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First, we'd like to thank everyone who's shown their support to 36 Point for the past year and a half. Second, we'd like to blow your minds with our exciting announcement that we're transitioning to an all-hobo format over here. Beginning this morning with our first Hobo-Designer-1PT.Rule, and continuing soon with only-on-the-train-tracks recordings of future Reflex Blue Shows, we're sure you'll be as excited for this change as we are.

To celebrate and make it official, we commissioned leading logo and identity designer Drew Davies of Oxide Design to create our new mark. "Knocking it out of the park" would be an understatement. "Everyone said Cooper Black was dead, and look at it now," Davies said of the redesign project. "Hobo is here to stay."

Drew Davies' work has appeared in Logo Lounge 2, 3, 4 and 5, as well as two upcoming Master Library books from that series, Communication Arts (six times), AIGA 365 (twice), Print's Regional Design Annual, HOW Magazine, and he has served as a judge to many regional and national design competitions, including the Communication Arts Design Annual in 2004, and serves as the Design Director for AIGA's Design for Democracy.

Head on over to our downloads section for this and much, much more!

NEXT STOP: Sgt. Peffer's, Tuesday, September 8, 5:30 p.m. Map? Website. Well known for being directly across the street from the legendary Omaha bar, The Homy Inn, Sgt. Peffer's is the default choice of many a mid-town pizza eater and drunkard. It was here we dined last Spring with Justin Ahrens, Steve Hartman, and Christine Taylor, on the craziest party night in my recent life. Perhaps a repeat?

Also, as promised, after the jump I've collected all of the Zio's Reviews from our previous outing.

Friday is a very big day for me. I am excited.

In 2008, Donovan Beery and I sat down with AIGA President Sean Adams in Omaha, Nebraska, where Sean was attending the AIGA Leadership Retreat. During our visit with Sean, he was incredibly gracious and cordial, and often disarming with his humor. We met Sean in a large but decidedly un-decadent hotel room and discussed the formation of Adams Morioka, what makes designers take the plunge into self-employment, and the perks of sharing an office building with Larry Flint. (The full interview can be heard on The Reflex Blue Show, available for download here.)

As a test I dropped The Big Geek Switch onto my Facebook, and the process was clean and simple. We're using Byrne Reese's Promote This plugin on Movable Type, and for someone who knows very little about the engine driving this site I found it very easy work with and integrate into our template. Currently it doesn't have Twitter support, which I'd like, but it does work with some other sites not listed above, so if there's a site you use that we don't have up there let us know and we'll see about getting that in.

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Earlier this year many people my age and older, some a little younger, finally took the last burden and insult from the once legendary Star Wars, as Clone Wars stumbled out like a long lost friend at your high school reunion who's gone off the deep end. The one who used you be your best mate, and who, after losing touch, seemed to make an endless stream of brain-dead and baseline-crazy life decisions and now is off in the corner half-dressed and drunk out of his mind, listing off reasons to people of how he's not really stalking his ex-girlfriend, even though no-one brought it up. You see your old friend and you realize he's too messed up. He's too far gone, you think. You walk away from Star Wars. I was one of the last holdouts -- Revenge of the Sith is my second-favorite Star Wars movie if I close my eyes and ears during the scenes where Natalie Portman and Hayden Christensen talk without shouting. 

You can call it Star Wars mourning, if you like. Like a breakup, even a good breakup -- a breakup you were prepared for -- you need some time to heal. And then, when you're ready, you can behold the god-damn-awesome-with-fireworks Star Trek trailer that hit the tubes today. 

As a die-hard Star Wars fan, never, never in my life have I been excited for a Star Trek movie. Sure, I could enjoy me some STNG, but anything after that -- or movies that don't have KHAAAAAAAAN in them -- weren't worth it when you had Luke and The Force to cheer for. But that's just it, we don't have Luke anymore. We don't have the same Force. We have snippy-padawan-sidekick girl, as well as the word "padawan." And instead of boring, slow moving ships and non-action, we have god-damn sexy Kirk and Sylar Spock, the hot girl from Curse of the Black Pearl who wasn't in the sequels, and about ten gallons of screen-busting awesome. It's almost as if smoldering Eomer "Bones" McCoy walked into the living room where we were going through old photos of Han and Lando on Cloud City, with overflowing buckets of awesome saying "Excuse me, could someone please tell me where to put all of this awesome? I have all of this awesome overflowing here and nowhere to put it down." Suddenly, the unthinkable has happened. Star Wars is now solidly, completely terrible, and Trek has stepped in to show Wars how it's done. And people are going to follow. In droves. To me, it's the strangest thing, how one story got it so wrong when it came back for a second go, and how, on what seems to be it's third trip around the block, somebody seems to finally be getting the other one right. This is a time in geekdom that people are going to look back on. This is The Big Geek Switch.

We'll be back next week with a new show if the solar system hasn't collapsed into a black hole by then.

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