News and Calls

Keeping you up to date on the week’s news and taking your calls the Geeks, Lyle Troxell, Sean Cleveland, Drew Meyer, and Miles Elam take time to whip out a great show.

! Geek News

A heaping bowl of news. Now free of trans-fats.

*! Anti-Virus Ain’t What It Used To Be

Popular anti-virus software seem to work as an inverse of its popularity
It is getting so bad that as much as 80% of new malware gets through

([http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/security/soa/Eighty_percent_of_new_malware_defeats_antivirus/0,2000061744,39263949,00.htm])

The Geeks recomend [AVG|http://free.grisoft.com/] (see our [writup on AVG|http://geekspeak.org/shows/2006/04/01/]), or [Avast|http://avast.com].

*! Space is Cool (err… hot?)

Quasar points to [[MECO|magnetospheric eternally collapsing object]s|http://www.newscientistspace.com/article.ns?id=dn9620&feedId=online-news_rss20] rather than black holes?
But just in case black holes exist, NASA has [modeled a collision|http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060724/sfm026.html] between two
Does size actually matter? How about [200 million light-years long|http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/space/2006-07-27-biggest-blob_x.htm?csp=15]?
Will it go boom? A type 1a [supernova in the works|http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5204676.stm]? Soon? (Soon being relative.)

*! Biology is Cool (err… old?)

Jurrasic Park anyone? [Soft tissue from a T. Rex|http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7285683/] as well as [10 million year-old bone marrow|http://www.livescience.com/animalworld/060724_fossil_bonemarrow.html] from amphibians

*! Building Your Own Computer

Sean recently had a great experiance with custom ordering a computer from http://ibuypower.com/.
We mentioned http://comprec.com/ a site which helps the non-geek through the processes of picking out a computer.

*! Wedding Cakes?

[Edith Meyer’s Cakes|http://www.edithmeyer.com/].