#April2012
Chinese Kid Sells Kidney For iPad; Now Needs His Own Kidney Transplant. Dismal ++
This is some dismal shit right here. A Chinese kid was so desperate to own an iPad and iPhone that he took to the black market and sold a kidney. That itself is a damning comment on commodity culture, but since the duder did so it’s been all down hill.
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Video: Arthur C. Clarke Predicts The Internet And Personal Computers. In 1974. I Hate Myself.
Arthur C. Clarke knows how to humble a man. Like many of my heroes, the dude dabbles in a bit of the futurism. Check out this video from 1974 where the good sir predicts the internet and computers. So goddamn awesome.
New iPad Sales Top 3 MILLION Over Weekend. Retinal (Display) Popping.
Apple continues to have an absolute right to just keep printing money at their own leisure. At this point I think their marketing campaigns for new products could consist of “Fuck you, buy this” and “We’re fucking Apple”, and it wouldn’t slow them down in the eyes of their legions (of which I am a more resistant follower).
Apple Reveals ‘NEW IPAD’, OH MY GOD IT’S THE NEXT JESUS.
Apple doesn’t reveal products so much as they drop bunker busting oblitera-bombs on my generation. At this point you’ve already heard and read and reveled and despised all the details regarding Apple’s iPad 3, or as they’re calling it the “New iPad” which I suppose it technically is and shit. But let’s pretend you haven’t.
Hit the jump for the deets.
WSJ: Apple Testing An 8-Inch iPad. See, Size Isn’t Everything.
Rendar has a co-worker who also works at one of those mall-based Apple Cults who recently told him who told me who is now telling you that he thought Apple may be working on a smaller-sized iPad. This probably isn’t news to anyone who is more in-tune with the Webz than me, but it whatever! Rendar’s friend may be correct.
DC Comics Go Digital, iPad May Now Be Useful
Ohhhh shit! DC Comics came out today and announced they were going fucking digital:
via comics alliance:
The current plan is to put an issue of Neil Gaiman’s “Sandman” online a week at Comixology, along with adding over one hundred issues of other DC titles a month to their digital library. Releases for the launch include perennial fan-faves like “Batman: Hush,” “Fables,” and “Planetary,” and alongside the release of archive material there will will be day and date digital releases of “Justice League: Generation Lost,” a currently ongoing series.
The digital revolution shall not be uh…covered in paper mediums! But no, this is really interesting to me. As someone who is clinging on to the vestiges of print media with a fury, as comic book publishers continue to sweeten the pot for reluctant nerds, it becomes harder to deny. I mean, the big deal here is the announcement of day and date release, which means that you can pick up Justice League: Generation Lost on your iPad the day it drops in stores.
I’m still denying, but it’s harder.
Nothing can supplant the enjoyment of going down to the local comic book store, talking to the owner and fellow fans and making an experience out of it. Sorry, DC Comics. And I hope it never will. There’s something enjoyable about basking in a community. As opposed to you know, staring at a sterile download bar in my iTunes.
Hopefully the tactile enjoyment and the process of buying comic books is as important to other comic book nerds as it is to me. Otherwise, we may be in for a league of hurt. I almost cringe for the owners of my local shop.
Marvel Comics To Be Available On iPad. Oh Fuck You, Now I DO WANT!
I’m not buying an iPad anytime soon. I’m broke, and unemployed, and a general douchebag. It would be a complete luxury item.
That said.
Via CBR:
On Saturday morning, Mac fans, tech heads and curious members of the public alike will doubtlessly line up in some form or fashion to be the first people to buy Apple’s new iPad device. Though while the new keyboardless computer will carry many apps built for its paper-sized screen from ebooks to video games, the question on most comic fans minds since its announcement in January has been when comics will be made available for download. And tonight, a first answer to that query came with the news that Marvel Comics will have a launch app ready for the iPad’s first week on sale, produced by comiXology.
OH GOOD GOD, MARVEL COMICS ON IT!?
Just the concept alone makes me tingly in the groin. I don’t even know if I would use it for that, but the idea alone makes me hot. I love my comic book shop, and I love tangibly owning comics, so I’m pretty torn. But if I could supplement my weekly trip the shop with some splurging in the middle of the night on a random comic?
Good fucking god.
I’m man-wet.
