The eyes are following me...

I was looking at my email the other day, and I was caught entirely off guard.

Like most geeks, I get a ton of messages from electronics retailers in my Inbox. I was looking over the latest sale offerings from Buy.com, and they were advertising R.E.M's new album with this picture:

(Click on the guys' faces for a screenshot of the full ad in context)

What frightened me was Peter Buck staring out of that promo photo...looking almost sinister.

Sinister, like...him...


You be the judge.



That image makes me uncomfortable.


Are we sure that Bill Berry isn't trapped in the Black Lodge somewhere?

"HAAAAAAAAA...litosis!"

When typos get it right...

We've all seen unintentionally ironic typos, where a presumably innocent error results in a sentence that's more honest than the writer would ever have intended. Yahoo has one of these in their news feed this morning, sourcing a Reuters/Hollywood Reporter piece about how the Writers Guild strike might affect the Golden Globes awards telecast. To clarify the quote below, Dick Clark Productions pruduces and owns a portion of that awards show.

[Dick Clark Prods] also noted that it was not a member of the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television and Producers, the studios' bargaining ram.

(That's my emphasis there at the end.)

That's a pro-labor typo if I've ever seen one.