Matt G

"Any illusions you might have about how HTML 5 can keep up with Flash 10.1 will be quickly shattered by this video. Never mind the narrator's thick French accent — as you can see in multiple examples, an animation achieves at least double the frame rate in Flash compared with playback of that same graphic in HTML 5." - Matt G

"YouTube has hit a record viewership with the live streaming of the Indian Premier League. The number touched 7.1 million as of today and is still counting. This number is the highest for YouTube worldwide and Google is now confident that it is ready to showcase other international live games as well. Viewership in the first two hours of IPL screening stood at 4.5 lakh. This is the highest viewership in two hours of any live screening on the Internet for YouTube. March 13 viewership touched 1 million while March 15 viewership touched 6.9 million." - Matt G

This song soothes me like no other when love rears its ugly head - Matt G

"WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Internet search firm Google is finalizing a deal that would let the National Security Agency help it investigate a corporate espionage attack that may have originated in China, the Washington Post reported on Thursday." - Matt G

They already know everything I suppose - Matt G

"Iconic Australian rockers Men at Work could be facing a hefty legal bill after a court ruled that they plagiarised part of their worldwide 1980s hit Down Under. Larrikin Music accused the band of stealing the song's flute riff from the children's song Kookaburra Sits In The Old Gum Tree. Record companies EMI and Sony BMG disputed the claim but today the Federal Court ruled in Larrikin's favour." - Matt G

"The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) has poured cold water on speculation Australia would adopt a "three strikes" rule, which would see ISPs cut off subscribers that were found to have shared copyright protected files on more than two occasions. The "three strikes" rule was reported to be on the agenda of the ACTA Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement being forged between the United States and allies including Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand and nations within the European Union." - Matt G

"The ruling in favour of the ISP iiNet in its long running court battle with Hollywood movie studios presents a whole new set of issues for Government on how to provide adequate protection for intellectual property in the emerging digital economy." - Matt G

"Australian internet rights groups fear a piracy court case could force internet service providers (ISPs) to become "copyright cops" and cut web access to customers who illegally download. The Federal Court is on Thursday expected to hand down its judgement in the case, which has pitted Hollywood and Australian film and TV producers against Australia's third-largest internet provider, iiNet." - Matt G

"Internet Explorer exploit code used in the so-called Aurora attacks out of China against Google and other companies has been posted online -- and now the popular Metasploit hacking tool has released a working exploit of the attack, as well." - Matt G

Adobe and Rackspace are among the companies so far that say they were hit by the attacks, which first came to light this past week and were allegedly conducted by hackers in China. - Matt G

"Google is investigating whether one or more employees may have helped facilitate a cyber-attack that the U.S. search giant said it was a victim of in mid-December, two sources told Reuters on Monday." - Matt G

There is a deep abyss between the perceptions of the people of Waziristan, the most drone-hit area and the wider Pakistani society on the other side of the River Indus. For the latter, the US drone attacks on Waziristan are a violation of Pakistani’s sovereignty. - Matt G

I have been discussing the issue of drone attacks with hundreds of people of Waziristan. They see the US drone attacks as their liberators from the clutches of the terrorists into which, they say, their state has wilfully thrown them. - Matt G

The Christmas news used to be about the iTunes Music Store, and it went like this: Lots of kids got iPods as Christmas gifts, and then they went crazy downloading music. Now, it’s not just music. According to mobile analytics company Flurry, iTunes Store downloads for the iPod Touch leapt almost 1000% on December 25th. That indicates that a lot of kids found iPod Touches under the tree this year. - Matt G

Roast duck for main course - all cooked outside on the deck because it will be bloody hot! - Matt G

My sister is doing salt & pepper squid & salads. - Matt G

My piece de resistance though is a triumph of fusion cuisine - oyster kilpatrick wontons. - Matt G

The wings are deboned in readiness for the feast tomorrow. mmmmmmmmm - Matt G

"Psychologists in the UK have discovered the best way to get that annoying Christmas carol out of your head. They also found that 'earworms', unwanted catchy tunes that repeat in your head, are often greater in length and are remembered for longer than our auditory memory capacity was previously thought to allow. The research, by Philip Beaman and Tim Williams of the University of Reading, appears in an upcoming edition of the British Journal of Psychology ." - Matt G

"The researchers conducted two studies exploring the nature of earworm experiences, as well as their causes and methods of removing them." - Matt G

Here I was, thinking I was going to read about some icky bug. - Bryce Roney

A bug could be preferable to some of the earworms I have had. - Matt G