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Did you hear? The Internet was buzzing yesterday about the New York Times' announcement of xkcd's book deal. The breadpig couldn't have been more pleased. Now we need get those books ready for the summer. Thanks to all of you who helped spread the word, left encouraging comments, or already started trying to place orders. There's a mailing list if you'd like to be notified on the day they're for sale. We also had a number of independent booksellers contact us to get the xkcd book on their shelves; we're happy to supply you! And now for a buzz recap:...

The book is out - get it here! Here's the New York Times article. The breadpig is thrilled to be working with xkcd on this venture and we're expecting the book to hit the virtual shelves of the xkcd store this summer. If you'd like to be notified, sign up for the breadpig mailing list (your information will not be sold, bartered, or used for any kind of evil). We're not a traditional publisher, but this isn't a traditional book -- the majority of the profits from each sale will go directly to the artist (xkcd). email: As for the...

The auction got another bump from ScienceCommons before bidding ended this afternoon at $455. I trust they'll enjoy the ROFLDNA. This is breadpig's second ROFL-success (last year's ROFLaptop contest ended at $521 raised for OLPC) but this one-of-a-kind-DNA-artwork was the idea of Erik Martin, reddit community manager, troublemaker, and member of the breadpig honor guard. And the folks at DNA11 were all-stars for accommodating our rather unorthodox request -- delivering a gorgeous final product. Also, we couldn't have done it without the great folks of ROFLCON and of course, our fabulous DNA-donating Internet celebrities: A.J. "HatPerson" Mazur of Lil' Jon-Lazy...

This shit just got serious. Now the DOJ wants a piece of breadpig. If you're not familiar with the breadpig band, educate yourself and return to this post - we won't hold it against you. A breadpig ally at Harmonix (they make our instruments) named Matt kindly brought this to our attention in early March. We would have brought this to your attention sooner, breadpig loyalists, but we needed our legal experts to analyze this before we proceeded. This ruling makes "the Court" seem rather out of touch -- as if they hadn't downloaded our debut album When Will Then...

Democracy isn't always pretty, but it's the best thing we've got right now. The breadpig solicited your thoughts on the two designs for ROFLDNA and we came out with a pretty clear winner. The artists @ DNA11 are now at work producing this genetic ROFLmasterpiece. More details to come.