Big deal.  An overpriced leather case for the iPod, a Bose-like dock for the iPod, and worst of all, they are no longer offer a sub-$500 computer. If you want the gory details, the Apple product pages are updated and the Apple Store is back up and running and eager to steal take your [...]

Well, here we sit with bated breath waiting to hear what His Holy One, Steve Jobs, announces this fine Tuesday morning (well, afternoon for us on the east-coast). The rumor-mill has been working overtime, but it seems most people expect the following:

Intel-based Mac mini. No iPod dock.
Special-edition iPod, possibly to support AIDS-awareness.
Full-length feature [...]

Episode 20, so fresh… its so clean. On the Tech Top Three, Carl and I discuss KFC’s attempt to entice television watchers not to skip its commercials, Microsoft’s 6 (or so) versions of Vista, and a Google-Earthlink partnership to bring citywide wifi to San Francisco. On the Gaming Table, Carl reminisces about his twenty year [...]

I just read about this in Wired Magazine.  La Fuga (The Escape) is a game that takes place in a remodeled three-story building.  It’s live action, and it’s intense.
Forget paintball.  Forget laser tag.  This is the real deal.  Pictograms, puzzles, locks, clues, PDAs, RFID keys and intense physical activity are all part of this super-high [...]

I, like many others, have pieced together a home-theater system over many years as I had the funds to allocate.  Thus, my setup isn’t ideal, but it works and that  is all I care about.  Currently, my home-theater system consists of a 7-year-old Toshiba 36″ CRT, a 7-year-old Sony receiver (Dolby digital 5.1), a Dishnetwork [...]

Well, Colin said I should write more original material, so I haven’t posted all week.  See?  That’s what you get.
But last night something happened that actually gave me material to write.  I was watching TV with my fiancee and noticed that Real Time with Bill Maher was on HBO.  The show’s been on break for [...]

On Episode 19 during the Tech Top Three, Carl and I discuss Amazon’s music service plans, Google et al.’s overseas biz practices, and the first virus/worm for OSX. On the Gaming Table, we take a look at a report on the high cost of the PS3 and a potential partnership between MS and DirecTV for [...]

It began on MacRumors, with someone posting a link to a file that supposedly contained pictures of OSX Leopard (a.k.a 10.5). Some excited Apple fanatics eagerly downloaded the file to their computers and promptly went clicking away. “The Sky is falling!”
Well, the linked file was in fact an archive (latestpic.tgz). So, after [...]

18 and completely legal. On this episode in the Tech Top Three, Carl and I talk about Gmail Chat, HDCP, and educational videogames. On the Gaming Table, we discuss some new PS3 news and Dungeons and Dragons Online. Finally, on Boston In Brief, Mayor Menino’s WiFi task force and Boston’s first Apple Store.
Episode 18 (26.6MB [...]

… so light your menorah, baste the turkey, trim the tree, and make sure you make a wish before blowing out the candles.
Ok, I admit, I am not quite sure what the reason behind Valentine’s day is, or even what we are meant to be doing.  Seems like an excuse to eat chocolate.  Not just [...]

So, as you may have noticed, Carl and I didn’t record the podcast yesterday.  I just had to go outside and play in the snow instead.
Actually, Carl just couldn’t make it to my place to record yesterday.  The snow was pretty heavy, and the parking situation was extremely difficult.  We toyed with remote-recording him over [...]

Lightning?
Ball lightning is a rare, near-mythical freak occurance that has only ever appeared in nature during intense thunderstorms under incredibly rare conditions.
Until now, that is.
Ball lightning is a ball of superheated charged plasma, created- scientists believe- when a bolt of lightning hits the ground in the right conditions.  But now, Israeli scientists have figured out [...]

Well, not exactly a new iPod, but now the iPod nano comes in a 1GB capacity. This means that if you want to own one of these gorgeous little devices, you only have to shell out $150. In fact, I have already placed an order for one. But, shhh, keep it [...]

On the latest episode of your favorite tech podcast based in Boston and recorded in my attic, Carl and I discuss the frivolous iPod lawsuit, AOL and Yahoo’s email tax, and the latest in windows worms during our Tech Top Three segment. On the Gaming Table, we discuss the latest rumors circulating around the PS3. [...]

Well, as mentioned before, I wasn’t able to install IE7 on my own computer, since I don’t currently have a Windows machine.  I did manage to install it on someone else’s laptop, unfortunately they didn’t like it so much.  It wasn’t that the interface was too difficult to get used to, it was that there [...]

Well, it is over and done with… I popped my cherry. My first Con is over with, and unlike a 16 year-old girl in the backseat of a Chevy, I have no regrets. I didn’t get to spend as much time at VeriCon as I had initially hoped, but I did get to [...]

Apparently, article titles are popped on a static backdrop or something, as any article title that spans two lines end up dumping the comment and tag info over the text of the article.
I will bludgeon Colin accordingly.
Colin’s note:  True, aside from being poor writing form to have REALLY long article titles, it will mess with [...]

It sounds like bad sci-fi, but it isn’t.
Carl Zimmer, author of several books and a frequent contributer to the New York Times, wrote a fascinating article on the Ampulex compressa, a species of wasp that is just… horrific in its manner of procreation. You have to read the article to understand. One of [...]

Hrm. Could that sim card just be a cut-up iTunes giftcard, or has Apple uncharacteristically created the ugliest phone ever?

Some of you have had issues with the comments.  Thus, I have disabled the AJAX-ified comments for the time being.  Hopefully, I can find out what the problem is, either by digging in the code or seeing if there is a fix out there.
Its a shame, AJAX is all the rage, and I felt hipper [...]