Don’t be surprised if you see hockey star Wayne Gretzky’s son Trevor in a Hurricanes jersey some day. No, not the NHL team in Carolina, the original Miami Hurricanes. And we don’t mean the school is starting up a hockey team either, we’re talking football.

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Lanxon writes “The law that allows the US Internet Archive to collect and preserve websites does not apply to British archivists. In fact, experts from the Archive and many other archivist institutions argue that the only way the millions of Britain’s websites could be legally archived is if British law itself was amended, reports Wired in an investigation published today. Currently, archivists have to seek permission from webmasters of every single (more…)

Few artistic endeavors are more collaborative than filmmaking, but most of us are still obsessed with the Auteur Theory so here’s a list of the fifty greatest living directors around today.

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Sony has announced the latest in their line of SOCOM games for PS3

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The NHL trade deadline has come and gone without any huge deals, but Maple Leafs GM Brian Burke has made yet another solid move, snagging Penguins prospect Chris Peluso in exchange for a 6th round pick in the 2010 draft.

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A look at video game fan culture and the controversial art of weaving non-canonical tales.

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timothy writes “As places to study what happens to corpses, the Atlantic Ocean is both much larger and much more specialized than the famous ‘body farm’ in Knoxville, TN. But for all kinds of good reasons, sending human bodies into Davy Jones’ locker just to see where they float and how they bloat is unpopular. Pigs don’t pay taxes, and more importantly, they don’t vote. So Canadian scientists have taken to using them as human-body proxies, to study (more…)