How to Make XBMC Easier to Use (Especially for Non-Geeks) [Xbmc]Lifehacker

So you’ve created a kickass, play-anything media center with XBMC, but it’s a too hard for your less tech-savvy friends and family members to use. Here are a few ways to make your home theater PC so easy that your four year old could use it. More »

I would rip tracks off Sega Saturn discs and record them onto tapes (I didn’t have a CD burner back then). Wouldn’t mind adding those blasts from my past to my iTunes library.

Turn Your Rare and Homemade Cassette Tapes Into MP3s with Audacity [Music]Lifehacker

Cassette Tapes aren’t exactly the highest quality audio, but if you have a few rare tracks that you can’t buy on CD (or a few homemade cassettes you want to back up for posterity), CNET shows us how to easily record them to an MP3 file with Audacity. More »

Especially considering the ugly summer we had up here in Rochester last year, when several people were arrested for capturing alleged racial profiling by city police on camera.

Racial profiling law passes in Connecticut – CNN.com

After East Haven police were arrested for targeting Latinos, Connecticut’s state legislature passed an anti-racial profiling bill Monday.

I want to believe Mo can come back, I really do- but the man is 42. My dad had knee surgery when he was that age. Know what he was doing next baseball season? Watching on the couch- still icing his knee.

Source Says Rivera ‘Complication’ Not Serious: ESPN

The agent for Mariano Rivera said that the evaluation of the 42-year-old Yankees reliever’s injured knee did not go smoothly on Monday. But a team source says the complications encountered are not serious.

I’ve always been fascinated by this Great American mystery. Why did an entire colonial village suddenly disappear? Why did they leave behind the word CROATOAN on a post on their way out? Turns out there may be more to the story after all.