• Record Gas Prices 20 Straight Days
• How Many have to Die for iPhone's 3G <-- this is a story full of exaggerated conjecture, and no real facts (Steven Responding :Exxagerated conjecture can be fun as long as we treat it like a gag)
  
• Google I/O<-- How techie do you want to go, because most people listening to talk radio aren't going to care about this.
  
• The Point
• RIM / BlackBerry
• iPhone
• Java Clients
• Samsung
• about 14 total platforms if you are serious about mobile
  
• Enter... Android
  
• World class webkit browser: Google Web Toolkit
  
• Pan around Street View
  
• Offline Content
• Google Gears
• HTML 5
• Amazon Ready to Unbox Video Streaming for Digital Movies
• They already do pay-per-download
  
• New Image-recognition Software lets Computers see like Humans do
• Some researchers at MIT have found a way to easily identify the subject of an image with only a small number of pixels
• If the concept can be honed, it could lead towards being able to index images across the internet with ease
• What's the minimum a human needs to see in order to recognize the subject of an image? The researchers say only 32x32 pixels (about the size of a Windows desktop icon)
  
• Tivo Adds Another VOD Service
• Tivo has had a VOD service for a while now. They use Amazon's UnBox service for this.
• Now they have announced a deal with CinemaNow to (at the very least) get Disney content.
• This shows that Tivo is willing to partner with more than one VOD service (any takers on Netflix coming to Tivo within the year?)
• This is also good for Tivo because there was a lack of VOD on their end before the Unbox deal and the more they add to their boxes, the more value they add to that 19.95/month subscription fee you'll pay for their box.
  

Tech Picks [Derek] (Software, Hardware, Websites, Reviews)

• Summize - Search Twitter Conversations
  
• Seesmic - Think Twitter, but with video
• If you have a webcam and you like the idea behind Twitter, you might want to take a look at Seesmic.
• Currently Alpha (pre-beta) & invite only, this service allows you to create short little videos that can then be uploaded. You can also record directly from the webpage, so no uploading necessary.
• The interface is slick and the concept might be overkill but they are working with various blogs to allow the ability to do video comments (see TechCrunch or Disqus).
• After using this a few times, I have to say the concept is extremely interesting. You are left with videos between 15 seconds and 1:30 long. People hold entire conversations this way. You can follow people like on Twitter or you can just select a specific conversation (it keeps a running tab on the more recent/popular ones).
• Microsoft Research WorldWide Telescope
• We talked about this two-three weeks ago
• As I recall I was told that "Google Sky is better because you don't have to download anything"
  
• Build a Square-Foot Garden
• Thanks to Steven's kid, I have been recently shoehorned into subscribing to Wired again and somehow square foot gardening caught my attention?!?
• When you think of growing your own food, you probably think of endless rows of corn, the middle of nowhere, people in overalls and dial-up internet.
• With high-speed internet and no room to drive a tractor (well at least most of us)
• Based on a method of farming call biointensive which you can read lots about on Wikipedia, this cool little way to plant stuff that uses very little "land" and yields a fair amount of edible produce.
• There's even a guy that's written a book about it.
• VideoAssist
• Enables you to store the VIDEO_TS folders and access them from the nice Front Row interface.
• It uses some Applescript to do some fancy footwork in the background, it actually uses the Apple DVD player software and closes Front Row when you select a specific hard-drive based DVD.
• Perian
• Free, open source, plugin for Quicktime on Mac
• Adds support for
  
• AVI, FLV, and MKV file formats
• MS-MPEG4 v1 & v2, DivX, 3ivX, H.264, FLV1, FSV1, VP6, H263I, VP3, HuffYUV, FFVHuff, MPEG1 & MPEG2 Video, Fraps, Windows Media Audio v1 & v2, Flash ADPCM, Xiph Vorbis (in Matroska), MPEG Layer II Audio
• AVI support for: AAC, AC3 Audio, H.264, MPEG4, and VBR MP3
• Subtitle support for SSA and SRT

• Free Browser Game: Epsilon
• Puzzle Game
• "Manipulate Time and Space to Solve the puzzles
• Follow the bouncing ball
• Use wormholes to teleport the ball around and get tokens
• Very challenging in its later stages
  
• Race Driver: GRID demo races to a million downloads
• Mario to Anime - Too much damn time on their hands
• Synchronized Mario with random anime songs
• The sound effects are pitch perfect and on beat a lot of the times
• 11 minutes of goodness (we need to get some of this on the show)
  
• WoW Kil'jaeden down
• Latest and greatest end-boss in Sunwell Plateau
• SK-Gaming
  
• Down 3 days after released to the EU servers
• Downed 3 days later by a North America Guild