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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

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 39:59 — 9.2MB)

Michael and Michael do a special segment with David Gardner, CEO of The Venue Network, who talks to us about his new virtual worlds business platform Venuegen. The goal of this platform is to allow people to create quick and professional events, which provide the immersive nature of the 3-D internet for the masses. Beta access can be requested by all of listeners over at Venuegen. Come back to the blog here later this week for a video of the platform.

We then jump into a great set of listener tags that we can’t hope to get to all of them. Thanks for the tags! — (Lx5, epredator, wideawakewesley, gypsychk, heidigoseek, billsweeney1, uncommonman, duckboxxer, kevinaires)

p.s. We missed you Andy!

p.p.s. Thank you Thinkingmachine for their song Lies!

What’s Cool
Michael R — The interview with David Gardner!
Michael M — Real cash delivers the virtual goods

Obligatory 3-D Internet
Venuegen
Rezzme Project
Lost London (lx5 via epredator tweet)
Augmented virtual reality (epredator)
Nearest tubes augmented reality (kevinaires)

Mac-a-rooni
RunPee (wideawakewesley)

Social Networkin’
#moonfruit – darn, that contest is over…

Final thoughts
Michael R — PrePurchased Windows 7 – Should I install the RC on my Vista Machine?
Michael M — Open source NGO disaster managementM (via lx5) and Shameless Self Promotion – Event on the 16th/17th

Just some of the Fantastic links we did not get to… thanks & keep on tagging!
Nothing more social than competitive eating (billsweeny1)
Social networking in the workplace (heidigoseek)
95% accurate brainwave controlled wheelchair (gypsychk)
Were the pirate bay people aware of this? (uncommonman)
Maybe the pirate bay people were… (wideawakewesley)
A shiny new OS from Google (wideawakewesley)
And maybe something shiny coming from Microsoft? (wideawakewesley)
Not quite an iPhone steadicam, but getting close! (andypiper)
I’m a Poken, you’re a Poken, wouldn’t you like to be a Poken too? (kevinaires)
Power of positive thinking can be negative (gypsychk)
Ekopedia (lx5)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 34:48 — 10.1MB)