Out of touch?

If, as you say, the predecessor was "apparently well-received", then how are they "out of touch'? Clearly there is a niche market for these 小さい mobes, and recognising it as a niche they're producing a limited 12,000 run. It's obviously not a mobe designed to cater for the mass market.

Paris, because she may be the target buyer.

Reinventing the wheel

This is what MUBI is for. It's already out there, is already streaming movies that aren't available on DVD, is already helping to give independent film makers a platform, already has a console client (PS3) and can also be watched through any Flash enabled browser. So what is this guy doing that MUBI isn't already doing better?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUBI

Good news but not unexpected

"Lync is a relatively new product line for Microsoft, having been launched in November 2010 as a replacement for Office Communicator and Office Communications Server."

It's not really a new product though, is it? It's essentially not much more than a rebranding of Communicator - many of the tools used to manage it still refer to it as Office Communicator (the .adm, for example, last time I looked). So it's essentially been around since 2007.

Not really a surprising announcement this. IIRC Lync has interoperability with Live Messenger, so if that's being phased out to be replaced with Skype, it's only natural they'd have to provide the same functionality.

That's easy for you to say

Are the names of the researchers also encrypted?

Burnt by PLAY

Sorry Sony, I'm a long time fanboi but my 'xperience' with the PLAY has put my off ever buying another Xperia. Poor build quality (the volume button fell off in my pocket); unacceptably small internal memory (I think the 'Low on Space' icon is burned in to my screen); the Xperia PC Suite is useless (connecting the phone wirelessly is next to impossible, using Media Go to transfer music for some reason takes hours when performing the same transfer with the phone connected as storage only takes minutes; the software interferes with my Bluetooth mouse - even when the phone isn't connected, to name a few of the problems); and the final straw is the about turn on ICS. I can't believe I can't upgrade the OS on a phone that only came out towards the end of last year.

Style over substance.

PIPE! PIPE! PIPE!

Pedantic, but it's a simple pipe. It looks like a pipe, and in three of the screenshots it even says WEAPONS: PIPE.

STOP CALLING IT A BLOODY CROWBAR!!1

This isn't Gordon Freeman.

I'm glad I wasn't the only person who found the controls difficult. I missed the game when it first came out but bought it a few years later as a budget re-release. It was fun, but the patting your head while rubbing your tummy control style spoiled a lot of the enjoyment for me.

Orange blobs in Liverpool?

You can see them every weekend down Mathew Street, usually with bad bleach jobs.

CAPS LOCK IS CRUISE CONTROL FOR AWESOME

What happened to a sense of humour? He even writes "BECAUSE MY CAPS LOCK KEY IS LOUD!!!!!!!!!". It's a tongue in cheek rant. There's humour in that post and everything he's saying about Twitter is correct.

That said, he fell off after Late Registration.