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While the past few years have been a financial boon for Adam Sandler, the actor and producer's creative output has been a shadow of the films, sketches, and albums he created in the 1990s. Every so often Sandler appears on a current talk show or web video and reminds the world he's more than the star of Blended and Little Nicky. One such moment happened last night on Late Night with David Letterman.

A number of celebrities and musicians have been bidding special farewells to Letterman during his final days hosting the late night talk show. Sandler took the opportunity to pick up an acoustic guitar and sing a song he wrote for the occasion, a throwback to his days on Saturday Night Live.

The tune has the childish jokes you expect (and...

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Raph Koster is a man of intellectual enquiry and boundless curiosity. So when the designer of Ultima Online and creative lead of Star Wars Galaxies was hired to fix a top trivia game for drinking establishments, he knew he faced multiple challenges.

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This is the time of year when TV networks announce their schedules and audiences get first looks at new shows, and today we're getting a glimpse at The  Muppets. As reported before, the show is a single-camera comedy told in the style of The Office, with the various characters being followed around and then giving interviews directly into the camera as cutaways. The show is going to be about the creatures making a new network show, and that meta-commentary is there right from the opening frames, with Kermit addressing the entire cast giving them the news about the series pickup. The show will be airing on Tuesday nights at 8PM.

Also as promised, we get a glimpse of personal lives of the creatures — Fozzie is dating! — and we learn that...

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The Red Planet has a blue streak. NASA's Curiosity rover has been traveling along the Mars surface by its lonesome for nearly 1,000 days now (which has done terrible things to its complexion). Last month, while it was taking a break inside the Gale Crater, the rover looked up at the sky between dust storms and watched as the sun set on the horizon amidst a tinge of blue. Thankfully, Curiosity is an astute tourist and took the time to capture the sunset in a series of photos released this week.

The hue can be directly attributed to the aforementioned dust storms. "When the blue light scatters off the dust, it stays closer to the direction of the sun than light of other colors does," said Curiosity member Mark Lemmon in a statement. "The...

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Grandia 2, a highly regarded role-playing game released on Dreamcast back in 2000, is to be given an HD rebirth on Windows PC, via Steam.

In a report by GameSpot today, publisher GungHo Online Entertainment America confirmed that it will be bringing an HD version of Grandia 2 to Windows PC, following an "enthusiastic" response to a consumer survey sent out earlier this year. A release date has not been announced.

Grandia 2 was originally launched by GameArts for Sega's Dreamcast, with ports later coming to PlayStation 2 and PC. The game was much-praised at the time for its good looks and innovative battle systems. Dreamcast's limited success hampered Grandia 2's sales, though it often features strongly in retrospective editorials on...

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People are mad at George R. R. Martin because he ruthlessly kills off their favorite characters, but they should probably be mad at him for PLAGIARISM. He totally stole the War of Five Kings and Queen Cersei and people murdering other people from ...

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This is the part where you become an adult. The lovable, marketable mascots of your youth no longer exist. Your childhood executor: McDonald's new Hamburglar. What used to be a silly cartoon robber who traded solely in cooked meats is now... just a guy. And depending on who you ask, he's either extremely creepy, or extremely hot. Maybe both.

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As you might have heard, Mark Hamill's working on some kinda new Star Wars thing, and people are sorta excited. As in, the internet's usual cynicism for all things Star Wars has completely melted away and what's left is nothing but pure unadulterated love. And to celebrate this, StarWars.com has released a family photo album from Mark Hamill, including pictures taken during the filming of Return of the Jedi, when his wife and son were visiting him on-set.

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Eighteen years after the end of Dragon Ball GT, a new Dragon Ball series is set to debut this summer. Titled Dragon Ball Chou (meaning Super), series creator Akira Toriyama will return to run the show.

The news is a bombshell for fans of the series, both in Japan and in the States. Dragon Ball Z, the sequel to the original Dragon Ball, is one of the most recognizable animes in the world, spawning movies, video games, and merchandise to the point of ubiquity. Recent movies like Battle of Gods and Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection 'F' , which hits theaters earlier this month, have only stoked the series' popularity.

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Artist Isaiah Stephens does a lot of incredible work, but one of his more spectacular accomplishments is his series depicting kid cartoon characters all grown up, and strikingly realistic. Here are some of the best ones:

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French illustrator Thomas Lamadieu (previously) continues to travel the world to photograph vertical views of the spaces between buildings which he uses as a canvas for his comical illustrations. The gaps between roofs and gutters form the inspiration for different characters who inhabit the irregular patches of sky. To find the unusual vantage points Lamadieu visited Spain, South Korea, Germany, France, Canada and the United States in the last year. You can find more examples on his website.