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| - Could bees be dying off because of cell phone usage? Boing Boing has the story, though it could be a hoax. But if they hear your annoying ringtone one more time, they're seriously outta here.
- Tom has finally found his favorite link! It's a simple Web app that makes another Firefox browser window within Firefox--over and over and over again. It clearly doesn't take much to amuse us.
- Verizon, you'd better quit trying to split hairs with this "unlimited data" for your EV-DO service! If you assume that everyone is a criminal trying to download pirated movies, you're going to lose some customers.
- To bring you the wonder that is the $600 iPhone, Apple had to pull engineers off the Leopard project. That means Leopard won't be ready until October. I applaud Apple for the openness and honesty about this but it really messes up my laptop-buying plans. Also on today's show, Verizon tries to end all VoIP as we know it.
- For some reason, the theme of zombies plagues this episode. It has nothing to do with the Google phone, the Zune phone, or the iPhone. But for some reason we couldn't kill the idea of zombies. It just kept coming back even when we thought the topic was dead. Oh zombies.
- It will only be a few short years before my city in the clouds is complete! No, you say? This is only a proposition for a new way to harvest wind for electricity? Smash my dreams to bits, why don'cha!
- Maybe that wasn't the biggest story of the day, but how could I possibly pass up a title like that? However, if you have cash on the mind and thumbs of fury, we might have the means to make you a texting star.
- Gosh, I feel like it's been months since we've had a battery recall! Acer steps up to the plate this time, and once again the Sony batteries are the culprits. See, Acer? No one is safe.
- By popular demand, Dell's getting the band back together. Six Dell computers will now sell with Windows XP. That's right. Bad news for Microsoft but good news for you. Also, one thing on the show makes Rafe want to puke, but you'll have to listen to find out what it was.
- If you look closely at the Apple TV box, apparently there is a shout-out to the National Nuclear Security Agency. Is the little streaming-video box powered by the atom? Or is it just an unfortunate side effect of using images from CBS's Jericho? And is "CBS broadcasting" redundant when the "B" in CBS used to stand for "broadcasting"? These and other deep thoughts, as Rafe Needleman guest-hosts on today's show.
- We have one of our favorite guest hosts back today, Leo Laporte of This Week in Tech! Very strange stories today, including the most disgusting PR stunt in history. Thanks, Sony.
- We're fans of Serenity as much as anyone, but a better movie than Star Wars? Now, that's stretching it a bit much. Also today: is there a possible release date for The Beatles on iTunes?
- The discussion today is heavily weighed on by Battlestar Galactica and its noticeable lack of energy weapons. I know I should suspend my disbelief a little, but c'mon! I'm totally going to Twitter this.
- Congress may have the final say on the rate hike from the Copyright Royalty Board, and it seems to be a lot easier on Internet and small radio broadcasters. Another "good on ya" to Stephen Hawking, who got his zero-G trip!
- It only seemed like the world was coming to an end last night when Research In Motion suffered a major meltdown, and its service to BlackBerry devices crashed. I mean, besides suffering all the withdrawal symptoms, everyone made it through OK.
- How much control should your workplace have over your e-mail? Let's take it a step further: Should company officials be tracking your movements if they think you're not properly using company time? One woman has fought back.
- Well, Tom was finally right about something from his 2007 Predictions: A major label has it dropped digital rights management, for iTunes at least. EMI will sell its entire catalog on iTunes, but at a $0.30 increase. Hopefully this will be the shape of things to come!
- Who doesn't have $3K set aside for an animatronic polar bear? Maybe you're more of a robotic collie kind of person? They're perfect for birthday parties and bar mitzvahs!
- The list of the nation's "bloggiest" neighborhoods wasn't compiled from every area of San Francisco . In other news, there are a lot of good rumors for the picking today! Will Amazon be the new iTunes?
- What is the world coming to today? It seems that MySpace could pick the next presidential candidate. We've seen voting like this go very wrong in the past.
- The Internet is a wondrous place. Need to find an Indian restaurant in San Francisco? Ask Google over the phone. Can't find a bathroom in New York? Go online and pick one, complete with celebrity sightings.
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