Took us a while to get this up, and we apologize… Final Cut Pro is a fickle mistress! We also recorded a little audio follow-up for you. Enjoy!

We’re also throwing in this behind the scenes video because one of our stories really, really needed help in the form of hand gestures this week.

This week, we cover Pre hacking, iPod volume level legislation, portable genomics devices from IBM, AutoTune, and more.

As a consolation prize we give you the episode we recorded a month ago which we now have finally had time to edit and write up notes for.

(If you don’t understand the title, look at one of these:)

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=electric+boogaloo

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakin’_2

[And you know you wanna read Midori's account of NUrd radio... ;D]

Facebook TOS Updated!
- Firestorm ensues (all because data kept after removal of account)

End Kitty-User License Agreements
- Licensing vs. Ownership?

Drunk dialing your own blog: Introducing Tumblr Voice posts
- Example: http://midoriw.tumblr.com/post/83255075

Intel vs Nvidia
- GPU vs CPU

Palm Pre w/ Flash support!
- First smartphone with full flash, not flash lite.

Obamadrama: Stimulus Pkg. for Open Source projects
- All agencies to investigate use of Open Source for official use.
- Rebates due to stimulus package = Awesome.

Water on Mars? No wai.
- Wicked cold weather + High concentration of perchlorate salts + One lonely lander = Condensed water droplets on probe

Box2DJS
- Javascript physics engine

Dead Space Prequel: Dead Space Extraction (for Wii)

World of Goo
- …now for Linux!

Halo Wars: Xbox
- Can they rape the franchise any more?

The new Mac Mini! Featuring…
- DVI with DisplayPort
- 5 USB ports
- Firewire 800

Microsoft iPhone killer stolen! Le gasp! Industrial espionage?!

Windows Mobile 6.5
- MyPhone cloud sync for Windows Mobile

Steve Jobs’ autobiography?
- (M)iLife by Steve Jobs

Win7 Powershell. Woot woot.

Windows File Sharing over Windows Live using Win Live ID
- …but no association to MyPhone.

TPB under legal scrutiny (again)
- …but this time they’ve got a bus.

MRI to predict peoples’ thoughts

Taliban shows some iPhone love

Boxee media front end for Apple TV
- Hulu support removed. Womp womp womp.

Verizon LTE (4G) testing. Woot!
- Backwards compatible with GSM?

Digital TV transition.
- July is FINALLY the end of analog as we know it.

[Midori squeals obnoxiously]

LTE iPhone soon?
- Rumors! Apple buying out entire market’s worth of flash memory… But why?

New Street Fighter, DBZ, Halo movies
- [yaaaawn.]

Halo/Starcraft novels
- Written just for people like Ben.

Puppies and Windows 7.
- ’nuff said.

Email us at nurdradio@ccs.neu.edu, visit us at nurdradio.ccs.neu.edu

* Truck Day
** Red Sox put all their crap on a truck and go to florida for spring training

* Groundhog day
** February 2nd
** http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groundhog_day

* Two acre field of Marijuana found in Switzerland via google earth/maps
** http://arstechnica.com/software/news/2009/01/google-earth-reveals-two-acre-field-of-weed-to-swiss-police.ars

* Quake live
** http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quake_Live

* mozilla launches open source phone project
** http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2009/02/05/mozilla-thinks-outside-the-box-launches-open-source-mozilla-phone-project/

* Bill Gates unleashed mosquiotes on audience at TED
** http://i.gizmodo.com/5146564/bill-gates-just-unleashed-a-swarm-of-live-mosquitoes-on-a-room-full-of-geniuses

* Google
** Google Earth
*** http://earth.google.com/
** Google Latitude
*** http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009/02/see-where-your-friends-are-with-google.html
*** http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/02/see-where-your-friends-are-with-google.html
** Multiple inboxes
*** http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009/02/new-in-labs-multiple-inboxes.html
** new buttons in gmail
*** http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009/02/new-ways-to-label-with-move-to-and-auto.html
** This site may harm you computer
*** http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/this-site-may-harm-your-computer-on.html

* Woz joins an enterprise SSD startup
** http://news.zdnet.co.uk/hardware/0,1000000091,39612310,00.htm

* Skype 4.0
** http://share.skype.com/sites/en/2009/02/skype_40_its_all_yours.html

* Windows 7 has 6 Versions.
** http://www.coderjournal.com/2009/02/windows-7-skus/

* Flash on iPhone, sometime in the future
** http://lifehacker.com/5144289/adobe-and-apple-working-to-put-flash-on-iphonesomeday

* Man robs store with a “bat’leth”
** http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/04/colorado_batleth_sword_robbery/

* Adam Alix doesnt know who Kevin Mitnick is, loses all his geek cred, also,
* since he didnt look at last week’s notes, he loses even more. Also, he doesnt
* know about memes…
** http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_mitnick
** http://www.kevinmitnick.com

This episode was streamed live. Midori goes crazy at a beachball. Apple gets
their multitouch patent and more cool stuff. Also, lots of after the show
extras.

* Live on ustream
** http://www.ustream.tv/crewbie

* AMD Phenom II overclocked to 6.5GHz
** http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09%2F01%2F26%2F1644209&from=rss

* Hulu superbowl ad
** http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10150197-2.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=Webware
** hulu ad: http://www.hulu.com/superbowl/55719/super-bowl-xliii-ads-hulu-alec-in-huluwood#s-p1-sn-i0
** all superbowl ads: http://www.hulu.com/superbowl/results

* Liquid Hair Studios
** www.liquidhairstudios.com

* CAPTCHA broken with javascript, OCR, and neural nets
** http://ejohn.org/blog/ocr-and-neural-nets-in-javascript/

* apple is granted their multi-touch patent
** http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=multi-touch&s2=multitouch&OS=multi-touch+AND+multitouch&RS=multi-touch+AND+multitouch
** what about palm?
** http://www.slashgear.com/apple-multitouch-patent-finally-awarded-ip-battle-not-over-yet-2731962/

* Obama admisistration asks CitiGroup to cancel private jet order
** http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/01/under-fire-from.html
** citi group cancels order
** http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/4368580/Citigroup-cancels-jet-order-after-pressure-from-Barack-Obama.html

* VirtualBox
** http://www.virtualbox.org/
** NOT written in Java

* Google Maps hits a Deer
** http://i.gizmodo.com/5141974/google-maps-car-hits-a-deer-records-entire-ordeal-on-google-maps

* Advanced Starcraft Theory course
** http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/01/27/cal-to-offer-course-in-advanced-starcraft-theory/

* wikipedia the missing manual
** on wikipedia, in wiki fortmat, for everyone to read and edit
** http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Wikipedia:_The_Missing_Manual
** printed for 20 or 30: http://www.amazon.com/Wikipedia-Missing-Manual-John-Broughton/dp/0596515162/

* Our new toy
** http://www.presonus.com/products/Detail.aspx?ProductID=5

* offline gmail
** http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/new-in-labs-offline-gmail.html

* iphoto recognizes cats
** http://i.gizmodo.com/5140703/iphotos-facial-recognition-feature-works-on-cats

* Neil Gaiman wins Newbery Award for the Graveyard book
** http://www.twitter.com/neilhimself
** http://twitter.com/neilhimself/status/1149409075
** listen to it here: http://www.mousecircus.com/videotour.aspx
** http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2009/01/what-i-look-like-day-after-i-win.html

* MD5 hash collision creates Certificate Authority certificate
** http://www.heise-online.co.uk/security/25C3-MD5-collisions-crack-CA-certificate–/news/112327
** http://twit.tv/sn179

* Palm Pre Synergy and guide
** http://i.gizmodo.com/5133554/palm-pre-the-definitive-faq

* Gary’s Sprint Plan
** www.sprint.com/sero

* Zombies Ahead
** http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/01/how_to_hack_construction_signs.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890

* Milgram’s experimental study has been proven, or at least results of new study were statistically indistinguishable
** http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment
** http://scienceblogs.com/cognitivedaily/2009/01/would_we_still_obey_the_first.ph

* obama: why should we use open source?
** http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10147920-16.html?part=rss

* whitehouse.gov/robots.txt

* obama gets to keep blackberry
** has to install encryption package
** still needs to use Sectera Edge WinMo for official use
** http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2009/01/obama_will_get_his_blackberry.php

* obama opens bush records
** http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2009/01/21/obama-reverses-bush-policy-opens-access-to-some-records/

* obama wore bulletproof suit during inauguration
** http://i.gizmodo.com/5136183/barack-obamas-bulletproof-inaugural-suit

* Photosynth, magic photography application
** http://photosynth.net/

* Songsmith, generate backing track to your singing
** http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/songsmith/

* Tim Cook warns companies that they will sue if Apple’s Intelectual Property
is violated
** probably in reply to palm pre
** http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/21/apples-tim-cook-warns-competitors-if-you-rip-off-the-iphone-well-go-after-you/

* Woman drops from college because Ubuntu was installed on laptop
** http://www.wkowtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=9667184

* Custom ubuntu for eee pcs
** http://www.geteasypeasy.com/

* Jolicloud
** pretty OS for netbook
** Gary thinks it pointless, just write a custom theme for android
** Midori thinks its still pretty
** http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/25/jolicloud-the-os-your-netbook-has-been-screaming-for/

* AT&T
** http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT%26T
** map: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:RBOC_map.png

* Last mile
** http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_mile

* Vodafone, a UK based mobile network operator
** Owns 45% of Verizon Wireless
** http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vodaphone

* Vint Cerf on should we nationalize the internet?
** http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/25/vint-cerf-wonders-if-we-need-to-nationalize-the-internet/
** http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinton_Cerf

* Windows 7
** http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/
** Gary has been using it for a few months so far and likes it.
** superbar versus OS X dock
*** http://arstechnica.com/software/news/2009/01/dock-and-windows-7-taskbar.ars
*** http://i.gizmodo.com/5131933/giz-explains-why-the-windows-7-taskbar-beats-mac-os-xs-dock

* Windows PowerShell
** http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_PowerShell

* Best X Server for windows: Xming

** http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingNotes/

• Happy Birthday Wikipedia
  • Wikipedia was launched January 15th, 2001
  • mediawiki
    • php
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia

• SugarCRM – php, 500,000 lines of code
  • customer relationship management
  • community build — free
  • sell support
  • http://www.sugarcrm.com/crm/

• Twitter Suggestion
  • New page for people’s feeds you might want to follow
  • Kinda of like that facebook piece that tells you about people you don’t want  to be friends with
  • algorithm is undesclosed

• mrtweet
  • “your personal networking assistant”
  • analyze data:
    • friends
    • followers
    • content
  • suggest people to follow based on data

• barack obama
  • blackberry
  • • will they surgecially remove obama’s blackberry from his hip?
    • might get a winmo replacement phone
    • lee thinks that they will all get eee pc’s
  • spaceships
    • obama reviewing spaceship designs
  • DTV
    • run out of money for the converted box
    • push back to get more money
    • someone in obama administration stands to gain from this
    • if moved, how will they notify every of the move
    • already had lots of trouble telling everyone this data
  • secretery of energy
    • steven chou
      • nobel-lauriate
      • physics
    • not yet approved
  • digital camera
    • obama first president to have portrait with digital camera
    • turns out it is a canon
    • was it cleaned up in aperture or lighroom
      • almost like vim and emacs
  • apple products
    • ipod
    • macbook
    • iphone
  • net neutrality
    • obama for
    • biden against
    • last mile problem
    • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_neutrality
    • Net Neutrality in the US

• lenovo touchscreen android device

• palm pre
  • sprint only
  • slide-out qwerty
  • touchscreen
  • wifi
  • gps
  • accelerometer
  • conduction charging extra
  • touchscreen extends down to button area
  • webOS
    • card model
    • live preview
    • only JavaScript, CSS, and HTML
    • seems like one giant web browser
  • price rumors
    • 150 or 199 with a two year plan
    • 399 ubsubsidized
  • stock went up five dollars from one dollar a share to six
  • http://www.slashgear.com/palm-pre-roundup-1530522/
  • http://i.gizmodo.com/5126870/in-a-nutshell-palm-pre-vs-iphone-vs-g1

• steve jobs is stepping down
  • till june
  • health reasons
  • stock fell only 4 bucks
  • rumors that he isnt coming back

• OLPC
  • amazon, maybe closed already
  • no crank, pull tab thingy
  • drop sugar in order to focus on dual-touchscreen interface model
  • “get one, give one”
    • originally, pay 400 for one for you and one for a child
  • on amazon
    • either that, or pay 200 just for yourself
  • mesh networking

• Body Hacks via Boston.com
  • Some cool effects you can have on our body
  • Ganzfeld procedure
    • Stop input to senses and let your mind take over
    • You trip balls
    • Sensory deprivation tanks
  • Rubber hand illusion
    • Hide real hand, put fake one to look like, as you see, that it is your hand
    • touch both the real and fake hand in same spot (someone else)
    • soon you think fake is real, so stab the fake, and it will hurt
  • http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/graphics/011109_hacking_your_brain
  • second hack:
    • close your eyes
    • stick hands forward
    • feel your hand in space
    • have someone push down on your hands
    • resist it
    • have them stop
    • feel your hand in space
    • you will think that it is much higher

• Ruby / Merb Merge
  • Rails is a web framework started by Danish David Heinemeier Hansson.
    • provides abstraction in MVC
    • really popular
  • Merb is also a web rails framework started by Ezra Zygmuntowicz
    • Speedy and library agnostic
      • easy switchability
    • a hacker’s tool, not the norm
  • A storm of Rails VS Merb has been brewing, with both communities arguing
  • The merb and rails core teams met up, and decided to put arguments aside
  • Announced merger for Rails 3.0 on December 23rd
  • www.rubyonrails.org/merb

• yi editor
  • net gen editor
  • splice of vim and emacs
  • written in Haskell
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yi_(editor)

• RED camera
  • twice HD

• opening song
  • In The Hollow (Stars Hollow Theme)
  • from Penmachine Podcast
  • http://www.penmachine.com/podcast/2006/05/in-hollow-stars-hollow-theme.html

• OpenVZ
  • Worked on John Mendlewski and Alex Lee
  • https://wiki.ccs.neu.edu/display/Crew/Web+Hosting
  • Uses Django, Python, and some C.
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openvz
  • The Subversion Repository:
    • https://trac.ccs.neu.edu/svn/crew/webhost/

• nurdradio in a café

• hyperthreading
  • is back!
  • http://www.core-i7.com/

• iphone sales exceed windows mobile sales
  • http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/smartphone-numbers-are-in-iphone-sales-exceed-windows-mobile-sa/

• windows drops below 90% market share % firefof’x is aboe 20%
  • http://ostatic.com/blog/windows-drops-below-90-market-share-firefox-above-20

• python 3000 released
  • http://hackaday.com/2008/12/03/python-3000-release-imminent/

• pandora versus last.fm according to mashable
  • http://mashable.com/2008/12/02/pandora-vs-lastfm/

• slacker, pandora type website
  • http://www.slacker.com/

• linux on iphone
  • http://www.hackszine.com/blog/archive/2008/11/iphone_linux.html?CMP=OTC-7G2N43923558

• browser with all three rendering engines: lunascape
  • trident (IE)
  • gecko (FF)
  • Webkit (safari, chrome)
    • http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10105896-2.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=Webware

• windows 7
  • WARP, graphics acceleration on the CPU
    • http://gizmodo.com/5100327/fujitsus-laptop4life-scheme-gets-you-a-new-laptop-every-3-years-til-you-die
  • beta to ship in janurary
  • vista sp2 beta 2 out

• website down time alerts via twitter, ah, the irony
  • http://mashable.com/2008/11/30/dingitsup/

• Pirates of the Amazon
  • a plugin for amazon that links to a pirate bay torrent of an amazon item.
  • taken down by amazon as you can see by their site
  • http://pirates-of-the-amazon.com/
  • http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10116503-2.html?tag=mncol;title