Saturday, April 26, 2008

GBTV #0346 (small) | GeekBrief.TV

GBTV #0346 (small) | GeekBrief.TV
I start Brief 346 with a public apology for the most embarrassing thing I've ever done in my life. Then we introduced the alpha phase of an idea to bring an open source element to Geek Brief.

It looks like there could be a problem with Psystar, the company that says it's selling Mac clones. Gizmodo is on it and they're doing a great job. They have their readers on the ground tracking down whether or not Psystar is the real deal or not.

Joe Finnigan brought us our first open source story about a Web application called iubo. It's a U.K. startup that enables users to organize personal and public information in a single place that you can search. It's like a private search engine you can use to search the details from your life.

's Baggers is a restaurant that was opened last year in German. It doesn't have waiters. Food is delivered to diners via roller-coaster like tracks. Footage is from the BBC, and I heard about the restaurant listening to The World on NPR.

Lindsay Plumley, a huge Friend of the Brief, submitted a story about the gigantic 1080p displays that will hang above the field in the new Dallas Cowboy stadium. Lindsay's blog is borrowedlinks.blogspot.com.

We end the episode with the craziest robot footage I've ever seen. The song is Drive Away by Matthew Ebel.

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