Click here for a chance to purchase this lovely watercolor of a dinosaur wearing underpants painted by Anthony Clark of Nedroid.com. This could be your only opportunity to get a piece of Anthony's art at a decent price. This kid's going places, mark my words.

The new Cracked Magazine is out on shelves now. It's nothing like its juvenile former self (that I can remember) and is more along the lines of National Lampoon (remember them?). It has a nine page ESPN Magazine parody, two excellent ad parodies, interviews with The Daily Show's Ed Helms and Rob Corddry and South Park's Trey Parker and Matt Stone, and a bunch of other funny shit. Not bad for a first issue.

Also, here's an article about Cracked's acquisition and transformation into what it is today.

Damn, that's a sexy album cover. The new Iron Maiden CD hits stores on September 5th. Buy it.

So I have yet another addiction on the internets: Smack Shopping on Jellyfish.com. I've always been a sucker for chat, but now I can buy shit at crazy discounts and chat? Oh yeah!

Here's how Smack Shopping works: Jellyfish puts up an item at full price and as time passes, the price for that item gradually drops until someone from the Smack--that's a group of jellyfish--buys it. The longer you wait, the greater the discount, but also the greater the risk someone else will purchase it from under you.

Between Smack offers, Jellyfish members have a chance to win cash in a guessing game called Outwit the Smack. After opting in, a smacker is chosen at random to play for the current jackpot, while everyone else plays for points. Players win by choosing the least popular of a question's 6 multiple choice answers.

Smack Shopping is just a small part of Jellyfish. The site's main role is that of a shopping search engine. What's great about using Jellyfish to do your internets shopping is that they will give you half of their commission*. So if they get a 10% commission on an item that sells for $100, they'll give you $5 of that back. So not only do you get the best price by being able to shop at multiple stores at once, Jellyfish will give you money for doing so. Pretty sweet, eh?

If you happen to join up, I'm usually on during the gaming show that runs from midnight to 7am. Pay me a visit or add me as a buddy. My nickname in Smack is ThomasJay (yeah, I have no imagination).

*Some vendors will not allow Jellyfish to share their commission, but so far I've only noticed that Amazon does this.

I can't put into words how awesome this series is. Being a fan of the original Dexter novels, I was a bit worried about how a series based upon them would turn out. Me and my expectations were blown away. I can't recommend this enough.