Walmart Launching Exclusive DISC-TO-DIGITAL Service Next Month. Hint: Don’t Use It
Walmart is banking on one of the essential facts of Western Rot-Gut civilization: the average folk will pay for someone else to do a remedial task for them, no matter how easy the actual task may be. I mean Jesus Christ, would you pay Walmart to convert a DVD into a digital file for you?
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Double Fine Adventure Kickstarter Ends With $3+ Million Raised. Community High-Five!
Tim Schafer and the rest of Double Fine have a considerable amount of money to work with. Through their record-breaking Kickstarter they raised over $3 million, far surpassing the $400,000 they were aiming for.
Video: Self-Frothing Beer Mug Is Modern Day Polio Cure. Inappropriate Hyperbole.
It’s the afternoon here on the Eastern coast of the Empire. Work is drudging. We seek the chemical escape. Let us momentarily bask in the power of technology. A technology that gives us self-frothing beer mugs.
Hit the jump to watch it in action.
The Sun’s Furious Sunspots Look Like PINK SPHINCTERS OF DOOM
Listen. We can pretend to be adults, or we can admit that these righteous sunspots look like a goddamn pink sphincter of Armageddon.
DAVID CRONENBERG To Direct TV Series Pilot ‘KNIFEMAN’ With Sam Raimi Producing
I have been going goddamn insane for David Cronenberg lately. Like waking up from some sort of stasis with a rapturous desire to catch-up on It All, I’ve been crushing his backlog. So this news comes at a point where just the idea has a bit of the ole loins-writhing kicking into action.
Microsoft Is Working On A Universal Translator. Foreign Language Teachers Shitting Themselves.
…Naw!, I’m just kidding. As products of the cultures they reflect, foreign languages will always have worth. Plus French is sexy. However, it would be goddamn glorious if I could have something to translate for me in a pinch. That’s why my boys Microsoft and their Science Daemons have my back.
COMICS WE’RE BUYING THIS WEEK: Crabapples, Breast-Feeding, and Aliens. We Have Win!
Come one, come all into the rodeo of splash-page-ultra-narrative death. This is Comics We’re Buying This Week, the column where we gather in a neat circle and share the new funny books that are exciting us. It’s communal. Like the showers. Like the water fountain. I go first. Don’t lag behind. This week is replete with eccentric wunder-artists, premiere issues, and breast milk. It’s going to be fun.
Don’t know what’s coming out this week? Hit up ComicList. Excuses removed!
USDA Buys 7 Million Pounds Of PINK GOOP BEEF For SCHOOLS
I have to say, we set our kids up to succeed these days. Cutting school budgets, mindless burecracy preventing the evolution of the educational system and now this: about as close to poisoning the little fuckers as you can get.
ALAN MOORE On The Fans Who Will Buy ‘BEFORE WATCHMEN’ ILU, Alan.
Yo! I’m riding on this here high horse, and I’m swooping down with some awesomeness from Alan Moore on the fans who will buy Before Watchmen. Note: I know he’s generalizing since I think Rendar and others here at OL are going to buy it, and they seem like decent enough people. You know. Friends. A brother. But still. I fist-pump to the sentiment while acknowledging the necessary middle ground everywhere in Existence.
