A demo of the game was released yesterday. Looks like the naysayers were right. The game sucks. Sonic is a great 2D platform game that can never seem to make the transition to 3D. I'm still careening off ledges at the slightest touch of the joystick and "homing" right in on empty space and my death because of the silly attack system. I'm really disappointed.

Ah well, I'll just be playing more Lego Star Wars II. That's a really fun game.

This one, however, is different. It manages to do away with the electoral college without actually changing the constitution. Rather, it's an attempt to get individual states to direct their elector voters to vote however the majority of Americans do, regardless of the outcome in their particular state. Surprisingly, a bill to do just that is already waiting for Schwarzenegger's signature, having passed the California legislature.

I like the idea, and it's interesting, they don't actually need all 50 states to agree to it for it to become feasible.

What amazes me is the margin of failure. Right now it's sitting at 49.98% for and 50.02% against. With the number of ballots cast, that works out to a margin of one person. Personally I'm hoping there are some uncounted mail-in ballots out there. Time will tell, I guess.

Well, it appears the game is coming to a close, and players of the game have been able to piece together the clues that it offered. If you're like me, you can enjoy the fruits of their labors just by watching the video below. It answers a few questions you might have from watching the show, but it leaves tons of questions open, and of course raises new questions.

Okay, it's a silly "holiday". I'm mostly curious if anyone's ever actually heard of this before the Wikipedia article was created 2 months ago. Or perhaps it's someone's cute attempt to create a holiday through Wikipedia.

This is the long-waited version that can record HD programming from a cable source. It's also something I've been looking forward to.

Sadly, I think it's going to be a while till I get one. It looks like a great toy, but it's hardly something that's an impulse buy at $800 dollars, or over a thousand if you want to include pre-paid service. I'm sure it won't take too long for me to get fed up with watching standard-def programming on a pretty HD TV, and willing to spend that much money, but that time hasn't quite come yet.

I ran across a new stat site, Baseball Race that lets you view a season's worth of games with the teams racing across to victory. It's disheartening to watch the AL West for this year and watch the Mariners struggle to keep ahead of the ominous "eliminate" line. I'll just have to watch the 2001 season.

It's really just one episode split up into little web-sized pieces, but it's still nice to have some new Battlestar Galatica episodes to wet my appetite.

Once I have some free time and get this all figured out, you can look forward to seeing Scott Seligman's Quackers coming to an Xbox 360 near you :)

Since I'm busy at work shipping the next great product, you'll just have to be patient with my delays. In the meantime, enjoy our latest episode of Fantasy Football Lounge.

What is the Dissenting Pebble?