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Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Here’s what else is going on in nerd news around the Web:

Studio ensures audiences that Captain America will indeed get some: British actress Hayley Atwell has been chosen to play Peggy Carter, the apple of Captain America/Steve Rogers eye opposite Chris Evans.

[via The Hollywood Reporter]

Tweet of the day:

[via @simonpegg]

RIP: News came this week that BBC America canceled post-apocalyptic show Survivors.

[via Slice of Sci-Fi]

Love, Steve Jobs: The Apple CEO replied to yet another customer email. This time to Alex J., who to Apple requesting Jobs show him a sign that he still cared about Final Cut Pro after he heard about a group of engineers leaving the company. I wonder how surprised Alex was to receive this reply in his inbox?

“We certainly do. Folks who left were in support, not engineering. Next release will be awesome.”

[via The Unofficial Apple Weblog]

Marvel has more cameos up its sleeve: To continue its superhero film franchise friendship bracelet, Marvel plans on tacking on a few more cameos to the end of Iron Man 2. This time around it’ll be be Thor and Captain America stepping in during the film’s final moments.

[via Cinema Blend]

Comic Book Cartography: These old school comic charts and maps are awesome:

[via io9]

For posterity: As if we needed more reasons for our descendants to be horribly embarrassed by us, the Library of Congress announced today that it will acquire the entire Twitter archive. Yes. Everything.

[via The Daily What]

Foursquare, even the History Channel is doing it: The History Channel announced that to promote new series America, The Story of Us, it has created a new Foursquare badge that will team users more about their check-in locations as they log them.

[via Mashable]

New Toy Story 3 Clips:

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