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This episode covers a wide range of topics… we touch on the economy again, take our weekly riff on Apple, and talk about the joys of technology and some of the more ridiculous and laughable news we found this week.

Featured music: Terra Firma, The Void by Flexstyle*, W’s Duty by Jonathan Coulton, Technostuff by ANgR MgMT

Random Link: The Story of Stuff

Netflix Picks of the Week: Dan – Somewhere in Time, Tim – Star Trek: First Contact

Other relevant links from the show:

• Google tries to deter people trying to commit suicide
• The Night Santa Went Crazy (via Tinysong)
• RIM says Blackberry is the phone of the future
• Conan’s Twitter
• Mother accused of abuse for hugging
• NBCU/Comcast merger?
• HIV-only soccer team
• Medical Marijuana industry is on fire!
• Chinese undervaluing currency to subsidize imports?
• Nurse accused of aiding people in suicides
• Lane Bryant ad rejected because of “larger cleavage”
• Apple rejects Flash as “closed and proprietary”
• The Woz on the leaked iPhone

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This episode features us talking about the National Day of Prayer (and the recent mishaps surrounding it), the iPad’s latest woes, the most hilarious virus ever,  and then an in depth discussion of the latest news about Goldman Sachs and the scandal there, along with its impact on the current financial crisis. We also talk about the fallout from some of the government moves during the financial crisis, and how we think America is responding.

Featured music: Terra Firma, The Void by Flexstyle*, Star Wars by Moosebutter *We gave the wrong album for The Void, it’s actually off “Elements of Creation.”

Random Link: Currency Devaluation and Revaluation

Netflix Picks of the Week: Dan – Seven Pounds, Tim – Mythbusters: Collection 5

Other relevant links from the show:

• Judge declares National Day of Prayer
• Goldman Sachs charged with fraud
• Toyota recalls minivans
• The dumbest economic collapse ever
• Subprime Primer
• Israel confiscating iPad
• Hentai virus publishes web histories
• Obama’s Space Program cuts
• Wikipedia – the financial crisis of 2007-2010

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This episode features all music written and/or performed by Dan and Tim, and features them talking about a wide range of issues and events, including more of Tim’s alternate history, the horrors of parents on Facebook,  the new iPhone OS and the iAd, our love for Felicia Day, Obama’s “targeted assassinations,” and more…

Featured music: Ben’s Mom, Toolish by Stoicism, It Was Too Late, Moving On, Not I by Andrew Hake

Random Link: Random Linky Love

Other relevant links from the show:

• Computer Engineer Barbie
• Kid files harassment charges against mom for Facebook posts
• Slash is with CoCo
• KKK repudiates Westboro Baptist
• Firefly, Angel, and Buffy on Netflix.
• The Guild web series
• How to Create Codex’ Staff
• Wikileaks’ “unedited” video is edited

Being a free podcast that we license under Creative Commons unfortunately means we’re pretty limited on what kind of music we’re allowed to play legally on our podcasts. While we could probably skirt a lot of these rules, we’re squares, and so we don’t want to.

So where do you fit in? We want music to play on our show. This can be you, your band, your friend’s band, your dog’s band, whatever – so long as you’re okay with us using it on the show. We’ll throw you a link on the page show and under a soon-to-come affiliates link list in exchange and say some nice things about you on the air. If you’re curious as to the legalese, just hit the Creative Commons link on the sidebar and you’ll get all the info you could want and probably a lot more.

So, if you are a musician, or you know of a musician that would like to be featured on Radio Spacebird, email us at rsb@radiospacebird.com, or hit us up on Twitter or Facebook!

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Back with a vengeance and a new mic for Dan! We discuss our Netflix movie pick of the week, the best (and worst) Star Trek captains, Android smartphones, review the Motorola Devour, talk about Starcraft 2 and the release of the iPad, and much, much more…

Featured music: Baby Got Back and Code Monkey by Jonathan Coulton, Faithful and Warfare by Flexstyle, Do You Wanna Date My Avatar? by Felicia Day

Random Link: Matt’s Script Archive

Other relevant links from the show:

• Starcraft 2 Map Editor demo
• Do You Wanna Date My Avatar music video
• iPad website
• Motorola Devour
• “Ink” on Netflix