I don't know if this is what happened with you, but there seems to be a bug in the game now related to the daily BG quests. It is somehow related to completing the daily BG quest, logging out and back in, and having your estimated honor display the 419 honor (at 70) from the daily quest multiple times. When the honor is calculated the next day, it only counts the daily quest honor once, so you could have thousands of bogus honor being displayed from that quest rather than from diminishing returns.

But I agree, get rid of diminishing returns in BGs, give us more honor.

Jothie, there's a comments section for the purpose of expressing one's like or dislike of an article or interview. Blogs are great because they have a way of providing instant feedback to the bloggers. The Web wouldn't be a marketplace of ideas if only the people who liked a particular post commented. Mel had every right to air his dissatisfaction with the interview, and I agree with him that the interview was weak and amateurish. The last section with the small talk not only made Joel seem sycophantic, but it also seemed to me that Kristen Bell was uncomfortably humoring him to be polite.

Erik: You can add a spouse and then change his gender to whatever you want under "edit info." It just starts out with the opposite gender, but you can change it.

There's also "extra special content" that you can access by taking the two bottles that are next to the plant and holding them over the plant so they drip into it. I'm not sure the combination, but after I dripped a bit of green and red into the plant, it grew, and I got a link to that "extra special content" which is a page of notes about the book I guess.

I love Viva Piñata, it's the reason I bought an Xbox 360. It just looks so great and there are always new things to do and discover, it seems like more of an exploration game than anything else. There aren'tmany games that reward trying everything as much as VP.

I would totally use this. Also, about google as a cult, you're spot on. And I think you might be a member, 6 of the last 7 posts on Download Squad are about Google.

What about the one big advantage that Blu-Ray has? The PS3. Chances are, this christmas the PS3 will be the hot ticket item. That will give Blu-Ray an in home presence at a time when mostly early adopters would be buying.

24.5 and i'm happy. Darn black outside walls. DeathX (#3,4) were you playing for 2 hours between those posts? lol

How about "Living a lifetime inside someone's mind" I can only think of that TNG episode and the recent 4400, but it still seems like a cliche.

I think Optoma is more well known for projectors. I heard good stuff about them when I was shopping for my projector. Maybe they're just getting into rear projection TVs and having growing pains.