Show #75

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News

• Obama puts his tax returns online
• Summary Table
  
• 2006 Return
• 2005 Return
• 2004 Return
• 2003 Return
• 2002 Return
• 2001 Return
• 2000 Return
  
• With Firefox 3, Microsoft has room to worry
  
• The "Spam King" goes to Jail
• YouTube goes High-Qual
• All new MacBook Pro
• Researches map the protines in human spit

Web Picks

• RateMyCop.com
  • now here's an extremely controversial site
    
  • tell the public about your experiences with cops & rate them on how they did
  • it's your chance to have a voice against the cops who did you wrong.
  • see- now only names and badge numbers are given out (which is already public information), and already thousands of law enforcement officials are outraged and trying to get it taken down.
  • I'M OUTRAGED!! if they were doing their jobs correctly and FAIRLY- they wouldn't have to WORRY! but because we have SO MANY underpaid, corrupt officers who have access to entirely too much privileged information, they are gonna use it to their benefit, no matter what.
  • I think this is what AMERICA NEEDS- someone to CHECK the police officers- we're all about checks and balances right?
  • The host- Godaddy.com removed the site but it was quickly picked up by another host
• RateMyProfessor.com
  
• AideRSS.com
  • If you're anything like Michael and Derek (well mostly like Michael), then you have a ton of RSS feeds that you read through on a daily basis. This might keep you up to date on the latest happenings but sometimes things can get lost in the shuffle when you have over 200 unread RSS items.
  • This is where AideRSS comes in. You feed it your RSS feed list, and it helps determine different kinds of feed lists based on all the feeds' feed ranks. This will get you a nice list of "Top Stories" so that you can get to the "meat" of your RSS subscriptions right away, and wade through the rest later.
  • You can adjust the feeds to help bring in more stories from certain sites, and increase the number of stories you want to see
  • Its a great way to get to the good stuff a little quicker, when you don't have the time to wade through it all.
    

Gamer's Corner

• Nazi game
  
  • http://news.filefront.com/no-nintendo-nazi-game-for-america/
  • so the new york times is saying that a controversial game will NOT be released in north america... but Alten8, the maker of the game, says nintendo has not blocked this wii game (but they ARE definately releasing it in europe... weird?)
  • its funny that they say its controversial... when just weeks ago i read an article on digg about the "five popular brands the nazis gave us," including Volkswagon & IBM.
    
  • this game is called "imagination is the only escape"
  • some seems to think it could be a good history lesson... i mean after all we DO teach about the holocaust in school, its not a big dark secret.
    
  • in the game, you are playing as a young prisoner, which i don't think is too bad- afterall, many of these games have kids playing as gangsters and killers
    
  • i did not read anywhere that you can switch and play the 'nazi' role as well, because THAT in my opinion would be sick, and going way too far with it.
    
  • i don't have a wii but when this game comes out i wanna know what ya'll think about it (but like alot of violent video games, you should probably play it before you give it to your kids)
  • so email Suzy with comments about the game in general or critiques once you get a chance to play it
    

Geek Out

• Laptop of 2015
  
• what i wanna know is- "will we be able to SIT on the thing???"
• instead of folding, it one screen slides into place next to the other
• uses two super bright organic LED panels
• only 3/4 of an inch thick