I just found it amazing that even after thirty years people are still trying to beat old records on old games. Who knows what games today people will still be trying to beat records of thirty years from now.

More bad news for the browser that just won't die: Google will phase out support for Internet Explorer 6 over the course of 2010, starting with Google Docs and ending by dropping support for Google Calendar and Gmail.

what troubles me more about our migration to Google is what it says about the increasing privatization of education, and our failure to support and fund the public university. Maybe it’s naive to think that public education can remain free of for-profit interests. But it will certainly be more difficult to maintain that separation now that we will all be working for Google

Report on manufacturing the Xbox in China: KYE recruits hundreds-even up to 1,000-"work study students" 16 and 17 years of age, who work 15-hour shifts, six and seven days a week. In 2007 and 2008, dozens of the work study students were reported to be just 14 and 15 years old. A typical shift is from 7:45 a.m. to 10:55 p.m.

Older story but it gives some statistics about the number of adults, seniors, male vs. females play videogames

Nine countries have signed a letter to Google complaining about their lack of privacy controls and how they address personal privacy and information with the release of new technologies.

A new porn virus publishes people's web history and then charges them to delete the page. I though this was pretty interesting as viruses don't usually ask for your credit card to fix them.

I'm not sure if this one really relates to the presentation, but I was reminded of it when Vlad was talking about advertising. For me, in-game advertising isn't a big deal if they do it right. For instance, ads on the boards in NHL 10 just look natural, so that works for me. Then again, the Snickers ads all over the Madden 10 "broadcast" are a bit intrusive. What do you guys think about it?

This is an interactive application that demonstrates how torrents work and how their networks operate. press p for more peers, press s for more seeds.

A college is utilizing a computer game to help students 'blast' their way through chemistry 101. I figured that since we were discussing the educational merit of video games this was a good one.