It appears that Microsoft has released beta performance, compatibility and reliability update packs fo Microsoft Windows Vista this week.

You can find the details of the releases, as well as download links, at The Hotfix Share Portal.

The above poster comes courtesy of Chris’s Invincible Super-Blog, and yes, it really is a movie about Japanese school girl crime fighting with Yo-Yos.

Unfortunately, while there seem to be a number of good scenes according to Chris’s review of the movie, it doesn’t hold up to the original.

Yes, that’s right, not only is this a movie about Japense school girl crime fighting with Yo-Yos, it’s actually the SECOND movie about Japanese school girl crime fighting with Yo-Yos.

MIND: OFFICIALLY BLOWN.

If you’ve been to your local Best Buy this week, you may have noticed signs advertising Geek Squad’s IdeaFestival, an online contest being held to find submissions for, as the site puts it, “novel solutions for some of the world’s sustainability problems” using technology.

There are a number of entries already in categories such as “E-Waste”, “Power Conservation” and “Untapped Resources”, but anyone can submit their ideas for the possibility of winning a trip down to the “2007 IdeaFestival” in Louisville, Kentucky to work with a number of well-known thinkers on expanding their submissions.

When it was first announced that Robert Downey Jr would be playing the hero Tony Stark in the upcoming Iron Man, many were skeptical until the first leaked photos from the set made their way onto the Internet.

This footage, shown at Comic Con 2007, only serves to seal the deal.