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Count distributor number two (after DirecTV) and the first cable affiliate for ESPN 3D, now officially coming to Comcast when it launches June 11. That follows up on the Masters 3D event broadcast last month and will give 3DTV owning subscribers with digital cable their first linear channel and VOD package (albeit part time, at least for the first year) starting with the 2010 FIFA World Cup. Not into soccer action? The Winter & Summer X-Games are on deck as well as the 2011 BCS National Championship game next January, and whenever someone catches a football star behaving badly in a bathroom on their new 3D cameraphone, you’ll know where to go for the highlights.

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With the Archos 5 we were shown that Android can be a legitimate media powerhouse. But, it’s tough for a player to be stuck with 1.6 while other devices have already broken in their 2.1 shoes. Fear not, as the device is showing to be generally receptive to tweaks, first being an install of Maemo that seemingly runs quite well but, with no WiFi support, is something of a non-starter at this point. Also now booting is Android 2.0, a clean port that was apparently quite easily installed on the device but, sadly, doesn’t work with the touchscreen, meaning it is even more useless at this point. Maybe if you’re willing to lend a hand you can help to get one or the other rather more functional — or maybe 1.6 doesn’t look so bad anymore. Videos of both alt-OSes are after the break, and installation instructions are at the source links.

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It’s been 50 years since the LEGO brick was patented, and since then hundreds of billions of the beloved little pieces have been pumped out of factories for your building enjoyment. What’s even harder to believe is that the LEGO bricks being sold in stores today will still work with the originals dating back 50 years!

This is such a big deal that even Google whipped up a customized version of their logo to celebrate the anniversary. Gizmodo also wanted to commemorate the event so they put together the timeline pictured above. Here are some of my favorite stats that they scrounged up:

• There are about 62 LEGO bricks for every one of the world’s 6 billion inhabitants.
• Children around the world spend 5 billion hours a year playing with LEGO bricks.
• 2.16 million LEGO elements are molded every hour, or 36,000 per minute.
• More than 400 billion LEGO bricks have been produced since 1949.
• 7 LEGO sets are sold by retailers every second around the world.
• 40 billion LEGO bricks stacked on top of one another would connect the earth with the moon.

The LEGO brick could be the only thing that we can count on staying the same over the next 50 years. I would be curious to know whether any of our readers have never played with LEGO’s before.

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After having gone to public beta late last year, Office Mobile 2010 is now available in conjunction with the retail release of the full desktop version of Office 2010, bringing comprehensive Word, Excel, and PowerPoint editing capabilities to the pocket — on Windows Mobile 6.5, that is. Yes, granted, Windows Phone 7 is Microsoft’s biggest mobile news this year, but there’ll be a huge legacy base of 6.5 users out there for a long time to come, and they’re pretty much the core audience for the sorts of features that Office Mobile 2010 is offering: SharePoint integration for grabbing documents from the office, a nifty Bluetooth controller mode for PowerPoint presentations, and so on… you know, suit-and-tie stuff. The download is available today from Windows Marketplace for users of 6.5 devices with an older version of Office Mobile installed — so go on, Tiger, whip up the hottest quarterly reports the world has ever seen. We know you have it in you. Follow the break for Redmond’s full Office 2010 press release.

Update: Curious what Office 2010 will look like on Windows Phone 7? Get a glimpse into the not-so-distant-future in Microsoft’s video presentation, and fast forward to 52:45 for the good stuff. [Thanks, Kamara B.]

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Valve simplifies Mac gaming by bringing its Steam game download service to Apple’s OS X.