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 …
Buzz Out Loud 853: The Netbook and the girl
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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Buzz Out Loud 852: Tempest in a Twitter teapot
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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Buzz Out Loud 851: Boxcar Jack is looking for you at HoboBook.com!
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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Buzz Out Loud 850: Cooley hates space
We try to get all sentimental about the demise of the Mars Phoenix lander, but Brian Cooley ruins it with his outlandish assertions about the uselessness of space. Plus, he loses his mind about the crappiness of the BlackBerry Curve. In sum, a good time is had by all. Buzz Out Loud episodes are released …
Buzz Out Loud 849: Who you callin’ barmaid, larper?
A friendly member of Buzztown calls up to tell us how he named his Dungeons and Dragons characters after the core Buzz team. It all seems fine and dandy until he gets to Molly. Ahem. Not cool, guy. In actual news today, earbuds can be dangerous to your health (if you use a pacemaker), Circuit …
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Buzz Out Loud 848: Delayed gratification
We’re getting Windows 7 at the end of 2009! Although Microsoft won’t make that official. We’re getting USB 3.0! Though not until 2010. Songbird is almost out in a full version. But it’s still just a release candidate. Microsoft is going open source! Buzz Out Loud episodes are released in their original audio form. Some …
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Buzz Out Loud 847: Don’t stand behind the hologram
The U.S. Army prepares to test and deploy ghost soldiers in MMORPGS and possibly also the real world. They may be decoys, folks, but remember: they’re still light-based projections that won’t stop a bullet. Also, it appears Apple will finally activate over-the-air podcast downloads for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Which, yeah. Ya think? Geez. …
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Buzz Out Loud 846: The sub-prime software market
Think you’ve seen the worst of the global financial collapse? Well, you haven’t. Microsoft’s dipping its toe into sub-prime software lending, otherwise known as providing free software to startups making less than $1 million. We’d call it the crack dealer model, but it doesn’t have the same current events gravitas. Also today: we can now …
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Buzz Out Loud 845: BOL the vote
Hey, here’s a thought: an free, open-source video codec that could be universally portable and playable. I’d vote for that, wouldn’t you? In other news of the day, Dash stops making hardware to focus on software, Apple brings in an IBM guy to run the iPod division (other than Steve Jobs), and BlackBerry sneaks the …