Like, what if @spencerpratt got to the bottom of the moon landing hoax or the the conspiracy to fluoridate our water and we totally missed the tweet? Well, we can thank our lucky stars that a certain Justblair has already given this some thought. With little more than an AtMel AtTiny45 microprocessor, a red / green / blue LED, and some programming chops, this guy has rigged a netbook with a little light that notifies the user when they get a new message in Thunderbird, Pidgin or Twitter. This is definitely not a project for beginners, but if you’d like to take a crack at it hit the read link for the whole low down. As for us, it’s back to Loose Change: the Blooper Reel on Google Video.

PROVO, Utah (June 29, 2009) — BYU senior Lee Cummard has accepted an invitation to play for the Phoenix Suns 2009 NBA Summer League team. The team will include current members of the Phoenix Suns and will potentially include 2009 draft picks Earl Clark (1st round, 14th overall) and Taylor Griffin (2nd round, 48th overall).

Testing: http://www.byucougars.com/kids_club/video/BYUBall09-SeasonTix1080p.mov

“I’m really excited to be playing,” Cummard said. “It’s a great opportunity to prove what I can do against great competition. The Suns are a great organization and I look forward to getting started.”

Cummard was a two-time Mountain West Conference First Team honoree and the 2008 MWC Player of the Year. In his four years at BYU the Cougars were 97-34 overall and 51-13 in conference play. BYU made three-straight trips to the NCAA Tournament (2007-09) and won three-straight MWC regular season titles (2007-09).

T-Mobile’s really emphasizing the customization with the myTouch 3G, rolling out custom shells, custom gel skins, custom wrist straps, custom pouches, custom holsters and custom wrist straps. But they also have battery extenders (nice!) and docking stations. More »

Just in case you felt compelled to assemble a collection of every push-to-fart program out there, Forbes/BustedLoop calculates the price of purchasing all 55,732 available iPhone apps to be $144,326.06. What, Apple, no volume discount? [Forbes/BustedLoopvia textually]

Just the other day there was a mention that George Clooney might be interested in taking up the mantle of Jack Ryan, the hero of Tom Clancy novels and films like The Hunt For Red October and Patriot Games. Now there’s confirmation, via Anne Thompson, that Clooney’s name is indeed in the mix. But more important, the Hossein Aimini script that was commissioned last year to reboot the franchise, currently just theUntitled Tom Clancy Project, should arrive shortly, and then Paramount will be able to make a decision about really moving forward. Read More »

Is this image too big? I hope not. Blash lhsf a ven if you know everything there is to know about BitTorrent apps, your downloads can still be slow as molasses. It’s not you, it’s the torrent. All-things-BitTorrent weblog TorrentFreak discusses how to speed up your downloads by picking the fastest torrents.More »