mrsmiley writes today about a large art update at HaloBabies today, including new desktop images from Gruntsbane and akba, new art and strips by Halo Babies fans, and information on how to submit art to Halo Babies.

In addition to the new Halo Babies strip, Gruntsbane has done five new strip backgrounds for use in making fan Halo Babies strips. There's also a video documenting mrsmiley's trip to MLG.

BlackOps has posted in the Gearbox HaloCE forum about a modification that he and some associates have made to an Unreal Tournament 2003 statistics program. Now this statistics package works with Halo server logs if you have FTP access to the logs themselves.

The Red vs Blue website has been updated with news of the availability of Trocadero's first album on CD (is that an oxymoron?) It's called, appropriately enough, Roses Are Red, Violets Are Blue.

The CD contains all the music from the Red vs Blue series, and you can buy it now in their online store.

More transcriptions of Halo music today from Poop Scoop: The Maw, On A Pale Horse, and Halo: Master and Chief. Each containins a MIDI file of the score, the PDF files and a Finale Printmusic! file of the score that can be edited if people have the software. (Note: Halo: Master and Chief is by Justin R.

Halo Babies has a new strip up, writes mrsmiley, and they've also announced the winners of their avatar contest.

Halo Mac Development wants to know which Halo Custom Edition maps you want ported for use with Mac Halo. They are only doing one at a time because conversions are complex, and to ensure that people can find servers to play on.

The third part of skeifer's series of articles on realism in Halo has gone up at The Junkyard. This one kicks off with Truth & Reconciliation; Silent Cartographer will be in the next installment.

Verdafolio at demented puppy dot com has posted the rules of engagement for the upcoming When Pigs Fly warthog launching contest. Winners will get signed artwork from community regulars like Shishka, Boxer, Stuntmutt, Dogsounds, Warbow and Blackstar.

bobindashadows has posted over at Halo Mac Development that after a couple of weeks of work, he has successfully converted a map created for Halo CE, in this case the desert island map by ZexGX to work with Halo for the Mac.

Five screenshots accompany the story, showing ZexGX's map clearly running in Aqua windows.

There's a new blog entry by Dana, the mysterious "killer" of the I Love Bees alternate reality game, where several AIs from the Halo universe somehow entered our world and are trying to escape through the website of a small honey business.

In it, she's being shown the back room of a Chinese Internet cafe where all the bootleg DVDs are. Perhaps ILB is really a collaborative project with the RIAA, to encourage fans not to pirate Halo?