Q. How do you turn junk into treasure?

A. Bury it in the desert:

A cache of Atari game cartridges, including copies of one of the worst video games ever made, have sold for more then $100,000 after being discovered in a landfill site in the desert.

The ‘one of the worst video games ever made’ thing, of course, refers to E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. A landfill copy sold for $1,535 – which is weird, because if you click on that lin you’ll see that you can get in on Amazon for around eighty bucks.  Not that you should spend eighty bucks on that game either, by all accounts…

Moe Lane

Tweet of the Day, Now This Is What Good Parenting Looks Like edition.

I believe that the answer is… actually, I do not know. Google searches using the relevant terms provided some highly dubious results. Apparently intersecting “extraterrestrial” and “Fourth Amendment” leads one to rather odd, conspiracy-theory dominated, head-spaces. Still, this kid was taught properly: