Amazon: Cheap Hitchcock and DS and Wii games!

Amazon's Deal of the Day is the Alfred Hitchcock Masterpiece Collection for $50.99 (58% off). That's fourteen movies, including genuine masterpieces Psycho, Vertigo, Rear Window, Shadow of a Doubt, Frenzy, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Rope, Saboteur. and The Trouble With Harry, flawed works Family Plot and The Birds, and crapfests Marnie, Topaz, and Torn Curtain.

That's still nine great movies (and two ones that are at least worth watching) from the greatest director to never win a Best Director Oscar for $51. Definitely worth it.

Other good deals include the Video Game Deal of the Day, Wacky Races for the Nintendo DS, for $12.98 (57% off).

And on the Wii side of things, Super Smash Brothers Brawl, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, and Super Mario Galaxy are down to $34.99 (30% off) each, and Mario Party 8 and Madden 09 are down to $39.99 (20% off) each.

Weird use of Twitter

So, a few days ago, I twitted an annoyed letter to Desperate Housewives creator Marc Cherry about his lack of knowledge regarding pot roasts.

Seconds later, I saw a reply pop up quoting it verbatim.

Turns out there's a Twitter account called DearRobot whose sole function is work as a bot, collecting and republishing any Tweet that begins with "Dear."

There's no advertising associated with this (not even a link to a homepage). I have no idea what the purpose of it is; I'm assuming it might just be a school project ("write a bot that interacts with a social media app" or somesuch). Still, it's a little weird.

More on the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention walk

Last week, I posted info about the AFSP walk.

A few updates:

First, my lovely wife shadesong has joined the walk. You can go to her sponsorship page here, or the team page (which is now called Team Monkey Hugs) here. Doesn't matter who you sponsor; the money all goes to the same wonderful cause.

Also, if you sponsor any of the folks on the team (for any amount) you get entered into a drawing for some very nifty stuff, including jewelry, fiction, masks, yarn, and knitted items. Prize details are here.