Violent video games are a hot button issue in this country. Just what effects do they have on our youth, and are they propagating a more violent culture? While the debate rages on, and ratings become more important the issue has really taken off in Venezuela. The lawmakers in the South American country are looking to pass a law that would ban violent video games in the country.

In the capital city of Caracas, crimes occur in droves. Sometimes for something as small as a cell phone. The figures of how many murders there are have been under debate. Many believe that Hugo Chavez has exaggerated the figures so that he can rush laws he deems important into conception.

The ban against video games is a perfect example of Chavez using these statistics. The bill hasn’t been passed yet but there’s a good chance that it will. In order for it to become law, it has to pass two votes in the National Assembly. If it makes it through that step, then all that is left is for Hugo Chavez to sign it.

[via: Reuters]

Everyone grab your noise makers, Wikipedia has hit another milestone on it’s way to cataloging all knowledge. It has been eight years since Wikipedia made it’s mark on the world, and here we now sit at 3 million articles. If you don’t like doing math, Wikipedia averaged 1,027 entries a day going into it’s eight year anniversary.

So, what topic was the 3 millionth? It concerns a Norwegian actress by the name of Beate Eriksen. She has appeared in a few soap opera roles, and curiously enough she married one of the actors on the show. It’s quite an interesting story actually…but I better get back on topic.

Over 10 million registered users have taken party in the project thus far, and more than 17 million pages have been created as a result.

Without further adieu, Happy Anniversary Wikipedia!!

While Heath Ledger’s last performance will mostly be known for The Dark Knight, the now dead actor/director had a few smaller projects which have yet been released. First, is a fantasy movie in which Ledger died halfway through production and is called ‘The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus’. His second project was his directorial debut and was for a music video for the band, Modest Mouse.

The song is called King Rat, and concerns the the modern whaling practices in Australia. Like his movie, Ledger died while in the middle of his directorial duties for the video. The production company stepped in and finished the video, with a new director.

MySpace is the first to release the music video, and in a good move hasn’t used Ledger’s name as a way to increase traffic. In fact if you don’t know going into watching the video, you’ll more than likely never know that Ledger was the director for the music video. As word catches on there’s no doubt that the page views for the video will continue to rise. And there’s no doubt that this is significant for MySpace, as they’re the sole distributors of the video at this point.

[via: TechCrunch]