The ScummVM emulator for running classic Lucasarts games like Maniac Mansion, Day of the Tentacle and the Monkey Island series also has a nice set of scalers and graphics filters.

Libel is not a crime. It's a civil tort. The 1st Amendment does indeed protect false speech, to the extent that it protects you from the government itself. Private individuals, not so much.

I don't buy the myth that Linux has poor hardware support. I have a network-connected HP C7280 living in my basement office. It comes with a nifty little Windows-only CD for auto-detecting the printer on the network, installing the drivers, and slathering a layer of HP proprietary crapware all over Windows. The CD is useless. Can't find the printer to save its life. I have tried manual configuration with varying degrees of success, but no XP or Vista box in my house has ever printed to it without major aggravation.

On the other hand, I can tell Linux to go find it, and it does. I can tell Linux to print, fax, and scan to it, and it does.

Various Kodak, Olympus, and Canon digital cameras just work when I plug them into one of my Linux boxes. Attach my camcorder via firewire, and I'm ready to go.

Wireless network dongle? I have a SMC EZ-Connect (G) USB dongle that works fine on Linux with minimal configuration. Actually, the dongle itself didn't need installation or configuration, it was the network SSID and key. Still, as easy or easier than the same setup under XP.

Why in the world does the summary list to some stupid guys take on Mark Cubans blog post instead of the actual post?

http://blogmaverick.com/2009/11/13/google-murdoch-madoff/

Not that it answers any of your questions, other than maybe he is a publicity hound.