It’s Friday, so it’s time for another round of Friday Caption Fun – this time, I’m guessing Hawty McBloggy is going to get a LOT of sex-while-driving jokes as submissions. Go see what you can come up with! (Louis Wu 14:27:02 UTC)

xMixMasterx is back with a new set of Mix Picks for you – culled from Bungie community map submissions, this is a list of four maps with descriptions and reviews. Always nice to have someone sifting for gold!(Louis Wu 14:23:35 UTC)

RandomCTG stopped by again yesterday with some new sculptures. (We saw a few items back in April – the Brute stuff is new here, along with the Elite figurine, and the Bioshock Big Daddy has been finished.) Check ’em out – pretty nice work!(Louis Wu 14:22:31 UTC)

Scruss let us know that the Septagon, a Bungie.net group, has created the Septagon Gazette, a biweekly Bungie/Halo paper. Scruss and Just Another Fan report on happenings in the Bungie community, in the style of the Onion. There are currently two episodes available for download, from MediaFire – the June 9 issue is 3.6 mb, and the June 18 issue is 7 mb. (Adobe Reader could handle these, but OSX’s Preview choked on the text.)(Louis Wu 13:58:31 UTC)

If you’re looking for a noise-cancelling PC gaming headset, you could do much worse than the Plantronics .Audio 350 Halo 2 unit – right now, Buy.com is selling it for $10, with free shipping. (If you, for some reason, have a problem with the Halo 2 branding, you could, I suppose, buy the NON-branded version – but that one costs $25.) Thanks, Black Six. (Louis Wu 13:55:40 UTC)

It’s almost like a Fan Fiction renaissance – fifteen new pieces this week, and many of the submitters are old-timers! Check it out.(Louis Wu 13:53:47 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy was the first (that I know of) to notice that the Bungie Store is no longer online. Be patient, and a replacement location for buying your favorite Bungie schwag will be forthcoming!(Louis Wu 23:22:27 UTC)

Not listed on Bungie.net, yet, but this week’s Double XP playlist is Team Snipers – and it’s live. Go shoot someone in the head!(Louis Wu 20:25:14 UTC)

Heh – ZZoMBiE13 takes a shot at something he knows pretty intimately in today’s edition of Another Halo Comic Strip. I gotta get playing with him…(Louis Wu 16:31:01 UTC)

Chris Sauer has just finished creating a Halo 3 version of the Beastie Boys music video Sabotage. If you’ve never seen the vid before (I hadn’t), he also put up a side-by-side vid showing the original and the Halo 3 version running together – I must say, he did a pretty good job! Check it out.(Louis Wu 14:49:56 UTC)

MLGPro.com has put up a wrap-up article discussing MLG San Diego – now that the dust has settled, go see what they thought!(Louis Wu 14:27:41 UTC)

Sam152 let us know that Halo Wars Addict has started up a podcast – first episode is just over half an hour, 32 mb, and discusses all the new Halo Wars info coming out now. Check it out!(Louis Wu 14:27:12 UTC)

Ray Greaves creates Chronicles of Something, a webcomic about… well, mostly about creating a webcomic, it seems. The latest issue is Halo-related – go see Ray’s take on how Halo 3’s ending came about. (Louis Wu 14:26:39 UTC)

The Golden Joystick Awards website is now open for voting – Halo 3 is up for ‘Nuts All Nighter’, ‘BBC 1Xtra Soundtrack of the Year’, ‘Ultimate Game of the Year’, and ‘Xbox Game of the Year’. (There are plenty of other categories to keep you busy, too.) Go vote! Thanks, Kotaku.(Louis Wu 18:34:50 UTC)