Awesome Lobster Johnson Cover by some dude.

Some guy who calls himself The Silent H has put together an awesome cover for the Dark Horse Comics' latest Lobster Johnson series.

CHECK IT OUT.

PIRATES! (The new masters of quality control.)

Avast ye! This torrent of The Green Lantern was an .mov and thar be no Quicktime in these parts!

A new study has been making the rounds across the interwebs which states that the advent of copyright piracy dens the Pirate Bay and torrent clients like BitTorrent have had no effect on Hollywood's box office receipts. Unfortunately, this study has been falsely hailed as the definitive assuagement of the internet's collective guilt over illegal downloads.

The Future of Meat Creation

I came across a particularly disturbing article on Wired today.  It describes a process of growing (not raising) chickens for meat in some sort of unconscious Matrix-style apparatus.  This imedietly sounded like a project being worked on by Veridian Dynamics and another attempt at their lab grown meat blob, that turned out to taste like nothing else other than despair.  Not only am I unsure about eating something that was stimulated by electricity rater than good ol' moving around.  I am also worried about how easy we are making it for the singularity to us into a far more complicit state when it takes over.

Portland's Love Affair With Masochism

I should know better than to root for the single most-slighted small market team in an already biased league (See: Game 6 of the 2002 Western Conference Finals). And I should probably know better than to hinge my well being and sanity on the successes of a group of men who likely have growth disorders. But I don’t, which is really more of a testament to how few prospects I have at the moment, but such is life when you’re a woefully underemployed single dude trying to make it honest.

Shit the Internet needs to stop making.

Courtesy of xkcd - The best webcomic.

The internet has produced a great many things. In sparking everything from social revolutions to complete government overhauls, the vast network of people has already proven its worth ten times over. In order to get to the worthy stuff, though, one must sledge through a wasteland of content that can best be described as fucking terrible.

And you don't have to worry. Cat-related content is left off this list because of its glaringly obvious unnecessity.

A Deep and Compelling Argument That Soccer is the Greatest Sport of All Time

Are you a super-wealthy comic book fan looking for a good cause and some awesome art?

Perhaps imitating the villains that their heroes have repeatedly conquered for the better part of a century, Marvel Comics is attempting to completely destroy Gary Friedrich, the creator of Ghost Rider. They've already made millions from a character that Friedrich created, and are now trying to make him pay $17,000 in "damages" that he has brought about to the corporation.

Standing beside Friedrich are Hellboy creator Mike Mignola and The Goon creator Eric Powell. Like Friedrich, they have created characters that have gone on to be wildly successful, but unlike Friedrich, they created their characters in a time when comics publishers weren't all vile, money-grubbing emulations of their own super-villains. Dark Horse allowed their creations to remain their own and flourished because of it. 

Now Mignola and Powell are each auctioning a piece of original artwork tied to their most famous character in an attempt to raise money for Friedrich. Mignola's gorgeous Hellboy print is above, and Powell's The Goon is after the jump. 

Curren$y - "Here EP" (Review)

Okay. Best album art of the year. The rest of you can try, but yeah. Spitta's got it. No worries though. Second place still gets a a nice tote bag.

After Curren$y dropped, like, 209 albums in a two year period, one would be forgiven for thinking he might fall off. After so many verses, is it even possible that the guy had anything left in the tank? If there was any sort of upper limit to the number of lyrics a human being can feasibly construct in a lifetime, surely the New Orleans MC had to be nearing it.

As if the copious volumes of THC slowly being absorbed through his lungs have given him clairvoyance into the anxious minds of his listeners, Spitta dropped his five-track EP Here last week in order to tide them over until March's The Stoned Immaculate.

 Hit the jump for a track by track breakdown.

Star Wars: The Phantom Menace 3D - The Definitive Review

In a move that I think we can all agree is excreting the very nectar of necessity, the Star Wars saga is being rereleased, one movie at a time, with an extra dimension added for shits and giggles. The natural place to start is with Episode 1. What more could an added dimension bring to one of the most abysmal disappointments in cinemas's history?

It's Ultimate Salt's review of Star Wars: Episode 1 - The Phantom Menace in 3D.

Cole Hann Lunar Grand

In a lab buried 20 miles beneath the Cascade Mountains, some diabolical Nike scientists have combined the gala-attending style of a wingtip with their "Lunarlon Cushioning System" to create the Cole Hann Lunar Grand. The Lunar Grand represents exactly what you'd expect from a sportswear company's high end brand: Stylish shoes with a made-up material for the sole. It's currently only available in Cole Hann's soho showroom.

Here is an excerpt from our interview with Nike's science engineers: