One user over at the Futuremark forum decided to do an unofficial speed comparison of Vista SP1 vs. XP SP2, and in the end he was pleasantly surprised by Vista's performance. Here's a rundown on some of the results:

Usually our Weekend Website article features a site that's worth checking out whether it be an awesome online service or just a site that offers something useful.  To change things up, we thought today we'd "feature" five different web sites that you should avoid! Now, we didn't come up with this list ourselves -- Time Magazine actually came up with this list and published it as their list of the five worst web sites.