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“Jørgen was wrong. And I am the happiest man alive”. That’s what Ola Helland, a 25-year-old guy from Norway, wrote on his blog a few hours ago. He’s the one responsible for the One Million Giraffes project:

On the 6th of June last year I made a bet with my good friend, Jørgen. He didn’t believe it was possible for me to collect one million giraffes. 440 days later I proved him wrong with help of people from all around the world. 102 countries helped out showing Jørgen how amazing the internet is.

So yeah, he did it. One million frigging giraffes! Unbelievable!

It’s definitely worth checking the website to get to know this crazy and funny project a bit better. There’s a “guess the age” game, a map showing the contributors, and some cool mosaics.

Now I feel a bit bad that I didn’t contribute.

Update: This was the millionth giraffe.

I don’t know how this remained under my radar for so long, but I just found out that The Walking Dead is getting a TV miniseries starting this October.

The Walking Dead is originally a comic book series written by Robert Kirkman and published by Image Comics. It tells the story of life following a zombie apocalypse. Yeah, I know, it’s been done countless times, but this time it was actually done right. One of my favorite comics.

The show will be aired on AMC, with the first season having six, one-hour episodes. A four and a half minutes trailer was shown at Comic-Con 2010, and is available at the show’s website. If, like me, you can’t watch it (yay for geo-retardation!), try your luck onYoutube.

The trailer looks pretty good, and knowing the story, I’d say it has the potential to be a great show. Looking forward to watch it.

If you’re anything like me, you despise the likes of Justin Bieber with their teenager pop “music”. Well, since I listened to his latest single, my opinion has changed: I now think his music is awesome… if slowed down 8 times. The computer-algorithm-generated crap that’s “U Smile” becomes a 35 minute ambient epic. Check it out for yourself:

J. BIEBZ – U SMILE 800% SLOWER by Shamantis

Impressive, uh? Sounds like something out of an epic movie soundtrack. Or Sigur Rós. If you want to create your own ambient sounds, just follow this tutorial at Lifehacker.

But the original is still crap:

U Smile by imd

(via Gawker)

I’m still grieving the fact that my laptop can’t handle StarCraft 2 (it overheats and shuts itself down), so maybe I can overlook the “attack function” and FarmVille instead.

(via Kotaku)

Sarah Hyland, from the TV show Modern Family, kind of looks like Victoria’s Secret model Miranda Kerr, don’t you think?

The graphic above was created using the Look-Alike Builder, courtesy of Totally Looks Like.