On today’s show, we learn that there’s little difference between nuclear war and horseshoes, at least in the close enough department. Also, a new segment: This Week in Cooley! Plus, a flurry of online news including mobile scheduling for your TiVo, the travesty of the teacher and the porn pop-ups, and Chrome is the king …
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Rafe and Molly square off over the re-use of air conditioning technology, the fail whale sinks a deal between Facebook and Twitter, Gmail is cracked, and an enterprising astronaut creates the ultimate in must-have space tech: a zero-G coffee cup. Buzz Out Loud episodes are released in their original audio form. Some metadata supplementation and/or …
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So we talked about a lot of serious news today including the Justin.TV suicide, the new Google wiki search and the unauthorized access of Barack Obama’s Verizon calling records. But really, Rafe’s description of net-connected Deer is what I’ll remember about this episode. How about you? Buzz Out Loud episodes are released in their original …
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In today’s show, we find out that the demise of humanity is imminent (or that all of our robot mythology is fundamentally rooted in self-hatred), the RIM BlackBerry Storm takes the world by drizzle, and Microsoft hopes that actually giving you songs will convince you to buy a Zune. Oh, and we don’t care about …
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We discover a fun new tautology on today’s show (you know, competition … for the win?), have a fun time goofing off with Brian Tong, rail against Apple’s decision to include HDCP restrictions in its new MacBooks, and rejoice at the arrival of Netflix streaming on the Xbox 360 (minus a few select Sony movies, …
On today’s show, Brian Cooley announces that he’s made the switch … I mean, the big switch. He bought an iPhone. The world briefly stopped rotating, and when it resumed, we laid down the smack on poor Jerry Yang, the Justice Department, the XM-Sirius merger and subsequent channel flipping, and some poor guy who thought …
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We thought about calling this podcast graves in space, or delicious Yak, or Jason makes the earth move. But soup_n_salad in the chat room nailed it. A new company wants to send 5,000 capsules full of cremated remains to the moon for burial. Natali and Jason think this is littering, essentially. I think they gotta …
On today’s Buzz Out Loud, sage dating tips from a bunch of old married people. Meanwhile, Microsoft launches an online store where you can go buy things if you like to pay more than you have to, a girl offers to pimp your startup for a mere $75 a day and we give her about …
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Turns out a lot of people are all too happy to hand over their password to some unknown Website just to find out if they’re popular. Oh, people. When will you learn? Also, Microsoft Live gets a purpose, Valleywag loses its teeth, the BlackBerry Storm gets a release date, and we’re all going to become …
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Social networking finally reaches its most underserved niche: the hobos. Look for Tom to officially join the Hobo Nation any day now. In other news of the day, Caroline McCarthy joins us for a rollicking discussion of the Washington Post’s war on spam, and Molly most likely gets herself fired from CBS and kicked off …
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