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News

The blogs are screaming that the end is near
Filing for bankruptcy, 3.4 billion in debt
Satellite airtime is waaay expensive
reliant upon new car sales, economy tanking = less sales = less subscribers
Insider Information: Sirius XM looking to restructure and cut costs but don't plan to go out of business

3G wireless, Cloud Friendly (backups to cloud and syncing), Thinner than IPhone, 16 shades of grey, 2GB Storage, mini USB Charging, Longer battery life (2 weeks), Pleasant Text to Speech, 5-way button navigation instead of the old up-and-down wheel.

Downside: $357, Proprietary system (.AZW), Doesn't support MobiPocket or PDF's, 1 Device Forever Amen... (blech). At least Zunes and IPods can play non-proprietary .mp3's
Interesting Comparison vs. standard EBooks
Chart for Comparison's Found Here
Hacking: Reading Encrypted Mobibooks on Kindle Devices
Competitors: Cybook (supports mobipocket ebooks: specs , $325), SONY PRS-505 (all formats, new books only from sony store which is nascent, no wireless, $299)
FREE EBOOKS FOR KINDLE (maybe move this to next week on a how-to)

Make sure you have a usb keyboard and mouse handy
Backup your PS3 to a USB drive (save games, user preferences, etc)
Sync your Trophies with the server
Go get a version of Ubuntu 8.10 and make sure you burn the alternate install disc to DVD
Settings -> System Settings -> Install Other OS automatically installs a dual booter
Plop the DVD into the cd tray and just follow most of the defaults
Pair your Bluetooth keyboard and mouse with the system (keyboard will be problematic but MX1100 should happen automatically with the bluetooth utility)
Grab Sixaxis Bluetooth Package.tar.gz and unzip it on your Ubuntu desktop.
Double click to install the packages inside, first the "bluez-sixaxis-bin_powerpc.deb" package and then the one named "bluez-sixaxis_rc1.1_all.deb.
Applications -> Accessories -> Sixaxis-gui to enable your sixaxis.
Now you have fully working Ubuntu on your machine
Remember that all X86 packages won't work because it's a cell processor but the SNESX emulator can (see our show notes for instructions on this)

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This will give the customer free ground shipping in the continental U.S.

Gamer's Corner (Conferences, New Developments, Game Reviews)

Last 4 Paragraphs, go look at all the links, This seems to be a pattern lately and we can talk about it.

What is it (Reciprocal of Chinese New Year)
Raid boss to kill
Lots of coin collecting (75 total) and marching across the map to find the NPC's that have the coins (think giant scavenger hunt)

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