Jonah Goldberg manages to perfectly encapsulate Newt pre-debate:

Newtzilla is a different kind of kaiju (Japanese for "strange beast" or "giant monster") but not that different. Like Godzilla, Newtzilla has remarkable healing powers, allowing him to recover from charges that he wanted an open marriage and that he parasitically fed on Freddie Mac.

It's worth a read. The debate tonight showed that Newtzilla can actually dance with the punches, absorb plenty of tank-fire, and oddly enough, even withhold snapping back with his trademark atomic breath.

But for how long?

Check out the graphs from twitter for the last debate.

Time to switch? The technorati are saying yes:

I just switched the default search engine in my browser from Google to Bing. And if you care about working efficiently, or getting the right results when you search, then maybe you should too. Don't laugh!

It all boils down to Google attempt to force "google+" on everyone. As someone who rarely (around every 8 months) pops up onto facebook, I'm not too concerned with Google+, but altering search results to push the service over twitter (which I use about once a week) does seem like a bad idea.

Truly amazing news: Dave Cutler is working on Xbox development.

What's next? Mark Russinovich working on Intune? Bill Gates popping back up to do some coding for Microsoft HealthVault? Ballmer rehiring Ray Ozzie to pitch the next wave for Office?

So what about Cutler? He’s earned the right to do basically whatever he wants at Microsoft. And word is that “whatever” has something to do with the future of Xbox.

Since the Xbox is based on NT, the possibilities are cool to imagine.

Wikipedia went dark today to protest SOPA. Good for them!