Ok, technically it’s $199, but Amazon is currently offering a $25 gift card when you buy a Nintendo Wii, which you can then use towards extra controllers, games, etc. It’s really quite a good deal. Not only that, but they are actually in stock. Back when I bought mine in Jan 08, they would routinely sell out within 15 minutes of getting more stock on Amazon.

Excellent games I’ve played and can recommend: Super Mario Galaxy, Mario Kart Wii, Rock Band 2, and Dokapon Kingdom

So apparently ICANN has decided to start allowing people to purchase new Top Level Domains. Existing ones are things like .com, .net, .info, .biz, and so forth. They are going to charge a hefty $100,000 for the privilege however. Personally I think it’s a terrible idea, and it’s just a plot to make some quick money on their part. Anyway, my buddy guesses there will be 950 vanity TLDs registered in the first auction (where a vanity TLD being one that refers to a company, person, organization) I say that’s way too high, I’d be surprised if there were over a hundred.

The Intel X25-M SSD is pretty much the fastest on the market. You can buy it by clicking here:

Intel X25-M Mainstream 80 GB SATA 2.5-Inch MLC Solid State Disk (SSD) SSDSA2MH080G1C5

Check out this benchmark at anandtech.com, especially the random write performance. It completely blows away the competition.

I’ve made some hand-rolled rss feeds, which display the comic images inline. Handy for reading the comics directly from your feed-reader, without having to click through to the site. (Useful if you have many comics and like to read them all at once)

http://davr.org/rss/tfd.php — Toothpaste For Dinner RSS

http://davr.org/rss/pbf.php — Perry Bible Fellowship RSS

And here are the other comics feeds already created by others, which I also subscribe to:

http://plasticboy.com/cgi-bin/doonesbury-rss.cgi – Doonesbury

http://www.ieatpaint.com/feeds/foxtrot.php – Foxtrot

http://feeds.feedburner.com/tapestrydilbert – Dilbert

http://www.xkcd.com/rss.xml – XKCD

http://www.serversys852.com/tudza/vgcats.rdf.xml – VG Cats

You can find fake anything in Asia these days it seems.

I didn’t know Sony made ipod knockoffs as well: