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Oh man, just another reason to be hyper-aware of what you say while on TV in this Internet age: Last night, MSNBC’s Chris Matthews awkwardly tried to compliment President Obama and the country at large following the State of the Union by saying, “I forgot he was black tonight for an hour.” Naturally a Twitter backlash ensued, and the video is now all over the ‘net like white on rice. Chris Matthews is no stranger to on-air blunders — remember that whole Erin Burnett thing? — but this one appears to have been a doozy.

Last February, actor Christian Bale’s outburst on the set of Terminator Salvation made headlines and wound up being one of our favorite memes of the year . If you didn’t get the chance to see Terminator Salvation in theaters, you’re in luck. The folks at DivX and CinemaNow have teamed up to let Mashable readers enjoy a digital copy of the film on their Macs, PCs or DivX- compatible media devices (which includes Blu-ray, DVD players and even portable devices) for free

Augmented reality has made for some uniquely enhanced objects and applications of late, from meta-iPhones to music videos to new experiments in print publishing .

20 million people watched Friday’s live broadcasts of Hope For Haiti Now on the Internet, while only around 16 million watched on broadcast television in the United States. The 20 million live streams figure comes from a Twitter update by Facebook’s Brandee Barker , and the broadcast numbers are courtesy of Nielsen .

Visuals are an important part of advertising, so it’s not surprising that so many companies have jumped on the augmented reality bandwagon, offering tools that visualize their products in a magical and memorable way. Here we take a look at some pretty amazing promotional uses of this new tech that work with common webcams, giving everyone a chance to experience augmented reality — a trend that will be big in 2010.