Mark and Wes at the Back Forty Texas BBQ in Pleasant Hill, CA .
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When we recorded this show, the Palm Pre had not yet been released and we were going by rumors and pre-release reviews. The Pre is now out and available in Sprint stores. Mark played with one and liked it a [...]
Mark, Wes, and guest @besz at Bo’s BBQ in Lafayette, CA .
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We make jokes about being sick because this recording was made when the Swine Flu scare was going on.
Apple removed the Baby Shaker iPhone app from the app store.
History of the word "computer". Comptometer operators should have had that title.
Were the people [...]
Mark, Wes, and guest @besz at Bo’s BBQ in Lafayette, CA .
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We make jokes about being sick because this recording was made when the Swine Flu scare was going on.
Apple removed the Baby Shaker iPhone app from the app store.
History of the word "computer". Comptometer operators should have had that title.
Were the people [...]
Mark and Wes in Pleasant Hill, CA at the Monsoon Masala restaurant.
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Office chair that measures farts and sends twitters.
Brain-Twitter interface. There have been similar machines that read brainwaves as an input device to a video game.
There are websites where you type commands and a virtual actor obeys them. E.g. Virtual Girlfriend.
Long before [...]
Mark and Wes in Berkeley, CA at the Caffe Strada.
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Where are they now? 25 computer products that refuse to die.
Wes mentioned the vaporware Peapod electric car, and Mark pointed out that the Electric Time mini cars are available today.
The Nopopo Batteries from Japan will recharge with urine, blood, and even apple juice! But [...]
Mark and Wes in Moraga, CA at the Ranch House Cafe.
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Steve Jobs maintains grip on Apple.
Some Safeway stores now have free Wi-Fi as part of a rebranding marketing effort.
Remember ICQ?
Tesla is working on an electric sedan.
Mark sounds skeptical that Tesla will ever ship anything, but they claim they have already delivered 250 of [...]
Mark and Wes in Lafayette, CA at Pizza Antica.
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Medieval Tech Support for this new-fangled thing called "books" on "paper".
IBM’s history and a history in ad pictures of IBM typewriters, including the Magnetic Tape/Selectric Typewriter (MT/ST).
The Friden Flexowriter used paper tape to do very early word processing.
The new mp3HD format and information about the [...]
Mark and Wes in Orinda, CA at the Serika Japanese Restaurant.
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Compact Disc turns 30.
Remember the first CD Burners?
The longevity of optical media.
Audacity - an open source cross-platform audio editor.
Wavosaur - a free audio editor for Windows that supports VST plugins.
The Mentalists use iPhones as instruments; and another cellphone orchastra based at Stanford University.
The [...]
A brief look at what’s scaring Regina this week.
SxCheck.com CEO wants to change social behavior around sexually transmitted infections and reduce the incidence of sexual assault.
