It’s official! Andrew Breitbart died of a terminal case of raging asshole:

Andrew Breitbart, the conservative blogger whose posting of a sexually explicit photo of former U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner led to the congressman’s downfall, died of heart failure, the Los Angeles County Coroner said in an autopsy report released Friday.

The news broke late Friday afternoon, so we may have to wait another day for the conspiracy theories to kick in. Meanwhile, we’d like to note a few remarkable things from CNN’s lead paragraph.

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What was that we were saying the other day?

There was a long moment when we pondered our immediate fate as a Nice White Oregon Boy in the Wrong Los Angeles Neighborhood.

Meet Caine. Caine designed and runs a cardboard game arcade. In his dad’s auto-parts shop.

In East L.A.

Caine’s too young for us to have met him when our van stalled on an East L.A. overpass fifteen years ago. But in the alternate-universe version of our story, the one where we descend from the overpass and all our fearful preconceptions are proven hilariously wrong, he would have been part of our Excellent Adventure.

Caine’s Arcade

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nW5mZey1iXw

Now you can experience your favorite Retro Sixties Series as your favorite Retro Eighties Videogame! But you’ll have to play it on your favorite Retro Nineties Computer, since your favorite Retro Teens Gadget (presuming you’re reading this in 2027) isn’t a team player.

[via Silent Creative Partner]

We usually ignore political ads — unless they’re really, really silly — but this entry, from Karl Rove’s Billionaire Boys Club, caught our attention. It’s supposed to frighten us that The Preznident of These United States is selling us out to the Russkies. But every time we watch it, he comes off looking fucking cool. Might be the tux. Or the counterproductive insistence that Barack Obama is really 007.

Luciano Foglia’s rejected iPhone app demonstrates why we should keep Colorforms out of the hands of innocent children.

Geometric Porn [via Kottke]

Greetings from the Future [Stinque, 4/3/2010]

We have one. We bought it in 1980. We wrote a story about it for the college paper. We’ve never solved it. Fuck robots.