• Hiya folks. Apologies in advance for the downtime, some of it was our fault, some our provider’s fault, but a lot of it stemmed from our security preparations for the millionth hit contest (see below). The prize is just too cool for us to mess it up, so we want to make sure that everyone has an honest, fair shot at it.

E-Mail also went down for almost a day, which explains the delay with some of these scoops as well as getting back to you. There’s a ton of stuff to talk about today, naturally, and we’ll be gone tomorrow in line waiting for Star Wars tickets, so we’re going to get to as much as we can here.

Unfortunately, there will be no unveiling of the millionth hit contest today, due to a few more minor problems we want to work out. We just want to make sure the bugs are worked out before we let the information out. Hopefully we’ll have that for you tomorrow. In the meantime, there’s PLENTY to talk about, including ANOTHER contest, so read on: