links for 2009-10-23

And yet, thanks to a piece of genius lateral thinking by an alert reader, World Of Stuart is proud beyond words to announce that Email X-COM has been saved.

Starting with the debut of Windows 3.1 in 1992, Microsoft added startup and shutdown sounds to its operating systems, and now you can take a trip down memory lane with this video, hearing them all in one place. Jeez, Windows 7 sure has come a long way.