• Local Vista pricing announced
  For consumers, the price of a basic full package edition is $385. The premium version comes in at $455.
  (tags: windows/vista)
• Mozilla Firefox 2 Release Candidate 2 Available
  (tags: Mozilla/Firefox)
• EcoGeek - Technology for the Environment - Eighty Year Old Saved Us $800 Billion
  Refrigerators used to consume 2000 kilowatt-hours per year, now they use 450 kwh. Windows used to let in every ounce of heat that hit them, now the reflect the majority of infra-red light. Light bulbs used to be made of white-hot tungsten, now they’re mad
  (tags: Energy environment Science)
• D&D Chess Set
  Classic D&D dragons are highly detailed in the playing pieces which move atop a chessboard crafted in a walnut finish. Variations on the rules of chess give this collector’s set an even greater D&D feel.
  (tags: Chess D&D)

Via ValleyWay: Google will launch a source code search engine tonight

Google will launch a search engine for source code tonight, but journalists informed of the launch agreed to a press embargo until 9 PM.

Well, it’s live right now.  The homepage has a list of possible searches, with full regular expression support.  You can limit to only one language too using the lang: prefix, e.g. lang:”c#”. As you can see from the 1st result, it’s not perfect.  Pretty nice though.  It’s also really funny to see what people put into their comments:

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• Rooster Teeth · Season Five Is Alive
  RedVsBlue season 5 is open for business!
  (tags: Halo RedVsBlue)
• forums.halowars.com - Halo Wars Announced
  Ensemble Studios, the creators of the Age of Empires series, is bringing real-time-strategy to the Xbox 360 and to the Halo Universe. W00T!
  (tags: Halo Games/Xbox xbox360)

• 10 Steps to Guarantee You Make the Digg Front Page
  Great, great post. Educational, & slaps pretty much everyone in the process.
  (tags: Advertising Blogging Humour Internet SEO)
• Rolling Stone : The Hopeless Stupidity of 9/11 Conspiracies
  I challenge a 9/11 Truth leader like Loose Change writer Dylan Avery to come up with a detailed, complete summary of the alleged plot — not the bits and pieces, but the whole story, put together — that would not make any fifth grader anywhere burst out laughing.
  (tags: 9-11 Terrorisim Conspiracies politics Crime)
• Newsboys | Go
  yay! New Newsboys album coming soon
  (tags: Newsboys Christian music)
• Google Page Rank Update
  Google has updated it’s page rank. Drive.com.au has dropped a notch, still (equal) first in the Australian industry
  (tags: SEO Google PageRank)
• Wired News: It Is ‘One Small Step for a Man’
  An Australian computer programmer says he found the missing “a” from Armstrong’s famous first words from the moon in 1969, when the world heard the phrase, “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.”
  (tags: Science/Astronomy Moon History)
• Lyrics Plugin
  Lyrics Plugin is a piece of software tailored for music fans. To put it simply - it is an add-on to view lyrics in WinAmp or Windows Media Player. No more searching for lyrics. Just start listening to your favourite songs and lyrics will be displayed auto
  (tags: Audio plugin Music Downloads)
• Google Sightseeing » Post Archive » Ribcage and Cheesestick
  As visitors to Melbourne travel along the city’s new CityLink motorway, they’re confronted by 39 giant red poles lining the road, and an enormous yellow pillar tilted precariously over the traffic below.
  (tags: Melbourne Google Maps Photos)
• Maxtor brand to live on as Seagate’s value line
  The Maxtor brand name will continue to live on under the Seagate umbrella, Seagate announced today. Seagate will use the Maxtor DiamondMax brand for a line of lower-end desktop hard drives
  (tags: harddrives technology)