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Andy, Michael, and Michael must be having a crazy overloaded week and the show title shows it. The good news is we have a great set of listeners who tag some fantastic sites for us to talk about this week. We also, somehow, don’t talk about any tags for some possible upcoming device from a company in Copertino. But our robot overlords won’t let us anyway…so why try. We also see the power of the Dogear-Nation bump see here ->

What’s Cool
Andy — Tungle Me!
Michael R — Star Wars shirt
Michael M — CauseWorld

Obligatory 3-D Internet
Second Life economy grows rickmans
Utah 3D sweettt

Tech-no-tronic
Playing games with your webcam lx5
Visual search engine set billsweeney1
Seesmic Look andypiper

Social Networkin’
Bedwarming Service billsweeney1
SarcMarc rickmans

Final thoughts
Andy — contemplating the announcement of the shiny new device next week
Michael R — Lame accessory
Michael M — Non-Beer Guinness

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It’s a black, black Friday as the Michaels both enjoy the long Thanksgiving weekend and Andy rambles his way through the tags on his own.

Obligatory 3D Internet

Skape | Building information modelling for major UK cities – online (epredator)

Procedural Inc. – 3D Modeling Software for Urban Environments (epredator)

Augmented reality rig that turns you into a character in a third-person game – Boing Boing (wideawakewesley) and Avatar Machine (and Wes’ podcast Weekly Geekly)

Future Tech / Technotronic

Teleportation (IBM Research) (phil_hartman)

F.lux: – ergonomic tool for working at night on your computer (lx5)

Gaming stuff

Microsoft patents in-game guide system (epredator)

British intelligence spooking Xbox Live – Xbox 360 News at GameSpot (epredator)

Lunar Lander (epredator) and Roo’s Shift Run Stop podcast

Non-gaming stuff

IBM n.Fluent Translation Tool with a Human Touch (lx5) and IBM Dogear

Is Wikipedia maxed out? (rickmans)

Choose your own adventure visualization (lx5)

The week in space / the year in space (michaelrowe01)

Martian landscapes (michaelrowe01)

Fun

Life In Latin (rickmans)

Final What’s Cool Thought Thing

Trinity – Help!
and Lego Matrix

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The Michaels enjoy a great set of listener tags. Andy has to take customer calls, and is unable to join us this week. We take this time with Andy away, to have a few shameless self promotions and tell you what we’ve been unto in our day jobs lately. Michael M. tries to infect the world with his coughs as he is in the scary eastern parts of Tennessee, but since it all via skype you are all safe — Happy Halloween.

Thank you to all the listeners who make this show possible each week with your tags – epredator, wideawakewesley, lunamoth, billsweeney1, ragtag_2, rickmans and lx5

What’s Cool
Michael M – Shameless Self Promotion
Michael R – Shameless Self Promotion

3D Internet
Future of the Enterprise: Special Event Live from San Francisco – epredator
Hands on with Acer’s 3D laptop – wideawakewesley
The Value of Virtual Worlds – epredator

Tech-No-tronic
Which is easier to understand: Google Wave or Cardiothoracic Surgery? – lunamoth
Beyond the Kindle: Color, Video E-Paper Devices Are Just Around the Corner – billsweeney1
Robots Tiptoe toward terminator – billsweeney1
Amazon goes Window shopping – michaelrowe01
CoolPics, CoolLens, CoolIris- Whatever!
Photo editor online – Pixlr.com edit image – ragtag_2
Internet rules and laws: the top 10, from Godwin to Poe – rickmans

Social Netorkin’
Peace on Facebook – rickmans
D&D on Google Wave – michaelrowe01
Listorious: Discover the Best Twitter Lists – rickmans
In Authoritarian Regimes, Social Media Doesn’t Only Help Social Activists – rickmans
Privacy is dead and social media hold smoking gun – rickmans
Facebook ‘memorialises’ profiles – wideawakewesley
Uni adds Twitter to the curriculum – rickmans
Reading the Telegraph costs the British economy £1.38bn – rickmans

Da Governator
Track where US gov bailout trillions went with augmented reality mobile app – wideawakewesley
Net set for ‘language shake-up’ – lx5

Final Thoughts
Michael R – Alternative Mac software – AlternativeTo.net
Michael M – Real Life iPhone Costumes Put Your Crappy Halloween Outfit to Shame and Smart Phone Etiquette

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Andy and Michael M hold down the fort, with Michael R feeling under the weather. With cool things to play with such as the Bomomo painting program (see the handiwork below), Opensim in a Browser, Stonehenge, Google Wave, homages to great commercials and great movies and an article that attests that Social Media junkies use email more. We don’t believe that for an instant, do we, Luis?

To end the show, Andy tries his hand at channeling Dr. Evil and Michael M brings up Elwood Blues.

Thanks for the links from Epredator, Rickmans, Michael Haglund, James Taylor, Kevin Aires, Lbenitez, Heidigoseek, Ruscb, and Lxs!

What’s Cool

Andy — Western Digital mybook studio edition
Michael M — Bomomo

Bonus – our Bomomo artworks!

Andy

Michael

Obligatory 3-D Internet
Opensim in a web page (epredator)

Heritage-key (epredator)

we want our 3D and for free! (rickmans)

Tech-no-tronic
Just say no to buttons (rickmans)

1984 Apple remake for Doubletwist (michael haglund)

Doubletwist

full names being displayed now in delicious!

Star Wars uncut (James Taylor)

Social Networkin’
London as Social Media capital? (kevinaires)

Dara Obriain on the British bonus link

Ghandi Birthday Google Doodle

Blogrolls on Twitter (lbenitez)

Report: Social Media Junkies use e-mail more, but we don’t believe it (heidigoseek)

tweets with >100 favs (ruscb)

psst — journalists have opinions! (heidigoseek)

social networking caller ID (lxs)

Final thoughts

Andy — Frickin’ Lasers transferring data underwater on the heads of sharks
Michael M — Aykrod to appear on Family Guy

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Michael and Michael end up without our intrepid English co-host due to scheduling issues this week as we welcome new tagger bluebus to the show this week. We explore the astral world with Ghostwire, the Quantum World with Pigeons, and the old world with a Commodore 64 emulator for the iPhone. At the same time we ask the important question – Do you Twitter to Facebook, or Facebook update your Tweets? Which one makes you smarter? Thanks for the great set of tags this week to: wideawarewesley, epredator, lx5, billsweeney1, heidigoseek, duckboxxer, bluebus, uncommonman, and lbenitz3000.

What’s Cool
Andy — Electric Light Orchestras (with iPhones) – via @rucsb on Twitter
Michael R — Monopoly City Streets
Michael M — New iPhone features in OS 3.1

Obligatory 3-D Internet
Ghostwire Nintendo DSi as a PKE meter (wideawakewesley)
Augmented reality Wiki (epredator)
Mydeco 3D home design (lx5)
Ultravox Freeman’s Sears Video

Tech-no-tronic
Pigeon powered network (billsweeney1)
Google Streetview Explained (wideawakewesley)
Asus e-Reader (heidigoseek)

Mac-a-rooni
Commodore 64 emulator for iPhone (duckboxxer)

Social Networkin’
Screencasts on Twitter (bluebus)
Dogear-Nation Screenr Test
Digital Distractions (uncommonman)
MIT’s personas- They’re back (lx5)
Facebook intelligence greater than Twitter intelligence? (rickmans)
Tweet MyMac (lbenitz3000)

Final thoughts
Michael R — Meerkat Viewer for Secondlife and Opensim
Michael M — BMW and Windows 7 —
looking forward to the Durham Bulls Blues Festival on Saturday, Sept 12th

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 35:58 — 8.3MB)