Thursday, May 12, 2011 // Woot
Give My Regards To Tarkus You mean I shouldn’t mix my prog-rock quadruple-LP on earbuds? I wish somebody had told me that before I got so close to finishing Narthex Into Nave: Prologue to The Cathedral of the Gnome, Volume Zero. I know, that’s a pretty rockin’ title. But something about the music just isn’t […]
Wednesday, May 11, 2011 // Woot
Welcome to yet another installment of “Why You’re Wrong.” Mine is the best podcast online because I’m always right. That’s right, users of the Internet, it’s time for your daily dose of the cold, hard, truth. I’m going to tell it like it is and you’re going to listen because deep down, we both know […]
Tuesday, May 10, 2011 // Woot
In Video Games, It’s a Different World If you don’t own a Wii, these can also be used as real nunchaku! Not real good ones, but real ones. All my life I’ve had this thing for Lisa Bonet. Well, not “all my life,” but most of it. The part dating from the first season of […]
Tuesday, May 10, 2011 // Woot
Gimme Them Digits Remember how great DVDs were when they came out? Can’t we all just go back to thinking that was as good as it would ever get? At one point in the mid-to-late ‘80s, anybody who was still paying attention to the Atari 2600 was able to buy up armloads of game cartridges […]
Monday, May 9, 2011 // Woot
By now everyone knows the story of Three Wolf Moon, the Internet’s favorite shirt of 2009/10. To briefly recap (for those readers too “busy” with their “real lives” to track Internet yucks), the shirt, produced by a New Hampshire firm called The Mountain and featuring artwork by Antonia Neshev, rose to web-wide prominence thanks to […]
Sunday, May 8, 2011 // Woot
Every week in this space, we’ll take a look at the news and offer our own incisive blend of commentary, analysis, and poop jokes. The news you need, from a voice you can trust, in the 90 seconds you have to spare: that’s Woot Weads the Wire. GRANTHAM, England (UPI) — A mini-tornado scattered food […]
Sunday, May 8, 2011 // Woot
There’s No Reason To Ever Go Outside On the TV, things will just scare you. In the real world, they’ll hunt and kill you. An image like this on your Philips 32” LCD HDTV, you’ll just start thinking “Oh, wow, this must be a Steven Moffat thing!” But an image like this in real life, […]
Saturday, May 7, 2011 // Woot
Only you can help. For the price of two or three fancy lattes a day you can give a hipster access to Wi-Fi. Hi. I’m a guy from The Onion’s AV Club forums, here to talk to you about a horrible, unseen evil right here in America: a lack of socially acceptable Internet devices for […]
Friday, May 6, 2011 // Woot
Welcome to our weekly series detailing the best lyrical tributes to individual states in America. We’re running through all 50 states in alphabetical order (check out our first entry here), but if you’re new to things then here’s the deal: we’re trying to identify the one song that can serve to mentally transport you to […]
Friday, May 6, 2011 // Woot
This screenshot sums up Vampire Physics quite well. If you touch a human with a vampire, he becomes a vampire. If you touch garlic or a priest, you die. In later levels, you also have to face off against your blonde rival, and, of course, solve the puzzles as you go. Vampire Physics […]
