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• Intro from the Pubcrawlers
• Rioting in Oaktown USA
• Darren is drinking the Knot
• Jeff is drinking Bullet Bourbon
• Cheap 3G Netbooks.. with a catch
• Stop surfing pr0n on airplanes
• Man hangs pantsless from a ski lift
• Broadband subscribers to drop 12% in 2009?
• Skype thrives in a bad economy
• Darren talks Howie Mandel
• iTunes dumps the DRM
• Google is #4 on the Spamhaus list
• Obama urges Congress to delay DTV transition
• Time Warner takes a $25 billion hit
• Darren and Jeff love OpenDNS
• The RIAA's Three Strikes Program
• When did Usenet begin?
• Darren and Jeff talk about their first modems 300 baud anyone?
• Are DVRs on the head end better or worse?
• Darren and Jeff show their complete lack of knowledge

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Welcome to Episode #26 of Alt-This. Yes, we are still behind in publishing but we are recording new content regularly. The plan is to release a number of episodes this week so we get completely caught up. We just have to get off our lazy asses! This recording was the first of 2009. Enjoy!

• Intro from the Pubcrawlers
• A dramatic introduction from Darren
• Jeff is mixing Brain Toniq and Red Bull
• Any New Year’s Resolutions? We don’t do that shit
• Darren’s nightmare experience with Dell and an Arcos media player
• Does anyone have a clue where to find iAudio products
• Microsoft crashes some Zunes with a leap year bug
• Comcast should be launching a bandwidth meter soon
• Alt-This thinks the Comcast cap will actually increase bandwidth usage
• Why pay for faster Comcast tiers without an increased cap
• Netflix streaming through the Tivo rocks
• US broadband market is the most profitable in the world
• Is VoIP dead?
• Viacom and Time Warner battling over licensing and content
• Internet Explorer falls under 70% of the browser market
• Firefox continues to grow market share
• 73.4% of all Wikipedia edits are made by approximately 1,400 people
• According to Forbes, the Internet is bad for truth
• You can unlock the iPhone and use it on another network but why would you?
• New Years in London was out of control (Check these photos out, click here.)

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Welcome to episode #25. We are behind in publishing but have a number of shows already done. I will be publishing a new one every Saturday until we are caught up and then new shows will follow regularly. Enjoy!

This show was recorded in December.

• Intro from the Pubcrawlers
• What’s wrong with a little corruption?
• Jeff and Darren are both drinking Brain Toniq
• Not tonight dear, I would rather blog. Are you kidding me?
• The perils of credit cards – Visa CEO loses his cards
• Darren loves his Amex card & the deals
• Jeff is mixing Starbucks and Brain Toniq, look out
• Microsoft warns of major Internet Explorer 7 Zero Day problem
• Why use IE at all?
• Jeff and Darren discuss Chrome and Firefox as alternatives
• The joys of Virtual Machines
• Jeff recommends a CSS editor named StyleMaster (http://www.westciv.com/style_master/)
• ISPs and their crappy DNS servers / OpenDNS rocks
• Worldwide broadband subscribers hits approximately 398.4 million users
• New Comcast speed tiers – they need to increase the cap for it to make sense
• Broadband users are clamoring for more speed according to MultiChannel.com
• Streaming Netflix on the Tivo has arrived
• Broadband in the air is coming shortly
• Sports and the exclusive contracts for things such as DirectTV / Video on Demand web sites
• Jeff attempts to recover from an audio dropout, we used to edit this shit out
• The results of alt-this homework: The Alt-This 2008 Obsessions

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Yeah yeah, that's a lot of G's, that was the point..

I woke up this morning and entered something into Google and got back a weird bunch of results so I decided to Google "Google" to see if it would be the same. It was. This is what happens when Google glitches!

Hey, I thought it was funny anyway. Google telling you every site for every search result may harm your computer. I knew the Internet was a dangerous place, but is it THAT dangerous??!

Cheers!

• Intro NOT from the Pubcrawlers
• Darren and Jeff are both drinking Brain Toniq God help us!
• This is episode #24, the Jack Bauer edition
• Jeff is still having PC issues but progress has been made
• Darren says to ALWAYS check your memory voltage when you build a PC
• Drunken woman has sex at a football game
• Wifi at the Chicago Hilton sure isn't cheap
• Digital music starting to overtake cd sales
• Misleading Apple ads banned
• Heidi Klum Guitar Here commercial revisited.. what's with the shirt Heidi??
• Twitter rejects $500 Million offer from Facebook
• GQ Obsession of the year: Megan Fox
• Thanks for listening and tell a friend!!

Jeff and I actually gave ourselves homework for the next episode. Our assignment is to come up with our own list of 3-5 women that are OUR obsession of the year for 2008. Play along at home if you'd like!

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• Intro from the Pubcrawlers
• We're back, again. This time we believe it's for good
• Darren is drinking Brain Toniq and Jeff is drinking Coke Zero
• AVG cripples XP boxes across the world, offers a free year
• The cost of building an iPhone and G1 phone
• Just how many SPAM messages are sent out for each sale?
• Targeted ads, good or bad?
• AOL isn't dead.. I know, we were shocked too!
• The birth of P4P, can this be good?
• Second Life affair ends in real divorce.. Freaks!
• Chicago wants a tax on DirecTV and Dish Network subscribers
• A bunch of things you don't know about Barry AKA Barack Obama
• A dropped third strike = a home run?? Video Link
• Which commercial is hotter? Heidi Klum for Guitar Hero Video Link or Julianne Hough for Juicy Fruit gum Video Link?
• Thanks for listening and tell a friend!!

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It's been a busy few weeks for Comcast as they've finally come out and put a cap on users accounts and also announced plans to start throttling the bandwidth hogs. Beyond that today I was trying to send some e-mail through my own web server and realized I could no longer reach it at port 25, so yes, now Comcast has started blocking 25 in my area as well.

I admit it. I have turned into a digital music addict. With the death of DRM finally starting to happen and Amazon MP3 putting together an excellent service offering DRM free content, I find that I am buying a lot more music in digital form. I have finally got over the need to have a jewel case and liner notes. This development has made a good portable music player a critical item for me.

If you listen to show #22 you'll know why this post is called unsubstantiated. It's because I couldn't say that word. At least not within a proper time period not to look either totally drunk or totally stupid. I wasn't totally drunk, or even a little drunk at the time and you can make your own decisions on the other one.

The point I am making here is what you get with Alt-This is the show as it would have been if you were sitting around with us live and recording it. We don't edit out our blunders, unless they happen to be huge and unentertaining. We believe the live and off the cuff feel of the show makes for the best show. We hope you agree.

Unsubstantiated.. it's easier to type, trust me.

• Intro from the Pubcrawlers
• We're Back!! Episode #21 was recorded but never edited..
• Bookers and Makers Mark make this an all bourbon show
• Screw Pamela for their piece of trash software and support
• Don't buy Pamela, try Call Graph instead
• Screw G DATA and their piece of trash AV software and support
• Screw AVG and their piece of trash software and support
• Jeff says "AVG is a virus itself!"
• Screw the Consumerist and their constant "grocery shrink ray" posts, comment moderation and unsubstantiated stories!
• Costco may be the only company in America that doesn't suck
• Office Depot and why they also suck
• Cable broadband blocking ports, capping it's users, using deep packet inspection to insert ads and other garbage
• Non-DRM music is here since we last talked to you
• Jeff loves Amazon's MP3 offering
• Is Steve Jobs heathy? Can Apple survive without him?
• Darren is liking Vista on his new machine
• If you're plugged into the Internet please patch your shit!
• YouTube videos now available on our HD / Series 3 Tivos
• Thanks for listening and tell a friend!!

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