Use your DS as a phone
Looks interesting, further proof that the DS can do anything. Requires an SIP account, but definitely has potential.

Nate the cartoonist
shortminds.com

No iTunes Plus on iPod Touch?
Giz say that the Wi-Fi store and interface are really great, but that you can't access any iTunes Plus tracks, which is just plain weird. Whaddya think? Legit security concerns or silly contract stipulation with EMI?

Nav

Hollywood and computers
Greetings from China. I saw this and thought of you guys. Love your show.

John S

Google language issue
Buzzers,

Now, I didn't have the spam issue (because I don't use Gmail), but yesterday about 2 p.m., I logged into my Google account and my language had been changed to another one I didn't recognize. I was able to find my way back to English, but I wanted you to know it happened to me, too.

Ethan
Minneapolis

Google street view
Hi all (never know who will be there),

Here at Algoma University (go Thunderbirds) I am the chair of the Research Ethics Board. Before that, I was chair of the REB at the Corner Brook campus of the Memorial University of Newfoundland (go Seahawks) for six years. I have participated in writing the ethical guidelines for both institutions. One of the most important policies in research ethics is informed consent. The only time you can do research on human subjects without informed consent is if they are doing something in public where they would not reasonably expect privacy. So, say you see someone walking down the street smoking a cigarette, and say the person is actually someone that has told his family he has quit. He is assuming privacy from his family (and yes, the family he is lying to, but that is neither here nor there). If you were to use data on this person's smoking behaviour, you would be violating his right to informed consent.

These rules came out of an exhaustive process initiated in the 1960s by the American Psychological Association. The rules are often much more restrictive than the laws of various nation states.

Just thought I would throw that into the mix to make things even more difficult.

Dave (the ethical psychologist)

Apple announces an announcement--huh?
In regards to episode 560, did you seriously just announce that Apple announced that it was going to make an announcement? Or, better yet, did you just announce that Apple announced that it was going to make an announcement in order for you to speculate that such announcement was going to be about a product we all knew was going to come out eventually anyway?

Suckers.

Cheers,
Charlie