Laptops ordering during the first days of the Give One Get One program are beginning to arrive at donors' doorstops. Mine arrived yesterday, and I wrote a little ditty about it and took some video, too. Overall impression? Awesome.

According to Sternheimer, contemporary media sources have built video games up as a kind of "folk devil." An easy explanation to the question of why white, middle-class teens kill. She points out that socio-economic and familial influences are hardly ever covered by the news media, the parents are hardly ever blamed, and the fact that the millions of tens who play the same games DON'T go out and purchase real weapons is completely overlooked.

Give it a profile URL and it will give you the MP3 of the song in the profile.

Hot on the heels of Lik-Sang's going-out-of-business announcement, some seemingly clever phisher has come up with a ploy to steal Lik-Sang customers' PayPal account information.

CGW is reporting that Battlefield 2142 will contain in-game advertisements which use external programs to collect "anonymous" information about browsing habits and IP addresses.