It's amazing how video continues to be so dominant all over the Internet.  For this, we have YouTube to thank.  But as that category killer has grown and become an even greater force in web entertainment, something interesting has been happening back at the network ranch.  NBC ...

The latest guest column on Olivia Judson's "Wild Side" blog at the NYT is on increasing intelligence: Can we do exercises to increase it ? In the article, they describe a test that when performed repeatedly leads to measurable improvement in IQ: A common way to measure working memory is called the â...

Filed under: Audio, Internet, Windows, Freeware I wrote about LastSharp a while back - it's an application developed in C# that allows you to download tracks from Last.fm. If you'd prefer an option that doesn't require the .Net runtimes, there's Last.fm Music Downloader - which is also totally porta...

At one point or another we’ve all been on the wrong side of a break-up. So why not celebrate it? Every Tuesday for the next few weeks I’ll be highlighting some of my favorite break-up songs in a special Twangville playlist. And its all dedicated to you, ___________ (INSERT NAME HERE). See You Ar...

“Once again, its astringent distillation of life and death is desperately needed to help strip away ‘layers and layers of nonsense’ so Americans can remember who we are — and how lost we got in the boom before our bust,� channels Frank Rich of The New York Times in an Op-Ed piece allegoriz...

Time Warner Cable is running a pilot program in Texas where they're metering your bandwidth usage and charging extra if you exceed your monthly allotment. This also gives them the opportunity to create a tiered system where you pay more for more bandwidth. Richard is a TWC Texas customer, and his st...

Man, I love guitars. Especially nice guitars! You know the kind I'm talking about - the sweet and amazingly light acoustic, hand crafted detail, perfect sound, the kind you're almost afraid to even pick up and strum lest you might drop it and then hell - there goes a mortgage payment! Although the s...

This grum was fun but ustream only records the host’s video. So in this recording of the live stream, you cannot see the youtube videos we overlaid on the thing. I guess next time I’ll use cam twist. Anyway here’s the grum. CLICK TO WATCH ON IPHONE/POD...

Filed under: Fox, NBC, Internet, New content As a wise man once said: "Damn, that's just cold, son." Merely hours after boxee announced its latest alpha build along with RSS feed support for Hulu, said video portal has now blocked off boxee's browser entirely from accessing its content. If you'll re...

As a wise man once said: "Damn, that's just cold, son." Merely hours after boxee announced its latest alpha build along with RSS feed support for Hulu, said video portal has now blocked off boxee's browser entirely from accessing its content. If you'll recall, boxee saw a huge increase in interest w...