If you liked Super Metroid, you owe it to yourself to pick up Prime from gamestop (it's maybe $10 these days)

All my phones have either been work-provided, smartphones, or both, so I've had reason to be paranoid about losing them. Never so much as put one through the laundry, in fact.

It's true to the original in the same way Metroid Prime was--"Holy crap, it's in 3D and yet it's got exactly the right feeling."

Yeah, I pretty much want to kick every anti-nuclear protester in the head. I mean, seriously, do they really think about it?

My favorite statistic on "green power" came from my father-in-law (a full professor of agricultural engineering) who pointed out that enough wind+tide power to run the electrical demands of the United States would literally kill the trade winds entirely, in terms of efficiency vs. wattage available to be extracted.

Granted, I'm doubly in favor of nuclear power precisely because I live two hours away from "the biggest nuclear plant accident in the US", namely, Three Mile Island. Knowing what I know about THAT (and everything I need to know is summed up by "the plant is still operating and producing power for south-central PA") makes me wonder what the big deal is.

I dunno if I made it clear enough I thought "Earth Hour" was pretty much a joke--either you're for conservation and you conserve all the time, or you're not and one hour of change will not do jack.

I've been cutting back my electricity use as much as possible for a while now anyway, but living in central PA I have a disproportionately high carbon/pollutant footprint (stupid coal power) per kilowatt.

Having lived in a former coal strip-mining town that is obviously a former coal strip-mining town I tend to be a bit sensitive about that particular environmental issue.

I'm pretty picky about pillows and I abuse mine shamefully, but these days I get the extra-thick "for people who sleep on their side" pillows from Target for about $10, they last me a year or so which is still better than most pillows I've tried.

This. Metroid Prime 3 is entirely too awesome.

(for that matter Prime and Prime 2 were the first console FPS I've ever actually been able to play without wanting to punch myself in the wang.)

I agree--and I also think my lawyer friend must have had a braino when he typed "attainder" instead of "ex post facto".

Saying first outright that I'm not impressed by the proposed tax changes to take the bonuses back, I was discussing this with a tax lawyer on another forum and his opinion was that it wasn't a bill of attainder since they have not yet paid taxes on that income and functionally it's no different than any other tax code changes that are enacted in mid 2009 to apply to income made in early 2009 and on taxes filed in 2010.

If I'm in one of AIG's still-profitable groups, like life insurance or whatever, there's no question that I'd keep it.

If on the other hand I have professional or personal guilt over poor performance, even if I'm a low-level employee (say I'm a salesman for sub-prime mortgages who sold a record number of them or something) I might well find myself feeling personally and professionally obligated to give the money either back or to charity (on the grounds that the mechanical bonus for my success in selling X contracts doesn't change the fact that my company is in hock partially because they all defaulted)

...my wife just started playing WoW.

Nice to see some folks return to the fold, although like the man above I can't remember why I friended you. =)

Funding for high school courses in firearms safety and marksmanship, and civics courses focused on gun ownership and the legal use of deadly force.

Again, the federal government should have nothing to do with education. At best the federal government should stay out of it.

In fact, when I was in high school, Pennsylvania offered free optional, after-school courses on hunting safety (and firearms safety as encompassed by that rubric) to high school students over age 11ish every year. This is probably one of the better ways to do it (especially as PA requires that course for a hunting license to be issued).

Cons: Not for anyone over 12, unless they took the short bus to school, or are TOTALLY trashed || bombed :-/

I find my group of friends uses this when someone wants to have a game on but most of us just want to talk--it's a pretty decent "background noise" game.

Except at New Years Eve, when your latter con applies, and you have a dozen people giggling because someone said the Dry Bones character portrait looks like he's gonna grab your balls.

Take this with a grain of salt, because I liked Twilight Princess (which has some pretty fun set pieces once you get out of the cutscene-heavy stuff--the duels on the bridges and the defend-the-cart-on-horseback scene are both favorites of mine because the horse archery works way better than Ocarina's did).

Boom Blox and De Blob are both a lot of quick, zany fun, with the added bonus that Boom Blox will do more for your ability to finely control the Wii remote than any other game because it uses motions you already know how to do in real life (as one of the game modes is essentially Jenga).

I can't get enough of Metroid Prime 3.

Mario Kart is kinda fun but I find it very hard to steer to the extremes consistently while holding the controller in midair.

I'm fairly sure the Guitar Hero series is much better supported on the Wii than the Rock Band series, and GH3/World Tour are both a lot of fun with some rocking set lists.

Oh, and the Strong Bad DLC games are a heck of a lot of point/click fun for $10 per.

Things I hated:

Any minigame collection.
Metal Slug Collection (needs better controls)