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Tuesday, December 2, 2008
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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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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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June 20, 2008

Firefox frenzy and awesome anniversaries

Jason and Keith celebrate two years of Twisted-ness by talking about Firefox 3 fun, why unified communications are confusing, and whether gadget guys are arrogant. (47:44)

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June 13, 2008

Bejeweled runs wicked fast on a petaflop box

Jason and Keith discuss the second coming of the iPhone, IBM's new petaflop supercomputer, and whether data breaches should be revealed to the general public. (51:11)

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June 06, 2008

Lots of data, mostly useless

Jason and Keith talk aobut ISP bandwidth shaping plans, the most dangerous Web domains and the importance of a study trying to find out how much information is in the world. Plus: Keith loses more weight and we get our first female Movie Madness winner! (41:12)

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May 30, 2008

Want broadband? Head to Delaware

Jason and Keith discuss who has good broadband and who doesn't, the possibility of solar-powered iPods and the rise of Spam - the lunch meat. Plus: Keith loses weight with Wii Fit, and Movie Madness predictions! (37:56)

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May 23, 2008

Choosing exercise over Ubuntu

Jason and Keith discuss whether Vista is less vulnerable to malware than other systems, the Lifelock CEO getting his identity stolen, and whether they'd take a pay cut in order to land their dream job. Plus: Keith gets insulted by Wii Fit. (38:18)

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