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Bungie just added this $40 Halo hoodie to the official Bungie Store in a variety of sizes and colors brown. Featuring an image of an understandably Master Chief-y looking soldier rocking the United Nations Space Command’s Mark VI Mjolnir armor (totally better than that Mark V garbage), this hoodie takes a decidedly less branded approach to Halo 3 merch than some other Halo hoodies. While we’re not ones to turn down video game themed threads we’ll admit, we have a soft spot for the homemade varietals. Anyone know of a DIY-ed Mister Chief hoodie?

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Lasse Halstrom is making his first foray into American television with the SF pilot New Amsterdam, according to The Hollywood Reporter. It centers on a man cursed with immortality who works as a homicide detective in New York.

The Producers Guild of America announced the nominations for the best films of 2006. The films Cars, Flushed Away, Happy Feet, Ice Age: The Meltdown and Monster House were nominated in the category of best animated film.

Microsoft and Bungie Studios have announced two more ways to become part of the beta release of the Halo 3 multiplayer game. Players can register for the “Rule of Three” program at the game’s official Web site, or purchase specially marked boxes of Crackdown, which contain invitations to participate in the beta.

World Fantasy Award-winning author and renowned opera composer S. P. Somtow told SCI FI Wire that his latest opera, Ayodhya caused some controversy in his native Thailand. Officials of the Ministry of Culture asked Somtow to change the libretto of the opera.

Heroes’ Masi Oka talked with SCI FI Wire about working with guest star George Takei, who will appear in a pair of upcoming episodes. Takei plays the stern father of Oka’s time-and-space-bending character, Hiro Nakamura.

• Digby has the latest chilling details on the Jose Padilla case.

• Jane, Christy and the Firedoglake gang got a coveted press pass (with the assistance of Arianna Huffington) to the Scooter Libby trial. They are going to rent an apartment for the duration of the trial. They need help with expenses, so if you can spare some dollars, go on over and help.

• David Neiwert at Orcinus has some thoughts on American concentration camps.

• Dan Froomkin at the Washington Post wants to know where the outrage is over Bush's plan to escalate the troop numbers in Iraq.

• The New York Post has provided right-wing blogger Michelle Malkin with media credentials to go to Iraq. The military has agreed to “embed” her. She's taking aim at the Associated Press coverage in Iraq.

• Defense Tech reports on the changes in store for private contractors and journalists in Iraq.

Since the start of the Iraq war, tens of thousands of heavily-armed military contractors have been roaming the country — without any law, or any court to control them. That may be about to change, Brookings Institution Senior Fellow P.W. Singer notes in a Defense Tech exclusive. Five words, slipped into a Pentagon budget bill, could make all the difference. With them, “contractors 'get out of jail free' cards may have been torn to shreds,” he writes. They're now subject to the Uniform Code of Military Justice, the same set of laws that governs soldiers. But here's the catch: embedded reporters are now under those regulations, too.

Our living Tower of Babel, Pat Robertson, wants us to know that a terrorist attack on the U.S. will result in “mass killing” toward the end of the year. God told him, so you'd think he'd have it on good authority.

“I’m not necessarily saying it’s going to be nuclear,” he said during his news-and-talk television show “The 700 Club” on the Christian Broadcasting Network. “The Lord didn’t say nuclear. But I do believe it will be something like that.”

Something like that? Pat, could you go on another prayer retreat and get back to us with more detail?

Fortunately, Robertson's prognostication record hasn't been much better than Jeane Dixon's. In 2005, he predicted Bush would win victory after victory on issues like Social Security reform, and in 2006 he was confident that a tsunami-strength storm would engulf a U.S. coast. (Well, to be fair, it did rain heavily in New England.)

Krish writes “The Seattle Times reports that a local Washington state group is suing cellphone makers for patent infringement on bluetooth devices. Research conducted by a University of Washington undergraduate more than a decade ago has become the subject of a lawsuit filed against some of the largest cellphone manufacturers in the world. The suit claims that consumer electronics giant Matsushita and its Panasonic unit, as well as Samsung and Nokia, are infringing on four patents sold under the ‘Bluetooth’ name.”

Update: 1/4, 7:13 am MT: Denver's KOA radio reports police have found the car in the Green Valley section of Denver. It was painted over but not burned. It's on its way to the police evidence department.

Denver police have identified a “vehicle of interest” in the New Years' Eve shooting death of Denver Bronco cornerback Darrent Williams. (background here.)

Police put out a bulletin earlier today looking for a White 1994 Chevy Tahoe with Colorado license plate number 665-OBS. They didn't identify the owner, but the local news has: Brian Hicks.

It may or may not be the vehicle involved in the shooting, but if it was, Hicks couldn't have been the shooter because he's in jail awaiting trial on drug charges — and on charges of shooting a woman who was supposed to testify against him at trial. The woman was later killed the week before his trial was supposed to begin.

Hicks has been jailed since Nov. 9 on a charge of possessing drugs with intent to distribute. He's also accused of shooting at a woman who was later killed a week before she was to testify against him. His bond was increased to $1 million after the woman was killed and his trial date was rescheduled.

More on that case here.

Police say Hicks was a gang member, and there were rival gangs at the nightclub New Years Eve party that Williams and his group, including two other Broncos were attending. They say Williams reportedly try to break up an argument between the two groups.

Hicks' girlfriend maintains she doesn't know who had access to Hicks' vehicle while he's been in jail.

It's not yet known whether one gun or more than one gun was used to spray the Hummer limo carrying Williams and his group, or whether all the bullets match.

Others have told police the occupants of the “vehicle of interest” may have run away to Los Angeles. LA Police say they've had no inquiry from Denver police.

I'll be discussing the case on Denver's KOA radio at 7am MT. And posting updates on the investigation and funeral at 5280.com.

MicklePickle wonders: “I was talking to a co-worker the other day about the history of our company (which shall remain nameless), and he started reminiscing about some of the IT hacks that our company did. Like running 10BaseT down a storm water drain to connect two buildings, using a dripping tap to keep the sewerage U-bend full of water in a computer room, (huh?). And some not so strange ones like running SCSI out to 100m, and running a major financial system on a long forgotten computer in a cupboard. I know that there must be a plethora of IT hacks around. What are some you’ve seen?”

Leading receiver Darrell Jackson, plus starting offensive linemen Robbie Tobeck, Chris Gray and Floyd Womack, are all questionable for Seattle’s NFC wild-card playoff game Saturday against the Dallas Cowboys.