Heh – Cody Miller put his… hmm, body where his brain was, and prepared to drop. And then dropped! With your friendly neighborhood Superintendent as a companion, even…(Louis Wu 22:46:52 UTC)

Dennis Powers let us know that over 160 maps and game assets were added to the Halo CE Maps file archive in April – the total is now over 4000 files. Notable maps include TM Fracture (a large Halo-based Forerunner canyon by the TM mapping team) and Captus, an abandoned Forerunner prison by CLS_GRUNT. There are also non-Halo-esque maps, like Grave Yard, by §partan 8, and Hillbilly Mudbog, by Slap Happy. Check ’em out!(Louis Wu 20:11:35 UTC)

Minime637 is getting in on the Halo 3 panorama action – check out 12 new images in his DeviantART gallery. Great stuff! (Warning: some of the images are ENORMOUS. The Road to Voi, for example, is 18000×4589 (!!!), weighing in at 27 mb. This is probably enough to crash the browser of someone using an underpowered machine.)(Louis Wu 18:54:39 UTC)

The latest Bungie Ninja to be profiled at Bungie.net is Foman – a Halo fanatic with a lot more to him. Go read about the guy who probably banned you!(Louis Wu 18:52:54 UTC)

Heh – looks like Halo’s being used to sell PC motherboards these days! Linken91 noticed an ad on the Asus website advertising the Rampage II GENE motherboard. As Psychophan7 points out, it’s common for PC manufacturers to use images from games to help sell their products – what makes this different is a pair of factors: 1) the images are clearly composited from more than one game (most images are simply taken from a game’s assets – on the same website, Asus uses shots from Crysis: Warhead to sell similar products), and 2) there’s an amusing statement at the bottom of all of the ROG pages: “All images strictly copyright asustek 2009 all rights reserved. Any from [sic] of unauthorized use of the contents of this site is prohibited.” It’s one thing to borrow someone else’s design to help sell your product – it’s another thing entirely to say it’s yours. (Louis Wu 18:51:58 UTC)

Looks like Halocharts has rescheduled its Road to Recon contest, because of the Xbox LIVE outage today. Check this Bungie Blog post for full details. (Louis Wu 18:51:40 UTC)

ForgeHub’s announced the winners of its Forgotten Treasures contenst (remakes of older Halo maps) – go see what won! Thanks, Decadence Night.(Louis Wu 14:02:48 UTC)

radiant penguin whipped up some new panoramas – I gotta say, the landscape shots are amazing.(Louis Wu 14:02:28 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy found a funny video that cries out for entertaining dialogue – go add yours! (Don’t worry – you don’t have to edit a vid; she’s just looking for text-based commentary.)(Louis Wu 14:02:08 UTC)