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You know when I was 14 I think I learned how to brush my teeth… and maybe run in circles. In japan this 14 year old kid dug a pit and constructed a hut out of bamboo and straw like they did back in the day. Then he stayed in it a night and cooked himself a meal like they did back then. WTH? Shouldn’t he be playing the Wii and watching hentai? Isn’t that what the kids do now? To make matters worse now he wants to make some period clothes and start living there for weeks at a time. Dude. Wii. Stop making us all look bad.

Anyways… boing boing gets us slackers. We don’t want to build no huts and live in harsh conditions. We want peace, love and the expression of that love in less than (or equal to) 150 characters. They ran this contest (which despite being so close, actually wasn’t a twitter contest… wierd) where you wrote your undying love within that limit and then the winner gets to have Shapeways cast those characters in permanent plastic form. Which is pretty awesome – see the winner and his resulting candleholder, which is kind of awesome. In a nerdy sorta way. But what other way is there, really?

Then there was Marvel. Apparently Marvel’s gone and announced “In-Motion” comic books will become coming to an iTunes store near you. At first I completely didn’t read that article at all and assumed that they were going to release an iPhone app that let you download comics and read ‘em cause I just learned that you can read tons of them online (tons of them, except they’re all at least 6 months old). That would’ve been more awesome. Anyhow what is actually happening is some kinda thing with animated panels and voice-over work from popular actors. I dunno. This seems like it’s going to be insanely cheesy, what with what I can only assume to be super, super low budget animation and whatever. I guess we’ll see. As a light comic-reader and not much of a collector, I’d love my original idea to be able to buy digital copies of comics – I’d subscribe to a ton of them! Oh well.

BONUS LINK: oh SNAP. Snappity snap. Turns out there was a Joss/Eliza/Dollhouse thing at the Soho Apple Store last night. Why was I not informed of this? I could totally have skipped the gym last night to head over there and stand in the cold for a few hours. Geez. Anyhow… here’s a loose transcript. If you’re not going to watch Dollhouse, well, I don’t know if we can still be friends.