[Q/A] Question for the Hivemind...

What's the story with VoIP and Skype?  Finally scraped together enough moola to buy a new laptop to tide until the current situation is resolved, and it came with webcam and Skype.  Is this worth the salt of it's existance?  And if it is, how do I do it, anyway? 

[NEWS] High sign of the times: Urban Fantasy

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090717/ap_en_ot/us_urban_fantasy_novels_women

There's how to do it - and it's only getting bigger!