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• IE8, Safari, and Firefox All Fall in Hacking Test
• Designer Leaves Google
• Hackers nab free 30Mpbs Service
• Are we headed for an era of "dumb tech?"
• IE 8 - Do We Finally Get Web-Standards Love?
• Users Increasingly Going Cell Phone Only
• Or is it Time to cut back on cell phone use, budget conscious Americans say
• Deep Packet Inspection Puts Open Internet at Risk
• Flaw Makes Twitter Vulnerable to Serious Viral Attack
• In-Car Internet Coming To Cadillac
• Choruss' Music Tax Plan: Bait-And-Switch
• White House Says Feds Should Have Unfettered Access To Mobile Phone Location Info
• Darren rants about the AIG debacle.. PRICELESS!
• Naked Teen Walking His Giant White Poodle Assults and Robs a Woman

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The Political Stuff

• The Shell Game Continues - Obama Team Adopts McCain's Optimism on Economy
• Fed to pump another $1 trillion into U.S. economy
• AIG Bonus Debacle
• Obama May Find Anger Over Bonuses Backfires on Agenda
• Obama Plans To Charge Wounded Heroes For Treatment
• Pelosi says enforcing immigration laws is “un-American”
• First sitting President to do a show like Leno
• Obama wants to disarm pilots

The Tech Stuff

• Facebook Could Kill Google - Not Really
• Privacy watchdog barks for federal Gmail probe - Is The Cloud Safe?
• Discovery sues over Amazon's Kindle
• Jurors' smartphones upset the scales of justice
• Skiles calls technical foul on Villanueva's tweet
• iPhone 3.0 OS Guide: Everything You Need to Know
• John C. Dvorak's 9 Reasons E-mail is dead
• Australia's Blacklisted Hyperlinks to Cost Webmasters $11,000 a Day
• Is The Fix In At American Idol?
• Diners Ignore Stabbing Horror

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The Political Stuff

• Obama signs $410 billion porkulus package into law then says "oh, wait, things aren't so bad after all!"
• No more "Enemy Combatants" at Gitmo
• The Honeymoon is over - Obama's Poll Numbers are falling to Earth
• Russian bombers could use Cuba and Venezuela airfields
• Obama's new CIO's office raided, employee arrested for IT bribery
• Obama warns of US Food "Hazard"
• Phoenix, AZ kidnapping capital of the USA - 2nd in the world
• Hurricane activity lowest rate in 30 years!
• Al Gore is STILL an idiot
• Lawmakers Want Broadband Requirements on Phone Fund

The Tech Stuff

• BROWSER WARS: MS Says New IE faster than FF and Chrome
• Satellite XM/Sirius to start streaming via iPhone
• Google Voice and World Domination
• WWW Founder warns against website snooping
• Italian proposal of anti-internet laws
• Piracy Has Become Mainstream, Studies Show
• Radio's Right To Free Tunes Is On The Rocks
• The Sky High Web
• Nearly half of Boston teens surveyed say Rihanna is at fault for beating

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The Political Stuff

• Wikipedia deletes any negative Obama entries
• Obama defends pet projects and signs "imperfect" $410 billion spending bill
• Where the money is going
• Obama's broadband plan to spend the $7.2 billion? There is none
• More Lobbyists - Another Broken Promise
• Pelosi Abused Air Force as her own airline
• Officials: Afghanistan Taliban leader was at Gitmo
• Cops demand removal of racist art
• Gun Laws in the wake of the German and Alabama shootings
• John Kerry Says Any Delay In Climate Change is Suicide Pact

The Tech Stuff

• Now it's online streaming that's killing music!
• Social Networking now more popular than e-mail
• Advertisers pulling a lot of info from Cell phones
• Apple rejects twitter app because, you know, there's #### swearing on the Internet
• A Google Netbook? Makes sense.. or is that dollars?
• Or how about an APPLE netbook?
• Comcast's Massive Public Image Makeover
• Comcast is now the nation's 3rd largest phone company behind ATT and Verizon
• Wireless Broadband races to 12.5 Gbps

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The Political Stuff

• White House seeks economic advice from Twitter founder
• Obama's budget adds more to the debt than all previous Presidents.. COMBINED!
• Unemployment at a 26 year high
• Deception at the core of Obama's plans
• Should the US sit down with North Korea?

The Tech Stuff

• Firefox has more security flaws in 2008 than Opera, IE and Safari combined
• Adobe Reader has a major and scary bug
• The Boxee / Hulu dance continues
• Should cell phone companies sign exclusive deals?
• The mobile gaming market is thriving
• Should your ISP moonlight as a car salesman?
• The RIAA is *gasp* still suing individual file sharers
• Cell phones in hospitals can spread disease.. scary disease
• NY woman asks a woman on her cell phone to keep it down then gets attacked
• The idiot of the week - a woman who was breastfeeding while driving and talking on her cell phone

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• Alt-This #32 - The Jeffless Episode
• Is Rush Limbaugh the leader of the Republican Party?
• Why is the White House calling out commentators by name?
• Jim Cramer responds to the White House Read More
• FDIC Insurance Fund could be gone within the year
• Would $1 million dollars a day every day since AD began cover Obama's plan?
• Twitter and blogging are changing the political landscape quickly
• Does exposure to explicit lyrics lead teens to sexual activity?
• The ultimate virtual reality headset
• Microsoft's new search engine Kumo might have Google worried
• Hacker gets four years for bot net attacks
• Bill Gates bans his wife and kids from using Apple products
• Woman who doesn't get her McNuggets calls 911 - 3 times!
• Idiot pepper sprayed by customs official
• Southwest Airlines paints Bar Refaeli on a plane and angers customers. We say thank you Southwest!

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• Alt-This moves to two shows a week, adding politics to the mix
• Bloodbath at the RIAA
• Music industry threatening Irish ISPs
• Comcast customers, Check your webmail settings
• iPhone Apps Might Not Be As Popular As Believed
• Google signs on to help the EU sue MicroSoft
• Obama's '09 budget spends $11,833 per American / $25,573 per tax payer
• CNBC Anchor says Obama is declaring war on investors, entrepreneurs, small businesses...
• Obama proposes new wireless-spectrum fee
• Greenpeace says using toilet paper worse than driving Hummers
• So I guess Greenpeace folks are the ones using the reusable toilet wipes
• The NASCAR Cafe in a Las Vegas casino offers a 2 foot long and 6 pound burrito

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• Enjoy our new intro, maybe it'll stick maybe it won't
• Darren has started editing episode #21
• Springsteen 1 - Ticketmaster 0
• Darren is drinking Power's Irish Whiskey
• Jeff is imbibing the Bookers Bourbon
• Last.fm is NOT giving your data to the RIAA
• Google goes down for four hours
• Quake Live a marvel
• The government wants you to keep router logs
• Jeff couldn't install Ubuntu - hear him rant!
• Americans watching more tv than ever
• Man shoots TV over digital switchover
• New anti-trust guru has it out for Google
• Apple doesn't want a universal cell phone charger

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• Intro from the Pubcrawlers
• Darren starts the show with a double shot of the Knot
• Jeff is drinking a Tasmanian Beer at 8AM
• Let's talk Superbowl
• Why Ticketmaster Sucks
• Springsteen pissed Ticketmaster is a Scalper too
• Taylor Swift sells out in two minutes
• Windows 7 is out in Beta
• GData Still Sucks
• ESPN tries to shake down your ISP
• Broadband Stimulus
• Jeff asks if we give everyone broadband do we have to give them computer too?
• Obama stocking the department of justice with RIAA / MPAA lawyers
• Darren got his Comcast speeds fixed.. Thanks ComcastSteve
• Germany says "No" to the three strikes piracy concept
• PHPbb hacked - oops!
• Use strong passwords people!
• Darren says Ubuntu 8.10 fixed the issues of the past

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• Intro from the Pubcrawlers
• Jeff's life is just a complicated drinking game
• T-Shirt Hell really going out of business? No
• Darren is drinking the Knot and Spite
• Jeff is drinking a Coke Classic
• Jeff may be allergic to Aspertame
• Darren is loving him some green tea
• Jeff loves the HP Blackbird and Firebird
• Comcast lowering broadband prices
• Comcast new speeds confusing CSRs
• Comcast testing WiFi in New Jersey
• What are legitimate 3G speeds?
• Comcast and ATT to play nice with the RIAA / MPAA
• Netflix is recession proof
• Why do we have to pay to bring broadband to rural areas?
• Isle of Man suggests a Pirate Tax
• T-Shirt Hell not closing down
• Jeff and Darren discuss their best (worst?) t-shirts

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