In my case, it actually IS a happy Monday! Not only did I get to go in to work at 10am rather than earlier, I was done at 2pm. And then when I got home, waiting just inside my storm door was a package. A few weeks ago I pre-ordered the new CD from my very favourite artist. Pre-ordering got me the CD, an official bootleg CD from last year’s tour, and a signed, hand-numbered lithograph of the album cover art (he does his own artwork as well). Official CD release date is tomorrow. So now I’m comfortably home with seven hours off, listening to fabulous new music and watching the rain fall. Today definitely does NOT suck.

TweakTown starts us off with the Noctua NH-L12 Low Profile CPU Cooler

TechRadar spends some time with Spotify for iPad

PureOverclock taps away at the Cooler Master Storm Trigger

ThinkComputers announces its 10 Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Beta Keys Giveaway

TestFreaks goes inside the Cougar Solution PC Case

HardwareHeaven examines the ASRock X79 Extreme9 Motherboard

Hi Tech Legion counters with the ASUS P8Z77-V LGA1155 Motherboard

The SSD Review shares its thoughts on the OWC Mercury Accelsior 480GB PCIe SSD

Techgage gets into Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4

techPowerUp presents Ivy Bridge PCI-Express Scaling with HD 7970 and GTX 680

MadShrimps reports on Kingston HyperX Event Antwerp

KitGuru takes a look at the Noontec MovieHome V8 NAS Media Player

NikKTech chills out with the Thermalright Silver Arrow Extreme CPU Cooler

TechReviewSource focuses on the Sony Cyber-shot DSC-TX20

Guru3D submits OCZ Vertex 4 SSD revisited with FW 1.4RC

Phoronix gives us Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ARMv7 Linux Performance Gains

To close out this selection, Legit Reviews beats the heat with the Noctua NH-L12 Low Profile CPU Cooler