News

• Tweeter is closing 1/3 of its stores and… no one really seems to mind
• Apple TV has been shipped… and licked (by Olivia Munn!)
  
• Emma Watson (and the other 2 goobers) have officially signed contracts to finish Harry Potter movie series. Um… yeah?
• Xbox Live was hacked – or was it? Social Engineering is apparently still viable!
• Toshiba has announced a price drop on its HD DVD players – yeah!
  

Tech Toy

• Bozric has picked up a shiny new 24″ Intel iMac
  

Movie Review

• Casino Royale – 007’s latest romp, now available on DVD… and it’s EXCELLENT!!!
  

I’m just happy to play here

Anyway, here’s the latest episode’s notes:

News

• Robert Adler, co-father of the wireless TV remote passed away this month. We salute you, Bob, for letting us all get fat and lazy!
  
• Beer goggles have been scientifically proven to be true – TADA!
• Bozric’s found yet another useless USB gadget, the singing Rain Sensor
  
• Vista’s Speech Recognition could leave you vulnerable to a website actually TELLING your computer to delete your files
  
• The Wii is having some intermittent problems with 480p output

Tech Toy

• Sethran bought a Nintendo Wii – he really likes it… Bozric thought it was fun but probably won’t be buying anytime soon

Movies

• Lady in the Water – One of M. Night Shyamalan’s better efforts. Seth & Boz both downloaded the HD version from Xbox Live
  
• Crank – Sethran enjoyed it more than Boz did
  

Excuse me!

So we hit the high points of the keynote for MacWorld (if we have to explain it to you, you shouldn’t be listening)

1. Apple TV — neat concept, we don’t need it
   
2. iPhone (not Linksys’s) — looks cool, too bad it’s on Cingular and costs more than a Corvette
   
3. New Airport Extreme — it’s fast, but not too fast
   
4. More movies on iTunes, but we don’t know from whom
5. Axiotron makes the ModBook
   

Movie Review — A Scanner Darkly
I thought it was cool, Bozric hated it but then proceded to watch it 3 times. Go figure.

It’s like Mozart!

News

• New LAN (network) speed record
• Humping Dog USB Gadget
• Email registry for sex offenders
• Cowardly Lion suit sells on eBay for $700K!

Tech Toy

• Macbook Pro (2nd Gen)
  

Movies

• Superman Returns
  
• Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
  

GramPawcast

• December 12th you’ll be able to pre-order the long-awaited Optimus-103 Keyboard. Still no word on price or when it’ll ship, but you can give the Russian developers money
  
• The Wii came out today and there have already been 2 reported dead
• The president of Universal says all iPod owners are thieves – and he wants a $1
• RIAA, in yet another lawsuit, now has to justify their $750 per song fee
• For only $30, you too can have your very own, very creepy Personal Pasta Singer
  
• Our tech toy is the Xbox 360 HD-DVD player, available now
• And our movie review for this show is Mission: Impossible III, which we both liked even though we both don’t like Tom Cruise
  

Oh – and we’re giving a quick shout-out to Lockjaw for featuring us in his latest show, which can be found here: http://thepodcastjunkie.com/

Phlegmy, the eighth dwarf

News

• New Browsers
  Firefox 2.0 and IE 7
• Web Rage
  The Internet is all the rage, especially in Britian
• Relakks
  Company in Sweden that lets you dial in & surf from overseas
• Fried Coke
  Little tiny balls of fried coke goodness
  
  

Tech Toy

• uBreakUp.com
  When you’re too lazy or spineless to break up with the one you (don’t) love

Movie (okay, so this one’s a TV show)

• Heroes — Mondays at 9/8c on NBC
  The best new series of the season is on NBC (especially since Lost is blowing chunks this season)

What do you want? I’m full of chili.

Anyway, here are our topics for this show:

• The latest Apple rumor is that they are, in time for Christmas this year, updating the MacBook Pro line to include the new Core2Duo processors – and Sethran rejoiced greatly
• Some time next year, Daewoo will be selling a voice-activated microwave. We have to ask… WHY???
• It’s official! Google is purchasing You Tube for $1.6 Billion in stock. There are a couple of twenty-somethings that are so drunk right now!
• A Ukrainian scientist has invented a condom that plays music during sex, and again we have to ask… WHY???
  
• We both have shiny new Samsung LCD TVs:
  Sethran has the LNR377D, available exclusively at Sam’s Club
  Bozric has the LNS4051D, available everywhere else
  
• And our movie for this episode is X-Men III: The Last Stand, available now on DVD
  

Everybody Sniff!

• Microsoft has released the Xbox Live Vision, a web cam peripheral for your beloved 360
  
• Yahoo, after much success with the personalized DRM-free song, has decided to expand the concept to an actual album… anyone know who Jesse McCartney is?
• J Allard, Microsoft uber-dork, says the iPod is the Pong of Digital Audio
• iTunes is now selling movies… and they sold 125,000 in their first week!
• Intel announced that, rather than 1st Quarter of 2007, their Core 2 Quad chips will actually ship 4th Quarter of this year – and they’re smokin’!
• Viewsonic debuted their new iPod-enabled monitor, only you can’t use your iPod directly with the monitor
• IF you have an iPod AND you like to party, don’t leave home without your very own iBreath iPod Alcohol Breathalyzer
  
• Bozric already has one of the new 8GB iPod Nanos – and loves it

And what show would be complete without a movie review or two:

• Lucky Number Slevin – we both loved it!
  
• Kiss Kiss Bang Bang – also an excellent movie
  
  Someone please convince Robert Downey, Jr. to stay clean and sober!

Don’t lick my ankles!

No.

You are not.

The batteries in the recorder died at the end of the “show.” This time, I actually have what we recorded, but because the batteries were weak, the audio levels all tanked – they’re so low (how low are they?) Lindsey Wagner would have a hard time hearing it.

So, we’ll try again… but I’m thinking we’ll skip ahead to Episode 37.

Hang in there!
Boz

P.S. Buy a shirt or something.