Yes, this is quickly developing into a Youtube meme, but that is because it is good.
A 3-year-old girl explains Star Wars succinctly, in less than 2 minutes:

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What are your obsolete gaming skills? » Has the advance of time rendered any of your videogame abilities redundant?
Lest We Remember: Cold Boot Attacks on Encryption Keys » Contrary to popular assumption, DRAMs used in most modern computers retain their contents for seconds to minutes after power is lost, even at operating temperatures and even [...]

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The format war is over.
Toshiba Corporation today announced that it has undertaken a thorough review of its overall strategy for HD DVD and has decided it will no longer develop, manufacture and market HD DVD players and recorders. This decision has been made following recent major changes in the market. Toshiba will continue, however, [...]

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Michigan laser beam believed to set record for intensity » If you could hold a giant magnifying glass in space and focus all the sunlight shining toward Earth onto one grain of sand, that concentrated ray would approach the intensity of a new laser beam made in a University of Michigan laboratory.
SvSIP » SvSIP is [...]

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note: I started this review before the holidays, shortly after I bought these two mice. I put it on hold due to the sad fact that the Logitech G9 laser died on me. So, you lucky readers get a bonus anecdotal review of the Logitech support and RMA process near the end of [...]

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Apple tradmarks it’s moniker for electronic gaming and toys » On February 5, 2008, Apple Inc. filed to protect their Apple trademark in relation to “hand-held units for playing electronic games; hand-held units for playing video [...]

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Finally, a Guitar Hero for people who actually play guitar. Not to say Guitar Hero isn’t a blast, but there was always that twinge of something missing. That feel of actually playing the music. Now a development group called Gametank is releasing details of just such a game: Guitar Rising.
This will be [...]

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Technology from the University of Wisconsin to “print” images in the air with a cascade of water droplets. They call it AquaScript.
The Youtube comments suggested exactly what iw as thinking… that this is a really neat technology, but the true genius of it would come out if they had a matrix of valves (instead [...]

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Engineers demonstrate nanotube wires operating at speed of commercial chips » The silicon chip Close and his collaborators built is an array of 256 circuits called "ring oscillators," which are industry-standard circuits for testing the speed of chips. Including other control circuitry that [...]

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