Hey there, folks! John here. I’ve got some exciting news about the brand new project I’ve recently launched out of financial desperation and intellectual curiosity: Operation Backlog Slog.
Beginning December 1st, I swore off purchasing any new music, movies, TV shows, video games, graphic novels until I finish my existing stockpile of each. I haven’t done a full inventory yet, but I’ve got at least 10 video games, 10 graphic novels (here, plus hundreds back home), two high-capacity DVD binders full of movies and TV shows and several albums to go through. In order to keep me on track (and to offer some potentially helpful recommendations to you, dear reader), I’ll be posting some details about what I’ve consumed here on WITWAR.
Here’s a running list of everything I’ve reviewed as part of OBS, organized by category:
| Property | Creator(s) | Medium | Episode # |
| All Marketers Are Liars | Seth Godin | Book | 7 |
| Extraordinary Engines | Nick Gevers | Book | 9 |
| His Dark Materials | Phillip Pullman | Book | 9 |
| Made to Stick | Chip Heath and Dan Heath | Book | 7 |
| Permission Marketing | Seth Godin | Book | 7 |
| The Antarctic Express | Kenneth Hite and Christina Rodriguez | Book | 7 |
| The Art of Deception | Kevin Mitnick | Book | 2 |
| The Difference Engine | William Gibson and Bruce Sterling | Book | 9 |
| The Princess Bride | William Goldman | Book | 11 |
| What Would Google Do? | Jeff Jarvis | Book | 6 |
| Aetheric Mechanics | Warren Ellis and Gianluca Pagliarani | Comic | 3 |
| Doom Patrol Vol. 1 | Grant Morrison, Richard Case and others | Comic | 11 |
| FreakAngels | Warren Ellis and Paul Duffield | Comic | 9 |
| Girl Genius Omnibus Vol. 1 | Phil and Kaja Foglio | Comic | 9 |
| Mouse Guard: Winter 1152 | David Petersen | Comic | 1 |
| New X-Men | Grant Morrison, Frank Quitely and others | Comic | 10 |
| Night Trippers | Mark Ricketts and Micah Farritor | Comic | 1 |
| The Five Fists of Science | Matt Fraction and Steven Sanders | Comic | 4 |
| The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen | Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill | Comic | 9 |
| The Stuff of Legend | Mike Raicht, Brian Smith and Charles Paul Wilson III | Comic | 4 |
| Asus Eee PC Netbook (1005 series) | Asus | Hardware | 5 |
| Pogoplug | Pogoplug Inc. | Hardware | 10 |
| Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon | Anchor Bay Entertainment | Movie | 10 |
| Sherlock Holmes | Warner Bros. | Movie | 9 |
| Steamboy | Katsuhiro Otomo | Movie | 9 |
| WALL-E | Pixar/Disney | Movie | 2 |
| Act II: The Father of Death | Protomen | Music | 11 |
| Aether Shanties | Abney Park | Music | 9 |
| Album Minus Band | Bomb the Music Industry! | Music | 3 |
| Behold the Machine | Vernian Process | Music | 9 |
| Blackout | Dropkick Murphys | Music | 7 |
| Do or Die | Dropkick Murphys | Music | 7 |
| Glee: The Music | Glee Cast (FOX) | Music | 7 |
| Greetings from Imrie House | The Click Five | Music | 3 |
| High Speed Access to Brain | Rehasher | Music | 11 |
| Pin Points and Gin Joints | The Mighty Mighty BossTones | Music | 8 |
| Sink or Swim | The Gaslight Anthem | Music | 8 |
| Stop, Drop and Roll! | Foxboro Hot Tubs | Music | 10 |
| The ’59 Sound | The Gaslight Anthem | Music | 8 |
| The Boy Who Knew Too Much | Mika | Music | 8 |
| The Chainsaw Trio | Chainsaw Trio | Music | 11 |
| The Fame / The Fame Monster | Lady Gaga | Music | 8 |
| The Protomen | Protomen | Music | 11 |
| This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things | Stephanie White and the Philth Harmonic | Music | 7 |
| Vox Inferne | The World/Inferno Friendship Society | Music | 11 |
| We Started Nothing | The Ting Tings | Music | 8 |
| Who Killed Amanda Palmer? | Amanda Palmer | Music | 1 |
| NSFW Show | The TWiT Network | Podcast | 10 |
| Psycho Planet Radio | The Subculture Collective | Podcast | 4 |
| Punky! Radio | Pauly B and Butch Tony | Podcast | 4 |
| This Week in Google | The TWiT Network | Podcast | 4 |
| This Week in Tech | The TWiT Network | Podcast | 4 |
| Anti-Virus Guard | AVG Software | Software | 5 |
| Digsby | Digsby | Software | 5 |
| Firefox | Mozilla | Software | 5 |
| Google Chrome | Software | 5 | |
| Google Desktop | Software | 5 | |
| Google Talk | Software | 5 | |
| Google Voice | Software | 5 | |
| Google Wave | Software | 5 | |
| MalwareBytes Anti-Malware | MalwareBytes | Software | 5 |
| Paint.NET | The Paint.NET Project | Software | 5 |
| Raven | Zoundry | Software | 5 |
| Thunderbird | Mozilla | Software | 5 |
| Doctor Who: The Next Doctor | BBC | TV Show | 9 |
| Jim Henson’s The Storyteller | Jim Henson Studios | TV Show | 1 |
| White Collar | USA Network | TV Show | 1 |
| Audiosurf | Invisible Handlebar / Valve Studios | Video Game | 8 |
| Guitar Hero: World Tour | Activision | Video Game | 1 |
| Half-Minute Hero | XSeed | Video Game | 1 |
| LEGO Rock Band | Harmonix | Video Game | 10 |
| Mega Man 10 | Capcom | Video Game | 11 |
| Mega Man 9 | Capcom | Video Game | 11 |
| Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness | Hothead Games and Penny Arcade | Video Game | 9 |
| Phantasy Star Universe | SEGA | Video Game | 3 |
| Shadow Complex | Epic Games | Video Game | 8 |
| Splosion Man | Twisted Pixel Games | Video Game | 10 |
| Spyborgs | Capcom | Video Game | 1 |
| The Maw | Twisted Pixel Games | Video Game | 10 |
| The Orange Box | Valve Studios | Video Game | 1 |
| iGoogle | Website | 5 | |
| InterFace Lift | InterFace Lift | Website | 5 |
| Teux Deux | Teux Deux | Website | 5 |
WIT WAR 
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