There is a definite disconect  between the music industry and many of its fans, and this is not big news.  What is news is the amazingly inept ways in which old bands and old media try to become hip and cool, come up with a pretty good idea…yet still manage to find the songle most boneheaded way to screw it up.  Just ask Gene Simoms and KISS, or better yet, don’t.  Since the obviously just don’t get it.

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also this week

NFL has good blocks and bad blocks

Itsey Bitsey Picsey

QUACK!

Bail fit for a kidnapper

Half the game

So you can’t teach an old dog new tricks…at least not very easily, but according to a new report, you can teach new robots some darn scary tricks.  Now a few months ago, the news came out of a robot powered by organic waste.  You know, was like old vegetation…incapacitated people, those kinds of things.  Combine that with the new discovery that given some basic programing to keep themselves alive and powered up, robots learn, in a startlenginly short period of time, how to Lie, cheat and steal to live.  And here you all though it was a human trait to be a total butthead.

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Also this week

AT&T, your network, UNSECURED

Rodent eating plants

LED…now with carbon

Plug it in, plug it in

Paintball enforcement

It happens…not very often when you consider there are hundreds of millions of them out there, but it is a real fact that lithium batteries can go bad.  I don’t mean they start pushing over cows, robbing liquor stores and writing bad checks, but they can go bad, and especially if damages (lets say by a small fall), have a cascading reation and fail in dramatic fashon.  How dramatic you ask?  Lets just say that the picture above while it is an artistic rendering of potential…its not so far from the truth.

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Also this week

iPhone exclusive

Arachnophobia circa 300million bc

Keep on making those mistakes

Solar pay to play

Glasses that look stupid and cost too much

AP shake down

XKCD book

Advertising…we are surounded by it every day, and lets be very clear that there is nothing inhearently bad with advertising.  What happens when your promotional department gets a little over zealous?  When you go from being a great choice and a great product to the NEST choice and the ONLY way to go if your not a blithering idiot.  This is the question that comes up when you listen to some modern ads.  After all, there can be only one that is the best…at least you would think so.  Thats part of the reason AT&T and Verizon are so often at each others leagal throats.

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Also on the show;

Parents as financial advisors…hmmm

Da Blob and other stuff that floats, stinks and eats birds

Horizon realty, bully? Jerks? or just a company trying to set the record straight?

Read any good books…so just how good were they?

Its good to be blue

Man accused of stabbing that leads to a death…75 million years ago

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