Mark and Wes at the Korean Bulgogi House in Concord, CA .
Sites of Interest:
Mark mentioned hostgator.com for hosting WordPress blogs and many other types of web pages and services.
Wes' stupid Blackberry can't even run basic iPhone apps like these: Fartoscopes, Big Mouth, and TubaFollow.
Zoho has free and low-cost productivity, collaboration, and business apps. They just added a way to export your Access databases to the web.
Rear Admiral Dr. Grace Murray Hopper was the first woman to receive a Ph.D. in Mathematics and is also credited with having written the first high-level language compiler, and for leading the effort to develop the COBOL programming language.
History of Borland International, and Will The Real Frank Borland Please Stand Up?
Fancy fast food: yeah, it's still bad for you, but look see how good it can look!
Universal/TuneCore deal opens major doors for indie artists.
Peter Pancreas Pimple still uses WebTV.
VLC media player 1.0 officially released after more than 10 years of work.
The Story of the Fail Whale, and the Fail Whale in Pop Culture.
Why are SMS messages limited to 160 characters?
History and myths about why railroad tracks are the gauge they are.
Cheap Trick brings back the 8-track.
Radio Station Broadcast Cartridges are similar to 8-track tapes.
YouTube videos of the Star Spangled banner played on a Louisville Slugger baseball bat and on a ukulele. Explanation of the electronic bat.
Pandora lives! SoundExchange cuts deal on webcasting rates.
Google Chrome OS vs. Android on notebooks.
Wes' iPhone Application of the week:
ModBox Module Player - universal Tracker Format Player that plays Amiga and PC module computer music, e.g. Protracker, Fasttracker, Screamtracker.
The Sexy Ladies of SHOW -brings you the incredibly beautiful women from the pages of SHOW magazine.
Babe on a Beam - balance the little cutey on the beam and unlock new powers. But go easy with those controls... it's a long way down!
Linux Cheat Sheet - a quick reference guide for all the Linux command lines necessarily to manage a Linux server.
Mark's iPhone Applications of the week:
iTwitter - Full-featured Twitter app including filtered groups; can do everything in landscape.
TweetDeck - Also full-featured Twitter app with filtering; won't do landscape; synchronizes filters with TweetDeck for desktop machines.
Epocrates - Information on 3,300+ drugs, including dosing, adverse reactions, pricing and pictures, interactions, pill identification.
Run Pee Mobile - tells you which points in a movie you can safely "run" and "pee" without missing a hugely important plot point.