Category Archives: Latest News

The “Die Hard” of Road Trips

The past two weeks have truly been the Die Hard of road trips: every time you think it can’t possibly surprise you and get more exciting, it does. And machine guns. Lots of machine guns. We can’t possibly fit everything into one post without boring you to tears, so here are some of the highlights [...]

Mother’s Day 2010

Happy Mother’s Day to everyone! But especially to all the mothers out there. Congratulations on raising your ungrateful children. To all the sons and daughters: if you’re like us, you’ve forgotten to actually buy your mother a gift, or even a stupid card. Why are we such an idiot? Every year we do this! Dammit! [...]

Some Kind of Charity (or Something)

Here is the celebrity charity single by us and Jonathan Coulton (starring a cast of many) we’ve been hinting about all week, which debuted this morning at Rednosenet.com… Some Kind of Charity (or Something) [Audio clip: view full post to listen] All proceeds for the sale of this single go to Comic Relief. If you click [...]

Atari Spoon Flinger!

Thanks to Luke Blackford we now have evidence that the video game Spoon Flinger (as referenced in our latest podcast) really did exist. But for some reason we can’t seem to find the ROM anywhere…

Comin’ Up

Here’s a litany of words and numbers that, properly sequenced, tell you where we’ll be in the next few months… Wednesday, April 28 – Barns at Wolf Trap - 8 pm 1635 Trap Road, Vienna, VA Tickets: http://bit.ly/agzN1Y with the Bobs Thursday, May 6 – Swedish American Hall - 7:30 pm 2174 Market Street, San Francisco, CA [...]

FudgieThon 2010 FINAL TALLY

Well, you did it, gang; thank you to everyone who was able to donate! We landed the big one and have raised a grand total of $3,655.06 for the Arlington Food Assistance Center. And remember, they currently have a matching grant from the Feinstein Foundation; so we have in effect raised $7,270.12. You people ROCK! [...]

VICTORY!

UPDATE: FudgieThon Flickr gallery gallery and video by attendee Joshua now available for those who missed it! (original Ustream is probably lost to the ages What started out as a cheap stunt to gain 200 Twitter followers turned into a great party at ThinkGeek, a Ustream broadcast, Storm successfully eating an entire Fudgie the Whale ice [...]

FudgieThon 2010: Huge Success!

Thanks to everyone who came out, both in person and on the Internet, for FudgieThon 2010! We have raised, as of this writing, over $3,000 for the Arlington Food Assistance Center…and counting! Although the cake has been eaten, you still have time to donate (all proceeds benefit the Arlington Food Assistance Center) and enter to [...]

Lil’ Guildies

Well, we didn’t think we were allowed to talk about it yet; but apparently, thanks to an accidental leak, it seems we’re allowed to acknowledge the following: Felicia Day, creator of The Guild web series, recently signed a deal (we’re still can’t say with whom yet until we receive official word we can do so) [...]

FudgieThon 2010: Gluttony for a Good Cause

On Thursday, April 1 at 8 pm, in celebration of our passing the 10,000 Twitter follower mark, Storm will be attempting to eat an entire Fudgie the Whale ice cream cake at ThinkGeek HQ in Fairfax, VA. (Full details of the event are in this post) Because we don’t want to be seen as Wasteful [...]