Listen, I hate Microsoft just like the rest of you.  Really.  I mean, they produce mid-level products at crazy prices.  Their service is piss poor, they hate you, they worship satan.  I know all this.

But I just installed Vista Ultimate SP1 on my crappy Gateway laptop, and…uh…well, it’s pretty good.  In fact, I don’t regret moving away from XP at all.  And the crazy thing works great now.  It hibernates good, resumes good, all my software has been working fine…

And to put the Apple Fanboy Spin on it, it looks pretty decent as well.

I’m more shocked than you that I’m giving WIndows Vista a good review.  Seriously.  I’m going to go drink some beer and make sure my soul is still here.  Well, if I believed in souls.  But you know what I mean.

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The newest Iron Man trailer is out, and I must say: “It does not suck.”

In fact, I almost think this will be a great movie for Marvel. After they destroyed a past incarnation of The Hulk, finally drove the Spiderman franchise into the ground with the third one (could that movie have sucked any more than it did?) - could they come up a winner with Iron Man? Let’s wait and see.

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Is this a real thing?

I need this Wi-Fi detecting T-Shirt. Unless it’s a hoax.

Check it out over at ThinkGeek.

It’s like the future showed up finally. If only this shirt let you play Halo 3, stored gigs of mp3 files, and updated blogs for you.

Sigh. What can’t science do??

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Jammie Thomas lost her battle in court against the forces of the RIAA. The bill? A whopping $220,000. Jesus christ. Can you imagine paying $9k for any of the “songs” that are out there today? I’d rather actually have Britney babysit my children than pay .99 cents for one of her songs…maybe this court order can keep her in Vodka and McNuggets.

Ok, I wouldn’t let her babysit a stuffed animal, much less my own spawn. Just being funny.

Personally, I’d check out Amazon’s mp3 service. Get the one or two nuggets you want, no DRM, cheap as hell…and then don’t sweat all this lawsuit shit.

Anyway, sadly, you are taking your chances if you are still filesharing music.

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Here at Nerdpocalypse we pride ourselves on our nerdliness. However, we also wouldn’t mind making a few bucks. There are so many tech blogs out there, that we wonder if that is a useful direction to go with the site.

What are your thoughts? I mean, this is a fantastic domain name and it should be put to good use. Do you want to help? Have some ideas? Please drop a comment and let me know.

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