Boobs Not Allowed

Mark & Wes in Concord, CA at the Korean Bulgogi House.

Sites of Interest:

Scandal in the FartApp space: FartnBurp claims to be the first to have farts and burps in the same app, but we reviewed one last week which had that and more.The author of a great Rubik's Cube solver talks about marketing his product against fart apps.Some women should not be allowed to call them "Panties".How MapQuest Works.History of Microsoft on the Web, including IIS.Abacus Online Museum.Synth Pioneer Jean-Jacques Perrey in a music video. Wes thought he was the creator of the Oramic, but that was Graham Wrench who built this for Daphne Oram.Mark found this 1-terrabyte hard drive for under $99.99. (That offer is sold out, but you can probably find others like it.) He said this was $1 per gigabyte, but it's actually $0.10 per gigabyte which is 10 times more amazing.Solid state "hard drives".Boobs And Booty Banned From The App Store -- but there are ways to cheat.How to re-program temporary road signs to say what you want.New version of Google Earth lets you explore beneath the oceans, and has many other new features.Mark points out that virtual reality will never seem like real life until smells can be recorded and played back. Maybe something like this?The technology behind Benjamin Button.Bug Labs -- This company makes a collection of easy-to-use electronic modules that snap together to build any gadget you can imagine.MuxTape -- A place for bands to post their music, and for listeners to create mixes.The Kindle 2 was a rumor when we did this recording, but has now been officially announced.Videos of the Apple Newton 2100.A New Zealand man bought a used iPod that turned out to be full of military secrets.VMware Fusion is popular for running Windows on a Mac, but Virtual Box runs on many other platforms, is open-source, and freeeeeeeeeeee.Microsoft has a new virtual machine product, Hyper-V, meant for running server systems.

Wes' iPhone Applications of the week:

ModPlayer -- plays mod files. Duuuuuhhhhhh.Speedtest.net Speed Test -- Test the download and upload speeds of your iPhone's Internet connection, whether wifi or cellular.Tweetie -- Full-featured app for interfacing with twitter.

Mark's iPhone Applications of the week:

Slurptastic -- cleans your screen from the inside.Jaadu VNC -- Expensive, but best app for remote control of a PC, Mac, or Linux machine. The instructions show how to install a freeeeeeeeeeeeeee VNC server on the machine to be controlled.TwitterFon -- Mark's favorite Twitter app. He was wrong when he said it didn't have a way to mark favorite tweets; he later figured out how to do it.