ‘Disco’ Dan?” lamenting the fact that his art is all but gone. I’m glad I caught that post…

My earlier report that Peter Jackson would direct two Hobbit movies was a bit erroneous; he is actually going to executive produce. New is just out, however, that Guillermo Del Toro will direct the movies, which is quite exciting. Del Toro is most recently known for the movies Pan’s Labyrinth and Hellboy (among others), and I think that this collaboration could make for some great movies.

FirstShowing.net’s feature Why 2008 Will Be An Awesome Year For Movies has some overlap with my previous post about the 20 most anticipated films of 2008. Still, after reading that list I’m looking forward to a lot more movies this year…

DrawerGeeks! has some great user-submitted illustrations of Sith. One of my favorites is the one above, although most aren’t as funny…