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Raucous and jubilant Steelers fans poured out onto downtown streets Sunday night, celebrating the team’s 21-10 victory over the Seattle Seahawks in the Super Bowl.

nursegirl writes “Novell has been running a survey about apps that people need in order to convert their data centers or desktops to Linux. The online survey has been running since Jan 13, and Adobe Photoshop was at the top of the list as of February 1. Desktoplinux.com has an interesting article about why the existence of the GIMP isn’t enough for many professionals.”

Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with the full film line-up for this year’s Sou…

Dave Feschuk: They once gave the key to Detroit to Saddam Hussein. It seemed like a good idea in 1980, explains columnist Dave Feschuk, who introduces a little politics to the lead-up to the Super Bowl. [Toronto Star]

AP - They may not have flashed any body parts — except for Mick Jagger's well-toned stomach — but the Rolling Stones made ABC glad it imposed a five-second tape delay on the Super Bowl halftime show.

AP - Cartoonish violence ruled the day at the annual knockdown competition among advertisers Sunday, as Bud Light, Diet Pepsi, Michelob and Sprint all used physical gags to hawk their wares at the Super Bowl, the most-watched television broadcast of the year.

Kurt Angle is not a healthy man. Years of brutalizing his neck have caught up with him. It’s become a monthly ritual to read stories about Kurt Angle going numb during or after a match. With these stories usually comes a description of Kurt Angle’s desires to be known as the greatest wrestler of all time, and also to wear the Heavyweight title.

Raenex writes “The car maker BMW has had its German website bmw.de delisted from Google. The delisting was punishment for using deceptive means to boost page ranking, which has now been set to zero for BMW. Matt Cutts, a Google employee who works to stop unethical search manipulation, originally reported the delisting in his blog and suggests that camera maker Ricoh is not far behind.”

This is one of those long ones intended for the seriously PlameGate afflicted:

There’s lots of speculation going on about the recently published redacted affidavit of Patrick Fitzgerald in the Judith Miller/Matthew Cooper subpoena case respecting the leak of Valerie Plame’s identity. Jane at Firedoglake has a compilation of links to all the recent documents in the case. These are among the latest documents released (pdf):

• The judge’s February 2005 decision in the Miller case, with parts of formerly redacted portions in italics on pages 30-39.
• Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald’s Aug. 27, 2004 affidavit in the Miller case, released in conjunction with the appeals court’s document.
• The appeals court order from Feb. 3, 2006 unsealing “in significant part” the redacted pages of a judge’s decision in the case.

The New Orleans Saints, driven from their home by Hurricane Katrina last August, will return to the Superdome on Sept. 24 to play the Atlanta Falcons.

AP - Every year they go at it. The best minds in the advertising business, armed with huge budgets, set out to create the most memorable ads in the most-watched television event of the year — the Super Bowl.