Here's a nice new and polished little Tower Defense game called Garden TD:

http://www.freeworld...meindex/gardentd.htm

Jeff Atwood has been writing recently about his popular Stack Overflow site, and his thoughts on who really owns the content of social network websites, and what a users bill of rights might look like.  These ideas are relevant to any web forum, and worth discussing here.

I think you should be asking yourself some tough questions:

• What do you get out of the time and effort you've invested in this website? Personally? Professionally? Tangibly? Intangibly?
• Is your content attributed to you, or is it part of a communal pool?
• What rights do you have for the content you've contributed?
• Can your contributions be revoked, deleted, or permanently taken offline without your consent?
• Can you download or archive your contributions?
• Are you comfortable with the business model and goals of the website you're contributing to, and thus directly furthering?

http://www.codinghor...archives/001295.html

Nice roundup at ghacks discussing various ways to download Youtube videos:

There are basically three ways of downloading Youtube videos: Using a web service, a web browser add-on or a standalone software program. All methods have their distinct advantages and disadvantages...

http://www.ghacks.ne...load-youtube-videos/

The latest edition of Ehtyar's Tech News Weekly is out.
Table of Contents:

• 1. Hacking, Lock-Picking, Booze and Bacon: DefCon 17 In Review
• 2. XML Flaws Threaten 'enormous' Array of Apps
• 3. Homegrown CBHD Discs Outsell Blu-ray by 3-1 Margin in China
• 4. Accused Domain Thief Faces Jail Time for "stealing" P2P.com (Thanks 40hz)
• 5. Microsoft Confirms Windows 7 E is Dead
• 6. Network Neutrality in Congress, Round 3: Fight!
• 7. The Smoking Gun Exposes PrankNet As Internet Badboys Cower (Thanks again 40hz)
• 8. Modder Arrest a Reminder That Most Console Hacks Are Illegal
• 9. DDoS Attacks On Twitter, Facebook Result Of Massive Attack On One Person
• 10. Big Deck

A rather exciting development is coming for the desktop customizing world: with its first major update in over three years, Rainmeter is finally coming out of beta. And, among other things, it has a new Enigma upgrade built right in.

Among Rainmeter 1.0's numerous improvements:
- A built-in theme manager, RainThemes, to save and load your setups.
- Complete compatibility with Windows Vista and 7. (Your data is no longer stored in Program Files, which eliminates problems with UAC.)
- New visual options, such as text shadows, transformation matrices and improved anti-aliasing.
- Expanded plugin support for iTunes, WiFi and even Recycle Bin management.
- An official online forum at Rainmeter.net (http://www.rainmeter.net/forum/index.php) for support, discussion, third-party addons, tips and feature requests.

As for Enigma 2.5:
- Enigma is now the default skin for Rainmeter. It is available immediately after installing.
- No more code editing required: a new Configuration tool manages your personal settings, like Google account login, weather code and feed URLs, from a GUI interface.
- Sidebars and themes now scale to your screen resolution automatically.
- Reader skins now support RSS, Atom, Gmail inbox and Twitter.
- Music skin gets iTunes song information automatically; CD Art Display no longer required.
- Multiple new skins, including a miniature calendar, system uptime, wireless signal strength, and even your local sunrise/sunset times.
- Templates are now accessible from the theme manager.

More information at:
http://www.rainmeter.net

Walt Mossberg asked, and Microsoft created a nifty upgrade path chart:

Over the past two weeks, in my Personal Technology columns, here and here, I’ve explained some of the challenges and limitations that will be involved in upgrading an existing Windows XP or Windows Vista PC to the forthcoming Windows 7 operating system, due out October 22. Several readers asked me to publish a chart showing which current versions of Windows could be easily upgraded to which planned versions of Windows 7, and which couldn’t. So I asked Microsoft to supply such a chart we could publish, and the company graciously did so. It is reproduced below, unaltered.

http://mossblog.allt...-the-official-chart/