Rated Top Ten

Performance by an actor in a leading role:

Philip Seymour Hoffman in "Capote"
Terrence Howard in "Hustle & Flow"
Heath Ledger in "Brokeback Mountain"
Joaquin Phoenix in "Walk the Line"
David Strathairn in "Good Night, and Good Luck."

Performance by an actor in a supporting role:

George Clooney in "Syriana"
Matt Dillon in "Crash"
Paul Giamatti in "Cinderella Man"
Jake Gyllenhaal in "Brokeback Mountain"
William Hurt in "A History of Violence"

Performance by an actress in a leading role:

Judi Dench in "Mrs. Henderson Presents"
Felicity Huffman in "Transamerica"
Keira Knightley in "Pride & Prejudice"
Charlize Theron in "North Country"
Reese Witherspoon in "Walk the Line"

Performance by an actress in a supporting role:

Amy Adams in "Junebug"
Catherine Keener in "Capote"
Frances McDormand in "North Country"
Rachel Weisz in "The Constant Gardener"
Michelle Williams in "Brokeback Mountain"

Best motion picture of the year:

"Brokeback Mountain" Diana Ossana and James Schamus, Producers
"Capote" Caroline Baron, William Vince and Michael Ohoven, Producers
"Crash" Paul Haggis and Cathy Schulman, Producers
"Good Night, and Good Luck." Grant Heslov, Producer
"Munich" Kathleen Kennedy, Steven Spielberg and Barry Mendel, Producers

City                        Country        Index
1    Oslo                 Norway          140
2    Tokyo               Japan            136
3    Reykjavik         Iceland          135
4    Osaka Kobe     Japan            130
4    Paris                France           130
6    Copenhagen   Denmark        127
7    London           U.K.                125
8    Zürich             Switzerland    123
9    Geneva          Switzerland    116
10   Helsinki         Finland           115
Source Economist Intelligence Unit survey, for more see the EIU website here.

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See this report from the Washington Post on this interesting topic: "For surround-sound audio as immersive as the HDTV image, you need half a dozen speakers carefully arranged around the room with unsightly wires running to all of them, unless you pay professional installers to cut open your walls.
Now, new systems promise to eliminate the clutter by delivering that in-the-middle-of-the-action sound from a single speaker that sits above or below your TV set."

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AND THE WINNERS ARE…
Best Community website – Text Treasure
Best Educational website – Woodland Grange Primary School
Best Entertainment website – Liveplasma
Best Innovative website – Net Disaster
Best TV website – Derren Brown
Best Travel website – Transport for London
Best Weird and Wonderful website – The Cloud Appreciation Society
Best Celebrity website – Greeting the 500
For more details and links to the respective sites see this page from Yahoo.

"The battle to control the future of high-definition DVD is raging hot, but the outcome is not as critical as many claim." Read this story here at the Newsweek’s website and this next one here: "A grab bag of programs called Ajax could threaten the dominance of Microsoft and desktop software."
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