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Mark and Wes at the Saigon Bistro Restaurant in Concord,CA.In this show, they talk about the release of Mac OSX, 32gig Micro SD card, world fair in SF, jet packs, space shuttle tiles, paying for iPhone app reviews, no more 4-track cassette recorders, the simon electronic game from 1978 and Mark chooses to lose his jailbreak.Be sure to visit http://www.slurpcast.com to check-out the current show notes!

Mark and Wes at Szechwan Chinese Restaurant in Orinda,CA.In this show, they talk about IPEVO Mini Nas, Facial Recognition, Picasa, Fart App Removal, Big Trak, Atari, Productive Music, Drumming Robots, Linux Sampler, and other tech news. Be sure to visit http://www.slurpcast.com to check-out the current show notes!

Mark and Wes at the Bulgogi House Restaurant in Concord,CA.In this show, they talk about the Acer 1610, iPad Pie Placemat, Wifi SSID Personification, Al Bernay Stories, Polaroid Instant Camera Photography, William Shatner will play the Dad in the 'Shit My Dad Says' TV show deal, and classified UFO documents get released. Be sure to visit http://www.slurpcast.com to check-out the current show notes!

Mark and Wes at Monsoon Masala in Pleasant Hill,CA.In this show, they talk about Mr. Edison's Kindle, 8-bit sound, iPad features, 8-track tapes, the Zilog Z80 processor, and a method to fake out DNA tests. Be sure to visit http://www.slurpcast.com to check-out the current show notes!

Click here to listen to the official audio showMark and Wes at Chef Chao's restaurant in Rheem, CA.Sites of Interest:MadTV made this video about the iPad before it was announced.History of the Apple Newton.Apple hired back one of the developers of the Newton.Details of the new Apple iPad.Haiti Earthquake Survivor Calls iPhone a Life Saver.Haiti Earthquake Relief: How You Can Help.AT&T Seeks to Phase Out Landline service.Spike Jonze video about robots in love.Online fan club for the other Spike Jones.NEC’s “Battery-Less” Remote Control Could Be The Future Of Gadget Power.The famous Dan Brown novel that Mark couldn't think of was The DaVinci Code.The Plastic Logic QUE ebook reader.YouTube Redesigned With Films, User Uploads in Mind.YouTube's Next Venture: Movie Rentals.Home page for the legitimate uses of BitTorrent.The Texas Instruments watch we discussed in a previous show is being used to unlock doors.ATM Card Skimmers Are Getting Frighteningly Sophisticated.Speaker system for pregnant women.Watch

Mark and Wes at Bo's BBQ in Lafayette,CA.Sites of Interest:New Google "near me now" features for iPhone and Android.Google takes a new approach with China.China is now the largest importer of cars2010 Will Be the Year of 3D TVHow different types of 3D glasses work.3D without glasses, works very much like the 3D postcards you see in souvenir shops.Nvidia 3D vision card and glasses for 3D on your home PC. Mark was wrong in being skeptical about this. He was assuming 3D would need polarization on the display screen and forgot the technology where the glasses have electronic filters that turn each eye's lens transparent and opaque in sequence to match the left and right pictures blinking alternatively on the display.TV goggles exist, but never seem to be good enough.The director of Avatar and Titanic made a 3D IMAX documentary called Ghosts of the Abyss about finding the wreck of the Titanic and exploring it with mini submarines containing IMAX cameras.Interview with James Cameron about the technology u

Mark, Wes, and guest Frankie at the Swad restaurant in Lafayette, CA Sites of Interest:The little-known Jewish holiday of Christmas Eve.Most Bay Area cellphone carriers now work in the BART Transbay tube. That article shows problems at first, but the service seems to be good now.Comparison of prepaid cell phone plans, including unlimited plans that compete with Metro PCS.If you aren't familiar with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's personality, please watch this video first so you will understand the context, then watch this Video of a guy who says Steve Ballmer personally fired him because he wasn't enthusiastic enough about the word "Bing!"Mark's puppy is a Bichon Frise.Nettop computers are miniature desktop machines that use basically notebook components so they are very small and use little electric power. Mark got an Acer Aspire Revo 1600 for $200 and is happy with it for the price.Taffic and runway lights with incandescent bulbs are being replaced with LED lights because they last far longer and u

Mark and Wes, at the California Pizza Kitchen on Van Ness in San Francisco. Sites of Interest:Fertility treatment may produce fewer baby boys.Why we know from genetics that grandmothers play favorites.This is the blood thinning drug that Mark is taking that requires a lot of testing to get the right dosageTwitter to make money in 2010 with non-traditional advertisingWhat is the President and his staff looking at?Wes mentioned this EZ430 sports watch and development platform. Mark ordered one from here for only $49 which includes the watch and all the tools. The ordering website didn't actually work to complete the order, so Mark ended up calling the phone number listed in the error message page and ordered it by phone.Buffalo USB 3.0 hard drive now on sale and also a USB 3.0 PCI adapter card.Mark bought Wes one of these for Bah Humbug day.Darpa’s Simulated Cat Brain Project a ‘Scam’?Tesla Motors IPO coming 'any day' nowChanges to Sarbanes-Oxley to ease costs for small firmsMark explains why you should only bu

Mark and  Wes at the Le Chaval restaurant in Walnut Creek CASites of interest:David Pogue on how the Motorola Droid is a "manly" phoneApple tablet rumors againHow to build a HackintoshApple Mac OSx updates flipflop on support for Atom processor Recovery.gov and Layar app layerAcer Liquid handheld with Android OS 1.6Second Canadian cellphone carrier gets iPhone, but has to switch to GSM to do it.Microsoft will drop Spot watch technology in 2012inPulse SmartWatch for BlackberryThis is probably the digital ink watch Wes was talking aboutUS losing domain name registry and non English characters for domain namesThe Motoroa Droid in the U.S. doesn't do multi-touchHybrid cars in 1901! by Ferdinand PorschGood article for starting out with Google Wave, once you get your invitation code and a complete eBook reference guide.Microsoft Comic Chat stilll lives and can still be installedTypeface Inspired by Comic Books Has Become a Font of Ill Will At prankdial, you can send prank phone calls to your friends for f

Mark, Wes, and Wes's dad at the Hotel Mac in Pt. Richmond, CA. Sites of Interest: Bully Sticks are NOT tendons or processed meat strips, no!  Bully Sticks are 100% ____ _______.History of the PC bus standards: ISA, Micro Channel, PCI.New eBook reader from Barnes and Noble, the Nook.  Mark thought this was the vaporware Plastic Logic reader that we talked about on a previous show because the announcements for that one months ago said it would be for B&N. It turns out the Plastic Logic Que announcements were true, but their reader will be a competitor to the Nook that will also be displayed in B&N stores and also use their eBook library.Mark's speculations were wrong, Sir Alan Michael Sugar did not invent sugar or the Sugar OS on OLPC devices.  But he did have a part in computer history.Will Linux take over from Windows on the desktop?  Probably not, but it is used a lot on server machines, along with FreeBSD, another open-source OS based on UNIX.How Algol and PL/I relate to other computer languages.Mar

Mark and Wes at Korean BBQ Plus in Concord, CA. Sites of Interest:Is it true that in Second Life you can walk uphill both ways to/from school (in the snow)?Read news fast with Google Fast Flip.Are there problems with iPhone 3.1?The Jailbreak is out for 3.1 for the older iPhones and iTouch's, but not for the 3G(S) or latest iTouch's.Saurik's article criticizing Apple's closed app store, and details about the eventual jailbreak for 3G(S) with 3.1 and what you should do to prepare for this.The History of Turntablism, and now DJ's have Pioneer's new CDJ-2000 DJ deck.History of mechanical music clocks.Kanye West crashes the Video Music Awards, then he crashes a presidential speech, President Obama calls him a jackass, and a website where he disses your website.Mark likes Baby Gramps because he plays the banjo at least sometimes.How large can memory cards get?  Toshiba announces a 64 GB SD card. The largest microSDHC we found for sale is 16 GB.The Broadcom chip in the new iPhone Touch is capable of 802.11n.The new

Mark and Wes at Bo's Barbeque in Lafayette, CA until the wasps and loud band-with-no-banjo forced us out, and then we went to a Starbucks. Sites of Interest: It's the 40th anniversary of Nerf.  Mark has one of these Nerf toys and this iPhone app to control it (although he hasn't gotten the app to work yet, possibly because his missile launcher looks identical, but has a different brand name on it).Wes complains about the Sima Hitch device we talked about last week.This is the type of wasp that attacks us in Lafayette (not our video).  Search this page for the word "wasps" to see how to trap them.Comparison of all Android phones so far, including the new Motorola CLIQ.Warning: Android and Blackberry phones can't run these important iPhone apps: Urinals: the Game, Pocket Bacon, Barf Puke-A-Thon, Puma Index, Sexy Flashlight Sexy, Hell Chicken, D-color_Picker, Blow and Touch, and Fart Tester (is that the picture a nose? Do we have dirty minds?).Steve Jobs: video at the Apple Keynote event, and interview

Mark and Wes at Pizza Antica in Lafayette, CA. Sites of Interest: The movie "9" comes out on 9/9/09.  The 9 Experiment is here.Information about USB On-The-Go.The Apple Camera Connector let you copy photos from certain digital cameras to your iPod.Wes is buying the Sima Hitch USB Transfer Device.Review of the new Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.Snow Leopard adds an anti-malware scanner and here's an example of Mac malware in the wild.  Macs have security vulnerabilities, and malware could target Macs.  Everyone says not to worry because there is no incentive to write such a thing, but Mac owners do online banking, etc., just like PC owners do, and are far less likely to have their systems protected by anti-virus software.  So Mark wonders why malware authors wouldn't go after Mac user's passwords and other valuable info?  And how do we know this isn't happening, since Mac owners don't run software to look for them?Snow Leopard: the 64-bit reality.Inside the new Microsoft retail stores.  Everyone forgets

Mark and Wes at the Peet's Coffee & Tea in Orinda, CA .Sites of Interest:On Earth, most methane in the atmosphere is produced by the ongoing, unstoppable farting of living things.Wes' stupid Blackberry phone can't even run the basic iPhone apps such as ManWax, Raoul the Dancing Pancake, My Little Cockroach, Gobbler, and Zombie Weatherman.Mark is reading the book: Zombie Survival Guide, and loved the movie Fido.Original District 9 short film.Radio Shack asks for our help changing their signs to "The Shack".Twitter is not popular with kids.Blaise Pascal invented the Pascaline, among other achievements. Here is a Pascaline simulator that works for only a few seconds, and then you are supposed to buy it. Cheap plastic adding machines that looked and worked like the Pascaline were popular before electronic calculators became cheap. Slide adding machines were also cheap and popular and worked on a similar principle.Consumer 3D cameras are coming back in digital form. Fuji has a FinePix REAL 3D handhel

Mark and Wes at Pizza Antica in Lafayette, CA. Sites of Interest: Wes' stupid Blackberry can't run these ordinary everyday highly-useful iPhone apps: Treadfinger, Static Chic, SEX-A-MA-PHONE, iDontFart, or the Amazing Radiation Detector.Computer History Museum in Mt. View, CA.Are developers for Windows Mobile worth more than 99 cents?Build an Apple-1 replica from a kit.Web-based Apple ][ and Apple IIgs emulators, including virtual disks for nearly every game ever made for these machines. Mark said The Prisoner is missing, but Prisoner and Prisoner II are there now in the Apple 2 Disks section.  The first one won't start, and Mark has no memory whatsoever of how to play II or why he used to like it.Run Windows applications on Linux, BSD, Solaris and Mac OS X with Wine.  (This is an acronym for "Wine Is Not an Emulator".)Judge ordered Microsoft to stop publishing Word and pay $hundreds of millions in fines.  Microsoft will appeal.Internet slowly wakes up to PayPal's quiet fee hike.DJ Mouse Lets You Si

Mark and Wes at the LeCheval Vietnamese Restaurant in Walnut Creek, CA .Sites of Interest:Mark used his iPhone to test the restaurant for ghosts using GhostRecorder.Creative Labs introduces Zii Plaszma, the StemCell Computing Platform.Early BART ticket counterfeiting. Cap'n Crunch caught doing this.Hackers counterfeiting San Francisco parking meter cards.O.R.B. Bluetooth Ear Ring: wear it as a ring on your finger, open it into a Bluetooth headset.How the old Napster worked. Shawn Fanning's latest venture.Steve Jobs spotted at the Apple campus and backstage at a Coldplay concert.Various rumors of new iPod Touch and Apple Tablet devices.Build an appliance or your own custom Linux distro with Suse Studio.Sprint buys Virgin Mobile.Microsoft, Yahoo! agree on Internet search partnership.Jerry Springer plays Billy Flynn in the musical "Chicago" in London and maybe Broadway.David Pogue's "Take Back the Beep" campaign, and his book "The World According to Twitter".Apple releases a softwar

Mark and Wes at the Ohgane Korean BBQ in Oakland, CA .Sites of Interest:Amazon CEO apologizes for removing George Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm digital books from Kindle machines that had already purchased them.History of Amazon Acquisitions and Investments, including Zappos.com for $920 million.An old article about the history of Novell Netware, showing its importance at the time.iPhone factory worker committed suicide (or was pushed?) after being interrogated (tortured?) about a missing prototype.Plastic Logic will ship an ebook reader using AT&T cellular data service.New version of Palm Pre webOS lets it sync with iTunes again, and the legal fight begins.A Blackberry firmware update offered by UAE mobile carrier Etisalat was designed to spy on users.Mark thinks this and this are a lot worse than a country spying on Blackberries.CEO of AT&T said iPhone will not always be exclusive with them.Google maps had the moon for some time, and now the Google Earth program can be used to view the moon.Top 20 s

Mark and Wes at the Korean Bulgogi House in Concord, CA .Sites of Interest:Mark mentioned hostgator.com for hosting WordPress blogs and many other types of web pages and services.Wes' stupid Blackberry can't even run basic iPhone apps like these: Fartoscopes, Big Mouth, and TubaFollow.Zoho has free and low-cost productivity, collaboration, and business apps. They just added a way to export your Access databases to the web.Rear Admiral Dr. Grace Murray Hopper was the first woman to receive a Ph.D. in Mathematics and is also credited with having written the first high-level language compiler, and for leading the effort to develop the COBOL programming language.History of Borland International, and Will The Real Frank Borland Please Stand Up?Fancy fast food: yeah, it's still bad for you, but look see how good it can look!Universal/TuneCore deal opens major doors for indie artists.Peter Pancreas Pimple still uses WebTV.VLC media player 1.0 officially released after more than 10 years of work.The Story of the Fail

Mark and Wes at the Back Forty Texas BBQ in Pleasant Hill, CA .Sites of Interest: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 lot more than he thought he would.Same story with the new iPhone: our show was going on rumors, but the iPhone 3G S has now been announced and should be available for purchase on June 19.If Mark decides to get the new iPhone 3G S, his old 3G should get better than normal value on eBay because he has been careful to maintain compatibility with Yellowsn0w so his phone can be unlocked to work with foreign SIM cards.iPhone OS 3.0 is supposed to have Parental Controls to restrict which tier of apps can run, and therefore Apple may relax their restrictions on types of apps in the App Store.History of the Xerox Corporation and how xerography works.Ditto machines were a very cheap way to make multiple copies of a master. You can still

Mark, Wes, and guest @besz at Bo's BBQ in Lafayette, CA .Sites of Interest: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 who wired plug boards the first programmers?Purse that is a cross between a Nintendo and a Commodore 64.History of Commodore Computers and pictures of the Pet.The Remington Rand Univac was the first use of a high-speed printer.Early-day line printers used chains and other mechanical technologies to print one entire line at a time.Computer music using an IBM 1403 chain printer.Modern video of making music with vintage personal computer equipment.Will people pay for custom Facebook URL's?Mark thinks this is all bullshit bullshit bullshit: the Tapeworm Diet.Wes mentioned worms that eat infected flesh, but he probably meant medical leeches.Get your free "chimp id". M