Return of Whatever Podcast 29 (12-18-05)

The Kool-Aid only two parts this week again. Dan was out fighting dragons we think. Amit and Herb star in this podcast. We hope all hope that you will have a great holiday season.

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Links:
Child's Play
http://www.penny-arcade.com/childsplaycharity/index.php

Microsoft drops IE for Mac
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/internetexplorer/internetexplorer.aspx?pid=internetexplorer

The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing And The Invention Of The Computer
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/18/books/review/18johnson.html?ex=1292562000&en=1147f35e13b48b65&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss

PC and Mac applications that every gamer should have
http://www.joystiq.com/entry/1234000900072697/

Google spending $1 billion to get 5% of AOL
http://news.com.com/AOL+to+stick+with+Google/2100-1030_3-5998600.html

What Google REALLY gave up to get AOL
http://www.threadwatch.org/node/5042

How Google woos the best and brightest
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/12/18/GOOGLE.TMP

Electronics 101
http://www.ffldusoe.edu/Faculty/Denenberg/Topics/Electronics/Alex_Pounds/Index.htm

Theater owners want cell phones blocked
http://upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20051217-074635-6362r

U of Minnesota newspaper does online parody version in Windows XP style
http://www.mndaily.com/finals/2005fall/index.php

Webpage guesses what band/singer you are thinking of, in 20 questions!
http://music.20q.net/gse

HOW TO: Run Other OSes On Your PC
http://linux.wolphination.com/?p=18

Disabled Fans Shut Out of Star Wars Galaxies
http://wiredblogs.tripod.com/games/index.blog?entry_id=1308320

Powers of Ten
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5555313278261147278&q=powers+of+ten

A Photoshopped Magazine Cover
http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=14537

Pi Trainer
http://x42.com/cgi-bin/pitrainer.cgi

Have a Nerdy Christmas! The CD!
http://herbertmidgley.blogspot.com/2005/12/have-nerdy-christmas-cd.html

Return of Whatever Podcast 28 (12-11-05)

The Kool-Aid only two parts this week again. Amit and Herb star in this podcast. We hope all hope that you will have a great holiday season.

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Links:
Answers.Yahoo.com Goes Live
http://answers.yahoo.com/

Wikilaw: Your free legal resource
http://wiki-law.org/mwiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

How to: Build a Webpage
http://www.pingmag.jp/2005/12/09/the-website-development-process/

Students raise funds for roommate sued by RIAA
http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2005/12/09/news/14093.shtml

What is accessing my hard drive when I'm not using my PC?
http://www.help2go.com/article251.html

A free-for-all gets people on planes quicker than starting at the back.
http://www.nature.com/news/2005/051205/full/051205-11.html

Intel calls MIT's $100 laptop a 'gadget'
http://news.com.com/Intel+calls+MITs+100+laptop+a+gadget/2100-1005_3-5989067.html?tag=nefd.top

FireWire not dead, but it's on life support
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Apple/?p=57

New record speed for bandwidth 150 gigabits per second!
http://www.fnal.gov/pub/presspass/press_releases/network_prize_release.html

Free Guitar Lessons for iTunes and your iPod w/ video
http://www.iplaymusic.com/

Auto-lock your computer on start-up
http://www.geekbb.com/showthread.php?t=494

Return of Whatever Podcast 27 (12-4-05)

The Kool-Aid only two parts this week. Amit and Herb star in this podcast. We hope all hope that you will have a great holiday season.

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Links:
Firefox 1.5
http://www.mozilla.com/

Macromedia RIP
http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/200512/120105MACRAcquisitionClose.html

French government lobbied to ban free software
http://www.fsffrance.org/news/article2005-11-25.en.html

Need a discount on an iPod? Just create your own barcode!
http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_3270764

Is eBay going to be shut down?
http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/11/28/hncourtebay_1.html

Take a Screenshot of DVD Player in OS X
http://highschoolblows.blogspot.com/2005/11/take-screenshot-of-dvd-player-in-os-x.html

"Stuff you can Make" Gift Guide
http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2005/12/makes_mostly_under_100_gift_gu.html

Play Sega Genesis, Nintendo, & TG16 Online
http://www.thesmartass.info/index.php?main=genesis

Play doom and doom 2 online Free
http://www.codeimp.com/connector_tutorial.php

Head-over-heels in love? You'll get over it.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10252428/

Car Shuts Down if you dont pay the bill
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techinnovations/2005-11-29-tech-repo-man_x.htm

HOW TO: Survive worst case scenarios!
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/worst_case_scenario/

Funny - Network Traffic Ticket
http://cisx1.uma.maine.edu/ticket.gif

Return of Whatever Podcast 26 (11-27-05)

The Kool-Aid is finally complete two weeks in a row!!!! Amit, Dan and Herb star in this podcast. We hope all hope that you had a great Thanksgiving.

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Links:
Students in trouble over Blogs
http://online.wsj.com/

Guide for Student bloggers
http://www.eff.org/bloggers/lg/faq-students.php

Swap your textbooks
http://www.swapyourtextbooks.com/

Free Physics Textbook online
http://www.motionmountain.net/

Havard class podcast Story
http://www.tuaw.com/2005/11/26/harvard-podcasts-available-to-everyone/

MIT's $100 laptop to run Redhat
http://www.tectonic.co.za/viewr.php?id=731

Physics, Math and Engineering concepts using Java Applets.
http://www.falstad.com/mathphysics.html

Teaching Computers the Stuff We All know
http://commonsense.media.mit.edu/

Google orgins
http://dbpubs.stanford.edu:8091/diglib/pub/slides/berkeleydlijan98/berkeleygoogle2/

Firefox Canvas based First Person Shooter
http://www.abrahamjoffe.com.au/ben/canvascape/

Try your social engineering skills (click on play this game)
http://newgrounds.com/portal/view/4364

How to be Lonely
http://wiki.ehow.com/Deal-With-Loneliness

Girlfriends Against Video Games
http://www.joystiq.com/entry/1234000337069569/

Holographic disk storage
http://www.computerworld.com/hardwaretopics/storage/story/0,10801,106288,00.html

Xbox BSOD
http://www.flickr.com/photos/80491849@N00/65990158/

Programming bacteria
http://english.epochtimes.com/news/5-11-27/35012.html

Pro-evolution website sued because it recieves public funds
http://www.shortnews.com/shownews.cfm?id=51460

Jesuit speaks out against Intelligent Design
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051118/ap_on_re_eu/vatican_evolution

Some Herb stuff
New Star Wars fan film by Herb
The Last Battle
http://herbertmidgley.blogspot.com/2005/11/last-battle-new-star-wars-fan-film.html

http://www.herbertmidgley.com/rft/thelastbattlem4.mov

And if you missed it, here is my first Star Wars fan film, The Last Stand SE.
http://www.herbertmidgley.com/stormtrooper/The%20Last%20Stand%20SE.mov

Return of Whatever Podcast 25 (11-20-05)

The Kool-Aid is finally complete! Amit, Dan and Herb star in this podcast. We hope you heart this podcast before Thanksgiving.
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Links:
DB for free?
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20051118-5601.html

Free - Oracle?
http://www.oracle.com/corporate/press/2005_oct/103105_databasexe_finalsite.html

Home school podcast
http://bezahlt.podomatic.com/

Playing Music Can Be Good For Your Brain
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/11/17/MNGQ9FPODP1.DTL

Mom Makes Teen Stand on Street With Sign
http://home.peoplepc.com/

Intellectually Stimulating Game ( How Fast Can You Think? )
http://www.gieson.com/Library/projects/games/matter/

Video of the $100 MIT laptop
http://laptop.media.mit.edu/news.html

Cheap iBooks in Jan.
http://www.thebusinessonline.com

Black Friday 2005 Complete List
http://www.flexdeals.net/forums.php?m=posts&q=16

Parents Sue World of Warcraft
http://www.joystiq.com/entry/1234000997068547/

The Mathematical Magic of the Fibonacci Numbers
http://www.mcs.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/R.Knott/Fibonacci/fibmaths.html

Owner brings 1990 Macintosh Classic to Genius Bar for "upgrade" NO JOKE!
http://50lbslater.com/blog/?p=45

RootkitRevealer see if you have the Sony Root Kit
http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/RootkitRevealer.html

Scarf Girl (A Sung that Herb wrote the music to and a few of the good lyrics. James did the rest!)
http://www.herbertmidgley.com/james/scarf%20girl2.mp3

Return of Whatever Podcast 24 (11-13-05)

Amit and Herb star in this podcast. Dan is at a con.
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Links:
Students Say Web Filters Show Religious Bias
http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051108/NEWS/511080355

noteIT
http://www.take-notes.com/

FolderShare now free!
http://www.foldershare.com/info/aboutFoldershare.php?

New software predicts hit songs before release
http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20051110.gthits10/BNStory/Technology/

Learn HTML
http://www.fortyinternet.com/html/

First Intel Macs on track for January
http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=1368

$149 PC at Best Buy on Black Fiday?
http://bfads.net/stores.php?id=9

Bush seeks tough new piracy laws
http://hollywoodreporter.com/thr/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001477589

Hard Drive Prices over the Years
http://www.littletechshoppe.com/ns1625/winchest.html

Troopers on Duty (Herb is the Short one)
http://www.herbertmidgley.com/trooper111205.mov

Computer America radio interview of Herb
http://archives.warpradio.com/btr/ComputerAmerica/111123.MP3

Return of Whatever Podcast 23 (11-6-05)

Amit and Herb star in this podcast.
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Links:
The $100 Laptop (how it will change the world)
http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/003707.html

Facebook has become the new police
http://columbiamissourian.com/news/story.php?ID=16840

Sony and Root Kits DRM
http://www.cnet.com/4520-6033_1-6376177.html?tag=nl.e501

$200 Os X Pc
http://www.i-hacked.com/content/view/202/42/

Make a map of friends
http://www.frappr.com/

Same Eight-digit Code on All 'Minuteman' Missles
http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=167

Eight-year-old physics genius enters university
http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/SITE/data/html_dir/2005/11/05/200511050024.asp

Map for your running route
http://mapmyrun.com/index.php

The $159 PC
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1880750,00.asp

Amit Dedhia clone
http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~amitp/gameprog.html

MacIntel PowerBooks coming in April or May
http://www.gadgetell.com/entry/60

DealMac
http://www.dealmac.com

"I'm a Nerd" has gone Gold!! 576,541 downloads
http://herbertmidgley.blogspot.com/2005/11/im-nerd-has-gone-gold.html

Return of Whatever Podcast 22 (10-30-05)

Only part of the Kool-aid is week is the water. Herb stars in this podcast, Amit and Dan are off this week. Here Herb talk about educational tech news topics. This is the first time all the links are commented on. Herb had to fill 20 minutes by himself.

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Links:
US Copyright Office wants to hear from you about the DMCA
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20051028-5493.html

Student sells homework site
http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/showStory.cfm?ArticleID=5924

Online collaborative Whiteboard from GEhttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gif
http://www.imaginationcubed.cohttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gifm/LaunchPage

Your first Photograph
http://www.engadget.com/entry/6325545908932866/

Free MMORPG Dofus
http://www.dofus.com/en/

Software to do what you want on your computer
http://www.philb.com/iwantto.htm

Computer the size of a wall socket
http://www.windowsfordevices.com/news/NS3139003780.html

Make Firefox look like IE
http://johnhaller.com/jh/mozilla/firefox_internet_explorer/

List of open source software packages
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open-source_software_packages

Return of Whatever Podcast 21 (10-23-05)

Only part of the Kool-aid is in the house. Amit and Herb star in this podcast, Dan is off this week. Next week is the special Halloween show! This week, Return of Whatever is 21!

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Links:
Podcasting in the Classroom
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/chi-0510200213oct20,0,4320824.story?coll=ny-leadnationalnews-headlines

Star Wars in one GIF
http://x2.putfile.com/10/29405035849.gif

10 things you should know about XP
http://techrepublic.com.com/5100-10877_11-5906772.html#

Photoshop Tutorials
http://www.pagecurve.com/

Test your hearing
http://www.hearing-siemens.com/00_en/50_besserhoeren/54_Hoertest/541_flash/flashtest.jsp

Flock a new web broswer that works on Linux, XP and OS X
http://www.flock.com/
http://www.flock.com/developer/

Return of Whatever Podcast 20 (10-16-05)

Can you believe two weeks in a row with the three amigos! The sweet taste of the Kool-aid.

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Links:
Blackboard and WebCT announce plans to merge
Herb calls the new merged version webBoard.
Herb coined a new word. You heard it here first!

http://webct.com/company/viewpage?name=company_blackboard_merger
http://webct.com/
http://blackboard.com/us/index.aspx

Commercial Alternatives
http://www.angellearning.com/

Open source versions
http://moodle.com/
http://www.sakaiproject.org/

To find out about resellers
http://www.resellerratings.com/

$500 game computer
http://www.tomshardware.com/howto/20051014/index.html

$100 computer off eBay
http://www.greg-j.com/home.php?subaction=showcomments&id=1123308178&archive=&start_from=&ucat=&

Reg edits with Windows XP
http://www.theeldergeek.com/registry_edits.htm

Altoids tin Survival pack
http://www.survival.com/best.htm

411 is now free
http://www.free411.com/

Cool Web Apps
http://nedwolf.com/Web-Applications.htm

The coolest web app
http://online.thinkfree.com/

Security consultant convicted of typing ../../../ into URL!
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/06/tsunami_hacker_convicted/

23 Ways to Speed Up Windows XP
http://techyogurt.com/?p=12