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While Andy continues his hunt for our one Chinese listener, Kelly continues to fill his seat with witty banter. The Michaels continue to look for the best of our listeners’ tags, and our listeners wonder, what have our hosts gotten themselves into. With a major Technotronic section this week, we have an exciting, exciting show. So tag, rate, and subscribe with a big cup of your favorite beverage, and enjoy the show.

What’s cool?
Kelly — How I almost saved the earth – From Go to Woe
Michael R. — UV statues
Michael M — Augmented reality rock band

Obligatory 3-D Internet
Intel / Nokia research on 3DI – MeeGo rickmans

Tech-no-tronic
Seeing computing in action using 1980s computers lx5
LEGO MOMA heidigoseek
Call phones from Gmail allerhed
Google acquisitions ginormous visualization andypiper
Now that’s a jam gypsychk
Free Hugs, now available over long distance via SMS lx5

Mac-a-rooni
Patent to block jailbroken phones? heidigoseek
Police Officer sues for Overtime based on cell Phone
iPad of the tiger

Social Networkin’
Do not go past Go, also do not collect £200 lx5
Do not click next for these installs gypsychk
No blockin’ Mark heidigoseek

Final thoughts
Kelly — Wii fit baby robotics
Michael M — Is that a Movie theatre in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?
Michael R — Buzz just a waste of time?

bonus links
Lego Dali
More Lego Artists
Drum Shirt
Hooked on a Feeling – the Ooga Chaka Song

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The Michael’s are face to face for a live show at BeanTraders, while Andy is traveling this week. We try a bit of Mana to help get us fully charged for the show, but the results are not what you expect. We decide not to dig into this week’s E3 conference, until we are at full strength, so drop us your tags about what games are on your wish list.

What’s cool?
Michael R. — Cool Cats for Devo and Mana Potions
Michael M — Bento Boxes and Football for Dummies

Obligatory 3-D Internet
I’m here from the future to terminate you, with googles allerhed

Tech-no-tronic
Duct tape aeroplanes allerhed
QR codes covering NY heidigoseek
…and now let’s use my phone to project the presentation allerhed
Decibel.net music discovery never sounded so good andypiperuk
http://www.liveplasma.com/ (show link too?)

Social Networkin’
Who’s Icing Whom? Who owns your brand mark II via @msstewart
Sentiment analysis weather visualization billsweeney1
History of social games andypiperuk

Final thoughts
Michael M — Vuvulzela hack / playing a Bb vuvuzela
Michael R — Linden Lab Layoffs

Bonus sites
Bro’s Icing Bro’s shut down
Vodka eyeballing

Vuvu-Michael

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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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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 and Michael enjoy an old school episode, while our guest has to reschedule due to travel issues – John we missed you and will get you back on the show soon. Andy takes a well deserved break, but as always gives us a great “What’s Cool” – Can you spot the edit? This week’s show includes a great set of Augmented Reality, Robotic, and Party Picture links, all surrounded by a Soundtrack captured in 140 characters. Thanks for all the great tags. Don’t forget to check out our contest, and provide us with feedback.

Special Thanks to – epredator, kevinaires, duckboxxer, wideawakewesley, mobthink, and rickmans for helping to create this week’s show with your tags!

What’s Cool
Andy — Touch Note
Michael R — Pentatonic Scale
Michael M — Bata-Bing?

Obligatory 3-D Internet
Augmented Reality — living in a box (epredator)
Pixel Men!
Augmented ID (kevinaires)
Augmented Lego Reality (kevinaires)
SL feeling the lag of artificial life (epredator)

Tech-no-tronic
MS-Roboto (duckboxxer)
Flying Festo Penguins (wideawakewesley)
The Beep should be beepin’ beep beep beep beeped! (wideawakewesley)

Mac-a-rooni
Port your iPhone App to Windows Mobile (duckboxxer)

Social Networkin’
Marines vs ESPN vs IBM (mobthink)
Twitter and Facebook down, DogearNation.com Up! (andypiper)
Party like you wanna — Sony’ll take your picture (kevinaires)
Name that tune – in 140 characters or less (billsweeney1)
Who’s unfriending who? (rickmans)

Final thoughts
Andy — Dogear-Nation Contest
Michael R — Controlling your mind
Michael M — Open Source Cycling (via lx5)

Tags we couldn’t get to
Pulse Laser: “Preparing Us For AR”: the value of illustrating of future technologies (epredator)
Weekly Geekly – Geekly News – Augmented Reality Shooter (wideawakewesley)

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