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Carnivale Season 2 came out on DVD this week - a show which Kim and I both loved despite its early demise. I had planned on picking it up at Costco since they usually have great prices on HBO series, but they didn't get it in (or even list it on their website), so I looked around elsewhere online.

Turns out that Wal-Mart.com had it listed for $63, which is what Costco usually prices at, so I decided to stop by the local Wal-Mart to pick it up.  When I got there, the price was $78, so I figured, hey, print out their web page and have them price match it.

Wrong.

Turns out Wal-Mart refuses to match their own website.  Furthermore, from talking to their electronics guy, they won't price match another Wal-Mart store.

Wal-Mart - Always Low Prices...unless you find it cheaper within their own system.

While it may not be quite as bad as having Optimus portrayed as a John Deere, I have to say that the truck below is NOT Optimus Prime either:

Unfortunately for all of us fans who fondly remember our childhood Transformers, the creators of the new Transformers movie disagree.

While I try not to be one of the rabid masses, I can't help but agree with the sentiments of those who ask the question: "Why even make a Transformers movie if you don't use the iconic Transformers?"  First they make Bumblebee a Camaro instead of a VW Bug (which I understand is due to VW refusing to allow licensing of the Bug for "portrayals of war").  Then they talk about having a number of scenes with Prime without his facemask on "to highten the emotion of the scenes".  And now they've altogether changed the look of one of the most iconic figures of the past 25 years.

Of course, why should I be surprised?  It's being directed by Michael Bay (of Armageddon, Pearl Harbor, and the Bad Boys series), a man who could make a movie about Pearl Harbor nearly unwatchable. 

Yikes.

A recipient of one of those Nigerian email spam scams turns the table on the scammer and get's them to think they're entering an art scholarship for $150,000 - eventually sending a wood carving sculpture of a Commodore 64 keyboard.

Read more about it here.