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'The Oregon Trail' Meme Meets 'Star Wars' Lore, Snoop Dogg Parodies 'Old Spice' Ads

by Matthew Zuras on August 6, 2010 at 06:10 PM

screenshot of 'the alderaan trail'
There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web.
  • You know how -- after a long night, spent quaffing down synthehol cocktails with your 'World of Warcraft' "online girlfriend" and thumbing through your favorite sci-fi fanfic -- "Oregon" kind of starts to sound like "Alderaan"? Neither do we. And, despite our head-scratching over the resurgence of 'The Oregon Trail' as a meme, a dude name Matt Marchini put together some screenshots of his fake mashup video game 'The Alderaan Trail.' Good for a LOL, so why not? [From: Picasa]
  • Just the other day we wrote about a Facebook-based start-up called Cameo Stars that seemed to be basing its whole business strategy on the popularity of Isaiah Mustafa's wildly viral Twitter videos for Old Spice. And now, Snoop Dogg has entered the Twitter-video-response game with some cannabis-laced humor, responding to Al Gore, Martha Stewart, Shaq and other celebs as part of a promotion for his 'Snoop Dogg Presents: My No. 1 Priority' mixtape/album. [From: Buzzfeed]
  • Shigeru Kondo and Alexander Yee have nearly doubled the record for pi-decimal calculation, which was most recently set by Fabrice Bellard at 2.7 trillion places. The Japanese Kondo and American Yee teamed up with the aid of $18,000 in hardware (including 20 hard drives) to set the new calculation at 5 trillion digits. That's a big piece of pi! [From: PopSci]
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Tags: AlexanderYee, bestoftherest, IsaiahMustafa, MattMarchini, OldSpice, OregonTrail, pi, ShigeruKondo, SnoopDogg, TheAlderaanTrail, TheOregonTrail, top, twitter

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