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Predictions are so temporally falsifiable, therefor we are going to share what we are excited about in the upcoming year.

The geeks do the news and chat about the 2008 technology in review. Special guest Dr. Dawn joins the geeks for the first time to ask the geeks a question, which is a first for GeekSpeak! Typically, it's the geeks asking Dr. Dawn the questions.

The geeks share their gift ideas, cover the Week in Geek News, and take your calls.

Miles, Ryder, and Sean attempt to run the show without Lyle, who is on vacation this week. Join the geeks as they discuss the week in news and take calls.

Free Cycle is a national non-profit which promotes the re-use of stuff by giving it away. Do you have something at your place that you don't need, but someone else might want? Well try out FreeCycle, and off your stuff to people in your community.

Rick Astley rick rolls the New York Thanksgiving Parade and more GeekNews.

Computers are generally designed for the sighted user, but there are tools to enable almost anyone to use a computer. Learn about adaptive computing with Calais Ingel who runs the Assistive Technology Lab at Cabrillo College in Aptos, California.

Ben's Birthday, Miles gets into UCSC as a literature major and Sean and Lyle keep working hard.

The week in Geek News followed by your questions and comments about technology.

John offers gear to the Geeks; Ben and Drew want the same items; A thumb wrestling match is proposed to settle the conflict; Drew leaves the state in fear. What do we do now?

John Tracy, Miles Elam and Sean Cleveland join host Lyle Troxell for a discussion of technology in the news.

Apple's new laptops are awesome! They're also horrible. Contradiction? You decide.

Climate Savers Computing Initiative is a nonprofit group of consumers, businesses and conservation organizations who hope to promote development, deployment and adoption of technologies that improve the efficiency and reduce the energy consumed by computers.

Erik Teetzel from Google will join the Geeks to talk about the amount of energy that will be saved, and the design and implementation of the technology that Climate Savers is recommending.

A full gaggle of Geeks come together for a technical peek at the GeekNews of the week.

Are you fascinated by polls and survey data? As the Internet becomes more ingrained in our lives, from reading the news, to communicating through email and social networks, to transacting online, the byproduct of our aggregate movements provides an even deeper insight into who we are. Join the geeks as they welcome Bill Tancer to discuss his book Click: What Millions of People do Online and Why it Matters .

This week we had some fun with Apple's voice "Alex" reading some of the station business. We also covered a bunch of news and took some calls. This is one of those episodes where we focused on having fun and secondarily informed listeners.

In our on-going GeekSpeak Science Fiction Author Series, we dive deep into fantasy with author Terry Brooks. Terry won instant acclaim with his New York Times bestseller The Sword of Shannara.

In his latest book, The Gypsy Morph, the world is in flux as the mortal realm yields to a magical one; as the champions of the Word and the Void clash for the last time to decide what will be and what must cease; and as, from the remnants of a doomed age, something altogether extraordinary rises.

Saving the planet is not an easy thing to do; James Glave did his part by making his eco-shed. And in his recently released book "Almost Green" James shows the lighter side of trying to be green in America.

We'll chat about the technical difficulties and plain humor in Glace's personal story.

Critiques of Comcast internet service, magic reading wands, NASA cancer sniffers, and a memorial for Steve Jobs. These stories, your calls, and more on this episode of Geek Speak.

Joe Stewart from SecureWorks chats with the Geeks about malware and online crime. Joe's report on Coreflood shows how complicated and cleaver internet criminals have become.