From Mike Wendland:

With 100 million registered users, the free Internet telephone service Skype has been on a roll ever since eBay bought it a few months ago. A couple weeks ago, it was free outgoing calls to regular landline and cellular phones from Skype via computers hooked up to the Net. Today, it’s free conference calling for up to 500 people at a time through a service called Highspeedconferencing.com.

This 2-minute video shows how you can get all of the TV, video, and music from your Media Center PC through your Xbox 360 so you can enjoy it in any room in your house. Includes a brief demo.

Wow! Here is a really clear, step-by-step set of instructions on how to make your own network cables:

We live in an increasingly do-it-yourself world. We can check out our own groceries, pump our own gas and diagnose our own — OK, maybe not that last one. But for the do-it-yourself type, making your network cables is no problem. These days, ready-made Cat 5 cables — the standard kind used for most Ethernet networks — are relatively easy to find at most electronics stores at reasonable prices. So why assemble your own network cables? It may not be something you do everyday, but having the supplies and know-how to whip up a network cable on the spot can be very handy.