We decided to balance out the show today in honor of the US celebration of the 4th of July. @WideAwakeWesley joins us on the show this week, helping us with a dose of non-Virtual World and non-Apple Fanboy credibility. Our topics include some great gaming mashups about Michael Jackson, some overly mashed-up cars with drunk driving in Grand Theft Auto, getting mashed and trapped into a platform based on ecosystem lock-in, great music mashups via Spotify (perfectly legal – just not available in the US) and getting your Twitter account mashed into a pulp via too many Tweets per hour. Happy Independence week to all our listeners!! Keep on tagging!

What’s Cool
Andy — RFID-enabled Dogear Nation mug (buy your own non-RFID-enabled mug in the store!)
Michael R — First person shooter disease
Wesley — Michael Jackson / Rag Doll Kung Fu mashup
Michael M — Everybody needs a site to love!

Obligatory 3-D Internet
China bans gold farming (epredator)
Studying effects of alcohol in virtual reality (lx5)
Glasgow Caledonian University to teach creation of virual worlds (epredator)

Tech-no-tronic
FireFox 3.5 — with even more .5 than before! (wideawakewesley)
The Pirate Bay has been boarded by Global Gaming Factory (wideawakewesley)
What exactly has been sold by The Pirate Bay? (uncommonman)
Computer, translate. (gypsychk)
Upsidedown remotes for those down under (lx5)
Google without the affiliate links (lx5)

Final thoughts
Andy — UK heat tweets
Michael R — iPhone programming class from Stanford (michaelrowe01)
Wesley — See Spotify run (wideawakewesley)
Michael M — Arcade Lego Videos and
So, how fast can you tweet? (via emily)

… and the stuff we didn’t quite get to… (thanks for the tags, great stories!)

Social Networkin’
RIM analysis (uncommonman)
Top CEOs not connecting via social media (heidigoseek)
Social media as “business operating system” (duckboxxer)
Checking up on job applicants (heidigoseek)

Bonus links
Spotify iphone video
Photos of kludges that work, sort of… (uncommonman)
Digital art creation (epredator)
Burning Man & real time search (wideawakewesley)

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