Engadget has a pretty good chart up about the benefits of Microsoft's Windows Vista versus Apple's OS X Leopard.

Even more amusing is the comments that are coming because of that chart, with the different fanboy fractions warring about bluescreens and gaming support and other crap. Check it out.

So when I went to go get Leopard yesterday at my local mall, I decided to go hit up the food court to get some food, as I hadn't eaten that day. I wanted a cheese steak from the Great Steak And Potato Company, but my friend really, really wanted to eat at Subway. And, since Subway just started advertising that they're selling cheese steaks, I figured I'd give it a shot... a win for everyone, right?

Not so much.

First of all, the steak was cold in the middle; I'm not talking slightly chilled, here, I'm talking "I-think-I-just-bit-into-ice" cold. This was, of course, after having the sandwich toasted. Secondly, the steak was seasoned weird, half-salty and half-disgusting, with a texture the likes of which could best be compared to one of those rice cakes people eat when they're on a diet. Finally, and least of my worries, there was nowhere near enough cheese on it.

I got halfway through my foot long sandwich (what can I say? I'm persistent.) and couldn't take it anymore. I got up, went across the food court to the Great Steak And Potato Company counter, and ordered myself another cheese steak.

While I was ordering, the lady asked me if I wanted to make my sandwich a combo; having just gotten a bag of chips and a large drink from Subway, I told her that I wasn't really interested in doing so, but thanked her none the less. Especially since, on a normal day, she wouldn't have had to ask... the fries there are fantastic, and everyone should get some. She looked at me for a moment, smiled, and said, "You just came from Subway, didn't you?"

I looked at her, slack-jawed, and told her that I had. Apparently, enough people have hated this sandwich that they come running to her counter, looking to replenish the love of cheese steaks that Subway had done their best to kill. Astonished, I took my cheese steak, ate it, and went on my merry way.

Let this be a lesson to you all: don't eat the cheese steak at Subway. Don't get me wrong, I do love me some Subway, and will probably eat it for lunch at some point this week, but their cheese steak sandwich is to be avoided at all costs.

Your stomach will thank me later.

...my super-sexy review of OS X 10.5

And, if things work out, maybe a video I've been thinking of making that might be slightly funnier than a papercut. We'll see how that works out.

Anyone who knows me knows that I've been getting kinda pissed at Google lately; ever since I scored myself an iPhone, I've had to route my mail through another server so I could use IMAP, a type of mail-server setting that allows you to read mail directly from the server, which prevents you from having to mark mail read or delete it over and over and over and over and... well, you get the idea. It's a great way to keep all your mail-fetching devices in sync, and since I have several computers plus the iPhone, it's very handy for me.

GMail, however, didn't support IMAP... it used the old, crappy POP server standard, which means that the mail is downloaded to your computer from the server directly, forcing you to have to go through the same mail constantly. Which, when you get as much mail as I do, is a nightmare.

However, when waiting for an e-mail tonight, I happened to pop into my GMail settings to find something quite impressive: the section that deals with forwarding mail and POP access was renamed "Forwarding and POP/IMAP."

This has made me quite the happy guy, and doesn't seem to have been widely noticed yet across the internet, so it looks like I done got myself some breaking news here. Yahoo!!

I mean that as a cheer of happiness, of course, not as a plug of some other site that may have offered IMAP access for a while. Nope. Not me.

The new version of OS X, Leopard, will be hitting store shelves October 26th.

Cue eD! squealing like a girl in three... two... one...

Marvel Comics released an image yesterday of the cover to the upcoming Captain America #34, featuring art by Alex Ross. For the few of you who aren't aware, Captain America (or, more specifically, Steve Rogers) was killed by an assassin in #25, so by the time this issue hits, the title will have been free of anyone calling themselves "Captain America" for nine issues.

Now, my initial thoughts were that this redesign was the dumbest thing in the history of the character; Steve Rogers doesn't need a gun, or a knife, nor would he wear black with some stupid chrome pajama-top. Of course, the issue with that was that I was assuming it was Steve Rogers under the mask, which, as I discovered several hours later (and hoped that I would discover, hence why I waited to post this), was wrong. While we still don't know for sure who it is (although smart money is on Bucky Barns, Cap's once-dead-then-brainwashed-USSR-assassin-now-no-longer-brainwashed sidekick), it certainly makes the whole ugly outfit a little less difficult to deal with.

And, from one of the other images that was sent with the press release, it looks like this Cap carries a canteen. Which, of course, is pretty sweet.

You can check out an interview with Alex Ross and Captain America writer Ed Brubaker on Newsarama here for more info on the costume change.

The internet has been aflutter with news of a gentleman in Georgia who's iPod Nano, sitting comfortably in his pocket, went on fire, shooting flames up to his chest.  Apple has offered to replace the Nano for him, which is cool, since I doubt the guy would really appreciate his MP3 player extra-crispy.

Check out the full news article here.

Hey, gang. I'm the internet's eD! Thomas, and I'd like to welcome you all to my new site.

"But, eD!," you say to yourself, hopefully not out loud so that other people think you're nuts, "what happened to eD! The Musical? Why give up on that? Are you seriously going to make me change my bookmarks, you inconsiderate bastard?"

Well, see, here's what happened: I've been bogged down with work, and school, and that little "social life" thing you may have heard about, so I haven't been able to update eTM as much as I would have liked. Not only that, but going back through old posts to see how much I've changed as a writer has been equal parts encouraging and intimidating; I've gone from an idiot who can barely string a sentence together to an idiot who could string a sentence together, and constantly going back and editing 500+ posts was a chore. So, I figured I might as well give myself a clean start, and hopefully not have to do this branding-switch again for another decade or so.

And, no, you don't have to worry; all the same useless, snarky crap you used to find on eTM about technology, pop-culture, and other crap that makes me giggle like a schoolgirl will be here, too. It'll be good times.