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Andy and Michael soldier on without Michael Martine this week, but Michael, ever the professional, drops us a few inserts to make sure that he’s cool enough. This week’s tags are a great collection of technology and geekiness including – Spheres, spiral galaxies, and assassins. Thanks to all of you who tag, and come meet us on October 23rd if you are in the RTP area of North Carolina as we do our Windows House Party.

What’s Cool
Andy — Magic Wand
Michael R — MythHackers
Michael M — Red Shirt Cologne And Star Wars at National Mall in Washington, DC

Obligatory 3-D Internet
Spherical Virtual World (epredator)
Augmented Reality showing Twin Towers (wideawakewesley)
Augmented Reality apps to buy now! (kevinaires)
Unlock content by snapping a picture of a logo (epredator)

Tech-no-tronic
MS-Mouse on multitouch (wideawakewesley)
Netflix Prize awarded (lxs)
3-D Stellar wiki (Philip Hartman)

Social Networkin’
GPS Assassins (Philip Hartman)
(Bonus)Halting State by Charles
Top collaboration tools that aren’t Google Wave (Rick Mans)
Analysis of leaked/weak passwords (wideawakewesley)

Final thoughts
Andy — Micro Men on BBC4
Michael R — Emotiv Headset – Developers Kit!!
Michael M — Everything’s L$10 and here’s a voucher

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This week we welcome back Ian Hughes – AKA ePredator, to the show. While Andy is off winning awards in Las Vegas, the Michael’s try to herd a whole slew of listener tags (check out all the ones we missed). Our focus ends up exclusively in the 3D Internet and gaming area (your and our favorite), and we enjoy learning about a few new markets, tools and worlds. We also shed a tear for Duke Nukem’ 3D, which shut it’s doors this week.

Show Tags

What’s cool?
Michael R — Twitterific 2.0
Ian — applying serious games conference 2009
Michael M — #ibmimpact and Innov8

Obligatory 3-D Internet
marketplace for 3-D models (epredator)
3-D meeting (epredator)
track your head (andypiper)
Open University (lx5)
Tony Driscoll
race against the pros (epredator)
YouTube symphony
Ocarana app on iphone
Second Life Suit (carolinabigblue)
Duke Nukem 3D Nuked (michaelrowe01)

Final thoughts
Michael R — Augmented Star Trek reality (via twitter)
Ian — Horizonless Manhattan (jtonline) and View of the world from Manhattan
Michael M — Time to take back twitter (andypiper)

Terrific links that we didn’t get to on the show today
Tech-no-rama
hello? clonecloud? (duckboxxer)
Kindling a new relationship (michaelrowe01)
More tinder to kindle (lx5)

Mac-a-rooni
Mac update day! (lbenitez3000)

Social Networkin’
Social sincerity (duckboxxer)
Another tweeting toilet (andypiper)
And a tweeting house (lx5)

Film
Hunt for Gollum fan film (michaelrowe01)

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Happy 100th to all our listeners. Without your support and tags, we’d never had made it this far. Michael, Andy, and Michael celebrate episode 100 of Dogear-Nation with a great set of listener tags and a return to the roots of it all – GAMING and Virtual Worlds. We also enjoy a few lists submitted by listener LX5.

Show Tags

What’s Cool?
Andy — Radio interview on RSS
Michael R — Triangle tweetup
Michael M — Meatloaf And Fonts from Route 66

Obligatory 3D Internet
Space Invaders! (epredator)
Star Trek Q&A in PlayStation Home (epredator)
Iron man 2 movie picture
pwned like a n00b (Michael R)
Virtual Travel (Michael R)

List of lists
Top 50 iPhone apps for MBAers (lx5)
Top 50 cities (lx5)
25 technologies that refuse to die (lx5)

Social Networkin’
Twitter Quitters (heidigoseek)
Interviews via Twitter (epredator)
What are Friends for? (Andy Piper)
Your friends friends (kiambogo)

Final thoughts
Michael M visible tweets
Andy P Moo.com now in the US! Will be in vegas next week for Impact (check out southpark video)
Michael R Coolest site on creating interesting stuff — LED panel tables (Steven H)

Bonus Links
make a book (heidigoseek)
IBM could be in Jeopardy! (lbenitez3000)
Sock Puppets of the World Unite! (Andy Piper)
Dickensian-izing urls (Andy Piper)
evite for twitter! (Andy Piper)

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iBot, uBot, wiiBot – Michael, Michael, and Matt talk about Robots and honor Cranky Geeks, as they slowly decend down the path browsers in virtual worlds.

Robots for warfighters
‘New’ Israeli Bionic Hornet Concept Is 70 Years Old: Science Fiction in the News – http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?

NewsNum=827
Military Builds Robotic Insects – UK WASPs – http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2007/01/72543
DARPA Contest – http://www.elecdesign.com/Articles/Index.cfm?AD=1&ArticleID=13853

Robots for Fun
Swarm robotics – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swarm_robotics
Hacking Roomba – http://hackingroomba.com/
Lego Robot Bowls Perfect Wii Game – http://www.battlebricks.com/wiigobot/index.html

Social Networking
OnXIAm – http://www.onxiam.com/sites/
OPTE.Org – http://www.opte.org
packetgarden.com – http://www.packetgarden.com/

Obligatory 3DI stuff
Star Trek Online – http://www.startrekonline.com/
uBrowser  – http://www.ubrowser.com/
Virtual Thirst :: Call for Entries (SL contest) – http://virtualthirst.com/
TwinCities.com – Mii, myself and I – http://www.twincities.com/life/ci_5634543?nclick_check=1
Welcome to Mii Station’s Make Mii! Your source for custom Mii avatars. – http://www.miistation.com/
Electric Sheep’s Search Engine – http://search.sheeplabs.com/

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