Eight Myths About Video Games Debunked

Henry Jenkins, a professor at MIT and the director of comparative studies there, has written an essay that debunks eight popular myths about videogames. These include "Girls don't play videogames," "videogames make kids violent," and "videogames aren't a meaningful form of expression."

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New Da Vinci Code Trailer

Columbia Pictures has brought online the first full-length trailer for The Da Vinci Code, from director Ron Howard and writer Akiva Goldsman, who last teamed-up on Oscar-winner A Beautiful Mind. You can watch the trailer at Apple in High Definition QuickTime and regular QuickTime formats!

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New Da Vinci Code Trailer

Columbia Pictures has brought online the first full-length trailer for The Da Vinci Code, from director Ron Howard and writer Akiva Goldsman, who last teamed-up on Oscar-winner A Beautiful Mind. You can watch the trailer at Apple in High Definition QuickTime and regular QuickTime formats!

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File-sharing Is Good For Music Industry -Study

"The record industry has long considered online file-sharing a serious threat to its livelihood. But a new study released Tuesday suggests that consumer-to-consumer music recommendations a growing feature of online music stores and Web sites will benefit the industry, artists and fans alike."

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Learn about all the Japanese Emoticons

See how they differ from English smileys, and the explanations on the most popular ones.

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XBox 360 only $150 in Japan! Prices slashed after only 4 days!

Looks like the Japanese are waiting for the PS3 and the Revolution.

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Xbox 360 not designed to play games in vertical position

Those aren't my words, but those of a customer service representative. When someones Xbox 360 stopped playing games, he was told to orient the console horizontally, which fixed the problems. Microsoft wont fix his Xbox 360, because apparently it was never designed to play games vertically! Crazy stuff.

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Car Buried in 1957 to Be Unearthed in '07

Ahh... the 50's... It should be interesting to see all the items buried in the time capsule. They even buried a supply of gasoline just incase internal combustion engines became obsolete!

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Essential Free Wireless Hacking Tools

Anyone interested in wireless security and exploiting vulnerabilities will need a good set of base tools with which to work. Fortunately, there are an abundance of free tools available on the Internet. Brought to you by Dan Hoffman, CISSP, CWNA and regular columnist for the new online magazine, The Ethical Hacker Network.

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Students suspended after looking at teachers pornographic screensaver

The year seven students were suspended from attending the The St Francis of Assisi Humpty Doo school after typing in a password that brought up a screen saver of a naked woman in a pornographic pose.

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XBOX 360 file system decoded

The anti-owner technology in Microsoft's Xbox 360 has been compromised. A technology group called Pi has decoded the filesystem, which is an important step towards stripping out all of Microsoft's anti-customer technologies and turning the Xbox 360 into a general computing platform.

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