• I have begun doing reviews of Star Trek: The Original Series episodes, as recently released in remastered hi-def on HD-DVD. I’m working my way through them sporadically (probably one or two a week), and shall continue to update the page as I do. I haven’t watched through the full TOS run in a decade or two. Frankly, I probably barely remember some of the episodes, so it’ll be cool to watch ‘em all from the beginning again. And hey, I get to check out all the groovy new work done in remastering ‘em while I’m at it. You can always find the page in the TV menu option on the top of the site.
• You know, as I read the average comment thread on web sites, I have to wonder if the people making the comments are as big a Neanderthal as they seem in real life, or if it’s just an online thing where there’s no real retribution. Frankly, I’m not sure which answer is more depressing.
• Stop dressing your daughter like a… Yeah, no kidding. That article is so right.
• Chuck has gotten a full season pickup. Now, what to do about that strike…
• As many are reporting, XP continues to be Vista’s main competition. Speaking as somebody who has had Vista on both the machines I use every day, after some time using it on both I went back to XP on both, and have been FAR happier having done so. Vista is the worst new OS version Microsoft has ever released, and I was hoping SP1 would fix some of it. Clearly, it won’t. It’s hilarious to see XP continue to improve, though, as there have now been reports of the upcoming XP SP3 showing some 10% performance improvements.
• Order Of The Phoenix on HD-DVD to feature a community screening feature. In terms of interactivity gimmicks, I think this is actually one of the better ideas. But, why is this a title-based feature and not just a format/player feature? It should be at a platform level, not just supported on the few titles that include it.
• When does Congress actually WORK?
• So, Scott Adams is finally scaling back on Dilbert Blog postings. Honestly, I figured this would happen sooner than it did. Still, as long as it continues, it doesn’t need to be daily.
• Interesting. Fox is opening up a competition for fans to submit an official poster for The Sarah Conner Chronicles.
• Here’s a rather stark and depressing story about the ongoing problems in Congo. Not my usual kind of post, but one worth the read.
• The Inquirer praises SlySoft’s recent cracking of BD+ protection on Blu-Ray. And what they say is dead-on right. Go, SlySoft, Go. Those of us with hardware deemed “inadequate” to play back high def content, only because it doesn’t support Orwellian/Draconian protection systems that were of insanely poor conception, depend on folks like SlySoft to be able to PLAY BACK LEGALLY PURCHASED CONTENT ON LEGALLY PURCHASED HARDWARE. I swear, these morons don’t just go out of their way to limit their customers, THE ONES WHO ACTUALLY *WANT* TO GIVE THEM MONEY FOR THEIR PRODUCT, but they create an industry for those who exist just to circumvent their idiotically ill-conceived notions of protection.

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