Overkill

Of the 63 different shirts on sale at Snorg Tees, I count 9 10 with jokes referencing movies in which Will Ferrell has appeared, meaning that 14% 16% of their stock is based around his oeuvre. Now, without counting I’m certain I own at least a half dozen DVDs of his, so clearly I think the guy’s done some funny stuff, but I think it’s bizarre that a funny t-shirt company would lean that heavily on him. Then again, with my entire generation having grown up on The Simpsons, it shouldn’t be too surprising that you can cash in on reference-based humor.

See also: Why is Will Ferrell funny?, a video slideshow on Slate.

YouTube - WiigoBot: The Perfect Game

YouTube - WiigoBot: The Perfect Game

Lego robot designed to play Wii Sports Bowling

All (Known) Bodies in the Solar System Larger Than 200 Miles in Diameter

All (known) Bodies in the Solar System Larger than 200 Miles in Diameter

With pictures!

Q&A with Battlestar Galactica Season Finale Writer Mark Verheiden

Q&A with Battlestar Galactica season finale writer Mark Verheiden

Chock full of major, major spoilers.

Interview with Allan Heinberg about Young Avengers

Interview with Allan Heinberg about Young Avengers

I only just read this series, and it’s one of my favorites new books of the past few years. Heinberg was a writer on Sex and the City and The O.C.

Kutaragi "Insisted" on Spider-Man Font for PS3

Kutaragi “insisted” on Spider-Man font for PS3

I’ve always felt the logotype gives the console a very cheap look to it. It’s so recognizable as “the Spider-Man font” that it just looks like they were too lazy to come up with something unique.

"Complete My Album" Now on iTunes, Credit for Already-Purchased Songs

“Complete My Album” now on iTunes, credit for already-purchased songs

This seems like an important feature for record labels that are upset at the a la cart purchasing of singles. Really, why not offer an incentive to buy the rest of the album after you’ve sampled a few songs?

52 Covers Blog

I linked to this in October, and wrote about the covers in June, but I’m going to make a plug for a weekly weblog called J.G. Jones 52 Covers Blog. It’s hosted on Wizard Magazine’s website and doesn’t feature and RSS feed, but it’s worth manually loading up once a week. For the past year, DC Comics has been publishing a weekly comic called 52. J.G. Jones has drawn all of the covers for the series, and they’re spectacular. Each week he writes up a post about the week’s cover, how it ties into the main story, and shows off some of his early sketches. The series itself is interesting in that all the major characters come from DC’s c-list. It’s been a fun read, though as with 24 the real-time gimmick gets in the way (though at other times it pays off, like the New Year’s Eve cliffhanger), but reading about the amount of thought and talent that went into the covers is quite something even if you haven’t been reading the comic. Also it has one of the best mastheads around, with the giant “52” numbers integrated into the art.

How to Import All Your Archive Email Into Gmail

How to Import All Your Archive Email Into Gmail

Gmail recently added the ability to check POP mail, and just dropped the restriction that the feature wouldn’t work with other Gmail accounts, so you can now import your old non-Gmail mail. It’s not quite simple, but it works nicely.

New UPS Feature Lets You Redirect Packages Over the Web

New UPS feature lets you redirect packages over the web

Neat. You can go onto UPS’s website and change where a package is going. Would be nice for Christmas when something doesn’t arrive on time.