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ShoutoutsSolder Smoke is back! Bill is out in the HAM shack, broadcasting podcasts for all. Go catch the latest one!A podcast about DIY Drones, check it out and hear the most about the developing industry of unmanned personal drones!RantsChris loves the Webench tool from National Semiconductor...he just wishes there was a "prototype option".Dave was right, and not a bit afraid to tell everyone. Open Source Hardware (not just "Open Hardware") is the correct terminology...it's on the license!Why can't Amazon pay people globally? It's preventing Dave from retiring sooner! And if you live in Colorado, North Carolina or Rhode Island you are screwed.Discussion PointsWhat do you say? .001uF or 1nF? Not getting into another 555 timer debate, but still it's interesting.How much time should be put into simulating in SPICE?Apparently Oman needs electrical engineers that can speak Mandarin. Guess China is doing some work there?Free energy schemes are only free to those that run them, don't get fooled (no link, they don't deserve the press).Lots of component talk around Dave's video about designing for manufacturability.Jeff from Mighty Ohm found that if you call the IEEE, they'll stop sending worthless insurance offers and junk mail.There's a new movie about an electrical engineer to be done by the guy that directed "The Blind Side".The story of how Nathan Seidle got started with Spark Fun. A great read and similar to the Apple guys and how they bootstrapped their first products.