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Mike Nolan will remain coach of the Niners but will surrender personnel power.

When Mike Nolan finally left the San Francisco 49ers’ training complex Tuesday night, the coach sure didn’t look like somebody who would never be back.

Australian newspaper >a href=”http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22980399-5006023,00.html” target=”outside”>The Herald Sun reported a rumor that Aussie singer/actress Natalie Imbruglia secretly auditioned for a role in Hugh Jackman’s upcoming X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

UGO’s Movie Blog reported a rumor that filmmaker Tyler Perry will play a small but important role in J.J. Abrams’ upcoming Star Trek movie.

The British Daily Mail newspaper reported that Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling has strongly hinted for the first time that she could write an eighth book in the series.

SF&F movies held strong on the last weekend of 2007, with Alvin and the Chipmunks taking second place with $30 million and Will Smith’s I Am Legend in third with $27.5 million, the Associated Press reported.

Fans of SF television are sponsoring an auction to benefit striking writers in Hollywood.

The British tabloid The Sun quoted Moritz Borman, producer of the upcoming fourth Terminator movie, saying that California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will not appear in the sequel.

A follow up to our story December 30 on the Australian Government joining China is broadly censoring the internet. Now apparently if you believe in Free Speech you believe in Kiddie Porn, via the SMH:

“Labor makes no apologies to those who argue that any regulation of the internet is like going down the Chinese road,” […]

The brains behind a slew of legendary ’90s titles is back, talks to GameSpot about Sensible Soccer and how the industry has changed in the past 15 years.

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Not that we’d put it past Microsoft or anything, but we can already smell a rumor brewing where there is probably none regarding the long-speculated and continuously denied plans to integrate an HD DVD drive into the Xbox 360. Granted, Bill’s got to have something to talk about on stage at CES next week, but we we’re not putting much stock in the pure speculation of a fresh Seattle Times piece, which, without sources, simply holds that “Microsoft could also make a splash by announcing plans to give the Xbox 360 an internal HD-DVD drive”. Yep, they could do that which has been speculated endlessly since the HD DVD drive itself was announced in 2006 — or not. Guess we’ll find out for sure next week. Just don’t get your hopes up.

Oh, and those Xbox Live outages we’ve been covering? Rumor has it that Microsoft is going to do right by its customers and hook up Gold members with a little something — at least according to an unnamed Xbox insider. Guess we’ll see about that too one once things stabilize on the Live front.

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The FBI is making a new stab at identifying mysterious skyjacker Dan Cooper, who bailed out of an airliner in 1971 and vanished, releasing new details that it hopes will jog someone’s memory. The man calling himself Dan Cooper, also known as D.B. Cooper, boarded a Northwest flight in Portland for a flight to Seattle on the night of Nov, 24, 1971, and commandeered the plane, claiming he had dynamite.