Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose Video

Video description: A project born during World War II led to Howard Hughes leading the construction of a gigantic, plywood-framed cargo plane in 1947. Here is video of that plane courtesy of LikeTelevision.

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Today in Tech History: April 30, 2008

NBC begins regular television service, Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes first president on television, the World Wide Web is born.

Create custom soundtracks for your Xbox

A great music soundtrack can make even a dud of a video game seem a lot better. Here's how to spruce up your so-so Xbox games with a custom soundtrack.

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Check out I'm From Barcelona's new video for "Paper Planes," the first single from their upcoming album "Who Killed Harry Houdini".

The week in a minute: 3/30/06

This week's compilation of our favorite videos features the savage meat weasel, Kurt Cobain, and a stinky little boy.

1.) "Snakes on a Plane" teaser

2.) Sony superball ad

3.) Jack Black's "Nacho Libre" confessionals preview

4.) The Lost Castle Cinema Promo

5.) The Making of the "Smells Like Teen Spirit" video

6.) "Mission Impossible 3" Philip Seymour Hoffman featurette

7.) "Joe Cartoon Greatest Hits" clip: "Joe Momma"

8.) Calexico: "Cruel"

9.) The Lucky Bishops: "London Lounge"

10.) Coverage of the Game Developers Conference

11.) "King Kong" DVD clip: "The Meat Weasel"

12.) Anders Manga: "Gypsy"





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Hey, wanna buy a little jet?

Sales manager Matt Brown showed off one of his planes to CNET reporter Declan McCullagh. It was during a private show at the Hayward Executive Airport in Hayward, Calif., on April 20, 2006.

Burning Man: What's the fascination for Silicon Valley?

In 1986, on a San Francisco beach, about 20 participants got together to burn an 8-foot structure of a man, and thus was born Burning Man. Twenty years later, the festival, which now takes place in the northern Nevada desert, is expected to attract some 35,000 people when it takes place next week. For some reason, Burning Man has occupied a special place in the hearts of techies. Join CNET News.com Charlie Cooper as he looks at why with Burning Man veterans Jennifer Guevin, Elinor Mills and Declan McCullagh during this week's edition of the CNET News.com Reporters' roundtable.\r\n\r\n

Burning Man video footage courtesy of www.dramainthedesert.com.

Sony's PlayStation 3

In his keynote, Sony CEO Howard Stringer says the PlayStation 2 and Portable outsold Microsoft's X-box during the holiday season. Appearing on stage with Stringer is Sony Computer Entertainment of America President Kaz Hirai.\r\n

Today in Tech History: August 6

The first Web page goes online -- the World Wide Web is born