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Short Circuit (unearthed by jay is games) is both brilliant and disturbingly annoying. I totally love games that use interactive music.

“What’s the Secret Sauce in Ruby on Rails?” BURNSAUCE!

“Calvaire”: 7/10. So … It’s about this crooner and a bunch of lunatic hicks … And um … Yeah, I dunno. It’s just weird. Damn socialist Walloons. Too poor to come up with an actual storyline.

Well, it figures: I spoke too soon. When there are a bunch of black and white pixels on a single line, the panel goes berserk with nauseating scan lines. It only happens with DVI, but I’m sure as hell not going to hook a 20″ LCD monitor up with VGA—not permanently anyway. I emailed the store, asking if it might have something to do with my Asus V9520 Video Suite card, and I’ll see what happens. I’d definitely be reluctant to trade in the monitor or get a new video card, but I won’t use VGA permanently either. Ideally, it would be a problem with this particular monitor and I would just return it, but I doubt that. Bah.

I just installed my new ViewSonic VX2025wm and I love it. The only downsides I’ve encountered so far are the ones I was aware of: no height adjustment, and a bit greenish grays; the former is easily corrected since it tilts, and the latter is a matter of tweaking the colors to your liking. While the panel reveals a pleasant tranquility, the colors it produces are vivid and CRT-like. And finally, after an elaborate test, I was not able to find any dead pixels. Awesome. I was sceptical towards LCDs, but this one’s a keeper.