So during the Week Without Internet here are a few things that went on:

Joe Staten's new Halo book, Contact Harvest, came out. It covers the first Human-Covenant engagements from the perspective of Avery Johnson. Bungie.net has the prologue online. GameTap has a two part interview with Staten about the novel. G4TV also has an interview with Staten about the novel.

Now that Luke Smith left 1Up for Bungie LLC, 1Up has followed up on his Broken Halo article with a Halo Repair article about Halo 3.

In the latest Bungie Weekly What's Update, Luke Smith talks about the Halloween hopper, Bungie Favorites, downloadable content, and max's crappy router.

Information from HBO and other sources contributed to this summary.

Kato at Katonian.net has an article up on how to make stereoscopic screenshots from Halo 3.

The story mentions only the Windows program StereoPhoto Maker but I also located the Macintosh freeware AnaBuilder, which you might have some luck with if you're a Mac user.

Rockslider famously rejected Halo 2, preferring instead to spend six years tricking the Halo 1 engine into delivering him continually more epic "megabattles".

So, naturally, people wanted to know what he thought of Halo 3-- did it return to the roots of the original game enough to keep his interest?

Now he's provided the answer in typical exhaustive detail.

Thanks for the heads-up to Louis Wu at HBO.