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Mark and Wes in Concord, CA at the Fry's Electronics Store.

Sites of Interest:

• Legal stink over fart apps.
  
  
• Mark and Wes bought these Poqet PC devices back in the day, and still have them.
  
  
• Sony P Series tiny notebooks are still bigger than the Poqet.
  
  
• The technology behind the movie Coraline.
  
  
• Mark suspects the $1,000+ "power conditioners" at the Fry's store are just glorified $5 power strips and in the real world don't make any difference to audio and video quality.
  
  
• Mark guesses that this is the "store on Locust" with the $80,000 amplifier; but their website doesn't show anything like that.
  
  
• The Amazing Randi has a $1,000,000 challenge about audio cables, but Mark was wrong in the details.
  
  
• Startup.com, the movie.
  
  
• Big Blue's employees really, seriously, used to sing these IBM company songs.
  
  
• President Obama introduces RECOVERY.gov.
  
  
• If you have a U.S. GSM cell phone (AT&T or T-Mobile), the trapcall service will show you the caller-id of people who try to call you with their id blocked; plus other services. This really works and Mark uses it.
  
  
• Mozilla's Bespin framework aims to build an interactive Web-based code editor.
  
  
• The WebKit open source project let's you design your own custom web browser.
  
  
• Mark mentioned a street in London that protects pedestrians who walk while texting. This turned out to be a hoax.
  
  
• The old Commodore Amiga with Video Toaster, could do this, but it takes 21st century engineering to actually make toast from a video machine!
  
  
• How to build an aquarium from an old Mac.
  
  

Wes' iPhone Application of the week:

• He didn't have any this week. Mark was shocked.
  

Mark's iPhone Applications of the week:

• Tootin Pooch -- the world's first dog-fart app.
  

• Pukey Pete -- quite possibly the first puke app. Mark may branch out from fart apps and become an expert on puke apps as well.
  
  
• Ocarina -- turns the iPhone into a serious ancient flute-like music instrument.
  
  
• Fartarina --a mash up between Ocarina and a fart app.
  
  
• SignalScope -- turns your iPhone into a powerful real-time spectrum analyzer and oscilloscope.