Best Buy has determined its winner in the format war. They released a press release today stating that Blu-ray is their format of choice. Starting in March of this year, company policy will be to push the Blu-ray format. Read on for more information.

**update**

Netflix is going blu-ray exclusive on their HD movie rentals as well. 

A rather appalling video surfaced at the beginning of the month. It showed willful censorship of Joel Johnson from BoingBoing, while he was on the Hugh Thompson show. He started to criticize AT&T’s government cooperation and spying, when they stopped the AT&T tech channel cold.

In an article close to our hearts, [H]Enthusiast discusses the value of real world testing. It is a six-page article worth reading. Tom's also has an interesting article on hardware based security.

Benchmarking the Benchmarks @ [H]Enthusiast

How Hardware-Based Security Protects PCs @ Tom's

Hands-on with LG's KT610 @ engadget

Yahoo shareholders furious @ theInquirer

ThermalTake SopranoRS 101 Case @ ASE Labs

Moneual Labs M775 Mid Tower PS Case @ Big Bruin

Cooler Master Hyper 212 CPU Cooler @ TweakTown

Bluetooth SIG to add 802.11 support @ ars technica

Aeneon XTUNE DDR3-1333 2GB kit @ Hardware Logic

Zotac GeForce 8800 GT 512MB AMP! Edition @ bit-tech

Yorkfield: Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300 Processor @ X-bit labs

SteelSeries Ikari Laser Gaming Mouse @ Dragon Steel Mods

OnAir Solution GT Mobile HDTV Tuner @ Overclockers Online

To celebrate, BHFO would like to welcome Matthew Bradford as a News Editor. In addition, we would like to welcome Jerry W. Anderson Ph.D. J.D. as our resident Legal Editor. He will provide legal insight for stories, such as p2p issues and those tricky apple patents.

Looking to the future, a corporate Senior Network Systems Analyst will be contributing content to the site. He has two compelling articles in the works. Profiles and more information on our new crew will be up within the week.

There is a war out there with lots of tension: Closed versus Open Source. Which will ultimately win? Linus sees things as nearly grim, but even the military can mess up Linux. It is possible a large state can adopt Open-Source, but as they say, "slow and steady wins the race."

Those that are more concerned about Geocaching experiments should check out the Linux Geographic Information System or GIS.

KDE has been huge lately. The new release, the hype, and the ink have turned-out numerous bug fixes from the humongous KDE community. The release has been bumped-up to 4.0.1. Ars technica gives it a clean bill of health.

Some people still need to run their Windows applications on their Linux boxes. Wine-Doors makes that happen on a graphical and easy-to-use interface. Their 0.2 release is looking good thus far.