That’s right, after an extended break, The Facts has returned. Let’s take a rundown of some facts that may have missed your attention.

1) The Headline
That’s right, I decided to use Mark Morrison’s “Return of the Mack” as a template for my headline for this article. I can think of no good reason for this, and several bad ones: it’s a terrible, terrible piece of music; now that I’ve thought of it, it’s stuck in my head on an endless cycle; oh god make it stop.

2) Apple Macs Now Have Intel CPUs
Like a tidal wave washing over a completely uninhabited and unknown island in the middle of the Pacific, Apple announced they were switching CPU vendors. Upon hearing this news, I immediately carried on as normal. Not true, I did pause to count the buttons on my mouse, because I enjoy the fact that I can control multiple fingers at once.

3) Nun Enters Arms Trade
“A group of Irish schoolgirls and a nun have set themselves up as an international arms company to highlight the absence of weapons brokerage laws in Ireland.”BBC News

I can’t help thinking that an easier way to highlight these laws would be to quite literally highlight them in a copy of the Irish Book of Laws and send it directly tothe President, with a note saying “these laws are somewhat insubstantial”. Perhaps I just lack motivation.

More disturbing right now is that fact that an Irish nun and a group of schoolgirls possess more destructive potential than I ever will. Even more disturbing than that is the thought that these schoolgirls could level my house with a few well-aimed RPGs from their stock cupboard.

4) Global Warming Is Bullshit
Source: Me. This Winter has been damn cold.

5) XBox 360 Released
I know this happened a while ago. I told you, I’m playing catchup. So, yeah. Woo. Let’s take a look at the must-have games for the XBox 360.

Well, now we’ve got that out the way, let’s look at the hardware itself. The new XBox 360 is indeed smaller then the original XBox, by a whole seven microns in width. The CPUs are dual core processors. Each core is made of neutronium, which goes some way towards explaining the weight of the system. Microsoft’s strategy of releasing the console early in order to get a lead on Sony’s Playstation 3 may well have backfired, since Microsoft decided the best time to release the 360 was when no one was screaming out for a hardware update.

This has been borne out by the fact that games on the XBox 360 look slightly better than games on the original XBox. I could buy a lot of pies for the price of an XBox 360. We’re talking serious pie volume.