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Jason Meserve and Keith Shaw's off-center look at the week in tech news and other crazy items.

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January 09, 2009

Playing with fire at CES

Keith and Jason tackle CES 2009 in Las Vegas covering everything that's hot and not in the world of consumer technology. (24:57)

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December 23, 2008

Christmas Holiday Spectacular Blowout Variety Show

Jason and Keith celebrate the holidays by discussing their favorite holiday music, movies and traditions. Plus, it's the return of the Blooper Reel. (23:30)

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December 19, 2008

Jason would be a lousy Pilgrim

Surviving the Ice Storm of 2008, Jason and Keith talk about unsafe Web browsers, what the Apple faithful will do without a Steve Jobs keynote, and what we would do with our own space shuttle. (40:59)

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December 12, 2008

The 29th bug always gets you

Jason and Keith talk about the privacy of Google searches, the rise of "scareware" and Microsoft's patching issues, and steps that IT employees can take now before they get laid off. (47:37)

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December 05, 2008

Merry Christmas! You're Fired!

Jason and Keith talk about whether anyone will have a job in 2009 (big layoffs in IT continue), a couple of Apple conspiracy therories, and try to predict what the official "color of the year" will be for 2009. (52:15)

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November 21, 2008

Killing liches is hard work

Jason and Keith talk about how to protect corporate data during layoffs, why they they are moving to Romania and try to figure out why Google hates the British. (41:06)

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November 14, 2008

When good employees turn eeeevil...

Jason and Keith discuss how the economy could mean more insider attacks, whether they have a work spouse, and why a camel can make better football picks than they can. (47:20)

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November 07, 2008

Angry copy editors do not launch dictionary attacks

Jason and Keith discuss the cracking of WPA, whether Yahoo and Microsoft will kiss and make up, and why younger employees will cause nightmares for corporate IT. Plus Keith does his best Sean Connery impression. (44:34)

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October 31, 2008

Windows 7: Change we can believe in?

Jason and Keith chat about Office moving to the cloud, how to use social networks for business purposes, and whether they've ever called in sick when they weren't really ill. (41:26)

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October 24, 2008

Disco Duck can save your life, too

Jason and Keith chat about whether the economy is stressing out IT pros, why your cell phone might be giving you a rash, and how having a disco song in your head can help you when performing CPR. (40:18)

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October 16, 2008

More reasons we're not on NPR

Jason and Keith talk about more bad economic news for IT, why Internet security suites aren't protecting squat, and how using the Internet may help you fight Alzheimer's Disease. (43:48)

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October 10, 2008

Seriously, I'm looking for a chicken recipe

Jason and Keith talk about the economy freezing IT budgets, which political candidate spammers like best, and why filtering porn on airplanes is a must-have. (41:52)

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October 03, 2008

Neal's Excellent Fish Adventure

Keith and guest co-host Neal Weinberg discuss WiMAX's chances, Microsoft's Cloud operating system, and the world of competitive fish shows. (32:45)

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September 26, 2008

Camping out for Windows 7

Keith and Jason are underwhelmed by Google Android, wonder whether they should start lining up now for Windows 7, and guess how many text messages they're sending each month. (46:13)

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September 19, 2008

What's more popular than Palin and Social Networks?

Jason and Keith discuss how Wall Street's woes are hurting IT, figure out how they can virtualize the podcast, and wonder what it will take to get their names popular with spammers. (37:14)

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September 12, 2008

Digital paper and way to save on A/C bills lead DEMOFall 08 charge

Keith and Jason, fresh from DEMOFall 08 in San Diego, recap the show and bring you their eight favorite companies: Microstaq, Intellius, Usable Security Systems, Photrade, Plastic Logic, RealNetworks, CrowdSpring and iWidgets. (50:51)

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September 05, 2008

Football fever, Comcast caps and DVR madness

Keith and Jason tell you the REAL reason Comcast is capping bandwidth, why the world needs another browser (Google's Chrome), and whether they can live without their DVRs. Plus, the return of Pigskin Pick 'em! (45:33)

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August 29, 2008

The universe is soooo boring

Jason and Keith talk about the latest iPhone issues and bugs, try to see if they can guess each other's passwords, and argue whether they'd play World of Warcraft on the International Space Station. (48:38)

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August 22, 2008

Routers, fat trees, algorithms, oh my!

Jason Meserve and guest-host Denise Dubie go deep into some new router technologoies, dicuss the latest woes from Apple over its iPhone 3G and wonder why it took Microsoft so long to to get a celebrity pitchman. (38:19)

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August 15, 2008

No fake fireworks or lip-synching in this episode

Keith and guest co-host Jonathan Summey talk about Olympic shenanigans, the MIT hackers who just want a free subway ride, and the pros and cons of being invisible. (41:25)

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August 01, 2008

We'll pay $20 for Jason to stay retired

Jason and Keith discuss whether anyone will ever understand data security, why 60 years in prison for the 'UFO hacker' is a good idea, and whether we'd shoot our DNA up into space. (51:05)

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July 25, 2008

Moving to that dee-luxe studio in the sky

Jason and Keith talk about the DNS attack code unleashed on the Internet, the Brocade-Foundry deal and celebrate the last recording from the Twisted Lair studio (27:51)

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July 18, 2008

One bad apple in IT, 1M good Apple iPhones

Jason and Keith talk about the San Francisco IT guy holding the city "hostage", how cybercrime is becoming like the Mafia, and of course our thoughts on the iPhone 3G now that we've touched one (sort of). (39:54)

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July 11, 2008

Our plan for world domination

Jason and Keith talk about how they can try to exploit the DNS flaw to get everyone to come to their Web site, and get ready for iPhone 3G madness. (43:09)

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June 27, 2008

Hyper for Hyper-V

Jason and Keith discuss Microsoft's virtualization efforts, whether broadband access is as important as hot water, and celebrate Second Life's fifth birthday. (35:32)

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