US News and World Report’s Matt Bandyk has a post describing how online shopping could herald a new, Wall-E-esque future of obese, screen-driven sloths.

The site that spurred his idea is called VirtualEShopping.com. Their software enables users to enter a virtual mall via a digital meme, or persona, which they steer it around a 3-D mall environment, bargain hunting and chatting with other personas on the way. VirtualEShopping garners revenue from pay-per-click ads posted aro