Valve Software, makers of the Half-Life series, will soon release a new set of games set in that universe, called The Orange Box. The most intriguing element of this, for me, is a game called Portal. The game equips you with a special gun that can create teleportation holes at will. What does that mean? Allow them to demonstrate:

You may have heard about the ludicrous legal victory recently handed to the Recording Industry Association of America in their ongoing witch hunt pursuit of justice against illegal file sharing.

The industry claims that file sharing is killing its business. Maybe so. But I think there’s another factor at work. To illustrate my point, I’ve created a helpful chart showing the increased crap level of the output of the recording industry from the years 1991 to 2007. It is also available as a PDF.