A site called House Party made some videos promoting the use of Microsoft Windows 7 to host parties.

Yes, this is a real video that encourages people to have a party to celebrate the launch of Windows 7, but hey, bring your own computer with Windows 7 installed.

The video above is the serious, and really boring video. The video below is the spoof, and yet not a spoof, because all they did is take a cut of the real video and bleep some parts to make it seem bad.

What better way to celebrate the long weekend than with a video pitting the two most beloved science fiction franchises against one another in heated combat? No matter your allegiance, Star Trek or Star Wars, you’ll find a lot to like about this masterfully done video. Finally, fan boys on both side of the spectrum can declare a truce and enjoy the holiday season without malice or grief. You Battlestar Galactica fans are screwed, though.

YouTube announced a bigger YouTube player yesterday. The company decided to expand the width of the page to 960 pixels in order to help suit the redesigned video screen. The widescreen aspect ratio is now 16:9 instead of the previous 4:3 aspect ratio. According to the site, regular video will still act and look the same as before. I’m definitely digging the new look!

Netflix and Tivo have finally announced the type of partnership that we have all been waiting for. You can now watch streaming video from Netflix directly on your Tivo. This improves on the year old partnership that only allowed for manipulation of your online queue from the Tivo.

Netflix, the largest online movie rental service, now offers their movie streaming on Netflix boxes, PCs, Macs, Tivo and Xbox360 (starting November 19th with update).

According to a Netflix Press Release:

"Subscribers to Netflix and TiVo are avid movie watchers and this combination gives them immediate access to all of the great content available through TiVo and the thousands of additional choices available to be streamed instantly from Netflix."

In a $6.7 million deal with software company Kitware, a DARPA project will develop a method of "indexing and rapidly finding video from archived surveillance tapes."

According to a DARPA document:

"The U.S. military and intelligence communities have an ever increasing need to monitor live video feeds and search large volumes of archived video data for activities of interest due to the rapid growth in development and fielding of motion video systems."

This is like "Enemy of the State" meets "You Tube" in an effort to combat terrorism.