The Mythbusters fire 1100 paintguns simultaneously to instantly paint the Mona Lisa

Wow. The Mythbusters were hired by Nvidia to demonstrate how its new processor was superior to other processors.



Now that's how you advertise a product in the internet age. Relatedly, here's Adam Savage explaining that Mythbusters wanted to do a show exposing how hackable rfid tags were, but Texas Instruments, Visa, and the other credit card companies pressured the Discovery Channel into killing the show:



Via.

*Update: Or maybe Adam Savage is a blowhard who should be viewed with a heavy dose of skepticism in the future.

*Previously: Grid Monitor screensaver monitors the health of the power grid.

*Mythbusters dvds are 33% off at Amazon.

Best Covers: DC Comics Solicitations for August, 2008

ALL STAR BATMAN AND ROBIN, THE BOY WONDER #12
Written by Frank Miller
Variant cover by Bill Sienkiewicz




TINY TITANS #7
Written by Art Baltazar & Franco
Art and cover by Art Baltazar





ARMY@LOVE: THE ART OF WAR #1
Written by Rick Veitch
Art and cover by Rick Veitch & Gary Erskine




MADAME XANADU #3
Written by Matt Wagner
Art and cover by Amy Reeder Hadley

See all the DC Comics Solicitations for August, 2008 here.