Merit badges weren't enough incentive?

Right. Got the two mixed up. Thanks for correcting me.

$100 million for 34 million users is a marketing department's wet dream. Screw relaunching the service, someone is going to snatch this up, harvest the user data and close everything down before spaming the living crap out of everyone.

Good work Mr. Murdoch.

We'll probably see him selling the NYT next after the great paywall failure.

Yup. We're officially in another bubble. Yee haw.

The PC Games Industry Alliance was crowing about wanting to have a PC presence at E3 this year. Possibly including a keynote or something. If there's a near complete build of Episode 3 / Source 2 waiting in the wings that seems like a fine time to demonstrate it.

Don't forget they were producing Arkane's The Crossing which ended up being cancelled back in 2009.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crossing_(video_game)

Someone reeks of sour grapes and lame duck.

Last time I checked, Valve hasn't rushed a game out the door and had to do the walk of shame once everyone realized the sad shape the game was in.

Valve is one of those few developers who are in a position to say "When it's done" and take the time to polish/complete the game to the quality standards they set for themselves... and gamers expect. If there's a reason for Ep3/HL3's delay it's because they've been busy with improving the Source engine (or building a new one?), L4D, L4D2 (Brad conveniently disregards L4D2 was 100% Valve), Portal 2, and oh yes, continuing support for TF2.

He also conveniently left out the fact that while they did acquire Turtle Rock (and later let them leave) and a couple of student teams from Digipen, there was still level of involvement from people already at Valve. In particular, Chet and Erik were writing for the Half-Life episodes and were moved onto the L4D and Portal projects.

So.... Facebook?

Welcome back Tech Bubble. How ya been?

Certainly not off the shelf components, but IBM and ATI made a boat load of money off this generation of hardware that's for sure.

Firefox home has the same age rating notice as well. I guess that's Apple's get out of jail free card if you decide to start watching pr0n outside of Safari?

Jeff Atwood hit on this issue in a blog post last year: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/06/url-shorteners-destroying-the-web-since-2002.html