The Battlestar Galactica Web Series, Blood and Chrome Premieres Friday

It's been a very long time coming, but if you're a Battlestar Galactica fan, you've known about the web series, Blood and Chrome, for quite some time. The series follows William Adama during the first First Cylon War, something we only saw for a clip or two in flashbacks on SyFy's Battlestar Galactica. After many delays and reworks, the series will finally debut on Machinima Prime this Friday.

Geekolinks: 11/6

1. Will video games impact voter turnout? (Mediaite)
2. Political insiders to follow on Twitter today on election day (GeekSugar)
3. Awesome election day stickers on Canvas (The Daily Dot)
4. 25 presidential facts for killing time at the polls (Mental Floss)
5. The best and worst Bond themes of all time (Flavorwire)
6. 6 unspoken rules of public transportation (Cracked)
7. 10 worst airship disasters in history (Environmental Graffiti)

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No One Knows When The Last Guardian Will Ever Release

We all shed a tear when game design genius Fumito Ueda left Team ICO, and it was even worse that it happened in the middle of the development of their next game, The Last Guardian. We've been waiting on the game's release for around three years now, and it seems we're not much closer to knowing when that is. In an interview with French website Jeux Video, boss of Sony Worldwide Studios Shuhei Yoshida said that no one could promise any release date for the game.

Ultimate Portable Game Player Comes Loaded With 80 Genesis Games

If you're either one of those gamers that loves retro games, or you just really dig collecting odd gaming gadgets, At Games is sprucing up their line of devices that house multiple older games with the new, dramatically named Ultimate Portable Game Player. The unit houses 40 Sega Genesis games, and 40 "arcade" games, which could mean anything.

Microsoft Surface Has Much Less Free Space Than Advertised

Anyone who has gotten an SSD with the requisite smaller storage space currently inherent to the medium and installed Windows 7 on it knows damn well that Microsoft operating systems take up too much space. When Microsoft released their new tablet, the Surface, people were thrilled that the base model started with 32 GB of free space. Unfortunately, due to the pre-installed software on the device, the 32 GB storage size is more like 16 GB.

Geekolinks: 11/5

1. 11 movie chess scenes where the board is set up wrong (Mental Floss)
2. Have some space in your apps (GeekSugar)
3. Instagram just had one of its biggest moments (The Daily Dot)
4. Aladdin skateboarding on a magic carpet, IRL (HyperVocal)
5. 12 well-designed bicycles for urban dwellers (Flavorwire)
6. Do you need a nap capsule? (The Week)
7. 8 election myths you probably believe (Cracked)

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Editors’ Picks 11/2: The Origin of Power of Horror

This week in Editors' Picks: James reminds you it's okay to like things your peers don't, Rollin is in awe of basic electricity, and Ian is secretly terrified.

Geekolinks: 11/2

1. How to send Sandy victims digital donations (GeekSugar)
2. How far can you drive on empty? (Mental Floss)
3. New York City's newest neighborhood is a depressing one (HyperVocal)
4. Unraveling one of the Internet's oldest mysteries (The Daily Dot)
5. Bizarre myths behind birthmarks (Environmental Graffiti)
6. 4 reasons you should be thrilled about the Disney Star Wars acquisition (Cracked)
7. Sometimes PETA is weird instead of awful (Flavorwire)

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Want to Rule the World? Man Attempts to Auction Off Earth

Much more valuable than your Crayola collector's tin, a Japanese man is attempting to auction off the Earth on Yahoo Auctions. Even weirder, at the time of this writing, the auction has 2,772 bids, with the current price sitting at 9,912,356,678 yen, or about 123,472,279 bucks, with four days remaining.

Now That Disney Owns Star Wars, This is What They Did With Darth Vader

For those of you worried about Disney's purchase of Lucasfilm, they didn't ruin comics when they bought Marvel, right? They certainly didn't ruin sports by owning ESPN either, so if you're worried that they'll turn Star Wars into some kind of Kingdom Hearts-style mashup where Mickey can't stop feeling disturbances in the Force, I'd recommend a wait-and-see approach first. On the other hand, all of those animatronic kids in It's a Small World getting Force-choked until they can't sing anymore would be just fine. However you feel about the purchase, this is how Disney celebrated, playing on the old stereotype of where athletes say they're going to go after they win some kind of bowl or finals or world-spanning series. At any rate, don't forget: Many people would say Disney is a more terrifying cult than the Sith anyway.