So as I’m sure most of the comic community and a few of you movie lovers have heard, Disney has acquired Marvel for a measly little $4 billion dollars. I suppose I like to imagine that in some comical (get it?) fashion, Scrooge McDuck himself handed over a ridiculously large check to Stan Lee just before going in for a nice swim in his seemingly endless money pool. However, this time instead of gleefully diving about between diamond rings, gold pieces, and $100 bills, I picture him furiously drowning Spider-man with his bare uh, duck hands before taking a gigantic McDump all over the hopes and dreams of Marvel fans everywhere who’d waited for decades for their favorite comics make it to the silver screen. Anyways, I’m bad at analogies, the point is while it’s too early to tell at this stage whether or not Disney will begin raping our favorite franchises, the news is still…unsettling.
Disney Acquires Marvel
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So apparently Sony released the PS3′s a week early, so as of August 26th you have been able to pick one up for yourself. Not sure why they did this as of yet, but Microsoft is keeping up with them and as of yesterday, the 28th, the new Xbox 360 Elite packages for $299.99 are on sale.
The Ohio State University home page has a variety of news tidbits flash across it each quarter, and this quarter one really caught my eye: there is now an OSU app for iPhones and other smart phones that students (see: freshman) can use to help them discover campus. Apparently “m.osu.edu” is like a mobile 
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In response to Sony’s $299.99 PS3 Slim, Microsoft has confirmed that they are indeed phasing out the Xbox 360 Pro and are leaving the public with two options (giggle): the $199.99 Arcade system or the $299.99 Elite system. The big change here is that the Elite is $100 less than it used to be, but still comes with the 120GB hard drive. In fact, the only difference between the $399.99 Elite and the $299.99 is that the Elite will now come with standard component cables, no HDMI cables. No worries to the high-def gamers like Joshua and me though: you can get most universal HDMI cables for around $40, and used at 
Yesterday Joshua and I released the results of the World of Warcraft competition. If for some reason your computer wasn’t playing our podcast (there really isn’t any other reason you wouldn’t have listened to it), you would have found out I was the victor. It was a very close race the entire way through, and I do give many kudos to Joshua for catching up three levels and even surpassing me most of the time. You may be wondering how in the world this could have happened, considering Joshua’s dedication, diligence, and use of robots. I’m here to list a few details why the race was so close and why I ultimately dinged before him.
The race to 80 is finally, officially at its end. It’s been a long, arduous battle and one that’s been an absolute blast. Take a listen to find out who was the victor as well as the skinny on the new WoW expansion, Cataclysm, Inglorious Basterds, what’s coming for consoles this week and as always, our geek of the week!
Okay, so this might not be as helpful and informative as how to delete files, shortcuts or how to right-click, but it’s a novel trick that will astonish your friends (hopefully) and keep you entertained. If using a Mac, by holding option-shift-K you’ll create a cute little apple symbol. I know it’s probably lame but I wanted to contribute to the Mac Noob series and this is the best I’ve got. 
While I much appreciate all of you that take time out of your busy days to give us feedback, I don’t appreciate the mountain of spam comments we’ve begun getting recently. At first it wasn’t a huge deal as we didn’t get loads of it, but at this point we’re getting so many that it’s barely worth the effort to moderate them all. I really don’t want to have to resort to using a captcha, but at this point I’m wondering if it’d be worth it just to cut down on the time I have to stop dealing with spam. So, before I make any rash decisions I figured I’d ask all of you if you’ve had any positive experiences with a particular anti-spam mechanism that we might employ here at GeeksPodcast?