Bungie has posted the Weekly Update quite a bit early this week – a whole day early, in fact. Why? Because… there’s a lot of stuff they want to tell you about. A LOT. Title Update 2 is going live on Tuesday, and Bungie.net is upgrading to be ready. Go read how! (You can, of course, read it in our Weekly Update Archive.)(Louis Wu 18:48:09 UTC)

Self Induced, a regular over at NeoGAF, has set up a new blog to chronicle the bad things that happen to his poor Spartan during XBL Halo 3 play. Lots and lots of fun pics!(Louis Wu 18:32:06 UTC)

OddGodHMK let us know that The Biased, Chapter 1, Page 4 has been posted. Blue’s still in trouble.(Louis Wu 18:17:15 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy noticed a new Jumping video from Anoj Tactics – “The Squesters” Episode 2 looks at more hiding places on Halo maps. Check it out!(Louis Wu 18:12:46 UTC)

A quick clarification about the ‘Take Our Stuff’ contest; we made it really easy to enter, and a LOT of you have taken advantage of that. That’s cool. We’ve received over 3000 entries so far (and the contest has only been live for 12 hours). That huge volume of entries, though, means the tolerance level for stupidity is pretty close to nonexistent. You send us a joke entry, EVERYTHING YOU SEND US WILL BE THROWN AWAY. That means if you send us 5 masterpieces, and then decide to waste our time with something foolish (like, say, a picture of a donkey pulling a car), we’ll toss the masterpieces, along with the donkey. You may think the donkey’s funny – but we don’t. Thanks. (This has been added to the contest page.)(Louis Wu 09:37:41 UTC)

It’s taken longer than expected to get this running… but we’d like to give away a bunch of stuff. Some of it we collected at PAX, some we’re helping Bungie clear out of their stockpile. All of it is stuff Halo fans can use. Swing by the contest page for full details, rules, and more.(Louis Wu 21:15:08 UTC)

The Royal Society for Chemistry in London was unhappy with the name ‘Large Hadron Collider’ for the newly-operational construct in France and Switzerland, so they launched a competition for a new name… and the most popular choice (and winner of the competition) was ‘Halo’.

“Halo conjures visions of radiant beauty, power and wisdom. The circle of light reflects the collider’s form; it is a crowning achievement of science and engineering. It also gives more than a nod to the experiment’s importance to religious debate.”

No mention at all of the popular video game franchise that almost certainly played a role in many of the submissions of that name… thanks to Kris Callow for the heads-up on this one.(Louis Wu 20:42:55 UTC)

Heh – gunluva noticed (via Kotaku) a feature on The -Minus World that’s funny, and has Halo content to boot; what more could you want? (Me, I wanna play that version of Bioshock.)(Louis Wu 20:35:27 UTC)

The Running Riot let us know that they’ve sorted through a large number of submitted screenshots and video clips to pick their TRR Favs – swing by to see the top three screens and top 3 clips. I loved ‘Lucky Mine’!(Louis Wu 16:41:43 UTC)

OddGodHMK has combined his Boring Comics series with his ‘The Biased’ comic series to create Boring Comics #23 – where’s that fourth wall when you need it?(Louis Wu 16:41:28 UTC)