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More stuff to Crave: Gooey Chocolate Hearts Edition

The nerdy printable cards from 4 Color Rebellion (via Notcot.org) were too funny to pass up, like this one making the Wii into a romantic gesture. Nevertheless, this Craver still prefers Halloween. (There's a better selection of candy.) So here's what else is going around the series of tubes today:

--ARTS & CRAFTS: 2GB chapstick (Make)

--JUICY GOSSIP: BMW getting iPhone integration? (CrunchGear)

--MUSIC: Add HD radio to a regular car stereo (Listening Post)

--GADGETRY: Who needs a psychic when you've got gadgets? (ThisNext)

--CELL PHONES: The ringtones that ruin romance (Shiny Shiny)

--AQUA TEEN HUNGER … Read more

News roundup: Viacom vs. YouTube, Belgium hates Google, and Cisco security for consumers

>> MTV online strategy to help Viacom take on YouTube? Viacom wants you to watch clips of its popular TV shows on the Internet, but it doesn't want you to do so on YouTube. At the beginning of this month, Viacom had YouTube take down more than 100,000 clips of Viacom-owned content. Now it's spreading them out among its sites, including ComedyCentral.com and MTV.com.

>> Belgian court rules against Google over copyrights. Belgian newspapers apparently don't like Google, as they've barred the company from caching its stories for news clippings. The … Read more

Come on, we know you love toys

A few of us Cravers have been at the American International Toy Fair in New York City this week, and we've been thoroughly impressed by the selection of fun playthings that might be geared at a slightly younger audience but which we certainly wouldn't mind taking home anyway.

--LEGO Millennium Falcon. Will Greenwald kind of went nuts over this 5,000+ piece Lego building set that was released to commemorate that 30th anniversary of the original Star Wars movie. (Crave)

--Nerf gear for your Wii. Will also dug these super-soft "accessoriies," with a caveat: &… Read more

Web news roundup: John McCain, Flip, Gmail, Amazon and TiVo, Ransomeware, Vodafone and MySpace

>> Senator to propose surveillance of illegal images. John McCain wants to give surveillance duty to your Internet service provider and to Web sites to crack down on child pornography. All questionable images would be flagged and sent to the authorities with your IP address. (CNET News.com)

>> Flip launches. Conde Nast's answer to MySpace and other social networks. The service, aimed at teenage girls, lets you create a scrapbook of sorts in the form of a flip book. Your flip book can then be shared on other services. (Mashable)

>> Gmail leaves beta. Lately … Read more

More stuff to Crave: Somebody Set Us Up The Mooninite Bomb Edition

--AQUA TEEN HUNGER FORCE: Mooninites Terrorize Boston! (YouTube)

--GROUNDHOG DAY: Punxsatawney Phil predicts an early spring (Bloomberg)**

--GROUNDHOG DAY: Punxsatawney Phil predicts an early spring (Bloomberg)**

--GROUNDHOG DAY: Punxsatawney Phil predicts an early spring (Bloomberg)**

--SCIENCE: 'Electric' fish shed light on how brain directs movement (Science Daily)

--WEB 2.0: Gawker Media mystery ads appear on YouTube (CNET News.com)

--GAMING: The Xbox 360 Ring of Light Rug (Kotaku)

--AQUA TEEN HUNGER FORCE: Homemade LED shirt (Make)

--WEB 2.0: Blinkx makes video previews awesome (Webware)

--AQUA TEEN HUNGER FORCE Aqua Teen Bomber Force (Cotton Factory)

** Well, duh. Global warming, … Read more

More stuff to Crave

--COOL STUFF: iBlinds (YouTube)

--NINTENDO: First Nintendo Wii News Channel tour and screenshots (Gizmodo)

--WEB 2.0: Where's Digg for music? Right here (Webware)

--HISTORY LESSONS:Airstream meets Pac-Man in folding trailer design (Treehugger)

--THE INDUSTRY: Inside the Lucasfilm data center (CNET News.com)

--WEB 2.0: Streaming version of BitTorrent on the way (Monkey Bites)

--SOCIAL NETWORKING: Bebo Minicards launched (Mashable)

News Roundup: Google Video ads, AT&T IPTV, MySpace Mexico, Netscape 9.0

-- Google expands video ad test. Not to be confused with ads placed in user-generated videos on Google Video and YouTube, these video ads from Google will be embedded videos on the page that users must click on to begin. Google is now partnering with content providers such as The Wall Street Journal and Epicurious.com to bring Adsense video ads. (CNET News.com)

-- AT&T to ramp up IPTV rollouts. While Joost and Babelgum have made some noise among the blogs, the prospect of watching IPTV programming on an actual TV is coming closer to being a … Read more

More stuff to Crave

--APPLE: Remember 1984? (ShinyShiny)

--NEWS: New street train and rapid bus transit project for Buenos Aires (Treehugger)

--MICROSOFT: Retailers aim to get Vista boost (CNET News.com)

--HISTORY LESSONS: Harnessing wave power, 1934-style (Treehugger)

--GREEN TECH: Futuristic driverless electric bus (BornRich)

--WEB 2.0: PowerSnap bridges gap between local and Web-hosted photos (Webware)

More stuff to Crave

--PHOTOGRAPHY: Stunning HDR shot of Tokyo skyline (Boing Boing)

--APPLE: Apple's 21 million reasons to love the holidays (CNET News.com)

--THE INDUSTRY: Net video firm Brightcove reals in $59 million (CNET News.com)

--GADGETRY: Battle of the 7-port USB hubs (ProductDose)

--ARTS & CRAFTS: Make your own Mario quilt (Kotaku)

--ONLY IN JAPAN: McDonald's Mega Mac in Japan (Plastic Bamboo)

--SOCIAL NETWORKING: Unofficial Child Surveillance Day: IMSafer and MySpace upgrade (Webware)

--POLITICS: Obama's online route to the masses (CNET News.com)

News Roundup

-- Find toxic wastelands via Google Earth. The EPA released a master list of landfills and other offenders to the public today in hopes of getting some recognition on mapping services such as Google Earth and Windows Live Local. Here's hoping for a Toxic button next to the beloved satellite view on Google maps. (CNET News)

-- Global digital-music sales nearly doubled in 2006. It was a good year for digital downloads, but they're still coming in at only 10 percent of the total music market. (CNET News)

-- MTV to buy RateMyProfessors.com. With more than 900,… Read more