12:34:56.7 PM, 08/09/10 – Happy Sequential Day!

The long-awaited date is upon us: At 12:34:56.7PM on August 9th, 2010, we mark the most hallowed of geek holidays -- Sequential Day 2010! This sacred moment is up there with Sysadmin Appreciation Day. Ready your video game-themed alcoholic drink canteens, because in honor of this annual occasion we've decided to count down 3 of the most beloved sequences in geek history!

Green Lantern Production Done; Writer Already Signed for Sequel

DC Chief Creative Officer Geoff Johns announced on Twitter this past Friday that production has wrapped on Martin Campbell's (Casino Royale) superhero film Green Lantern. Shooting began in February 2010 in New Orleans, and lasted 100 days. In other news, the film's co-scribe Michael Goldenberg (Contact, Harry Potter) has been hired as screenwriter for Green Lantern 2. Earlier in June, Greg Berlanti, Michael Green, and Marc Guggenheim were reported to be working on a treatment for the inevitable sequel, as well as DC's next likely franchise, The Flash. Too bad, Ryan Reynolds would've been perfect. (/Film, Bleeding Cool)

But Will It Run Rickroll? Crysis Editor Used to Remake “Never Gonna Give You Up”

What begins as an amusing video of Raptor Team operative Sergeant Michael "Psycho" Sykes dancing in the Crysis sandbox editor to Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up" becomes a horrifying, full-length music video, complete with synchronized lip movements, lit up bartender scene, and glowing nanosuit. Well done, VeliPetter. Just give thanks you weren't Crysis Roll'D. We seriously considered doing it. See the video at your own peril after the break.

Best Buy to Launch Tablet

Robert Stephens, Best Buy's chief technology officer and founder of the Geek Squad, has tweeted two pictures of what appears to be a Rocketfish tablet!

CrunchGear notes that the device appears to resemble early images of the HP Slate, and is probably "in the 9-inch range." No hardware specifications just yet, but Stephens noted in early July that the company was working on an Android 2.2 tablet. Is this the fabled one he speaks of?

Larger images after the break. (CrunchGear)

Did Eisenhower and Churchill Order a Cover-Up of a UFO Encounter?

Britain's National Archives have published hundreds of previously classified UFO-related documents, setting conspiracy theorists abuzz. Among them are witness reports, sketches, and briefing notes over the past 50 years; perhaps the most intriguing find is a 1999 letter alleging that during World War II, then-Prime Minister Winston Churchill ordered a cover-up of an encounter between an unidentified flying object and a RAF bomber.

Director of Kanye’s “Power” Music Video Created a Elevator That Travels From Hell to Heaven

There's got to be a reason why Kanye West so wanted to specifically order Persian rugs with cherub imagery, and that reason may just be the director of his newest music video, Marco Brambilla. "Power," most recently and fittingly used in a trailer for The Social Network, was released yesterday as a controversially heaven-themed music video. Yet no one can deny the video's--or as Kanye calls it, the "painting's"--visual spectacle: King Kanye stands tall in the center of a heavenly tableau, a golden statue of the Egyptian god Horus slung around his neck, and the camera slowly pulls back to reveal an orgy of female "angels." Needless to say, wet toga contest ensues.

A Car That Runs on Poop

Yesterday, British sewage treatment company Wessex Water unveiled a car that runs on poop. The new Bio-Bug is a Volkswagen Beetle powered by methane biogas generated from fermented human waste, and according to the Bristol-based company, the fartmobile can travel 10,000 miles annually on waste collected from 70 households! Keep on poopin' for your mileage, folks.

World’s Longest Park Bench is Neither Very Bench-Like Nor Necessarily the Longest

It's a slow news day in the geekosphere, and it's days like this that we dream of sitting on quaint park benches, soaking in the sunrays. Instead, this has been brought to our attention: Though the object pictured above may look like a crazy life-sized xylophone or a child's rollercoaster, it's in fact one of, if not the longest park benches in the world, opening only a few days ago in Littlehampton, England.

OneManga.com and MangaFox.com Close Shop

Since yesterday, the giant manga scanslation aggregator OneManga has removed "the online reading component of the site," following concerns raised by publishers. Competitor MangaFox has also taken down most of its licensed manga. According to the site administrator Zabi, OM will continue to post manga lists and series information, though users will have to search other aggregators or access the scanslators' sites for the actual comics themselves. (CBR)

Neil Gaiman Defeats Todd McFarlane in Legal Battle Over Spawn Characters

It's not everyday you see the Associated Press link to Neil Gaiman's blog. So what's all the fuss about? Yesterday, a federal court judge ruled that Spawn creator Todd McFarlane owed royalties to the Sandman writer, over three derivative characters—Dark Ages Spawn and shapely warrior angels Domina and Tiffany—based on Gaiman's own "Medieval Spawn" characters, created when he guest wrote issue #9 in 1993. We recount the case's history, which stretches back over seven years, after the break.