Yeah people seem to seriously over estimate the interest in these things.  Personally I couldn't give a flying fuck about them but I can see how some people might be interested in tinkering around with them.

Beyond that though, they really don't have the value that these people seem to be placing on them.  I still get a laugh that secret squirrel games continue to go on.  "GNR lawyers", "stopping progres of hundereds of other songs" blah blah blah.  I am sure the only people that care are the dozen or so egg heads that are directly involved in trying to lie, cheat and steal each other out of these things.  Outside of them the rest of the world don't care!

If you've got em then just dump em onto the forums then move on with your life.  If they appear that's great some people will enjoy listening and playing with them.  But if they don't nobody is gonna lose any sleep over it.

Yeah when I read that tweet it sounded to me like DJ was the one that acted like the biggest dick out of the situation.

So the guy was rude that still doesn't warrant throwing your beer bottle at him.  If you don't like the service LEAVE, or make a complaint to his manager. 

I hope he felt like a big man afterwards.  I would imagine the bartender was fired because the guy from GNR said he was rude - no further questions asked by his managers.  Nice work, you just used your position/influence to cost a guy his job, because he was apparently rude.  Lets hope he doesn't have a family that was relying on that income.

I have actually now finished reading the first two books and have just started the third.  I didn't realise it wasn't out in the US yet.  We had friends over from Norway staying with us and I think they bought them for me presumably at the airport at Heathrow since there is a pound price tag on the book.  I'm not sure if the third one is out yet in Australia either.

I heard they were doing a US version of the Dragon Tattoo.  I was also told that the existing movie versions of the Dragon Tattoo don't even give you the option for an English subtitle, which seems a bit strange.

I enjoyed both of the first two books and read them really quickly which is unusual for me.  I did find that Steig Larsson at times is overly descriptive with things, he explains the setting or actions of the characters down to the minutest almost irrelevant detail.  I also struggle to keep track of who some of the minor characters are since the Swedish names don't resonate with me and then they will switch between using their first name and second name - coupled with the fact that there are so many damn characters!!!

I am into the third book now and interested to see how it all finishes.  From reading the books they seem as if they lend themselves well to a movie of each so I will be interested to see how the US version of Dragon Tattoo works.

Yeah you gotta try and get in to it somehow Monkeychow!!  I got no hope over this side of the country.

Metallex78 are you also in Melbourne?