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What's New is Old

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Mark Bernay & Wes get together once a week to eat dinner and chew and slurp into a microphone. Oh, yeah, we also discuss the latest technology and Internet news and often relate the new items to older technology.

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Go Rift Yourself

April 01, 2016 01:00 - 45 minutes - 24.7 MB

Mark, Wes, & SteveO at a secret location in Oakland, CA. Sites of Interest: Oculus Rift Review: VR’s Rising Star Isn’t Ready for the Mainstream The first totally immersive home virtual reality rig is a pricey, awkward, isolating—and occasionally brilliant—glimpse of the future of computing. SoundCloud Launches Its Subscription Service, Go SoundCloud is launching a subscription service. It's called Go. It's $9.99 a month, with a 30-day-free demo. It's ad-free. But most importantly, it has ...

I'm Tay

March 25, 2016 01:00 - 45 minutes - 24.7 MB

Mark, Wes, & SteveO at a secret location in Oakland, CA. Sites of Interest: Microsoft says it's making 'adjustments' to Tay chatbot after Internet 'abuse' Microsoft's 'social experiment' revealed a lot about Internet culture. FBI director says fight with Apple about terrorism, not setting precedent "You are simply wrong to assert that the FBI and the Justice Department lied...." Apple is boring now At a lightning-fast press event yesterday (March 21), Apple announced a spate of product u...

BART Idiot Hall of Fame

March 11, 2016 01:00 - 45 minutes - 24.7 MB

Mark, Wes, & SteveO at a secret location in Oakland, CA. Sites of Interest: Google I/O 2016 is Fast Approaching: Android N, Nexus 7 (2016) and More - Neurogadget Android is the most used mobile operating system in the world. For this group, there is nothing that excites them more than the annual Google I/O. Usually, the company uses this event to unveil its newest hardware and software developments. As a result, industry experts are already up and running, trying to figure out what Text-T...

Tap that Dot!

March 04, 2016 01:00 - 45 minutes - 24.7 MB

Mark, Wes & SteveO, at a secret location in Oakland, CA. Sites of Interest: A day with the HTC Vive. 'Ghostbusters' reboot trailer is here Amazon debuts two smaller and cheaper Echos J.J. Abrams Continues Galactic Takeover, Now Producing Google Lunar XPrize Documentary Oculus founder says no Mac is powerful enough to run the Rift A sci-fi film from 1970 predicted the selfie stick, but better The Amazon Tap Latest processors only support Windows 10 What versions of old Windows can b...

Billions and Billions of Years from Now

February 19, 2016 01:03 - 45 minutes - 24.7 MB

Mark, Wes, Steveo & Bob O' Rob, at a secret location in Oakland, CA. Show notes can be found on the main www.slurpcast.com site

Mark Actually Whipped The Llama's Ass

February 14, 2016 07:03 - 45 minutes - 24.7 MB

Mark, Wes, and Snuck415 at a secret location in Oakland, CA. Sites of Interest: Nexus 5X or Nexus 6P: Which one should you buy? LG’s six-day-old smartwatch canceled due to “image quality issues” Snuck is wearing the original LG Urbane Apple Watch 2 rumors E-SIM for consumers—a game changer in mobile telecommunications? Classic watch complications 25 Best Third-Party Apple Watch Complications Mark likes the app My Bus Times for iPhone and especially Apple Watch What Microsoft got ri...

We make the Internet great again

February 12, 2016 01:03 - 45 minutes - 24.7 MB

Mark and Wes at a secret location in Oakland, CA. Sites of Interest: The Innernette A Brief History of AOL USB - Micro SD card reader, butt plug and data storage dongle! No UI is the New UI; i.e. the return of the command prompt Examples of modern apps based on a messaging interface: Slack, Campfire, Operator. Order an Uber using Facebook Messenger You can now play Chess in Facebook Messenger All Bluetooth devices will be able to access the Internet directly without going through a ...

Dad Bod

February 05, 2016 07:03 - 45 minutes - 24.7 MB

mark, wes, and steveo at a secret location in oakland, ca. show notes can be found on the main www.slurpcast.com site

Mark once petted Johnny Knoxville's Cat.

January 19, 2016 06:15 - 45 minutes - 24.7 MB

Mark, Wes, and Tdawg at King Valley Chinese Restaurant in Pinole, CA. Sites of Interest: Chai Energy ZigBee protocol Heart surgeon visualized a tricky operation with Google Cardboard You too can play surgery with Cardboard You can get your Google Cardboard here View-Master Virtual Reality Samsung Gear VR powered by Oculus Oculus Rift pre-order VR sickness Don’t Fear Artificial Intelligence Our Fear of Artificial Intelligence Movie Ex Machina Books About AI That You MUST Read, A...

Is Trump as HUGE as Steve Jobs?

January 18, 2016 02:40 - 33 minutes - 24.7 MB

Mark, Wes, and Steve-o at California Pizza Kitchen in Emeryville, CA. Sites of Interest: San Jose, CA's City Hall has a glass rotunda Pixar Headquarters and the Legacy of Steve Jobs Battle of the Santa Trackers How to find your Uber passenger rating How to call an Uber car from within Facebook Messenger The Scottish are very cheap Electronic Muscle Stimulation: TENS unit , Slendertone First Ever "Fat Burning"/Shaker Machine Scott Adams, author of Dilbert, has a blog that often disc...

Drop the "the"

December 30, 2015 07:12 - 33 minutes - 24.7 MB

Mark, Wes, and Bob-o-Rob at Ma Me Restaurant in Oakland, CA. Sites of Interest: Ben Carson and pyramids Facebook Live Video and Collages Drop the "the" Amazon's been profitable lately, but don't expect it to last Will Tesla ever make money? NASA says Mars surface blew off by solar winds Amazon opened a real book store Powell's City of Books in Portland Plane forced to make emergency landing because of sheep farts New strain of Android malware is 'virtually impossible' to remove D...

The new Microsoft

November 04, 2015 05:17 - 1 hour - 24.7 MB

Mark and Wes at a secret location in Oakland, CA. Sites of Interest: Please stop, I'm bored. Microsoft unveils Surface Pro 4, Band 2, Lumia 950, HoloLens developer edition. Microsoft HoloLens. How Microsoft's HoloLens actually works. New Microsoft Lumia 950 and Lumia 950XL phones. The new Lumia Phones have Continuum to turn a monitor into a PC. Microsoft Display Dock for Continuum. USB Type-C port standard. Microsoft Surface Pro 4. Microsoft Surface Book. The story behind the Sur...

Constitution? NSA? Really?

June 21, 2013 06:00 - 59 minutes - 36.5 MB

Mark Wes, and Bob O'Rob at the Hilton Garden Inn in Sonoma. Sites of Interest: Lawsuit about Happy Birthday Belt made out of inner tubes Will Wheaton and Neil Tyson video Will Wheaton and the video toaster Logan's Run remake Batteries made out of crab shells Surface Pro SETI at Home (which Microsoft officer sponsored it?) Study Warps in Space at home Instagram Video Tiger Direct president indicted History of metal detectors Foursquare Time Machine Google location history Site...

The Lazy Shit Show

April 19, 2013 06:00 - 49 minutes - 497 MB

Mark Wes, and Bob O'Rob at the Emeryville Market food court. We decided to record a show today without any kind of edit or post clean-up. Our reason for doing this is to make up for all of the times we have been late in posting new shows. We are perfectionists, and sometimes that means we spend a week on show notes, or several days editing our audio files. For this show, we give you the raw unedited, unclean episode of "The Lazy Shit Show". And also no show notes.

Does Dr. Dre have an RFID tag in his hand?

March 15, 2013 06:00 - 50 minutes - 31.3 MB

Mark Wes, and Bob O'Rob at the Emeryville Market food court. Sites of Interest: Samsung Galaxy S4 T-Mobile’s MetroPCS Merger Opponents Gaining Traction After Finding Mars Was Habitable, Curiosity Rover to Keep Roving Matthew Keys denies charges in 'Anonymous' case 'Bates Motel' Is One Seriously Weird Show How Dr. Dre Made $300 Headphones a Must-Have Accessory Berkeley creates the first graphene earphones, and they’re awesome Graphene -- Unexpectedly Amazing Carbon-Based Energy Form ...

Rat Brains and Gorilla Arms

February 28, 2013 16:16 - 50 minutes - 31.3 MB

Mark & Wes at the California Pizza Kitchen in San Francisco. Sites of Interest: We are using the Blue Yeti Pro microphones Mark has a Lattissima Plus Nespresso, Wes has a Gran Maestria. Elisha Otis invented the safety brake for passenger elevators Movie Pass - subscription service for unlimited movies in theaters nationwide Prima Cinema brings movies to home theaters on the day of the release for $500 a pop Academy members get DVDs of new movies to watch at home before voting Torani ...

Can you feed your Tamagotchi on a Blackberry?

February 22, 2013 06:00 - 43 minutes - 26.8 MB

Click here to listen to the official audio show Mark & Wes at the Westfield Shopping Centre in San Francisco. Sites of Interest: Book: The Victorian Internet Emulate Xperia SmartTags Functionality with Smart(QR)Tags Android app Tasker There Is Such Thing As a Flipboard for Porn Chromebooks Chromium OS for your own PC Yes you can use the new Chromebook offline PlayStation 4 Has 16x More RAM Than PS3 or Xbox 360 Microsoft Xbox 720 rumors Music synthesizers with Virtual Studio Techn...

Mr. Ballmer, tear down that wall!

February 08, 2013 06:00 - 51 minutes - 29.6 MB

Click here to listen to the official audio show Mark & Wes at the California Pizza Kitchen in San Francisco. Sites of Interest: Nespresso adds a new Grand Cru The Pantone color system HTC gives a huge smartphone its own Mini feature phone Harman Kardon stereo bluetooth headsets Rumors of the Apple iWatch Silicon Valley Job Growth Now Matches the Dot-Com Boom Biotech will be the next big thing. Robotics will be the next big thing. How Robotic Surgery Will Work Nokia releases 3D-pr...

Mark and Wes' new religion has a hangup about bathtubs

February 07, 2013 07:04 - 51 minutes - 28.6 MB

Mark & Wes at the Nespresso Boutique in San Francisco. Sites of Interest: Hold on! That's my bathtub!  Book: "Exploding the phone" by Phil Lapsley Mark mentioned the Steve Jobs book, but said the author's name wrong Acer Sees Success in Chrome; Windows 8 Fails to Drive Sales  HP Pavilion Chromebook Lenovo ThinkPad Chromebook Radio Shack APM-200 Power Meter Lets You See The Music 30th Anniversary of MIDI The Truth About MIDI Latency BlackBerry Maker Unveils New Line and New Name T...

Can you 3D print a replacement dog nose?

January 04, 2013 06:00 - 29 minutes - 14.1 MB

Mark and Wes started at the Nespresso Boutique in San Francisco with guest Geary the Russian (who doesn't exist, and neither do you.) The show was finished at a Starbucks Sites of Interest: Mark has a Bullshit button. Geek girl uses a Rasberry Pi to make a little box of geek. Embracing 3D Printers, Manufacturer Tells Customers to Print Their Own Replacement Parts. Dentists can make crowns in their office 3D printing has been around for decades in the form of automated milling machines....

Now is the time for Ebay Now

December 28, 2012 06:00 - 1 hour - 32.2 MB

Mark & Wes at EmeryBay Food Court CPK in Emeryville, CA, USA. In this show: Mark's Links: Ebay Now: https://now.ebay.com/ Raspberry PI SuperComputer: http://phys.org/news/2012-09-raspberry-pi-supercomputer.html Google Unveils New Ultra-Slim Samsung Chromebook: http://mashable.com/2012/10/18/samsung-chromebook/ OhMiBod: http://www.ohmibod.com/app/ Wes' Links: Rechargeable Espresso Maker: http://gizmodo.com/5969064/rechargeable-espresso-maker-the-most-insane-way-to-stay-caffeinated Ac...

One Infinite Loop - a tribute to steve jobs

October 14, 2011 06:00 - 1 hour - 52.8 MB

Mark, Wes, Bob o' Rob at CPK in San Francisco, CA. The team dedicates this show to the passing of Steve Jobs. Each of us shares our personal experience with him, and we share opinions about his success and failures.   Be sure to visit http://www.slurpcast.com to check-out the current show notes!

To the Moon, Private Sector!

August 26, 2011 06:00 - 53 minutes - 52.8 MB

Mark, Wes, Bob o' Rob & Frankie at CPK in San Francisco, CA. In this show: Steve Resigns from Apple, HP drops Desktops & Web OS & Touchpads kinda, China gets iPhones kinda, Windows 8 is cool kinda, and other funny tech news.   Be sure to visit http://www.slurpcast.com to check-out the current show notes!

Showing our age

May 27, 2011 06:00 - 1 hour - 52.8 MB

Mark, Wes & Bob o' Rob at a hidden meeting place in San Francisco, CA. In this show: Early loss of show control, Japan disaster site storage facility, Rapture delays, Thoughts on Microsoft & Skype purchase, Google Wallet may not work, Pay me in BitCoins!, Kindle usage not so great, Yes you can get a great laptop now for under $500.00.   Be sure to visit http://www.slurpcast.com to check-out the current show notes!

A ton of good in this world

April 15, 2011 06:00 - 1 hour - 52.8 MB

Mark, Wes & Bob o' Rob at the Mel's Drive-In, in San Francisco, CA. In this show, iPad iCade, 360 Netflix Kinect Update, Asus Honeycomb Tablet, RIM Playbook, Windows Mobile used to run a lot of apps, Repulsive Forces on Muni, Bob & Wes talk about Afro's, 1961 Yuri Gargarin first man in space controversy, and other random bits of tech opinions.   Be sure to visit http://www.slurpcast.com to check-out the current show notes!

Shatner woke up the Space Shuttle

March 25, 2011 06:00 - 1 hour - 52.8 MB

Mark, Wes & Bob o' Rob at the WestField Shopping Center in San Francisco, CA. In this show, wes talk about Elizabeth Taylor's passing, William Shatner broadcasting a wake up call for the crew of the Space Shuttle, online news has taken over paper news, orders for iPad2's have slowed slightly, the FCC has a spine?, starting to see applications being supported by consumer appliances and automobiles. Bob also speaks a bit about smoking.   Be sure to visit http://www.slurpcast.com to check-ou...

Apple sold a ButtLoad of iPad2's

March 18, 2011 06:00 - 55 minutes - 52.8 MB

Mark, Wes & Bob o' Rob at the California Pizza Kitchen in San Francisco, CA. In this show, we talk about the crisis in Japan, iPad2 sales, what would we be without GPS?, old box of cereal for sale on eBay from 1972, Mark wants to take a bath in a tub filled with Captain Crunch Whistles, Hadron Super Collider is really a time machine and Wes gets his hands on an HTC ThunderBolt. As always, Mark talks about his Kraps.   Be sure to visit http://www.slurpcast.com to check-out the current sho...

Our thoughts on iPad2

March 11, 2011 06:00 - 1 hour - 52.8 MB

Mark, Wes & Bob o' Rob at the California Pizza Kitchen in San Francisco, CA. In this show, we juggle our thoughts about the iPad 2, Apple starting to allow development and interpreters on iOS devices, public transportation with cloth seats can make you sick, color photos of SF from the 1906 earthquake, who is going to ever watch all the video on YouTube! Enjoy the show!   Be sure to visit http://www.slurpcast.com to check-out the current show notes!

Serial Ports on Everything!

November 05, 2010 06:00 - 51 minutes - 52.8 MB

Mark, Wes & Bob o' Rob at the California Pizza Kitchen in San Francisco, CA. In this show, we ponder on in-flight wifi, companies do have a responsibility to make sure their web sites are accessible to people with disabilities, Palm will take over the world, Symbian OS, is the new MacBook Air any good?, FireSheep, SkyFire, and Samsung Android Phones. Enjoy the show!   Be sure to visit http://www.slurpcast.com to check-out the current show notes!

Joe, Wes, Mark & Steak

October 29, 2010 06:00 - 1 hour - 52.8 MB

Mark, Wes & Average Joe at the Daily Grill in San Francisco, CA. In this show, we introduce our guest, "Average Joe" who comments on our stories and adds his own thoughts to topics like Android phones, craigslist reaches 2billion posts, now you can implant a layer of LED's under your skin, AT&T fails us again as we wait patiently for a Verison iPhone, FireSheep, Kurzweil, Justine Bieber, Atari 2600 the size of a deck of cards, and other deep and cranial stories.   Be sure to visit http://...

Bob & Wes without Mark

September 30, 2010 23:00 - 50 minutes - 35.2 MB

Wes & Bob o' Rob in San Francisco, CA. In this show, Bob and Wes talk about the new AppleTV, Segway, SETI and Viking system that may have actually found life on MARS. Bob makes fun of Mark and his Crap Apps. Enjoy the show! Be sure to visit http://www.slurpcast.com to check-out the current show notes!

Audible Pain

July 30, 2010 07:00 - 53 minutes - 38.4 MB

Mark, Wes & Bob o' Rob at the top of the WestField Mall in San Francisco, CA. In this show, Mark, Bob and Wes talk about Drugs, The Smart Car, Mac Paint, ShamWow, William Shatner, Back to the Future, The first Drum Machine, and other ramblings.   Be sure to visit http://www.slurpcast.com to check-out the current show notes!

How many times can you fall off a cliff?

July 23, 2010 07:00 - 1 hour - 38.4 MB

Mark & Wes at the California Pizza Kitchen in San Francisco, CA. In this show, Mark, Bob and Wes all talk about iPad, Flip Book, Computer Shopper Magazine in 1996 and what you could buy back then, old LCD displays, how many ways the word 'meat' can be used in a joke, what is the future of Microsoft Mobile, Adobe vs Flash, Nicholas Cage is probably the worst actor ever, Tron Legacy, and 3D will not die out soon.   Be sure to visit http://www.slurpcast.com to check-out the current show notes!

Mark has no Gas

June 18, 2010 07:00 - 56 minutes - 38.4 MB

Mark & Wes at the Korean Bulgogi House in Concord, CA. In this show, Americans fed up and moving out of the US, Microsoft announces the Kinect XBOX accessory, AT&T losing exclusivity, iPhone could work easily with T-Mobile frequency, your freedoms are being controlled by big corporations, BP's oil spill, a fuel cell is commercially coming out for laptops, and will cost only $100. Captain Kirk audio portions used from the Kasper Hauser podcast. PLease visit them at: http://www.kasperhauser....

Paper Airplanes

June 11, 2010 07:00 - 36 minutes - 24.5 MB

Mark, Wes and Bob O' Rob in a conference room in downtown San Fransicso, CA. In this show they talk about Cardboard Steve Jobs, Asterisk, Ubuntu Lucid Lynx, WWDC Higlights, Girlfriends, WWII Code Breaking, Nook, BP Oil Spill, and iPad App Reviews. Please excuse the technical issue we had with Wes' volume in this show after Bob leaves during the recording. Be sure to visit http://www.slurpcast.com to check-out the current show notes!

What is wrong with AT&T?

June 04, 2010 07:00 - 53 minutes - 24.5 MB

Mark & Wes at Korean Bulgogi House in Concord, CA. In this show, they talk about AT&T dropping iPad unlimited data plan and new data caps, CDMA iPhone (again), Google drops Windows (sortof), The Carrot Museum, Hulu on XBOX 360, Boxee Hardware, Android and Chrome OS', iTunes in the cloud, and the D8 Conference. Be sure to visit http://www.slurpcast.com to check-out the current show notes!

More Tech Anniversaries and Computer Music History

May 21, 2010 07:00 - 33 minutes - 24.5 MB

Mark & Wes at Flippers Hamburgers in San Francisco, CA. In this show, they talk about Mark's dog, the anniversary of usenet, pac-man, AT&T's Micro-Cell for getting better reception in your house, and other technology news. Be sure to visit http://www.slurpcast.com to check-out the current show notes!

Sony Dash Chumby Slash Flash Player Subtracted By Angry Steve

April 30, 2010 13:00 - 54 minutes - 24.5 MB

Mark & Wes at the Indian Flavors Restaurant in Berkeley, CA. In this show, they talk about a euro PodCast interview with Mark, how he stole Marvelena's food, Steam for Mac will be here soon, 5 year YouTube anniversary, 10th anniversary of the Pocket PC, Microsoft kills the Courier PC, Nexus1 vs iPhone, Adobe retorts back at Steve's Flash letter, Sony stops making floppy disks, 10.04 Ubuntu is out, HP buys Palm, Mark Bernay did not invent Post-it Notes, Some guy posts fake prices in Costco f...

TSA knows what you look like naked

April 16, 2010 13:00 - 1 hour - 24.5 MB

Mark, Wes & Kyle at the Saigon Bistro Restaurant in Concord, CA. In this show, they talk about Mark's PG&E Bill, using LCD displays as fake windows, library of congress is now archiving public tweets, iPad does not have free starbucks wifi, cable companies open up hot-spots to each others customers, natal can tell your gender, adobe didn't bet on OSX, Wes isn't getting tired of his iPad although Media Hound is, and the scanning machines at airports do in fact have the ability to store your ...

How much Fiber do you need to be healthy?

April 02, 2010 13:00 - 55 minutes - 24.5 MB

Mark, Wes & Kyle at the Out the Door Restaurant in San Francisco, CA. In this show, they talk about the release of the iPad, Kyle's shirt and shoe size, arcade video games, social network games are not hardcore, old school arcade emulators, Radio Shack catalogs from 1939, Netflix for the iPad, iCade iPad arcade cabinet, Internet 2, the Arcade Ambience Project and other technology news items. Be sure to visit http://www.slurpcast.com to check-out the current show notes!

Do you want your PC inside a Keyboard or Monitor?

March 26, 2010 07:00 - 56 minutes - 24.5 MB

Mark and Wes at the Saigon Bistro Restaurant in Concord,CA. In this show, they talk about the release of Mac OSX, 32gig Micro SD card, world fair in SF, jet packs, space shuttle tiles, paying for iPhone app reviews, no more 4-track cassette recorders, the simon electronic game from 1978 and Mark chooses to lose his jailbreak. Be sure to visit http://www.slurpcast.com to check-out the current show notes!

Nobody has Jobs!

March 05, 2010 13:00 - 54 minutes - 24.5 MB

Mark and Wes at Szechwan Chinese Restaurant in Orinda,CA. In this show, they talk about IPEVO Mini Nas, Facial Recognition, Picasa, Fart App Removal, Big Trak, Atari, Productive Music, Drumming Robots, Linux Sampler, and other tech news.   Be sure to visit http://www.slurpcast.com to check-out the current show notes!

UFO's are real!

February 26, 2010 13:00 - 55 minutes - 24.5 MB

Mark and Wes at the Bulgogi House Restaurant in Concord,CA. In this show, they talk about the Acer 1610, iPad Pie Placemat, Wifi SSID Personification, Al Bernay Stories, Polaroid Instant Camera Photography, William Shatner will play the Dad in the 'Shit My Dad Says' TV show deal, and classified UFO documents get released.   Be sure to visit http://www.slurpcast.com to check-out the current show notes!

Mobile Phone Experiments in 1913

February 05, 2010 13:00 - 59 minutes - 24.5 MB

Mark and Wes at Monsoon Masala in Pleasant Hill,CA. In this show, they talk about Mr. Edison's Kindle, 8-bit sound, iPad features, 8-track tapes, the Zilog Z80 processor, and a method to fake out DNA tests.   Be sure to visit http://www.slurpcast.com to check-out the current show notes!

Touchtone or rotary dialing, which costs more?

January 22, 2010 13:00 - 49 minutes - 24.5 MB

Click here to listen to the official audio show Mark and Wes at Chef Chao's restaurant in Rheem, CA. Sites of Interest: MadTV made this video about the iPad before it was announced. History of the Apple Newton. Apple hired back one of the developers of the Newton. Details of the new Apple iPad. Haiti Earthquake Survivor Calls iPhone a Life Saver. Haiti Earthquake Relief: How You Can Help. AT&T Seeks to Phase Out Landline service. Spike Jonze video about robots in love. Online fan ...

CES, VES, and Laptop TV

January 15, 2010 13:00 - 1 hour - 24.5 MB

Mark and Wes at Bo's BBQ in Lafayette,CA. Sites of Interest: New Google "near me now" features for iPhone and Android. Google takes a new approach with China. China is now the largest importer of cars 2010 Will Be the Year of 3D TV How different types of 3D glasses work. 3D without glasses, works very much like the 3D postcards you see in souvenir shops. Nvidia 3D vision card and glasses for 3D on your home PC. Mark was wrong in being skeptical about this. He was assuming 3D would ne...

Frankie's back from Russia

December 25, 2009 13:00 - 53 minutes - 24.5 MB

Mark, Wes, and guest Frankie at the Swad restaurant in Lafayette, CA Sites of Interest: The little-known Jewish holiday of Christmas Eve. Most Bay Area cellphone carriers now work in the BART Transbay tube. That article shows problems at first, but the service seems to be good now. Comparison of prepaid cell phone plans, including unlimited plans that compete with Metro PCS. If you aren't familiar with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's personality, please watch this video first so you will...

Mark's iPhone Attacks!

November 27, 2009 07:00 - 44 minutes - 24.5 MB

Mark and Wes, at the California Pizza Kitchen on Van Ness in San Francisco. Sites of Interest: Fertility treatment may produce fewer baby boys. Why we know from genetics that grandmothers play favorites. This is the blood thinning drug that Mark is taking that requires a lot of testing to get the right dosage Twitter to make money in 2010 with non-traditional advertising What is the President and his staff looking at? Wes mentioned this EZ430 sports watch and development platform. Ma...

Is it time for Droid?

November 06, 2009 13:00 - 49 minutes - 24.5 MB

Mark and  Wes at the Le Chaval restaurant in Walnut Creek CA Sites of interest: David Pogue on how the Motorola Droid is a "manly" phone Apple tablet rumors again How to build a Hackintosh Apple Mac OSx updates flipflop on support for Atom processor  Recovery.gov and Layar app layer Acer Liquid handheld with Android OS 1.6 Second Canadian cellphone carrier gets iPhone, but has to switch to GSM to do it. Microsoft will drop Spot watch technology in 2012 inPulse SmartWatch for Blackb...

Shit Wes' Dad Says

October 23, 2009 13:00 - 1 hour - 24.5 MB

Mark, Wes, and Wes's dad at the Hotel Mac in Pt. Richmond, CA. Sites of Interest: Bully Sticks are NOT tendons or processed meat strips, no!  Bully Sticks are 100% ____ _______. History of the PC bus standards: ISA, Micro Channel, PCI. New eBook reader from Barnes and Noble, the Nook.  Mark thought this was the vaporware Plastic Logic reader that we talked about on a previous show because the announcements for that one months ago said it would be for B&N. It turns out the Plastic Logic...

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