Happy New Year!

In keeping with the spirit of New Tech Journalism, we’re breaking the U.S. embargo an hour early. Happy new year, Internet!

Welcome to 2009, the International Year of Natural Fibers.

1. [ianm]

   2009 is also the International Year for Astronomy.

   http://www.astronomy2009.org/

   Some telescope / space imaging tech reviews this year would be rather cool.

2. [Andy Nonymous]

   Are you sure it isn’t the Year of the Depends Adult Undergarment?

3. [theawesomerobot]

   I don’t know – there doesn’t seem much of a reason for me to upgrade to 2009, I think I’ll just wait for 2010.

4. [FoetusNail]

   How thoughtless and rude of me not to come round and thank the best writers in gadgetdom for all their hard work feeding the masses.

   Thanks for a great blog and Happy New Year to everyone at bbgadgets!

5. [Garr]

   And to you, too!

6. [OM]

   …Anyone else thinks MMIX sounds like some sort of iPod or Zune app?

7. [Rob Beschizza]

   The MMIXâ„¢ is a registered trademark of Boingâ„¢ Boingâ„¢ Gadgets.