Show Notes for 8-22-10

Do ya ever feel that someone is checking up on you? How about your trash? This week Tommy, J and Rich cover everything from RFID tagged trashcans to embedded IDs and Facebook's new Places feature.

Clevelanders' plans to sort through curbside trash to make sure residents are recycling - usingRFID chips

German citizens will receive mandatory, RFID enabled, ID cards starting from the first of November

Facebook rolled out a new feature called Places that lets you and your friends check in to locations - Here's how to turn it off

Freeware Snow Transformation Pack will make Windows looks like OS X

Best Buy's Geek Squad is suing a priest for using a "God Squad" logo

Meat grown in vats may be necessary to feed 9 billion people expected to be alive by middle of century

Amazon is opening up the UK Kindle Store this past week

August 22 is "National Go Topless Day"

Born in 1992? You may not have known, or seen this

24-year-old web developer started seeing fraudulent charges on his PayPal account

Trade up a red patch cable for a vintage synthesizer

NASA wants you to wake up the shuttle crew!

FREE Software:

The Freesound Project has sound effects for you

Aradaz Maximizer 5 is a free loudness maximizer effect plug-in for Mac & Windows

MusicLab Garage Drummer is a free app for Mac & PC that lets you use your Guitar Hero or Rock Band video games drum controller as a MIDI controller

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