As many of you know, Makestation's custom theme has been a work in progress for several months. The conversion to MyBB didn't start off with the grandest of designs (look at the "landscapes" theme in your User CP, then ignore the broken header to get an idea) and has certainly "progressed" since then.

Anyway, what are your thoughts on the current theme for Makestation? What are some things that you would like to see added/improved to the forum and/or the design?

I'm currently looking for an alternative to iTunes, primarily because the idea of paying $1.29 for a track I could probably get for 99 cents doesn't sound that appealing to me.

What music stores do you use? Are there any that could be recommended over iTunes?

Alright, so the competition has come down to its breaking point. If you could only eat at Taco Bell or McDonalds for the next week, which would you choose?

Be sure to vote in the poll!

This is apparently not breaking news, but Ubuntu's dash searches are getting sent to various third parties to allow Ubuntu to cater advertisements towards you. Sounds innocent, but the idea of getting all sorts of advertisements on my desktop is just eh... I'd almost rather pay for Windows.

Ubuntu has great potential, but a lot of their recent decisions seem to have me wondering. If there is a website that is quite literally dedicated to showing users how to disable features that invade your privacy, there is an issue.

How do you feel about Ubuntu's recent decisions regarding privacy?

Promotion forums have been around for quite a while, giving webmasters a place to advertise their forums and to get webmaster support, post exchanges, design reviews, etc...

While the idea seems promising, many have also found them to have widely varying degrees of success with their forums. What is your opinion of promotion forums?

So do you actually honor the speed limits, or are you among the majority of drivers who go by a "five over" rule?

Be sure to vote in the poll!

So Imagine dragons is a (relatively) new band that has become pretty popular lately. I'm just getting into them myself.

Anyone else here listening to them lately?

Do you enjoy watching weather? I do, in fact I'm watching a winter storm system move into my area right now.

I made a couple of useless mods for Simcity 4 a while back, which were thankfully never released. Now that I've purchased Cities XL, I'm now looking into seeing how to mod it.

Anyway, has anyone ever had any experience modding games before? Is modding something you enjoy, or do you prefer to leave games in their "vanilla" state?

I am pleased to announce that our old wordpress blog has finally been replaced. (The link in the navbar has been updated, so feel free to check it out!) The blog wasn't particularly interesting anyhow, largely due to the spam issues and the lack of integration. I've purchased a new site blog plugin that will be integrated with the forums fully, so that will definitely help quite a lot.

Anyway, I intend on building it out and publishing some announcements, as well as highlighting some great content created by members here, so stay tuned for more information!

As always, all suggestions are welcome.
-Darth