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New Line has tapped Mexican director Guillermo del Toro (Hellboy) to helm the futuristic fantasy-thriller movie Killing on Carnival Row, Variety reported.

AP - Rock and Roll Hall of Fame members U2 captured the Grammy Award for album of the year for the disc "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb."

The Grammys : The Winners

The Washington Post has a good rundown. From my perspective:

Best moments:

• Bruce, Dionne, and everyone on The Midnight Hour tribute to Wilson Pickett
• Bruce Springsteen ending his acoustic song with “Bring Them Home.”
• Record of the Year: Green Day for Record of the Year for Boulevard of Broken Dreams
• Album of the Year: U2

Other Highlights:

• Madonna (photo)
• Keith Urban
• Mariah Carey, who sang her heart out

RMX asks: “In our company, we’re currently going through the debate of standardizing on a computer language for our next set of products. The pro-standardization guys say that a single language (like Java) will save everyone time. The anti-standardization guys are advocating a mixed environment (of languages like Python, Ruby, and C#), and argue that the whole discussion is as silly as a manufacturing firm standardizing on screwdrivers for all their screw/nail/glue fastening needs. Have any of your companies standardized on a language? How well did it go?”

AP - In the least suspenseful award of the night, John Legend won the Grammy for best new artist.

AP - Green Day upset Kanye West and Mariah Carey to win record of the year for "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" — a year they won best rock album.

AP - Sly Stone, the J.D. Salinger of funk, was drawn out of seclusion by a Grammys tribute.

AP - When Jay-Z walked onto the stage wearing a John Lennon T-shirt underneath his gleaming white suit, it was a hint of the Grammy Awards' oddest mashup of the night.

AP - 97: Awards not handed out on live television.

AP - U2's ballad "Sometimes You Can't Make It on Your Own" won the Grammy Award for song of the year.

A deadly trend continued as gunmen killed a Sunni leader in the former extremist stronghold of Fallujah, part of an insurgent campaign to prevent prominent Sunni Arabs from joining the U.S.-backed political process. [CBS News]

I believe this goes under the category of “wow that is totally cool, but yet I can’t think of a single good use for it”. Anyhow, check out this extremely cool World of Warcraft Item Creator web page. Now you too can make your own WoW Weapon/Armor for the entire world to see.

Of course, I can’t really think of a good use for this. Perhaps you can make imaginary items for your own personal web site (like me, heh). Or you can make elaborate geek pranks for your WoW friends (one of my favorite geek pranks is to go onto my friend’s computer and rename all of his folders … classic). Or you can actually make this Foxtrot item for “real”. Or you could, err, well, I can’t really think of a very good use for this tool.

But it sure is fun to use!