• Windows Vista SP1 & Windows Server 2008 RTM’d today.
• A retro arcade gaming fan heaven. This is *SO* very cool. Man, I wanna go check that place out. Check out the official site, too.
• Speaking of retro, check out this set of pictures, of one lucky dude unpacking a new, previously unopened Apple IIc. Ah, for the days where I actually liked Apple. I loved my IIc.
• As somebody with interest in WWII history, this discovery of 3 scuttled German U-Boats is a cool bit of news.
• The Buffy cast/crew reunion is starting to shape up for this year’s Paley Festival (of the formerly Museum Of Television & Radio). Good to see the cast lining up, but I wanna know how many of the writers will attend (please, at least get Jane Espenson). It’ll be cool to see the video of this event. Here’s hoping that more will continue to sign on to appear on stage at the event. The Paley Center always does nice Q&A sessions for their festivals.
• Here’s the first teaser for M. Night Shyamalan’s new movie, The Happening. While I don’t think Lady In The Water was particularly great, I’m a bigger fan of Shyamalan than most people these days (I quite liked The Village). Anyway, this teaser looks great. I also like the one sheet pictured in the post. Nice, subtle references in the tag lines.
• Good grief. That Toshiba HD-DVD ad from the Super Bowl didn’t actually run in HD?
• Speaking of Super Bowl ads, I haven’t watched any of them from this weekend, but I did watch a few of them that were pointed out on somebody else’s blog recently and found this E*Trade ad that I didn’t remember seeing previously quite funny.
• So, looks like the state of HD downloads is about what I’d figure.
• Check out this awesome performance of Smells Like Teen Spirit by the Ukulele Orchestra Of Great Britain. Check out the related videos while you’re there to see some of their other great/hilarious performances.
• Here’s a great commercial for Absolut.
• I mentioned the fun of massive rails guns in a recent posting. Check out this mind-blowingly-insane video clip of a 32-megajoule shot. The description of the incindiaries you are seeing in the video is truly insane.
• I’ll close out today’s post with a cool political survey web site. This’ll list out a bunch of the current hot issues and you answer if you are for or against, and your level of interest, and it’ll calculate your ideal (and less-than-ideal) candidates to vote for. Here’s my results (including the top pick, then 2 next-best, then 2 middle-of-the-pack, then the 2 bottom-of-the-barrell). The 0% for Obama is amusing, to say the least. I do feel dirty that there was actually 35% to match with Hillary. Try it out and see what you get. Their scoring methodology actually seems pretty fair to me.
  • 87.04 Huckabee
  • 70.37 McCain
  • 64.81 Romney
  • 63.89 Ron Paul
  • 41.67 Gravel
  • 35.19 Hillary
  • 00.00 Obama

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