visited my friend's place out in LA and he showed me his modded up Xbox. i'm not usually into anything involving video games (however, someone got me Guitar Hero which is awesome), but this was a glimpse of the future. through his modded xbox (which he got done through a $50 craig's list find), he was able to access his home network including files on his computers and RSS feeds on the web. the practical application is that you can watch videos files on your tv, both ones that are on your computer and ones on websites like youtube and comedycentral.com. he showed me this gem, which many of you have probably already seen, but it's worth it... on a related note, I'm buying VIA, too much potential there with this stuff...

guitar hero madness, if you are interested...