Some of you guessed that he was going to get a sex change or that he was going to share a “Whitman Sampler” (HA!). But now the “truth” is out: Apparently, Glenn Beck is losing feeling in his hands and feet. He’s attributing this to “spiritual wounds.” Here’s the whole, teary admission: </object Oh, no, […]
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Glenn Beckwatch: Something Happened
Via Twitter, yesterday afternoon. What could it be? A nation prays!
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Used Bookselling Sure Has Gotten Depressing
This story at Slate is sad and funny and interesting: It’s about how the internet has turned used book buyers from a specialized kind of craftsman into automatons: I make a living buying and selling used books. I browse the racks of thrift stores and library book sales using an electronic bar-code scanner. I push […]
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Todd Palin Is Terrible at Writing E-Mails
The Mudflats has the scoop (but you can also read about it here and here): Sarah Palin endorsed a Teabag Senatorial candidate named Joe Miller in Alaska. In a TV appearance, Miller was asked if he would endorse Sarah Palin for president in 2012. Miller waffled, saying there were “a number of great candidates out […]
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We Are Not That Far Away from Mass-Market Quantum Computing
From OneIndia: London, Sep 30 (ANI): In what could be called as a big leap in quantum mechanics, a research team at Yale have achieved the entanglement of three solid-state qubits, or quantum bits, for the first time. Their accomplishment is a first step towards quantum error correction, a crucial aspect of future quantum computing. […]
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You Can Now Pay Hot Women to Play Video Games with You
According to Download Squad, GameCrush, the service that allows you to pay women to play video games with you live via webcam, has gone live. All you have to do is whip out your credit card (it’s $0.60 per minute), grab your joystick and game. Every girl has a camera, and I’m told by an […]
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Amazon’s Been Very Busy
Minutes after RIM unveiled the Blackberry tablet, the Playbook, Amazon announced they were bringing a Kindle app to the business-friendly device. Almost immediately after that announcement, a rumor broke that Amazon was preparing to launch their own Android app marketplace. Speculation about what Amazon will do with this marketplace varies: Some think they’re just gopening […]
Posted inComic Books
A Tiny First Step for Digital Comics
It’s finally happened: The Walking Dead is the first high-profile title from one of the major comics publishers that will be available in print and digital formats simultaneously. When asked if Image planned to continue its new simultaneous release schedule in print and on comiXology at the $2.99 price point, publisher Eric Stephenson explained the […]
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Drafting Superman
The nerd interwebs right now are full of homemade attempts to draft Jon Hamm for the role of Superman in the eventual film reboot. (As far as I know, it’s still at the scripting stage.) Hamm himself (Hammself?) has said he’s “maybe aged out of” the role. He’s certainly shown that he can play Lex […]
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Blockbuster As You Know It Is About to Go Away
Says Daily Finance: Blockbuster’s long anticipated bankruptcy filing is apparently headed down the final stretch and could come by the end of the week, according to a Wall Street Journal report. One of the cost-cutting moves the video chain is teeing up calls for 500 to 800 additional store closures beyond the nearly 1,000 it […]
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Big Shakeups at DC Comics
Hot tipper Matt Hickey says this is big news: A large part of DC Comics is heading to the west coast: DC Entertainment, as part of its ongoing strategy to integrate the DC Comics business, brand and characters into Warner Bros. Entertainment’s content and distribution operations, will relocate its business functions related to and supporting […]
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Sarah Palin Drinks Obama’s Milkshake
Bleeding Cool informs us about upcoming issues of Archie comics that show Barack Obama and Sarah Palin getting involved in Riverdale student council elections. Here’s one of the relevant covers (it’s a two-part story): Bleeding Cool also points out how weird it is that the Archie covers put the President of the United States on […]