On this sleek episode, we stretch the legs on our new mixer, battling poorly designed manuals and strange interfaces to bring you a better sound experience.  On the Tech Top 3, we discuss how the Telcos just can’t shake the image that they enjoy raping their customers, how Diebold (a major manufacturer of ATMs) is [...]

Every week, I’m going to attempt to bring you, my faithful audience, a new tech tip churned up from the bowels of my daily experiences.
So, tech tip #1 concerns Virtual Private Networking (VPN) and wireless LAN connections.  It was frustrating figuring out what a certain problem was, and the solution irritated me enough to want [...]

Planets, that is.
Pluto Stripped of Its Title
I remember the debate started in 2003 with Xena (which, if I recall correctly was also named ‘Planet X’).  For quite some time, there were those who said our solar system now had ten planets.
Being resistant to change as I occasionally am (and unwilling to talk about ‘Planet X’ [...]

Colin has accused me of becoming an Apple evangelist.
Since deciding to purchase my MacBook, I have convinced four others to go out and buy the little white notebooks, and another is thinking about it.
In less than a month, I have helped Apple sell several MacBooks, iPods, and various other items.
I’m no evangelist.  I am a [...]

I recently had the opportunity to test out one of the most recent offerings from Codemasters, Micro Machines V4. Codemasters is the development company responsibly for such titles as Operation Flashpoint, Colin McRae Rally 5, and the upcoming Jericho.
So it was with some optimism that I installed Micro Machines on my computer. My [...]

“And yea, know that I am your king, my hordes. Come to me, and serve unto undeath.”
Actually, Greg Howley, a longtime fan of our podcast, has teamed up with us to produce an as-yet unnamed segment for our Gaming Table portion of the ‘cast.
He’s a cool guy, one of the first to win one of [...]

Looks like no more Stargate: SG1.  But Atlantis is back.
SG1 Ends Run; Atlantis Back
Honestly, I never saw the allure.  I thought the Stargate movie was fun, but the series… meh.
 

On this late, late episode, Colin gives his sorry excuse for why we recorded two days late. On the Tech Top 3, we discuss Steve Jobs’ Health, Some Swedish Darknet (Hint: it isn’t a type of pastry), and Dell’s take on the self-destruct sequence. On the Gaming Table we discuss Dead Rising more thoroughly, as [...]

Today… today was a good day. Or rather, it ended up as such. 
Work was fine, nothing really special. My boss paid for lunch, which was awesome. Got a bunch of work done. Overall, it was a slightly better-than-average workday.
I got into my car at 5PM and started the engine. Cranked up the AC. Reached back [...]

“Hi, I’m a Mac.”
“And I’m a PC.”
So begins Apple’s latest round of clever television advertisements. Surely you’ve seen them, and if not, you can easily find them, and the parodies of them, on sites like YouTube. So I won’t bore you with an explanation.
But if you watch the ads, and have listened to [...]

Jesus’ nuts gravy, you just have to watch this.  I swear, if I had just been hired by this company, the only words coming out of my mouth after watching this would be, “I quit, you f**king wankers.”
Some Game Store’s Training Vid
Via Joystiq
EDIT: Link updated because GameCrazy (or someone) have no sense of humor and [...]

This episode begins with our tasty fun weekend (which had elements of tastiness AND of fun), and continues on to the Tech Top 3. There’s a hurried rant by Carl on the so-called security behind the RFID tag in the soon-to-be-issued Passport, a look at AOL’s latest business decision to derive their revenues from ads [...]

On this somewhat abbreviated episode, Colin bravely comes out of his cold-induced near-coma to co-host, and we discuss Apple rumors ahead of WWDC 2006, Microsoft’s Zune, and the groin-grabbingly tasty purchase of ATi by AMD on the Tech Top 3.  On the Gaming Table, we look at Theophrastus, a strategy card game (sort of) that [...]

On this episode, we discuss ABC’s take on fast-forwarding to the good parts, Sony’s quiet bid to put movies on me sticks, and the United States secret conspiracy to draw out conspiracy nuts by making us all carry tinfoil starting this August to cover our passports. On the gaming table we talk old-school arcade [...]

The market for portable DVD players is flush with offerings large and small. It’s a sea that most people wouldn’t bother to attempt navigating, even if they knew what to look for. Progressive scan? Widescreen? How many outputs? Inputs? Sound quality, noise output, reliability?
All good and important questions. [...]

I can’t find mention of this anywhere on their MySpace page or on the official site.  But, Leave it to my wonderful fiancee to ferret out this little gem:
http://cdbaby.com/cd/humanwine
A full-length HUMANWINE album?  We already ordered our copy.

You need to watch this.  Stephen Colbert (formerly of the Daily Show with Jon Stewart and now host of the Colbert Report) was invited to the White House Press Correspondent’s dinner.  President Bush and the First Lady also attended.  Hilarity ensues.
The video is massive, but well worth every second.  Watch Bush lose his smile in [...]

via Gizmodo, I bring you this unearthed arcana:
Dungeons & Dragons Laptop
Only like $1300.  Not too bad.  Get it quick, though, as the run is limited to 100.

This video was allegedly created to help teach Japanese businessmen how to pick up chicks.  I say allegedly because, well, I have been on many a business trip, and this has never worked for me.
Check it out over on Fleshbot
This probably is Not Safe For Work, though it contains no nudity.  Just some pretty foul [...]

I was going to leave it alone. I was. I had read it myself, had the link sent to me by my fiancee, and then by my friend. Since I ended up reading it three separate times and had a day to stew over it, I decided sure, I’ll totally crap on [...]