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Series 38

Music by Jonathan Coulton

Episode 38.1 - News

• Aperture - Apple updates Aperture
• Computers are programed by people not magic - Ben Adida has a great post discussing the misplaced faith people often have in the machines in their lives, and the way that faith often spills over to e-voting
• F22 - falling apart due to bad glue
• Dvorak talks about the media

Episode 38.2 - News Death of HD-DVD

• HD DVD - Officially No Longer Exists
• Dell offers sub $1000 Blu-ray equipped Inspieron
• Blu-ray cracked - Next time it will be easier

Episode 38.3 - News Acquisitions

• Microsoft offers $44.6 Billion for Yahoo
• Yahoo snubs Microsoft with google tie-up
• Yahoo - layoffs How screwed up is Yahoo?
• EA makes cash offer for Take Two
• Amazon's MP3 is number two
• Amazon Says it will only sell print-on-demand books that it gets to print
• Amazon completes tender offer for Audible

Episode 38.4 - Cool Links

• Vista Sucks
• Space shuttle serves BBQ
• An appreciation of Arthur C. Clarke
• Why we need to be in space lecture by Stephen Hawking
• Engrave Your Tech
• Etch A Mac

Episode 38.5 - Software Picks

• Disco - Cool Mac Disc Burning software
• truecrypt - protect your data with encryption
• Dr. Web - Free small virus scanner
• Plaxo - Sync all of your contacts, calendars, photos and moore
• Magic Mail Folder - Easy way to send files
• Google Code University

Episode 38.6 - Gaming

• UbiSoft buys the right to Tom Clancy's name
• Endwar Voice impressions
• GTA IV to allow real world music downloads from Amazon
• Fable 2 will talk to 3 XBOX Live games
• Fallout 3 to have over 200 endings, be as big as Oblivion
• Jack Thompson sanctioned!!
• Spore release date September 7