Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
November 11, 1922 - April 11, 2007
Requiescat in pace.

Colin seems to think we need to come up with an excuse for why there is no podcast this week. Excuse has such a negative cannotation. I am going with truth.
I suppose the fault is mine. You remember how last week’s episode was posted tardy because I was sick? Well, Colin [...]

Lecturefox appears to be a site devoted to gathering all the free lectures from various prominent universities (MIT, Caltech, Harvard, and Carnegie Mellon, just to name a few).
This site is pretty cool, considering it saves one the trouble of looking for all these things themselves. There is a blog, but the home page is [...]

There have been several conversations amongst my friends where this question has been asked, usually in jest as a Zen riddle. It crops up when we play D&D, and it’s meant to illustrate the silliness of the system based on a previous campaign. As such it is almost always brought up when something [...]

I have that old ‘My Buddy and Me’ TV jingle in my head.
A while back… I don’t know.. two, maybe three years ago, Dell sold a server tagged the SC420. It was the successor to the 400SC. The only reason these two tags are important is because the machines rapidly became darlings among [...]

This article was published in Nature
Scientists Erase Single Memory in Mice
Can a company that does this on a consumer level, for humans, possibly come to exist?
Pick up the movie Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, starring Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet.
There are… a few people, a few moments, I could definitely do without. I’m [...]

Anyone who has listened tot he podcast knows that I’m less… patient when it comes to certain things than Colin is. And that lack of patience is what initiated this accidental journey into laptop-only existence. Lack of patience also ended it. Actually, you could say my addiction ended it. But, that’s [...]

I hear the banjo theme from Deliverance in my head. Also, my head hurts.
In a moment of baffling stupidity, the Boston Bomb Squad detonated a suspicious item in Boston’s Financial District.
The problem? IT WAS A GODS-BEDAMNED TRAFFIC COUNTER. Property of the City of Boston.
What’s next? The fountain in the Boston Commons? [...]

“When we went in to this, we did it with the best of intentions-”
*BLAM*
“I’m sorry, did I break your concentration? You were saying something about best intentions… Oh, you were finished? Well, allow me to retort.”
This is how our explanation of what happened to this week’s podcast would go if we lived ultra-cool [...]

Greg Howley, creator and presenter of the Game Geek Challenge on the BostonGeek Podcast, has a great series (six so far) of quizzes where he asks you to guess the movie based on the quote.  Each quiz has ten quotes.
In homage, and because I was discussing it recently with Greg, I would like to present [...]

In a world (said in best Don La Fontaine voice) where your choices in MP3 players are as varied as the actual ingredients in an average fast food hamburger, finding one that stands out can be tricky.  Everyone wants loads of features nowadays, from simple equalizer settings to video playback.  Some MP3 players even boast [...]

I can’t quite quantify my level of embarrassment at this commercial.
80’s Nintendo Commercial
This is our generation.  Dear gods, oh dear gods…

Our schedule slipped due to Real Life(tm) issues.  Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.  On this week’s episode, Colin and I discuss how the worm turns for Apple, how scientists can detect the music of cancer, and how the PS3’s online service is amazingly, supposedly here.  Greg Howley gives us a new GameGeek Challenge, [...]

On episode 51 we have a special guest.  Our good friend and Bostongeek’s Composer, Karl Kornfeld, joins us to discuss DVD Jon’s reverse engineering of Apple’s DRM, the digital solution to hiccups, and the latest salvo in the war (insert musica dramatae here) against online gambling.  We take an in-depth look at n-Track Studio.  Finally, on [...]

This one’s a bit more esoteric.  Have you ever been using Remote Desktop to access a Windows machine and noticed that there is no ‘Shut Down’ button on the Start menu?  What if you needed to restart the machine remotely?  What if a co-worker was pissing you off, and you wanted to give him what-for?
Enter one [...]

Back from his honeymoon, Carl emerges from the atrophy produced by a week-long lack of tech to join his friend Colin in discussing Virgin Atlantic’s bizarre policies concerning laptop batteries, AT&T re-patriating jobs, and Apple’s baffling alienation of its loyal customer base. On the gaming table we discuss Guitar Hero and HD-DVD for the [...]

It’s a fact that most people with digital cameras never print their photos to paper. It’s expensive to do, and inkjet technology has not reached the point where the colors stay vibrant and crisp on paper.
And yet, the technology to display photos has not really kept up with the technology to take the photos. Digital [...]

This tech tip hails from the deep halls of my mind, a dark place filled with horrors and twisted imaginings.
Have you ever noticed that sometimes you install a program on your PC, and it launches some part of itself when you first boot? Apple’s Quicktime, for example, loads the ‘qttask.exe’ process, even if you [...]

On this post-apocalyptic episode, Carl is still recovering from a massive hangover. On the Techity-Toppity-Three, we discuss anonymity on the ‘net and child porn rings in Deutschland, Wikipedia’s stand against China’s ridiculous blackout on media, and Amazon’s new video service most foul. We devote our entire Gaming Table segment to Jungle Speed, probably [...]

After the long weekend, I bring you a new tech tip.
You’ve just purchased a new Windows-based computer.  It’s shiny, it’s new, it’s pretty.  You spent several hundred (or over a thousand) dollars on it, and you’ve just unwrapped it.  You turn it on, and there are a dozen or so icons already ont he desktop.  [...]