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***Now, by popular demand, the full show!*** "The Rachel Maddow Show," which airs 9 p.m. ET weeknights on MSNBC, is a smart look at politics, pop culture, and all the day's top stories. It's mind over chatter! Maddow is a political commentator for MSNBC and the Air America Radio network. This podcast brings you the audio from each night's show in its entirety. For more from the show check out Rachel.msnbc.com. For the video version of this podcast, or more podcasts from NBC News and MSNBC, please visit http://podcasts.msnbc.com

Listen to MSNBC's "Countdown with Keith Olbermann." Veteran television journalist, sportscaster, columnist, author and radio host Keith Olbermann delivers news every night that is designed for the modern audience. Olbermann takes a fast-paced look at the top five news stories of the day, from politics to pop culture and from the mainstream to the oddball, and offers hard-hitting editorial commentary that most news organizations have become afraid to practice. This audio podcast, updated each weekday evening by msnbc.com, brings you the day's show in its entirety. For the video version of this podcast, or more podcasts from NBC News and MSNBC, please visit http://podcasts.msnbc.com

Listen to daily highlights from MSNBC's "Hardball with Chris Matthews." Broadcasting from the MSNBC studios in Washington, D.C., veteran journalist Matthews, a former Washington bureau chief, presidential speechwriter, congressional staffer and also a best-selling author, hosts in-depth political analysis and fiery debate. "Hardball with Chris Matthews" features interviews and debates with prominent politicians, newsmakers, and leaders from Washington, D.C. This audio podcast, updated weekday evenings, is brought to you by MSNBC.com.

Why the long Face...book? A woman battling depression put some pictures of herself having fun privately on Facebook. Somehow the insurance company found them and cut off her benefits saying she looked happy enough and must be cured. Really? We also get further impressions on Google's Chrome OSD now that we've had more time with it, and YouTube pulls a Hulu, but not in the good way.




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EPISODE 1111

Try out Chrome OS for yourself

http://gdgt.com/google/chrome-os/download/

http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/20/google-chrome-os-available-as-free-vmware-download/

http://news.cnet.com/8301-30684_3-10401919-265.html

Other Stories

YouTube pulls a Hulu — yanking API access from Popcorn Hour, other TV-connected devices


http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/20/youtube-pulls-a-hulu-yanking-api-access-from-popcorn-hour-ot/

Twitter Turns On Location. Not For Twitter.com Just Yet.

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/19/twitter-location-api/

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/twitter_location_api_possible_uses.php

Sony Unveils Its Answer to Apple’s iTunes

http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/nov2009/gb20091119_588376.htm

Sony hits snag getting its own game out for PSP Go

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2009/11/sony-hits-snag-with-getting-its-own-game-out-for-pspgo.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss


Britain’s new Internet law — as bad as everyone’s been saying, and worse. Much, much worse.

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/20/britains-new-interne.html

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/11/19/1511255/Secret-UK-Plan-To-Appoint-Pirate-Finder-General

Law Firm Contemplates Class Action Suit To Recompense Xbox Live Modders

http://www.itproportal.com/portal/news/article/2009/11/20/law-firm-contemplates-class-action-suit-recompense-xbox-live-modders/

Depressed woman loses benefits over Facebook photos

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/montreal/story/2009/11/19/quebec-facebook-sick-leave-benefits.html


Kickers and Science

LHC dimensional apocalypse from midnight

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/20/lhc_feedback_roundup/

This Google’s made from 100% Virgin pulp, not chrome

http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/20/this-googles-made-from-100-virgin-pulp-not-chrome/

VOICE MAIL

Derrek points out something very important about this episode

Mike the truck driver


Shane from Coshocton. Dude! He’s from Coshocton!

E-MAIL

Hi Buzz crew, Chadd the ita in California here. Was just watching the

buzz report on my spealy and wanted to let you know that both my sibs

use their jejaws while operating their fetches. Recently, despite my

protests, I have noticed my parents responding to my text messages while

they are driving the fetch.

All of them are using Blackberries, is there something I can get them


for Christmas that will allow them to text hands free? At least that may

be a step in the right direction.

Love the buzz report

-Chadd

Rialto, California

**********

Hey Buzz Crew

I had heard about your show for a while but only started listening about 8 months ago. After listening to one episode, I decided to listen to all of them. 1,110 episodes later, I’m all caught up. In case you’re wondering, I’m not crazy, I just have a lot of free time at work. Love the show.


Jonathan

Summerville, SC

**********

PC Game moders have created their own Modern Warfare 2 Dedicated Servers.

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Modern-Warfare-2-Gets-Dedicated-Servers-Workaround-127188.shtml

The problem with insulting Tweakers and Hackers is that motivates them to

‘code’ you off at the knees, like AgentGOD did.

Give them a dedicated server on the PC or Crack down on moders, watch your


sales drop and piracy rise.

I don’t own the game and don’t plan on buying it anytime soon, but as a PC

Gamer that lives on the Mod and Modding community (when not playing MMO’s)

I am getting tired of game companies buying into the console market

fallacy.

Robert Clark

Prince Albert, SK

***Now, by popular demand, the full show!*** "The Rachel Maddow Show," which airs 9 p.m. ET weeknights on MSNBC, is a smart look at politics, pop culture, and all the day's top stories. It's mind over chatter! Maddow is a political commentator for MSNBC and the Air America Radio network. This podcast brings you the audio from each night's show in its entirety. For more from the show check out Rachel.msnbc.com. For the video version of this podcast, or more podcasts from NBC News and MSNBC, please visit http://podcasts.msnbc.com

Listen to MSNBC's "Countdown with Keith Olbermann." Veteran television journalist, sportscaster, columnist, author and radio host Keith Olbermann delivers news every night that is designed for the modern audience. Olbermann takes a fast-paced look at the top five news stories of the day, from politics to pop culture and from the mainstream to the oddball, and offers hard-hitting editorial commentary that most news organizations have become afraid to practice. This audio podcast, updated each weekday evening by msnbc.com, brings you the day's show in its entirety. For the video version of this podcast, or more podcasts from NBC News and MSNBC, please visit http://podcasts.msnbc.com

Listen to daily highlights from MSNBC's "Hardball with Chris Matthews." Broadcasting from the MSNBC studios in Washington, D.C., veteran journalist Matthews, a former Washington bureau chief, presidential speechwriter, congressional staffer and also a best-selling author, hosts in-depth political analysis and fiery debate. "Hardball with Chris Matthews" features interviews and debates with prominent politicians, newsmakers, and leaders from Washington, D.C. This audio podcast, updated weekday evenings, is brought to you by MSNBC.com.

The rumors about the Apple Tablet are getting crazy and special guest Cali Lewis nails it when she calls it a unicorn. We also get the first look at the Google OS, and nobody is very excited about Microsoft Office 2010. Except the one person who never uses it: me. And we get some of the inside scoop behind the FAA outage.




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EPISODE 1110

Liveblog today: Google Chrome OS press conference

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10401095-2.html

Apple Tablet that has never been more than a rumour now delayed until 2H 2010

http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20091118PB201.html

Ian Paul at PC World declares Tablet dead

http://www.pcworld.com/article/182571/

AT&T loses first legal battle against Verizon ads


http://news.cnet.com/8301-30686_3-10401094-266.html

http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/18/atandt-hits-back-at-verizons-map-for-that-campaign-with-an-ad/

Microsoft launches Office 2010 beta with social networking in Outlook

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10400648-56.html

http://blogs.msdn.com/outlook/

http://blog.linkedin.com/2009/11/18/linkedin-microsoft-outlook-connector

FAA Computer Glitch Causes Widespread Airline Delays

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/11/19/152243/FAA-Computer-Glitch-Causes-Widespread-Airline-Delays

Programmers Guild protests visa extension laws


http://www.infoworld.com/d/adventures-in-it/tech-workers-take-h-1b-case-supreme-court-024

California approves new standards on energy-hungry TVs

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-big-screen-tvs19-2009nov19,0,4027697.story

Next-gen Flip camcorder to boast Wi-Fi

http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/29658/cisco-prepping-wi-fi-enabled-video-camera

http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/11/18/the-next-flip-camera-will-have-wi-fi/

US government using PS3s to break encryption

http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/11/18/2149202/US-Government-Using-PS3s-To-Break-Encryption

Lab worms are stunned by ‘phaser’


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8367081.stm

VOICE MAIL

Anonymous on Film and Games

Brian on the in-dash robot

E-MAIL

Hey Buzz Crew,

Chris the former SNOWMAN HUNTER (and secret robot resister) here to say I too was creeped out by Aida, the backseat driving robot on Episode 1108. A passenger in my car that scolds and nags and guilt-trips? What a clanking piece of Hell in the car pool lane.

But then it hit me. Give it a thin British accent, paint it gold and call it C-3P0… and I’d buy one tomorrow.


Love the show… until we’re all turned into a warm slurry by the coming robot hoards.

Chris

**********

Hi Buzz Crew,

Watching episode 1109.

Tom the circle on you iPhone next to the bars as far as im aware means you have cell data.

the bars are the signal strength from the mast. the circle is cell data, and E is Edge, 3G is 3G.


Over here in the UK on O2 we have pretty good 3G coverage and every time iv used my iPhone

to load a page – it loads, what ever i’m on (cell,edge,3g), yes on cell it takes a bit longer – but it loads,

sounds like AT&T should give up and go do something else

Love the show guys.

Thanks

Carl


England, UK

**********

Hey Buzz Crew,

Xerox has setup http://www.letssaythanks.com/Home1280.html to have people sign up to send free printed postcards to troops overseas. You select one of the designs, add a message, your name and hometown and they send it for free to a random troop.

I thought this was a neat idea from Xerox and I’m hoping that you’ll put the link in your shownotes.

Thanks and “Love the show.”


Hutch from Grand Rapids

This week on Living Planet: the German chancellor announces plans to attend the climate conference in Copenhagen, Ecuador calls on the international community to pay it not to drill for oil, and bridging the social and ecological divide between the German majority and Turkish minority.
Merkel announces plans to attend Copenhagen

German Chancellor Angela Merkel will be joining her French and British counterparts at the global climate summit in Copenhagen. Many have applauded the move, but some environmentalists are skeptical.

The announcement comes only days after leaders at the Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Singapore said they did not expect a major breakthrough at the talks. According to Merkel’s spokesman, these low expectations are partly why the chancellor has decided to attend.


A former environment minister, she wants to play an active role in ensuring that the participating countries reach more ambitious agreements. Merkel isn't the first European leader to announce plans to personally travel to the Danish capital.


But as Europe's largest economy and one of the greenest countries on the planet, Germany is certain to play a major role in the negotiations. However, some politicians and experts are skeptical about the chancellor's plans.
Report: Eva WutkeEcuador wants money not to drill

Industrialized nations are expected to pay out hundreds of billions of dollars over the next 40 years to help their developing counterparts combat the effects of climate change. Ecuador has proposed one way that money could be put to use.

The small South American nation of Ecuador is one of the planet's 17 megadiverse countries, a group of nations that harbor the majority of the Earth's species. It's also one of world's poorest nations, with 40 percent of citizens living below the poverty line. All this despite the massive stores of oil tucked away beneath the ground.


Since the 1970s, the government in Quito has allowed companies to pump oil out of the country, with little thought to the effects this would have on the environment. Ecuador has profited little from its natural resources and it's now realizing the environmental mistakes that have been made.


Which is why they have come up with an offer to take with them to Copenhagen this December. They want money from the international community to invest in infrastructure and biotechnology, and in return they'll leave half of the available oil in the ground. It's one alternative, and if it works, other developing nations home to both immense biodiversity and oil – like Venezuela and Nigeria – might follow suit.
Report: Thomas Nachtigall/Patricio Luna/Clare Atkinson Berlin eco-center helps migrants integrate while saving the planet

Most migrants leave there homes in search of someplace better with more resources. Their ecological knowledge is often limited and most governments have no way to address that.

In Germany, Turks make up the largest immigrant group. They were invited here following the Second World War as guest workers, and many of them never left. Many have also never fully integrated into German society, and blame for that has been passed around for decades.


Turgut Altug is trying to change that while also building up ecological knowledge among immigrants. In the Berlin neighborhood of Kreuzberg he has founded a German-Turkish environment center to help with that mission – the first of its kind in Germany.


Report: Richard Fuchs

***Now, by popular demand, the full show!*** "The Rachel Maddow Show," which airs 9 p.m. ET weeknights on MSNBC, is a smart look at politics, pop culture, and all the day's top stories. It's mind over chatter! Maddow is a political commentator for MSNBC and the Air America Radio network. This podcast brings you the audio from each night's show in its entirety. For more from the show check out Rachel.msnbc.com. For the video version of this podcast, or more podcasts from NBC News and MSNBC, please visit http://podcasts.msnbc.com

Listen to MSNBC's "Countdown with Keith Olbermann." Veteran television journalist, sportscaster, columnist, author and radio host Keith Olbermann delivers news every night that is designed for the modern audience. Olbermann takes a fast-paced look at the top five news stories of the day, from politics to pop culture and from the mainstream to the oddball, and offers hard-hitting editorial commentary that most news organizations have become afraid to practice. This audio podcast, updated each weekday evening by msnbc.com, brings you the day's show in its entirety. For the video version of this podcast, or more podcasts from NBC News and MSNBC, please visit http://podcasts.msnbc.com

Listen to daily highlights from MSNBC's "Hardball with Chris Matthews." Broadcasting from the MSNBC studios in Washington, D.C., veteran journalist Matthews, a former Washington bureau chief, presidential speechwriter, congressional staffer and also a best-selling author, hosts in-depth political analysis and fiery debate. "Hardball with Chris Matthews" features interviews and debates with prominent politicians, newsmakers, and leaders from Washington, D.C. This audio podcast, updated weekday evenings, is brought to you by MSNBC.com.