While Amazon pushes everyone and their mom to get their hands on the latest Kindle available, Apple insiders have concocted rumors that the company has joined the eReader party with its supposed tablet that will be released four months from now and will look pretty much like a giant iPod Touch.

eReaders were invented to supposedly make reading more convenient and accessible for its users. It’s a portable device in which you can download entire books, newspapers and magazines through a wi-fi signal or 3G network for a price. It is a vision that Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos can’t stop maniacally laughing about for some odd reason. Check out the video of his appearance on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (below).

In an article that ought to wipe that smile off Bezos’ face, novelist Nicholson Baker recently wrote for the New Yorker on his disappointing experience using the Kindle 2. Since most of the New Yorker’s reading audience are the same people who might end up getting a Kindle if they haven’t already, this is quite a blow to Amazon.

On top of this, there has also been that incident involving the erasure of a version of George Orwell’s 1984 from all existing Kindles due to a copyright debacle with the publisher. It’s a scary feeling to know that books can be erased while we’re asleep. This conjures memories of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 and the simplifying of information by getting rid of all the books known to man.

I’m sure I’m not alone in believing that silicon and plastic could never completely substitute for paper and hardcover bindings. There’s a certain aura that comes with reading an actual book with which you can flip actual pages, not through a machine that won’t let you turn a page when it runs out of battery. If it ain’t broke, why fix it?

This morning, 40 years ago, Apollo 11 was cleared for liftoff and would begin a mission that would forever be remembered by people around the world for generations to come: when man went on the moon.

Fast forward almost half a century later and America finds itself uninspired in a thwarted space race. Our country has lost its drive for something greater and otherworldly and instead focuses on war and repairing an economy in turmoil. The nostalgia of the moon landing and the other landmark space missions of the 1960s are now stories passed down through the experiences of our parents and grandparents and what we can scrap out of footage from documentaries and films.

When kids are asked what they want to be when they grow up, they no longer say they want to be astronauts. Instead, they’d rather be the next Steve Jobs or Mark Zuckerberg. It’s a somber feeling knowing that children have lost their will to dream of reaching for the stars.

Ever wonder how Spider-Man would fare against robots from outer space? Check him out below in a fight to the death with Leopardon.

The Japanese have been the best at creating serials based on our favorite comic book characters — Ultra Man, Pokemon and including this early attempt at Spidey from the 70s.

You know what it is even though you have no clue what it’s called. You’ve probably tried it and liked it even though you have no inkling of what it’s made of. It comes in a see-through plastic bottle with a green spout, etched all over with foreign characters and a rooster logo.

Does Sriracha ring a bell? How about some Rooster Sauce?

Huy Fong’s flagship product, Tuong Ot Sriracha (pronounced SEE-ra-cha), is a purée of fresh red jalapeños, garlic powder, salt, sugar and vinegar that has garnered quite a following with the American public. In fact, you can now find it anywhere from your local mom & pop store to specialty dishes at big city restaurants. Apparently, it goes well with almost anything from wheat thins to chow mein to gourmet dinners.

Its creator, David Tran, got a little inspiration from Heinz Ketchup at the time of the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles to make a sauce that would appeal to the Vietnamese community. Over the past two decades, Tran’s chili sauce has broadened that following, as evidenced by the ingredient list on the back of the bottle, which is written in Vietnamese, Chinese, English, French and Spanish. Its Facebook group has almost 150,000 fans.

I’m a weakling when it comes to eating anything hot and spicy. When my head starts to itch as a reaction to the explosion on my taste buds, I know I’ve reached my limit. Others, on the other hand, keep squeezing out that Rooster sauce like there’s no tomorrow.

If you used Twitter this past Sunday, chances are, you noticed #gorillapenis at the top of the Trending Topic sidebar.

It turns out that this is none other than the work of 4chan, the imageboard website responsible for numerous pranks on the internet that include Youtube Porn Day and the sabotaging of a Time Magazine poll of “The World’s Most Influential People,” which resulted in voting 4chan a.k.a. “moot” atop the list by a monumentally wide margin of victory.

4chan is primarily known for posting and dicussing manga and anime. It is also responsible for having coined such internet memes like “lolcats,” “rickrolling” and “chocolate rain.” Its random board, called /b/, is the notorious but most popular section on the webpage. At the moment, it seems that the site is currently down and unavailable for browsing.

As for the attack on Twitter, which 4chan dubbed “Operation Sh***er,” 4chan and eBaum’s World enlisted like-minded pranksters to sign up for fake Twitter accounts and spam the website this past weekend. The end result seems to point in the direction of a controversial but unanimous victory.

Awesome. Jaw-droppingly spectacular. A 12-year-old boy’s dream come true.

Maybe the phrases “12-year-old boy” and “Michael Jackson” don’t exactly conjure happy memories when uttered in the same sentence, but this 360 degree panoramic look by Pinsane into the late entertainer’s underground arcade collection is simply…insane. Jackson’s collection of arcade games and other geek paraphernalia were sold off in a Beverly Hills auction earlier this year. (Check out the guidebook here.)

This underground lair is more evidence to prove that Jackon was suffering from Peter Pan syndrome. Most of the videogames found here are from the mid 90s, about the same time that Jackson was settling his child molestation allegations for $22 million.