As it turns out, the bundled version of Guitar Hero: World Tour with the drums and all outsold both the game-only and guitar-only versions. I’m guessing that the Guitar Hero die-hards who wanted a piece of the Rock Band action were waiting for this.  I have no room for all of it, and didn’t want to spend $200 for the ottoman that it would all fit into, so I wound up with the guitar bundle. I wanted to play with the slider thingy.

This one’s been all over, but it’s too cool to pass up: story conference notes from “Raiders of the Lost Ark.”

Topps is doing some weird gimmicky 3-D baseball card thing.  No, not Sportsflics.  This is webcam-ready.  Weird.  I guess my biggest question, then, is this: Is there any hobby that can survive without having to interact with a computer?  Is nothing pure anymore?

The thing that drives me the most nuts about professional “basketball” is how they never call traveling fouls.  Kottke rounded up some links to this phenomenon.

Here’s a webtool to view all fonts on your computer.