About a month ago Minimates released the first few sets of Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 Minimates. Each set comes with one Marvel and one Capcom cast member. The first four sets are Deadpool vs Dante, Arthur vs Iron Man, Mike Haggar vs Hulk, and Magneto vs Zero.

Local clothing brands Unkommon Kolor and Fur Face Boy released a limited edition collaboration shirt this past Saturday at Centre in Dallas. The shirt was limited to a run of only 40 and there were well over 40 in attendance to celebrate the release with free beer, pizza and DJs

Last night I saw Das Racist at The Where House in Fort Worth. As Das Racist was taking the stage they handed out apples, oranges, and bananas to people in the audience. I ended up with an orange and, after the show, caught up with Himanshu and Ashok and got them to sign it.

SXSW this year was as fun as ever with no shortage of free food, free entertainment, and free alcohol to be found down every alley and on every street corner in downtown Austin. What I didn't expect to see was Guile in town at Icenhauer's, apparently for the Calyp Casa Friday Showcase. We arrived a little later in the evening so I assume the Sonic Boom and Flash Kick exhibitions had ended for the night and we didn't want to anger him by asking to take pictures with him or asking for his autograph so we opted for the next best thing.

Justin's Dice brings the time-honored tradition of channel surfing to the web. Just go to JustinsDice.tv and you're presented with a random channel from one of many live broadcasters on the popular video streaming site Justin.tv. Don't like what's on that channel? Hit the randomize button at the bottom of the page and you're taken to another random channel from the Justin.tv network.

My last PC and I had a love/hate relationship during its last few abysmal months of life and, upon buying my Macbook Pro in the summer of '07, I decided it was time to take the old girl out back and put a bullet in the heat of her single core Pentium 4 CPU. Actually, she is banished to the closet along with one of my other old machines.