Ah…a day intended to celebrate the terminally ugly yet necessary. If you’re not familiar with hagfish, spend some time with your favourite search engine and check them out. They are the ultimate in ugly, nasty things, but they actually perform a vital function. Being me, I can think of any number of co-workers who would also fit the bill, so I intend to go out of my way to be nice to them today. It’s the least I can do.

MadShrimps starts us off with MSI’s R6870 Hawk

Bjorn3D checks out the G.Skill RipjawsX 8GB F3-17000CL9D-8GBXM Memory Kit

Phoronix shares its thoughts on the Intel Core i7 2630QM

TechReviewSource sits down with the Sony VAIO Z Series

TechwareLabs takes a look at the Sapphire Radeon HD 6870 Dirt 3 Edition

Tech-Reviews takes on Forza Motorsport 4

TechRadar goes mobile with the iPhone 4S

FrostyTech chills out with the Thermaltake FrioOCK Heatsink

RBMods comes back with the Coolermaster Hyper 612S CPU Cooler

HardwareHeaven gets its hands on the ASUS Slider Android Tablet (SL101)

Hardware Canucks spends some time with the Alienware M14x Gaming Notebook

Benchmark Reviews goes inside the Raidmax Blade Mid-Tower Computer Case

To close out this selection, ThinkComputers gets into the Cubitek Tank XL-ATX Case