• Video Releases
• We not going to talk about SOPA
• Federal judge rules encrypted laptop can be used against you! (link)
• Tell me if you’ve heard this one before – Google is Evil (again?) (link)
• I got nothin’ – Disney Launches a Joy Division inspired Mickey Mouse Tee Shirt (link)
• It’s Oscar time, so we take a look at the nominations.

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Here it is peeps, our annual year in review episode, where we talk about some of the winners and losers of the last year.  Enjoy!

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Or, “How We Spent Our Winter Vacation”

And so you don’t have to look too hard for it, The Hobbit Trailer (Sweded)

See you next week!

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This week, Melissa and Paul interview the bloggers at Mad Art Lab:

Surly Amy
Surlyramics

Ryan Consell
Dragonsmith Armoury
Fantasy Armor and Lady Bits

Anne Sauer
Cocktail Lab
Cocktail Lab on Facebook

Victor Harris
Reuschelles Cheesecakes

Maria Walters
Skepchick
Death by Puppets

Steve
Tree Lobsters
Death by Puppets

Cloe Ashton
Obviously Cloe
Sparklecorn

Brian George
Brian George Studio
The Tale of Mona Lisa and the Hidden Animals

Maggie McFee
Sacre Moo
MaggieMcFee.com

Happy New Year, everyone!

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In our last official show of 2011, Mike and Melissa talk about:

• Video releases
• Thanks for the subsidized tablet Amazon: Hacker ports Android 4.0.1 ‘Ice Cream Sandwich’ to Kindle Fire (link)
• Melissa’s experiences at Butt Numb-A-Thon 13!

Thanks everyone!  See you next year!

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• Video Releases
• Why the entertainment industry should have never learned the word “reboot”: Starship Troopers
• Steven Moffat on the Doctor Who movie rumors
• Full John Carter trailer out, movie still four months away (link)
• Dell kills the Dell streak, and is, for now at least, out of the Android tablet business except for one model still sold in China.
• Will the Nook Tablet and Kindle Fire ($199-$249) play havoc with the 7″ tablet market?
• Research in Motion surrenders without surrendering
• This is why analysts get paid big bucks – They’re calling it “couch commerce” (link)
• It’s the most stupifying product of the year. (link)
• StatCounter claims Chrome is the #2 web browser in global usage share, behind Internet Explorer for now ahead of Firefox.
• Still have your old Super NES carts? (link)
• Have some Raspberry Pi (The Register article) (Company Site)

Peeks

• Melissa – Hugo and Trollhunter
• Richard – The Muppets and Dead Island (XBox)
• Mike – Tucker and Dale vs. Evil

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• Video releases
• RIP – Ken Russell

We also have a special guest in the studio: Local musician Scott Keever!  We spend the rest of the episode talking to Scott about his new studio album ‘Salieri’s Revenge’, his work with Orkestar Bez Ime, and his work scoring the 1928 film Fall of the House of Usher (part 1) (part 2), among various other subjects.  Enjoy!

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• Video Releases
• RIP – Anne McCaffrey (link)
• Guillermo del Toro’s “Pacific Rim” has started shooting (link)
• Next Star Trek movie also off until Summer 2013
• And apparently Bryan Singer’s Battlestar Galactica movie will ignore the recent series and return to the original show. What does that actually mean?
• And yes, really, a movie based on the videogame “Rampage” is being done by New Line Cinema
• Thankfully, Pixar’s got a movie that should come out in 2012 and IT ISN’T A SEQUEL! (link)
• The devil’s struggling with the pilot light again (link)
• So apparently people will buy long, large single player games (link)
• Chromebooks start the price cutting slide to destruction (link)
• Android is the new Windows. Really. (link)
• But Google wont’ take it lying down (link)
• Nasa Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter produces enough data to create detailed topographic map of the moon’s surface. (link)

Peeks:

• Paul – Fix your Time Machine backup by quitting Finder
• Richard – Desktops v1.02 (Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell)
• Melissa – Scarface is on Netflix streaming

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• Movies
• A Lego Movie? (link)
• David Yates told Variety he is developing a Dr Who film.  Surprisingly, Mike doesn’t like the idea. (link)
• Is the CD Dead? What do the numbers say? (link)
• Dear Viacom, This is why nobody is listening to you (link)
• Logitech bows out of the Google TV game (link)
• Stuff like this will continue until we have a new kind of payment mechanism (link)
• Adobe drops Flash for mobile devices (link)
• Microsoft shows that it can understand developers (link)
• Intel’s first microprocessor, the 4004 is…40 years old. (link)
• Ballmer drops the bomb we already knew was coming (link)
• The joy of the interwebitudes.

Peeks:

• Richard: Canadian Bacon
• Melissa: Powerpoint Karaoke, the Legend of Drizzt board game and the Battlestar Galactica board game

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• Video Releases
• Jon Carmack announced that the Doom 3 engine is bundled up and ready for open-sourcing (link)
• Duke Nukem 3D for Android. (link)
• Never one to abandon a lunatic idea, Nicholas Negroponte has new plan for XO-3 tablet. (link)
• Amazon announces Kindle “Lending Library”, but is it all that? (link)
• Need a hard drive?  Get one soon. (link)
• This could be the next Die Hard movie… (link)
• Mark Hartley is doing a documentary on Canon Films, called “Electric Boogaloo”

Peeks

• Mike – Nathan Lowell’s Ravenwood is out in ebook format!
• Melissa – Fast, Cheap and Out of Control, Kind Hearts and Coronets, Beat the Devil, App – Paper Camera and PowerPoint Karoke November 21 and December 3 @ Bryant Lake Bowl

Also, there wasn’t much pre-roll stuff that night, so there’s no outtake.  Sorry about that.

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