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Ray returns to the podcast after releasing his new album, Jessica and the Silver Eclipse. He, Noah and Eddie discuss Digg’s HD DVD processing key debacleand the departure of PC Magazine’s Editor over an Apple story before getting the juicy topic of Summer Movie Season 2007, where Eddie’s comic book knowledge is summoned.

Only one thing is nominated to the Lame List, but Noah calls it “the best nomination I’ve ever heard in my life.”

Picks of the Week include Pidgin & Adium, the Wii’s Super Paper Mario, and Wil Wheaton’s blog at TV Squad.

The truly burning questions are asked: Are Top Ten lists written by lazy authors? Can Galactus be easily explained? Should Wes Bentley’s acting result in a ticket rebate? When isn’t the Caddyshack theme funny?

Eddie and Noah catch up on all the big stories that broke while they were on vacation: EMI to remove copy-protection from its digital music sales, Apple to delay Leopard until October. And now that CS3 is out, Eddie finally gets to disclose what happened at the Adobe NDA meeting he attended in January.

Nominated to the Lame List this episode are Apple and the Copyright Royalty Board, both for making things not happen.

Picks of the Week include nostalgic Nintendo and Namco games.

The truly burning questions are asked: Should computers have quarter slots? Does The Goonies II warrant a release on the Virtual Console? What is the worst analogy Eddie can make?

The Apple TV is now shipping, offering Eddie another chance to question its value. And Viacom is suing YouTube, leaving Mexican residents like Noah without a chance to illegally watch The Daily Show.

Nominated to the Lame List this episode are shutdownday.org (which we clearly did not heed) and some creepy commercialsfeaturing a zombie popcorn-maker.

Picks of the Week include a new take on the portals of old and notes from a free Cascadia.

The truly burning questions are asked: If Google owns YouTube, why does the latter’s search suck? Should the TV version of This American Life have an international audience? Does Jamba Juice use pig hoofs?

Amazon has brought its Unbox service to TiVo and Eddie is pretty happy about it (except for 3-5 complaints). Noah’s experience in Mexico brings a new perspective to a discussion on piracy. And Apple is taken to task for doing … well, nothing, basically.

Noah’s Pick of the Week is congregate, but misspelled. The Apple Blog is the subject of both Lame List nominations, but for two completely different reasons (one far better than the other).

The truly burning questions are asked: How many terabytes would be needed to store every movie ever made? How much should a good review cost? Do we need another Resident Evil or Mummy movie?

A Mexico Moment from Noah kicks off this episode after which Eddie relates some disturbing news from his brief time spent in the jury pool.

Steve Jobs’ “Thoughts on Music” and the resulting reactions from all corners are the focus of this episode, but there’s still time to question the necessity of Kidz Bop. Picks of the Week are an album to “Love” and an instructional music video by an experimental Manchester three-piece.

The truly burning questions are asked: Is the most deluded CEO from Warner Music, Macrovision or Real Networks? Are haircut videos worth uploading to YouTube? How do you say B.S. in Spanish?

Ray from raybobindustries.com returns to discuss the Nintendo Wii with Noah and Eddie and whether or not it’s a fad or an impulse buy. The trio also discuss the recent release of Windows Vista, prompting a Lame List nomination regarding Bill Gates’ recent Newsweek interview.

The recent Aqua Teen Hunger Force “hoax” gets a thorough airing and Nintendo gets dinged for its lack of support for its N64 virtual console titles. Picks of the week include Inkscape, Adium and the Brothers Martin album.

The truly burning questions are asked: Is Jokey Smurf a terrorist? Why are Mario Kart ghosts so hard to save in the first place? Should you promote Windows Vista using stress balls?

Noah returns to discuss the results of Macworld Expo 2007 with Eddie (one of them was there and one wasn’t). Obviously, the iPhone and  TV have some interest, but what about the mythical Leopard?

Lame list nominations include one item out of turn and the first item to make the list twice (for different reasons). Picks of the week include a not-funny YouTube video and a partly-funny CD.

The truly burning questions are asked: Did the guy in charge of Steve’s clickers get fired? What’s with the dirty computer language? Are you sick of cats? Can you read my mind?

Ray from raybobindustries.com returns unexpectedly to fill in for Noah, who has been sidelined from podcasting due to tragic circumstances.

Eddie and Ray discuss what they hope will (and won’t) be revealed at Tuesday’s Macworld Expo keynote before revealing their Lame List nominations (Fergie, Matt Cassamina and BravoTV.com) and their post-Christmas vacation Picks of the Week (one visual, one not).

The truly burning questions are asked: Does the iPod really get updated that often? Why do people believe every rumor posted on the Internet? Can new features possibly be discovered for iMovie? What food products are acceptable to smear on the human body?

In this very special Christmas Eve episode, Noah and Eddie look back at this year’s episodes (all seven of them!) and choose both the lamest items and their picks of the year.

Eddie also finds some gift ideas in SkyMall and finds time to rant about Blogger. 

And Noah has two Mexico Moments for this episode, including the return of the bus system.

After first discussing the over-the-top Apple iPod Phone rumors, Noah & Eddie discuss the cracking of TiVoToGo’s encryption, the failure of iPod video to catch on, the downloadable Superman Returns DVD options available at Wal-Mart, the willingness of a major music label to offer unrestricted MP3s and Microsoft’s assertion it will sell one million Zunes by June 2007.

Nominated to the Lame List this week are Baskin Robbins (guess why?) and online columnists who choose to antagonize Apple fans. Recommended as Not Lame are Keane, for their Hopes & Fears album.

The truly burning questions are asked: Did Homer’s brother even deserve to be a CEO? Does Bill Gates know the prices of all the versions of Windows Vista? Would Apple drop copy-protection from iTunes if the major labels asked them? Why does the Mexican Power System hate Noah?  

(NOTE: The first 30 minutes of Noah’s GOOD audio was lost. If the static bothers you, skip to minute 31)