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Last week, I talked about my frustration with Best Buy’s price discrepancies between their online and in-store prices for DVD’s. To further prove my point, I took a peek at Best Buy’s latest Sunday ad. I took a look at the various products in their ad but didn’t see any discrepancies for larger items like TV’s, appliances, and such. It would seem that the discrepancies center mainly around digital media like CD’s and movies. Haven’t spotted any discrepancies with console and PC games but it’s probably just a matter of time before I spot some.

So, what did I find this week? Let’s look at CD’s first:

This is the really odd ones that don’t make any sense. You’d think that the new releases would be subject to some discrepancies, right? Nope! In fact, the discrepancies center around the Holiday Music Favorites. Want that new Josh Groban Christmas album? You might wanna buy it online and save yourself $2:

And here’s an even odder one. See that album just above the Josh Groban one? A Very Special Christmas Vol.7 for just $7.99? For once I found an item that is actually cheaper to buy in the store than online. How messed up is that?

Now let’s move to the first of the movie discrepancies. There’s a couple here that stick out:

Again, same as last week…err…why is the Inglorious Basterds Blu-ray version being sold for $5 less online? Is this a special “online only” deal? If so, why don’t they say so?

And, yes, while the above pick says “pre-order” I just checked the site again and it’s still listed at the same price. Oddly enough, the two-disc DVD isn’t in the ad but I bet you money that it’s still gonna be a $1 cheaper on the site ($21.99 online versus $22.99 in-store).

Is there something going on with the Blu-ray new releases? Why is The Hangover listed for $4 cheaper?

On this last movie page, none of these really stick out…except one. Can you guess which one is gonna be a $1 less?

Yep…Robot Chicken! The one damn DVD I would buy this week and I still have to price check it online! Damn you Best Buy!

Is it me or does it seem like all these price discrepancies revolve around new release movies that they know they can move fast and make a few extra bucks on without many people noticing? I think there’s a pattern forming. Guess we’ll know when I look at next week’s ads.

Don’t you wish you could do this to the CEO’s of AIG, Goldman Sachs, and other banks? If only it were that easy…

John Gruber pretty much nailed my thoughts on last night’s Oscar awards. This is my favorite part:

Putting WALL-E up against Bolt and Kung Fu Panda rather than letting it compete against Slumdog Millionaire and Benjamin Button is like requiring a 13-year-old chess prodigy to compete only against other children, regardless whether he could stand his own against adult grandmasters. It’s a dismissive pat on the head.

So true. So true.

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Alex Rodriguez is a liar, plain and simple. He’s full of shit and just keeps telling lie after lie after lie. There’s just no escape from the truth at all. Not only did he disgrace himself due to steroid use, he comes out and claims that he didn’t know he was doing anything wrong and didn’t know what he was taking? Bullshit, A-Rod! I could see it in your face when you were stating all that crap during a press conference.

Best thing you can do, Alex, is come completely clean and start telling the truth, the complete truth! Otherwise you end up further disgracing yourself and disgracing the entire sport of baseball. We’ve already had one guy before you who broke the homerun record and was linked to steroid use (McGuire anyone?). Pretty much means that whenever the next person breaks a homerun record, you can be sure everyone will be wondering whether this person is on steroids or some other performance enhancing drug.

Thanks A-Rod! Thanks for ruining baseball for everyone! You’re my hero!

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Caught this on Daring Fireball. Man, this is so true!  LOL!

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John Gruber at Daring Fireball linked this one. This is hilarious! So true, so true!

CAUTION: Not work safe!

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Variety reports that Brett Ratner is on board to do a Youngblood movie. Ratner had this to say about the news:

Most of the great graphic novels are gone, and ‘Youngblood’ is one of the few comicbooks left with tentpole potential. It was a real personal passion project for me, and a lot of people wanted (‘Youngblood’), but the amazing thing about the guys at Reliance is the speed with which they’re able to move.

Most of the great graphic novels are gone? Seriously? How about Ronin, Animal Man, Preacher, Doom Patrol, Y: The Last Man, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (which is due for a proper treatment), Astro City, and many more. All of these have great potential of becoming good movies. And the only thing Brett Ratner can come up with is Youngblood? I’ll take WildC.A.T.’s over it any day.

Look, Youngblood was an ok comic in it’s heyday (before everyone started realizing that Rob Liefeld actually sucks) but it’s no X-Men. The problem with Youngblood was that it didn’t really start with any real substance. There really wasn’t much of a story there from the very beginning. Plus, the characters were pretty much two-dimensional; there just wasn’t anything there to latch onto with these characters. Sure, there was some cool dialog and cool looking characters, but that was pretty much it. And someone wants to create a movie around this?  Umm…good luck, Brett!

Man…the fact that Sony Online Entertainment is associated with this has me worried. I mean, if they muck around with this as much as they did with Star Wars Galaxies I can guarantee you that this will be a severely dumbed down piece of shit. Sony took everything that made SWG so great and completely gutted it like a fish. Thanks, but this is pretty much an automatic pass for me. I’m about as sick with Sony’s crap as I am with EA’s.

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A bit late but still interesting reading. Read a story last week on Huffington Post about the parallels of Buddhism and the movie “Groundhog Day”. Very interesting.

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Saw this on Major Spoilers. Pretty funny: