Interesting analysis of the great Xbox shortage from Slate. One of the more interesting internal email aliases lately is the Xbox one. Turns out tons of employees can’t get them so they are scurrying around trying to find boxes.

Jeff Sandquist, my boss, found one in Canada. His dad called him from a store there and said “they have two, you want one?” Jeff has been raving about his ever since. I asked him “has it crashed?” He says he hasn’t had a single crash yet in dozens of hours of play. He says it’s the best device he’s ever purchased. We’ll see if he says that five days from now (he has a famous test where software has to prove valuable over seven days for him to praise it).