Stuntmutt put together a special Sunday strip to celebrate a fun piece of news – check the One One Se7en page.

There are 8 billion other tidbits in our inboxes (and more on the forum)… but it’s Mother’s Day here in the US, and it’s time to spend some serious quality time with two important mothers in my life – the mother of my children, and the mother of ME – so Halo news is gonna have to wait. Don’t forget to tell your mother you love her. Meantime – one last tidbit today (check the next news post).

Laird noticed a new card for the Halo Graphic Novel at a local comic shop… according to the shop owner, interest is huge. I’m intrigued by the 99 cent preview comic, due out in a couple of weeks – I hadn’t heard about that!

Interesting… Red Leader decided he could hear definite similarities between Siege of Madrigal (a song Marty composed for Myth, and then included in Halo as an easter egg) and Unforgotten (a track on the new Halo 2 Soundtrack Volume 2). He overlaid them, roughly, tweaking the tempo a bit on Siege… but I definitely hear where he’s coming from. See if you agree!

Weekly Fanfic update is a couple of days later than usual, due to E3 and some really unpleasant experiences on airplanes – but it’s up now. 23 new pieces. Go read. (To the two idiots (you know who you are) who wrote to bitch that it wasn’t posted before now – keep a sharp eye on the content you DO submit; there might be some subtle editing in the future. No, not really – I’d never do that – but you guys really are jerks for not even bothering to read the front page to see if there might be a reason the update was delayed. And because of you, i’m instituting a new policy: Fiction updates will continue to be on Friday, unless something comes up that keeps me from being able to post. If the update is NOT on Friday, and someone writes to complain that their piece hasn’t been posted, not only will I delete the piece they’re asking about, but I’ll ban that username from posting to the section again. (This won’t keep you from changing your username, but it WILL stop you from continuing any ongoing series.) Seriously – you guys, as a group, are the biggest PITAs I’ve ever dealt with, anywhere. And that’s my rant for today.)

Home. Exhausted. Crashing. Before I go, though: if you go back and grab the Halo 3 Press Kit from Xbox.com, you’ll find that it’s grown in size from 70 mb to just over 100 – the added space is filled with Master Chief cutouts (the MC with no background image), Halo 3 and Bungie logos, and high-res versions of the storyboards up at Bungie.net. Awesome stuff. Thanks, Deimos. Now, bed…

We picked the winners of the second T-Shirt Raffle tonight at DeanFest 2006; I won’t be able to do anything useful (like send the winners email about their winnings) until late tomorrow or Sunday – at the moment, I’m sitting at LAX, waiting out an incredibly stupid mistake that resulted in my missing my flight home last night, and because of this will be spending an enormous amount of time (and money) traveling in the next day or so – but I thought we could at least post the names of the winners:

Linnea B. Kyle D. Jens H. Jeremy H. Mitchell L.

Laird M. James M. Matt S. Kyle S. Neil W.

Congratulations, to all ten of you; we’ll be letting you know what we need in order to send you your poster soon!

We’re taking a break from DeanFest 2006 to post a pretty cool news tidbit… our very own KP, master of the HBO Forum Banhammer as Badmin and occasional front-page newshound, has found himself a new job. We were fortunate enough to snag a photo of his new workplace (72K) – and if you want more information, check out KP’s forum post about it all. Congrats, KP!

One quick last post, before heading off to DeanFest 2006 – the Weekly Update is posted over at Bungie.net, and it’s a doozy. It might just contain the most real information about a Bungie product, ever. Amazing collection of solid answers. Go read. (And then stop harping on the silly stuff in our forum, and start speculating about the REAL meat!) As always, it’s available in our Bungie Weekly Update Archive, as well.

vivien molia pointed out a new Press Start to Play with a Halo theme – take a look!

Thanks to the sharp of eye of Tempus Fugit, here’s a new set of pics from the Halo Graphic Novel. That art is looking might fine!

Here’s a quick set of pics. More later. We tagged Major Nelson! But I don’t have photo proof yet. He was a great sport about it though, I give the man props!

Stuntmutt explains why the daily dose of corn might be a little understated in today’s One One Se7en.

There’s a story on Macon.com (a Georgia newspaper site) about a couple of local kids gearing up for MLG Dallas. Nice general interest piece.

Rich Wickham, Microsoft’s director of Games for Windows Business, talked to Gamespot about gaming on Windows Vista – there was a little bit of discussion about Halo 2. At this point, it’s undetermined whether Halo 2 players on Xbox 360s will be able to play against Halo 2 players on Windows Vista – the number one priority is making sure the online part of Halo 2 on Vista is fun.

The Curmudgeon Gamer has good things to say about the Halo 3 trailer – even though he doesn’t like Halo. Thanks, 3Suns.