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Leo Laporte, Patrick Norton, Kevin Rose, Robert Heron, David Prager, and Steve Gibson

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Topics:

• New LCD displays with LED backlights
• Old-style LCDs take half an hour to reach optimal color, CRTs can take hours
• LED pocket projectors
• TWiT pocket protectors
• Intel strives for VIIV
• Shorter pipelines, lower power consumption, but will it be fast?
• Multi-threading does not benefit games
• L2 cache is key
• Felony charges are dropped for the Kutztown 13
• VoIP providers get an extension on 911
• Otis hacking
• Life hacking with lifehacker.com and 43Folders.com
• Google talk is no big whoop - but it does sound good for voice
• Voice stuff is by Global IP Sound - not Google
• Jabber support is a good thing, though
• Getting studio quality over the Internet cloud
• Early drinking experiences
• NY AG Eliot Spitzer wins judgement against AOL for making it hard to cancel
• Bank account drainers
• Tivo makes its first quarterly profit
• Leo's looking for BitTorrent-based media center
• We're Family Guy fans but what's the deal with the podcast
• The not-so-mighty mouse
• Real geeks covet the Logitech G5 Laser Mouse
• Pinewood Derby hacking
• Patrick reviews the Vista Beta
• Finally decent security in Windows
• But automatic P2P connections don't seem like a good idea
• Zeroconf, on the other hand, works
• Steve's 2 TTL security hack
• A Microsoft worker brings a virus to Redmond. Measles.
• Halo - the movie
• The best and worst geek movies of all time

Next week: Live from the Apple Store in San Francisco. We start setting up at 3p. Podcast at 4p.