• As we entered 2007, and our TENTH year of bringing you all the latest News Askew on the web, we promised you changes. It’s time for a rebirth, a refresher, a cleanup, and a gut check. We’ve scoured the site and identified lots of places that needed the dust blown off, bug fixes, information updates, and more. Today, we’ve started with our first item — Our News Askew Forums have been reborn with a new, streamlined software and interface.

Here’s the important part — If you haven’t logged in for a while, but would like to keep your account and username, please LOG IN NOW. It’ll just take a sec. If you forgot your password, ask the forum to send it to you by entering in the e-mail you used to register with. Because in around a week, we’re cleaning house to remove the “dead” users, most of which are spambots that managed to get in on the last board. That won’t happen again, we assure you.

The new News Askew Forums (or “NAF”, as the regulars like to call it) represent an open community of fans to discuss the latest stories posted here, as well as chat about other related pop culture items. Our “Anything Goes” board is a fun area where the gang can post about pretty much anything they want. And they’re a great bunch of fans, so dedicated that some take banners around the world to show their love for the forum and the friends they’ve made there.

Remember, this is NOT the View Askew forum – Kevin and the gang do NOT post here or normally read here. To talk to Kevin, register over at the official View Askew Message Boards.

As we spent the day rolling this thing out and cleaning it up, (with thanks to Ming for the on-call support during the day for some much-needed database help), we’ll be back with a full update tomorrow, including new Kevin FM audio, Macworld appearance info, and more. See you then! Enjoy the forum, and watch for future facelifts and enhancements to NAF as the week goes on.