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Michael, Michael and Andy embark upon a wide ranging series of listener tags this week, and contemplate deep thoughts such as

• How big should a Cadbury’s Creme Egg be, and should we have a snack section of the podcast?
• How big does a Mini need to get to be considered a Max Mini?
• Can you really say “floo-flam” on the internet and maintain a clean tag?
• Can we successfully compete with our 2011 star-studded South by Southeast extravaganza?
• Will our heroes escape the piranha fish, the boiling oil, and the dreaded chalkboard screech in time to save the Internet?

OK, maybe not the last one, still, there are deep questions that our listeners brought forward by their tags, and the hosts take them by the horns.  Following the moon could be a very sustainable strategy indeed…  Sit back, turn your volume up to 11 and enjoy the show.

What’s Cool
Andy — Sleepingtime via alexbfree
Michael R — you got to glove the one you’re with
Michael M — Freshness Bar Code via heidigoseek
coffee pot sized cadbury’s creme egg

Obligatory 3-D Internet
Playstation Home GAME Moonbase Trailer epredator
hello racer! epredator
clever ad for Mini and maxi Mini (Mini Countryman)
unity 3D to support android, ipad, PS3 epredator

Tech-no-tronic
Microsoft & Open Source lx5
quick messaging phones and cloud services billsweeney1
Google’s chillerless data center — follow the moon enabler lx5

Social Networkin’
Current State of Twitter infographic bluebus
social media marketing observations from SXSW via @jaybaer

Final thoughts
Michael R — the Hobbit
The Mikado

Andy — a teacher’s passing

Michael M — NCSSM Food Drive and
continuing basketball final thought

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The Michaels wish Andy a happy birthday and hope that he’s off enjoying himself. We also get a listener tag for a bit of birthday music. We also decide that this week’s show will honor South by SouthWest, which we are competing with this week by talking about Music, Movies, and Entertainment. Enjoy the show!

Show Tags

What’s Cool
For Andy — Happy Birthday via @gypsychk
Michael R — DiggNation Raleigh? and Leo’s Meme this week
Michael M — 8-Bit New York City (via heidigoseek)

SExSE
Geek Music epredator
it’s 2010 and my jetpack is here billsweeney
Irish Fireside (Bonus Link)
Engineer barbie lx5
Ada Lovelace Day and Shift-Run-Stop Episode (Bonus Link)
Death on a Pale Horse (Bonus Link)
Tron trailer
Bruce Boxleitner – Babylon 5 (Bonus Link)
A-team trailer

Final thoughts
Michael R — Hoodie to laptop bag via tweets
Michael M — Curtis Blow — They’re playing bas-ket-ball

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Andy and Michael enjoy a non-controversial show, with Michael R not able to make the record. While podcasts enable you to build your own radio station, and only find things you agree with, both Michael and Andy agree that it makes you smarter (thank you new tagger rabiakiva). We also get to hear Andy laugh over mouse overs on the twategy site, and then we hear him gush over the wonderfulness of Twitter Lists. He loves it so much he’s created one list. (While editing the show, Michael R. does learn about Google Reader bundles, and agrees this is cool).

What’s Cool
Andy — Dr. Horrible Update
Michael R — It’s a man, made from gir-ders! / flame on!
Michael M — basketball season!

Obligatory 3-D Internet
Linden’s behind the firewall product & apps marketplace – epredator
Babel fish augmented reality glasses – epredator
Break on through to the other side – epredator
Augmented Reality for Hursley

Social Networkin’
Listening to podcasts make you smarter – rabiakiva
Bespoke tweets for the elite – uncommonman
Who moved my blackberry
Twitter lists show social media misunderstandings – heidigoseek
Twitter lists illustrated
Jobs’ 5 presentation secrets – rickmans
Has Google gone to the dark side – rickmans

Google privacy dashboard explained – lx5

Final thoughts
Andy — pondering when the presentation secrets of Michael M…
Michael M — unique identifiers on election ballots

#Fail
Andy can’t believe that the Michaels forgot to mention Sky-net in our discussion of robots on last week’s show.

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Michael, Michael, and Andy welcome special guest Kelly Drahzal, who doesn’t have a twitter weather station at home. Our 3D Internet section is all about augmented reality videos, ads and design. Michael R. is positive that we’ve seen the Mini Cooper ad before; however, our bad show notes don’t help him find the prior episode – perhaps our listeners can help. We once again dig into Twitter and it’s impact on current culture thanks to The Daily Show – with Jon Stewart. And then wrap up the show discussing the new Kindle and the new Kindle App for the iPhone, while Andy gripes about it’s availability in the UK. Has Amazon finally gotten the Kindle right by moving to multiple platforms?

What’s Cool
Shave your head for Charity — Kelly
Episode 3 of Kindle Podcast — Michael R
Twittering Weather station — Andy
Hardee’s Ad Generator — Michael M

Obligatory 3-D Internet
World Builder — (epredator)
Unfolding 3-D worlds — (kevinaires)
Mini ad springs into 3-D
Mini roof designer

Social Networkin’
A Twitter montage — (lbenitez3000)
What the hash!?! — (adreich)

Tech-no-rama
The revolution is now — (kiambogo)
An iPhone Kindle app — (heidigoseek)
Calibre – eBook Helper

Final Thoughts
Michael R — Big basketball game coming up!
Andy — I need to Sort out my Calendar
Kelly — Thank you for having me (follow Kelly on Twitter!)
Michael M — Will Blythe’s book “To Hate Like This Is to Be Happy Forever: A Thoroughly Obsessive, Intermittently Uplifting, and Occasionally Unbiased Account of the Duke-North Carolina Basketball Rivalry “

Bonus links
Mini roof gallery

Didn’t get to these great links today — thanks for the tags!
Apple is techno-non-grata for the Gates kids — (kiambogo)
UI design — (comcipher)
More MSFT UI design futures — (epredator)
Why the Japanese hate the iPhone — (huskiesct)

Next Week’s Guest
We have a potential – really special guest — next week… follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/dogearnation

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