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It’s a black, black Friday as the Michaels both enjoy the long Thanksgiving weekend and Andy rambles his way through the tags on his own.

Obligatory 3D Internet

Skape | Building information modelling for major UK cities – online (epredator)

Procedural Inc. – 3D Modeling Software for Urban Environments (epredator)

Augmented reality rig that turns you into a character in a third-person game – Boing Boing (wideawakewesley) and Avatar Machine (and Wes’ podcast Weekly Geekly)

Future Tech / Technotronic

Teleportation (IBM Research) (phil_hartman)

F.lux: – ergonomic tool for working at night on your computer (lx5)

Gaming stuff

Microsoft patents in-game guide system (epredator)

British intelligence spooking Xbox Live – Xbox 360 News at GameSpot (epredator)

Lunar Lander (epredator) and Roo’s Shift Run Stop podcast

Non-gaming stuff

IBM n.Fluent Translation Tool with a Human Touch (lx5) and IBM Dogear

Is Wikipedia maxed out? (rickmans)

Choose your own adventure visualization (lx5)

The week in space / the year in space (michaelrowe01)

Martian landscapes (michaelrowe01)

Fun

Life In Latin (rickmans)

Final What’s Cool Thought Thing

Trinity – Help!
and Lego Matrix

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Michael, Michael and Matt get together to talk about rumors of Microsoft buying Yahoo, potential troubles at Digg.com, and Cyborgs.  Also, the guys makes sure that no one confuses them for lawyers, while questioning the judgement of some hackers.

General:
Microsoft and Yahoo – http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB117827827757492168-lMyQjAxMDE3NzA4NDIwNzQ4Wj.html
Digg.com digs a hole – http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2125752,00.asp?kc=EWNAVEMNL050407EOAD
Talkshoe – http://www.talkshoe.com/talkshoe/web/main.jsp?pushNav=1

Mandatory 3D Internet Section:
The First Cyborg – http://www.flickr.com/photos/philosophy_rebel/470666935/in/pool-79444839@N00/
IBM Tops list of Corporate Second Life sites – http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9018238&pageNumber=1
Motorati Island – http://motoratilife.com/

Technology, Convergence, and Mash-ups:
Fring – VoIP for your cell phone – http://www.fring.com/
Cyborg and Robotics – http://www.kevinwarwick.com/faq.htm
Reading Wikipedia on iPod – http://swannman.wordpress.com/2006/10/01/howto-read-wikipedia-on-an-ipod/
Firedog – http://www.firedog.com/
Geek Squad – http://www.geeksquad.com/

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