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Heh – bizarreness. Narcogen also noticed an interview with Eric Trautmann over at Earth’s Greatest – he talked about writing a lot of the dialogue in Halo in a really short time… and under absurd conditions.So, we had three days to bang out some ridiculous amount of dialogue, but they wouldn’t actually let us LOOK…

Narcogen pointed out a free program that will let you read PrintMusic files (the format many of Rampancy.net’s Sheet Music Archive offerings are in), and export as MIDI. To show you how it’s useful, he’s added PDF and MIDI files to a bunch of existing sheet music entries. Now Halo music is easier than ever…

A couple of weeks ago, we mentioned a contest over at ThisIsSpartan117.com – they were soliciting for a new screenshot to use as their background image. The winner was announced yesterday. Thanks, alacaboose.(Louis Wu 14:57:36 UTC)

MasterChief2829 dropped off a link last night from Next-Generation – Hardy Lebel (Lead Multiplayer Design for Halo, Additional Mission Design for Halo 2, as well as Lead Design for Oni) has teamed up with some friends to form Tyrant Studios. For Bungie watchers, these guys join Wideload Games, Giant Bite Games, Certain Affinity, and others…

Thanks, Snave wanted to point out that he’s got a Halo photography gallery set up, with a bunch of contributors. Swing by for some nice pics, from all three games! (Louis Wu 14:43:06 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy put up some nice eValentines for you over at her site – go celebrate, Halo-style.(Louis Wu 14:41:18 UTC)

Gah! I did it again – and I’m not even sure HOW this time. I forgot to post yesterday’s One One Se7en – so here it is. (Maybe I passed out when I read it?)(Louis Wu 14:15:19 UTC)

Merc found a YouTube video that shows off a bunch of characters in a 2D fighter… Master Chief holds his own.(Louis Wu 22:31:30 UTC)

Dustbunny27 was looking to make a human version of the Scarab. How did he do?(Louis Wu 22:26:37 UTC)

LordGideon let us know about Frag a Friend, a Halo Nation event being coordinated by PraetoriaGuard. If you are a leader of a Halo clan or community, swing by and sign up! Next game night is February 28, at 9 pm EST.(Louis Wu 20:57:48 UTC)

Marty O’Donnell pointed out the 6th Annual Visual Effects Society awards, announced in Hollywood last night. Halo-related winners included Marcus Lehto, Jonty Barnes, Stephen Scott, and CJ Cowan, whose Halo 3 footage took home “Outstanding Real Time Visuals in a Video Game”, and Matthew Gratzner, Alan Scott, Seth Curlin, and Greg Boettcher, whose work on…

The auction of Frankie’s Mister Chief Masterpiece, for charity, is going astoundingly well – high bid is now over $1000, with four days to go! If you scroll down to the bottom of the auction, there are a number of questions asked by viewers – the most common of which is “Can I has Recon?”…

Back in November, we listed a bunch of talks to be given by Bungie employees at this year’s Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, coming up next week. Today I heard from Mat “OMG TALK ABOUT ME” Noguchi, who’s now on the schedule… and it looks like an interesting session! Mat’s going to discuss how…

Heh – The Onion Radio News has a piece (it’s labeled ‘podcast’, but it’s only a minute long) on ‘blown skulls and nearly-fatal bowel movements’ seen since Halo 3 was released. Funny. Thanks, dzejms.(Louis Wu 19:47:09 UTC)

thehomeland ran across someone bragging that they’d gotten an extermination with a mongoose; he didn’t believe it, but the film is still in gizmo777’s fileshare. (It’s slot 1, labeled “WTF!!!”) thehomeland decided to make it more accessible to those without access to the film, so you can watch it on YouTube, or you can download…

Today’s Halo Action Figure Theater takes a turn for the weird. Well… a farther turn. Okay, so we’ve gone completely around now, and have begun spewing pea soup. Go read.(Louis Wu 17:06:18 UTC)

Obienator found a couple of funny vids from female gamers – you can watch OboeCrazy’s funny ode to ‘Standers’ (folks who join social matchmaking and don’t actually play, assuming that at least some of the time they’ll finish in the top 3 and thereby gain an experience point without having to participate), and you can…

Very awesome – Nannan Z. has recreated a vignette from Halo 3’s final run (if you haven’t played the game all the way through, this probably contains spoilers) – out of LEGO bits. You can view the piece, from a number of angles, either at MOCpages.com or Flickr. This one’s display-worthy, for sure. Thanks, Unique…

2phast wrote to say that the next Larry the Marine comic is up – I’m guessing Larry’s gonna have some trouble with this particular strategy.(Louis Wu 14:05:00 UTC)

The UK’s Times newspaper has a bit in its online News in Brief this morning about Universal Music that caught my eye:Universal Music, the record company whose artists include Amy Winehouse and Eminem, is advertising for monks to record an album of chants after the popularity of the Halo computer game. Dickon Stainer, from Universal,…