After the largest R rated release of 3,611 theaters, Watchmen pulled in $24.9m yesterday, with $4.6m coming from midnight showings.   It looks like it won’t manage to beat The Dark Knight’s $155m from opening weekend with $18.5m coming from midnight showings alone.  Just puts things into perspective doesn’t it?   Now all you Watchmen fanboys can get over yourselves.

via [THR]

Update: Watchmen pulled in 55m this weekend.

Today YouTube rolled out an update to their ever popular video player allowing embedded videos to be played in HD instead of having to click on a video and watch it on the YouTube site.   The new update adds a button between volume and fullscreen that is context sensitive to HD videos.  This also seems to fix the bug where videos would play incorrectly when swapped to HD.  The video below is an example of the new player. (Escape from City 17 by the Purchase Brothers.)

Each little update like this adds some chunk of functionality that feels as though it should have been there all along. Previous updates include widescreen, overlays, refined colors, etc. One more step on the way to Google taking over the world.

I’m sitting here, typing on my Smith Corona Coronet.  I’ll be transferring it digitally, figure that one out fellas.  Twenty minutes ago, things happened.  I wont tell you what they are, but they made me hungry.  Now, let me preface this with the fact that my favorite breakfast joint is here in…my town, and I’ve been gone a long while.  Long story short I got myself some breakfast.  But I got to thinking, did i just go to breakfast?  Because as we all  know breakfast is just breaking fast.  In this day and time, breakfast is a noun, but really it should be considered a super verb.  I mean why not, its two words turned into one to make a super verb.  Its like old school bands.  The english language can handle it, after all, crazy people have will power too.