First Superman Comic Sells For $317K

Wow and who said reading comic books was a waste of time? Collecting comic books seems like a worthwhile investment from where I'm standing. It's a shame I used to have the "Death of Superman" now I think I should probably hunt for it and see if it has some market value.

A rare copy of the first comic book featuring Superman has sold for $317,200 - one of the highest prices ever paid for a comic book, in an Internet auction. The previous owner had bought it secondhand for $0.35, now that's a great deal if I do say so myself.

If he had waited a few more years, this might have reached half a million! But still I have to say this was a good price altogether

Have you seen the new iPod Shuffle?

Half the size and still less than $100, the iPod shuffle just keeps getting better and better... or is smaller and smaller?

What's cool here is that it stores 4 gigabytes which is equivalent to about a thousand songs. It also has a voice over feature now that tells you which song is playing as well as how much battery you've got left. They're calling it the new Apple virtual DJ - that's quite cool, it should sound like Apple's Mac, he's quite cute.

The new iPod shuffle can do this in 14 different languages too! Beat that! I can barely speak the one that's supposed to be my native tongue. It should though, given that there's no space for a screen since it's now really really tiny. It comes in silver or black which is nice and safe

Banning Barbie. Will it work?

A West Virginia lawmaker wants to ban Barbie in some lame attempt to "save" kids from the image influence of Barbie

"I just hate the image that we want to give to our kids - that you're beautiful - you're beautiful - you don't have to be smart," West Virginia Delegate Jeff Eldridge says of Barbie.
Well it's too late for that. Fifty years later, Barbie is hotter than ever. Although it's true and sad that sometimes it has to come to those perfect pouty lips, shapely breasts and perfectly proportional figure - but we can't do much anymore. Barbie is Barbie. The brand has withstood the test of time

"Barbie is really a longstanding, and sort of complicated cultural icon and I think there are many ways Barbie could be viewed," Frayda Cohen, a professor of women's studies at the University of Pittsburgh, said.