Inside the Battle of Hoth: The Empire Strikes Out: Pretty fantastic analysis of the opening battle from "The Empire Strikes Back".
Nothing Is Coming Up Milhouse In This Simpsons and Spider-Man Mashup: I'm a sucker for Simpsons mashups.
How Valve's Steam Box will reinvent the game console as you know it: I'm pretty excited for video gaming this year. While I don't know if the Steam console is going to be a hit, I am damn curious about it, and will be checking it out.
HP to Cut 1,100 Jobs in German Enterprise Services Unit: I actually visited this EDS site in 2005. It's a shame to hear of it's closing.
The Future According To Google's Eric Schmidt: Some interesting prognostication, although I'm not sure that I agree with his crack on Twitter.
Apple Is Said to Be Developing a Curved-Glass Smart Watch: While I'm not really keen on a watch, this paragraph jumped out at me:
"In a meeting in his office before he died, Steven P. Jobs, Apple’s co-founder and former chief executive, told John Markoff of The New York Times that if he had more energy, he would have liked to take on Detroit with an Apple car."
An Apple car — can you imagine that? That would have been crazy...Ferris Bueller's Bedroom: Pretty thorough breakdown of Ferris Bueller's bedroom. (via John Siracusa on Twitter)
Path promises fix for grabbing geolocation data from photos: Path seems to be showing really poor judgement, but I agree with Ars — Apple needs to do better here.