What's the over/under on the length of time before the labels switch back to 99 cent pricing? I'm going to guess about 3 weeks.

Roughly the amount of time it took to pull Tropicana out of its nosedive. Yes, music industry; 99 cents per song is (was) your brand.

One hippo, all alone, misses the other forty four.

I read this and thought it would make a fantastic replacement for chapter 1 of The Hobbit.

Sadly, I think Smaug's Encounter With Forty-Four Hippos would have gone poorly...

Exhibit A; this happened yesterday:
http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2009/02/1-dead-2-wounded-in-southeast-side-shooting.html

I suppose if anything, the *two* cameras installed at that corner might make it easier to catch the guy who decided to gun down a 13, 15 and 17 year old with an assault rifle. But I would surprised if any public official still makes the claim of deterrence.

Realistically, even if all the MS stores did was set up an XBox corner and drove traffic to it by hosting a continuous Halo tournament, that would be a success.

Microsoft should focus on what works really well in these stores; the 360 is one of those things.

"25 States allow anyone to buy a gun, strap it on, and walk down the street with no permit of any kind: some say it's crazy. However, 4 out of 5 U.S. murders are committed in the other half of the country: so who is crazy?" - Andrew Ford

Is this because 4 out of 5 people live in the 25 states where you do need a permit?

Everything you do pisses everyone off, equally!

Really, I'm just withholding comment until some form of long-term context is established.

Seriously, he's on the record for changing all of the above. Obviously he can't turn around the health care system with the same speed as you can reallocate TARP funds, but given the competent people at important positions in the government, I can safely say he's going full speed ahead in all above areas.

Ordinarily, I would complain about the battery, but I have to admit, in almost 10 years of owning Macbooks and Powerbooks, I have never bought a replacement battery.

Which makes me wonder further just how much I should value a user-serviceable battery.

Agree. I can't wait to see where World of Goo goes, a game better than most in 2008 made by a team of... 3.

My wife's the accountant, so I can't comment about Sarbanes-Oxley myself.

Yes, it was after the Wii tipped over the first time that I discovered what the convenient clear plastic disc was for... :-D

I'm not about to re-test the concept, but my Wii once tipped over when it was playing a game, and the disc inside survived. I wouldn't be surprised if there was a little scratch on the disc as a result of that, because it made a nasty high-pitched plastic-on-plastic noise when it did that.

Ditto when I accidentally tip the Macbook when I'm getting up and there's a disc spinning inside of it.

That said, none of the discs in the above two devices were rendered "permanently unplayable" or otherwise unreadable, so the question is, does that make this lawsuit legit?