Episode 7 – Blah Blah Blah & Brian Brushwood

November 21st possible Topic List

Roster: Steven Callas (@Fried_yoda), Vitto #9 (@vitto_9), Snoop (@snoop_dizzle), Benguin (@savageboredom), Gonzorider (@RC_Supernova), Kevlar(@KevlarMenace and live-tweeting) and Brian Brushwood!! (@shwood)

  1. Anyone used RockMelt yet? Are we yawning?:  http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/07/rockmelt-social-browser-launches-in-limited-beta-we-go-hands-on/
  2. Hulu plus drops it’s price. Will you sign up?
    http://arstechnica.com/media/news/2010/11/hulu-plus-price-drops-to-799-launches-on-roku.ars
  3. Whitenoise PSA: Visit you Google Dashboard regularly(Yearly as recommended by Lifehacker) to know what personal info google has on you BONERS
    http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/11/what-google-knows-about-you-and-how-to-tweak-it.ars
  4. Did Apple waste your time with it’s “OMFG THE BEATLES ARE ON ITUNES NOW ANNOUCEMENT!” ?
    1. Are you wasting my time with it now?
  5. ATT MiFi Doodad: http://gizmodo.com/5692476/att-snags-its-own-mifi-personal-wireless-spot
    1. Lol AT&T Jokes
    2. Texting through web interface?  Oh hai, Google Voice
    3. SD memory? WiFi-Music server on the go?
  6. China Eats 18 minutes of data – Give Facebook a lesson on fucking your privacy  http://arstechnica.com/security/news/2010/11/how-china-swallowed-15-of-net-traffic-for-18-minutes.ars
    1. Why aren’t there any better security measures in place. The honor system is dead today, especially in terms of personal data.
    2. Point, meet counterpoint: http://www.renesys.com/blog/2010/11/chinas-18-minute-mystery.shtml
    3. How much storage would this take?
    4. Who cares?
    5. Gonzo doesn’t give a shit
  7. A bluetooth keyboard for your iPhone 4 that turns it into a qwerty slider: http://www.boxwave.com/products/keyboardbuddycase/apple-iphone-4-keyboard-buddy-case_3968.htm
  8. Myspace just surrendered the castle to Facebook. Now you can associate your Myspace account with Facebook and use your Facebook Connect to log in. Presumably, prostitutes, spammers and 13 year olds are rejoicing: http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/18/hell-freezes-over-as-myspace-fully-surrenders-to-facebook/
  9. IE9 may or may not be cheating at Sunspider to pad its benchmarks:  http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/11/lies-damned-lies-and-benchmarks-is-ie9-cheating-at-sunspider.ars?
  10. Hey, what are you up to? Me? Oh nothing, just spending a years sentence in a Chinese labor camp for a single retweet on my wedding day:  http://voices.washingtonpost.com/blog-post/2010/11/chinese_twitter_sentence_a_yea.html
  11. First-Person Shooters give you super vision? http://io9.com/5693318/first+person-shooters-give-you-super-vision
  12. Call of Duty hits $650 Million in 5 Days, Halo fanboys stuff fingers in ears and scream “LALALALALALALALA”: http://www.slashgear.com/call-of-duty-black-ops-hits-650-million-in-5-days-18114973/
  13. What do we think about the Dell Inspiron Duo? We metnioned it briefly in an earlier episode but now we know more.  http://www.slashgear.com/dell-inspiron-duo-official-549-from-early-december-video-18114954/
  14. Twitter adding “people” tab, beefing up. Can we just start calling it facebook with a speech impediment now? http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/18/twitter-people/
  15. Qualcomm lets everyone see the goodies under their skirt. Coming in 2011: smaller, faster, more energy efficient mobile processors with GPU power that rivals the Xbox 360. http://www.androidpolice.com/2010/11/18/qualcomm-unveils-2011-dual-core-snapdragons-5x-cpu-performance-14-power-consumption-gpu-rivaling-ps3xbox-360/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+AndroidPolice+(Android+News,+Reviews,+Applications,+Games,+Phones,+Devices,+Tips,+Hacks,+Videos,+Podcasts+-+Android+Police)
  16. Thoughts on Blockbuster?  What do you think about their attitude?  http://gizmodo.com/5694980/bankrupt-blockbuster-spending-millions-on-national-ad-campaign-bashing-netflix–again
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