This week, in the “Changing World” series, Benjamin talked about authoritative reference works. Sure, we still have encyclopedias, but nobody reads them frequently, favoring Wikipedia instead. Now, Wikipedia is great, but anyone can edit it, meaning that things aren’t always accurate.

Benjamin also talked about e-mails from undesirable websites. While you can never truly eliminate spam, there are ways to cut down on it. Be careful what you sign up for, and where you post your e-mail address. The more public it is, the more likely it is for it to get to someone who will spam you. You can also minimize the harm they can do to you, by using spam filters and turning off HTML in your e-mail.

With the economy as it is, Benjamin also talked about liquidation sales. Many may remember Circuit City going out of business recently, and the massive sales they had going. Of course, other companies then hold sales of their own to compete with this. The moral of the story is this: shop around, find the best price. Competition is key to capitalism.

In the news, it seems that BP faked a photo of them at work by adding in a few more monitors working, and Mac is releasing free iPhone 4 covers to cover up their reception fail. Neither of these is a huge deal, but they are of note…

With Starcraft releasing, Benny came on the air to talk about that, and how excited they obviously are. The new game is releasing in three different campaign sets, won’t have LAN play, runs with the new Battle.net, and features new units, as well as a raised population max. Tune into the audio for the full info!

Additionally, Benjamin spoke with Kevin Hertz of TelCentris, which created Voxox. (http://www.telcentris.com/smb/). Voxox is a new VOiP service which also manages your cell phone, your instanst messenger, your e-mail, and your social networking. It’s essentially the ultimate internet communications software out there.

Lastly, Carlos asked about stopping background processes, and Bill asked about installing XP on a new, non XP computer.