Thursday... Halfway done...

    All the stars aligned at work Wednesday night, and I was able to get a head start on Friday's blog. (Thursday's was already in the pipe to autopost after midnight.) It's the weird time-warping nature of my blogging that a lot of stuff happens between the inception of a Vent and its publication, so forgive me if the info here is out of date. 

    Got a really, really sweet email from Effie, my Sunday dinner companion. Today, brought an email from another online contact. So, this probably the busiest I've ever been socially, without having an actual 'date' yet! Moving on...

• More on Call of Duty: Black Ops 'Dead Ops' mode.
• Call of Duty: Black Ops edited for Japanese audience.

• EA CEO: Medal of Honor 'is a franchise once again'. Guess quality isn't all that important when you sell a million units per week.
• Dead Space 2 'Ring around the Rosie' trailer.
• How Valve will bribe Team Fortress 2 players into playing poker.
• Kinect's first purchasers talk about camping out, the Kinect's potential.
• GameStop announces nationwide Kinect events.
• Kinect 'will be sold out' a lot, says Ubisoft.
• Microsoft ups Kinect's estimate to 5 million.

• How Earth may owe its life to comets.
• Scientists gear up to observe recreation of Big Bang at Large Hadron Collider.
• Scientists invent 'toughest body armor ever'.
• Most obvious article headline ever: Scientists think Ozzy Osbourne is a mutant, genes may hold key to his survival during drug-addled lifetime.
• Organic onions, potatoes, and carrots do not have higher levels of anti-oxidants than non-organic.