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From Matt: Apparently the Star Wars Kid has been ranked the overall most viewed video online. "A video of a pudgy kid wielding a make-believe lightsaber has nudged out a raunchy Kylie Minogue lingerie ad and Paris Hilton's X-rated sex tape as the most-watched online video of all time."
Also from Matt: This article talks about the future of the Internet and the move to IPv6. "WHAT is the internet? To some it's a bottomless resource of text, images and video. To others it's an idea that connects the electronic world without barriers or censorship."
For those Wikipedia users out there apparently it is more accurate than you may think. "A new salvo has been fired in the perennial war over Wikipedia's accuracy. Thomas Chesney, a Lecturer in Information Systems at the Nottingham University Business School, published the results of his own Wikipedia study in the most recent edition of the online journal First Monday, and he came up with a surprising conclusion: experts rate the articles more highly than do non-experts."
From Mark: Linutop is a Linux-based diskless computer. It offers a completely silent, low-power operation in an extremely small package. It has 256mb RAM, 512mb ROM, USB, Ethernet, Audio, VGA Out and runs on an AMD Geode Processor and supposedly can be expanded with WiFi capability.
Futurelooks has taken a look at HDTV's this holiday season. "So you’re finally ready to ditch that 15-year-old, 21 inch, colour-distorted, sound-crackling beast of a television and trade up more deserving of your 20/20 vision. But with so many options out there, how can you be sure that you’re making the right choice? We’ll talk about all the options available today and help you find right HDTV for the family this Holiday."
From Kris: The MPAA in their perpetual battle against piracy is lobbying home theatre registration. ""Just because you buy a DVD to watch at home doesn't give you the right to invite friends over to watch it too. That's a violation of copyright and denies us the revenue that would be generated from DVD sales to your friends" said Glickman"
For those who are not in the know, Hardware Secrets has an article about overclocking your video card. "You can increase the gaming performance of your computer by overclocking your video card. Overclocking is a technique that makes a given hardware part to operate at a clock frequency above its standard frequency, thus increasing its performance. In this tutorial we will explain in details how to overclock your video card, with several tips and tricks."
Bit-Tech have an interesting article about why games and movies don't mix. "Final Fantasy missed the boat completely. The focus on setting up a visually stunning piece of work was realised, at the expense of any coherent storyline. The creators once again underestimated the necessity for a movie to include a plot. I even remember, back in the day, seeing an excitable kids TV presenter on Blue Peter interviewing a CGI animator about how great the lead character was because she had 70,000 individually created hairs on her head. If 70,000 hairs on your head makes you great then come have a look at me, because I have about that many on my chest, shoulders and back."
For those people with LCD monitors out there you may find this article useful. It goes through good steps to take to clean your monitor properly and avoid damaging it.
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