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Today’s Ctrl+Alt+Del takes a pretty funny look at some reactions to the idea that Crackdown is nothing more than a Halo 3 Beta facilitator… looks like Psychophan7 was first.(Louis Wu 13:52:28 UTC)

Eight new stories have been added to the Fan Fiction section this week – get to reading!(Louis Wu 13:50:40 UTC)

KP stopped by with word of the latest Halo Humpday Challenge (Halo 2 this time around), whereby a bunch of girls came in and owned the Bungie guys. Lots of swearing (though it seems mostly to be edited out). Psshht…(Louis Wu 23:56:14 UTC)

Schedonnardus noticed a story at Xbox360Fanboy which shows the invite card that comes with Crackdown – unfortunately for folks who planned to rent Crackdown in order to play the Halo 3 Beta, you’ll need the disc in order to play the beta. (It’s unclear, from the invite card, whether each disc will be limited in…

Paul Maestri let us know about Halo Heads 46 – Kitty 117 goes in. You gotta wonder about the wisdom of sending in a team of cats to investigate a possible rescue situation…(Louis Wu 20:31:38 UTC)

ckamp posted a series of pictures of a Halo 3-themed piggy bank created by his girlfriend to help save for a 360. Adorable!(Louis Wu 20:24:50 UTC)

Jordan117 spent some time with Google SketchUp – and the results are now downloadable into Google Earth. Go check out his New Mombasa suspension bridge!(Louis Wu 18:24:48 UTC)

wheeler posted a photo of his buddy’s wall – pretty nice work! (Larger version in this post.)(Louis Wu 13:36:47 UTC)

Gamasutra has a podcast interview with DB Weiss, the most recent Halo screenplay writer. He talks quite a bit about the process, and about working with Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh. My copy seems to have gotten corrupted at about the 28 minute mark – but by then he was pretty much done with Halo…

Andras Ostrom is working on a new piece of Halo machinima called ‘Machinima for Dummies’ – you can watch a teaser trailer for it in WMP9 format (22.7 mb) or QuickTime format (17.3 mb). Looks to be a fun project!(Louis Wu 13:17:26 UTC)

There’s an interesting article about the PMS Clan (and Hot Chief, the head PMS’ Delta Division) in the Miami New Times – go read about what they deal with, and why they do it.(Louis Wu 13:14:25 UTC)

Z sent word that 360forum.com is having an Intro Contest – create an intro for them win cash. Halo, obviously, is one of the tools you can use. More details in the forum thread.(Louis Wu 12:37:41 UTC)

A couple of years ago, comradx started a pretty ambitious project – he was going to create a full-length feature film based on Halo 2. He released the first of seven episodes, covering Cairo Station… but then abandoned the project. Jamie98s has just picked it up; he’s starting from scratch, and has plans to actually…

Last week’s Update from Bungie mentioned variable gravity in Halo 3 multiplayer games (a feature, we should add, which may or may not make it into the final build; just because they played with it last week doesn’t mean you’ll be able to play with it when you get your hands on Halo 3). Stuntmutt…

Wow… remember the bear suit guy who made a Mjolnir-like suit for soldiers? Looks like nobody wanted to buy it from him – so he’s selling it on eBay. Bit over a week left, current bid is $5100 US (reserve is not yet met). Ouch! Thanks to Planet Halo for the heads-up.(Louis Wu 15:37:53 UTC)

On December 1, the Halo Everywhere contest went live. In 2 months, there were 700 artists submitting 1200 entries, and half a terabyte of bandwidth was burned through. On February 1, voting ended, and LordGideon and the crew began sifting through the votes. Today, the winners have been announced – go check ’em out!(Louis Wu…

It’s been years since we had a real Haiku thread on our forum (though someone tried last year) – are they coming back?(Louis Wu 14:01:19 UTC)

Sigafoos dropped us a note about The Riot’s First Annual Community Awards podcast, now available at Second Foundation. Awards are presented by community luminaries (heh), with a musical guest and everything. Congrats to all the winners – and in fact to all nominees; this community is only as strong as the people who help build…

3Suns pointed out an article on MLGPro.com in which Anarchy makes his list of Halo’s top 20 players, with reasons. Interesting read…(Louis Wu 13:32:51 UTC)

We hate bad news – but it happens. We got a note from Matt6908, of HollywoodNHouse – they got in over their heads, hosting-wise, and are down for a while. Details can be found on their front page (which is the only page they’ve got for now). Folks – the Halo community is BIG. Catering…