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The Michael’s end the year, while Andy is off partying (Happy Festivus, Andy!). The Obligatory 3-D Internet section is back, thanks to listener ePredator! There’s a great list of virtual worlds, with video samples, that we recommend anyone interested in getting into the 3D Internet check out. Andy provides us with a great link (perhaps this is his gift to all of us!) on playing Guitar Hero on your garage. For our old school listeners, check out the link on playing Dungeon and Dragons on a Microsoft Surface. Phil_hartman gives us a great visualization of the Browser Market! The Mac-A-Rooni section is back too…And as delusional iPhone users we thank Rickmans for a great tag.

What’s Cool
Michael M — Lame Government Encryption!
Michael R — Holiday Props to the Bell Ringers

Obligatory 3-D Internet
There’s a world for that – epredator
A view into virtual universes – epredator

Tech-no-tronic
Bright lights, Big City – lx5
Guitar Hero Garage – andypiper
Surface Dungeons and Dragons – wideawakewesley
sho.rt – billsweeney1
Browser marketshare – phil_hartman
Parallax effect – wideawakewesley

Mac-a-rooni
iPhone users are delusional – rickmans
Gesture based security or thumper for your iPhone – lx5

Social Networkin’
Unbelievable 10 #FB stories of the year rickmans

Final Thoughts
Michael R – BMW Makes PCs – Badly
Michael M – Geek Holiday Gifts Guide

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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

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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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The Michael’s invade the home of the BMW Z-Roadster in the US for a weekend of fun and driving. That doesn’t stop them from talking tech. Matt holds down the fort and drives an exciting show.

BMW Roadster Homecoming
It goes to 11 – http://www.bmwroadsterhomecoming.com/

Web 2.0
Web 2.0 goes to work — developerWorks Live! briefing – http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/offers/techbriefings/details/web20.html
Car keys Hacked!! – http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/08/researchers-cra.html
U.S. Spy Agencies Go Web 2.0 – http://www.informationweek.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201801990

Wikipedia – Blue?
Bluepedia – http://bluepedia.csghl.de.ibm.com/en/index.php/Main_Page

Games & Entertainment -
Hollywood Company Bringing Joust to the Big Screen – http://biz.gamedaily.com/industry/feature/?id=17262

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Michael and Michael host this shortened edition of Dogear-Nation. The iPhone is succesfully HACKED!!! And Michael R. still won’t go out and buy one. Sun changes their stock ticker to JAVA. And finally do Tags project the death of Google?

iPhone Hack video – http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/24/iphone-unlocked-atandt-loses-iphone-exclusivity-august-24-2007/
Today in iPhone – http://tii.libsyn.com/

Sun’s new Stock Ticker – http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2174851,00.asp
Java Mascot – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_mascot

Tag’s 1 – Search 0 – http://blogs.tap.ibm.com/weblogs/pgreaves@uk.ibm.com/entry/dogear_1_w3_search_0#comments
Everything is Miscellaneous – http://www.everythingismiscellaneous.com/

Final Thoughts -
BMW Roadster homecoming – http://www.bmwroadsterhomecoming.com/
New Aeron Chair – http://www.healthyback.com/products/herman-miller/aeron-chair/155

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