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For those of you who are familiar with your Roman history, today is referred to as the “Ides Of March.” In spirit of the bad omens that haunted Caesar before his murder, lets go over some creepy and big news items that happened today.

First and foremost, Sony finally made a public apology for the mess that has been their PR machine. To clear up any and all confusion, they held a conference to let all developers know exactly what they are planning, minus some details. You can read the full report made by 1up as they posted during the event. Most notably, they dispelled the rumors about the online service (supposedly will be free from launch), the required HDD with every unit (pre-installed Linux, sweeeeeet), the back-library downloads, PSP emulation and downloads of PS1 games, the shifted November launch date (damn DRM), and the PSP updates (price drop and EyeToy camera). Finally, something concrete from the world’s most powerful video game company. It’s too bad they blew their load before E3 because that leaves only Nintendo to steal the show. One thing I would like to note, I’m glad that Sony decided to include an HDMI interface in all of that time while waiting for BD to finalize.

Then I saw this article on Kotaku about the Twilight Princess debacle. In case you haven’t been following, there’s been much speculation as to whether or not Twilight Princess will be a Revolution game or Gamecube game. Shiggy announced today that it will have some awesome Revomote support. I’m looking forward to my arm getting tired after long gaming sessions.

It was also discovered today that Vista, Microsoft’s fifth major version of their OS, will not make heavy use of their .Net platform. Sounds a bit hypocritical if you ask me, but what can you expect from an OS that is going to be 3+ gigs, have few applications to boot, and have insane hardware requirements.

Apparently, shredding your documents is not enough anymore. Thank god the US government provides my employer with “burn barrels” (documents that need burning).

At what point can we expect a Terminator like scenario to take place now that the US government has decided to use robots to harm, or preferrably kill, humans? I for one welcome our new robotic overloads.

Lastly, in a shocking move, Amazon has shifted to unbelievable webhosting. For just $0.15 a month, you can have 1GB of Amazon storage. You will access this storage via SOAP and bittorrent. This is just freakin ridiculous. I can’t wait until they build a linux filesystem based on this setup.

I also wanted to point outa few stories that caught my eye but did not appear today (yesterday actually). First, there’s the world’s largest video game collection. This guy looks like he either has a rather large inheritence or is addicted to games like a true heroin addict. Then there’s the PSP Spot that was found in a train station in Tokyo. Take a close look at that picture. What freaking subway looks like that??? Where’s the homeless man deficating in the corner? Where the booze and bodily fluid stains on the floor? Too bad New York is not this clean. Lastly, Shiggy was knighted in France. Wow, “Sir Shiggy.” Rock on JumpMan!