Racing galore this week with Speed Racer, maybe the surprise of the Summer, and Mario Kart Wii, which contains no surprises at all. Plus, 300% more Moms!

Have a sneak peek at the Age of Conan MMORPG game where you get to meet Conan himself! (You'd only get here after serious gaming!) Author: shinymedia Keywords: Conan age of conan zara rabinowicz mmo mmorpg meet Added: May 13, 2008

Did you know the iPod bar graph in iTunes display has hidden view modes? It's true and Veronica uncovers them on today's Tekzilla Daily.

Can't see the video? Watch this video now in a browser or download this video now. RIM launched the Blackberry Bold 9000 smartphone. It's got some nice specs -- 624 Mhz processor, integrated GPS and 3G - plus that tactile keyboard that crackberry users love so much... some people are thrilled... others... not so much. RIM also announced a $150 million dollar investment fund for applications and services. Apple and Google have funds too - but Blackberry has the biggest installed base of any smartphone already in place. So why are they doing this? Maybe they're nervous about iPhone 2.0? ...because it looks like June 9th is the big launch day for that fabulous 3G iPhone. Steve Jobs is the keynote speaker at the WWDC, and now even the Apple store online is out of stock of the original...and what is iPhone black? Sprint didn't do so well this quarter. They've lost a million customers. Remember that WiMax announcement? They claim that's part of their strategy to turn things around. It's bad enough we're inundated with spam in our email inboxes - it's going to be annoying and costly when it starts hitting our cell phones. Powerset says they've come up with a more naturalized search engine. You should be able to ask a question instead of just plugging in keyboards. It only works on the Wiki right now, and not very well, actually. Want to get every episode of WebbAlert automatically delivered to your iTunes software, or another great player? Click here!

Can't see the video? Watch this video now in a browser or download this video now. Kevin Kelly is one of the most fascinating people I've ever had the honor of meeting. For today's episode of Boing Boing tv, I visited his Bay Area home to learn more about the stories behind the stunning images that comprise Asia Grace, one of my favorite books by Kelly (there are many others). Before he helped launch Wired 15 years ago, and served as the publication's founding editor, the onetime "nomadic photojournalist" wandered throughout Asia with a backpack crammed full of film -- and little else. The resulting images, most of which were taken in the 1970s, form the body of Asia Grace. We see worlds that no longer exist: Afghanistan and Iran before wars that changed them forever; and traditional lifestyles in Tibet, Nepal, China, and India that fade further into history with each passing year. Here's an Amazon link for the book. In part two of today's episode, Kelly explains his hypothesis of "A thousand true fans," an idea that generated much debate and discussion on Boing Boing recently when we pointed to his blog posts on The Technium (which you should read regularly, if you don't already). His question: in the internet age, can an artist subsist on the micro-patronage of a thousand true fans?

Should Hillary Clinton bow out of the primary or take it all the way to the DNC?

On Brief #361, I talk to My Home 2.0 Guru #2, Brian Albert. He's the craziest person I've ever put on The Brief. He showed me some of the projects he's built over the course of his life, and I try to convince him to call himself a geek.

Today we take a look at the art world through the eyes of techies...Virus And Blogging Art, Cluttered Desktop Becomes Art, Polaroid´s Instant Prints , Time-lapse Videos, Elephant Art?, Where´s Wally Gone Big, We Make Money Not Art, and finally Post Secret

mov | wmv | 3gp | m4v I sat down with YouTube fame, Caitlin Hill, who has just relocated from Australia to New York City. She is an actress, dancer, video blogger, blogger and is looking to get more involved with live video. I asked Caitlin to explain some of her greatest challenges. She says: The challenges that one faces when they are a video blogger is remaining true to themselves. There is so much criticism and when you are also editing yourself you get to see a side of you that you have never seen, and you become highly critical of yourself. You also start to change yourself to fit what the audience likes OR you change yourself to go against what the audience likes. It can shatter confidence and increase self-doubt. The hardest thing I face now, is just getting back to basics and also just getting off my butt and making the videos I ve been dreaming about for years. That s the problem, I m too lazy. Another thing that is hard is keeping up with it all. The Internet is 24/7, as we all know, and as soon as you close your eyes, your whole digital world can change. It s not a very stable environment to grow up in ; )

In episode 120, Andy and Sean show you how to recover your deleted data (and your marriage!) using oranges.

A few month s ago, we syndicated the Open Social Conference Call  and it received a very positive reaction from you our audience.   Therefore, we decided to bring you another special episode today as Google makes another announcement. Tonight, at the next in Google s series of Campfire One events, they are announcing Friend Connect.   The recording is syndicated from their preview conference call today.  Friend Connect allows sites to add social functionality to any website.   As we anticipated over the weekend on ReadWriteWeb, Google joins Facebook and MySpace in annoucning this functionality over the last 3 business days. For more information on Friend Connect, please check out the press release.  Also, the Friend Connect project website will be live later tongiht - here.

JibJab is known for their short, funny music and political videos that you ve no doubt forwarded to your mother or sister at least twice. While at ROLFcon in Boston, we ran into three mustachioed men who are writers and producers for JibJab. Irina demands they be funny. Episode links: JibJab, ROFLcon, Scott Beale / Laughing Squid (Irina s photos) Formats available: iPod/iPhone (.m4v) | Quicktime (.mov)

Gary Rosenzweig looks at how you can use your Mac to develop Web pages using the built-in Apache Web server and PHP.

Gary Rosenzweig looks at how you can use your Mac to develop Web pages using the built-in Apache Web server and PHP.

JFK Air Guitar fetches $5000 on Ebay, The End of Everything, Phoenix to Land on Mars, The National Center for Remote Sensing, Air and Space Law, via Space.com, Red Giants, Kitts Peak National Observatory, Astronomers begin search for 'vanishing' stars, Shuttle Astronauts Rehearse Launch Day, Extra Joanne's Best Alternate Take

Starting off the week it's a review of New Universal Shockfront #1. See why the guys think this new title is so reader friendly and easy to pick up. Next up it's a review of the long-awaited Action Comics Annual #11 co-written by Superman director Richard Donner. Then it's a review of a brand new Wolverine title by David Lapham. The guys talk about the short story format of the new Wolverine title and why they can't get enough of it. Finishing up it's a super Speed Round and viewer mailbag. Don't Miss the guys as they answer your viewer mail. Which characters do the they think are Skrulls? Tune in and find out. Be sure to catch The Stack three times a week at Pulpsecret.com, and send in your questions and comments to tips@pulpsecret.com

Newstopia shaun micallef bloopers behind the scenes Author: CHECKHIMOUT Keywords: Parody newstopia sketch blooper Added: May 12, 2008

Behind the scene look onset with NWEStopias Shaun Micallef, Ben Anderson, Make-up Karchi Magyar Author: CHECKHIMOUT Keywords: Newstopia Sketch Comedy Added: May 12, 2008

Veronica shows you a more efficient way to switch between all those open Finder windows cluttering your workspace.

Can't see the video? Watch this video now in a browser or download this video now. MySpace launches "Data Availability" - it's a partnership with Yahoo, Ebay, Photobucket and Twitter. Now you can broadcast your public MySpace profile information to all of those sites and sync them up. Facebook follows with Facebook Connect, and Google is set to launch "Friend Connect." The race is on. Facebook has added safeguards to protect younger users from sexual predators and cyberbulllies... ...and they've also lifted the cap of 5000 friends. Now you can friend as many people as you want... ...but how much are those friends worth? Fox Interactive Media revenue dropped from $233 million to $210 million dollars. They say it's because selling advertising space on social networks is really hard. Microsoft has sold 2 million Zune players since 2006. Compared with Apple - they sold over 10 million iPods last quarter - it's small potatoes. While you're waiting for someone to design a car that gets more than 100 miles to the gallon, you can try a quick fix to save some dollars at the pump. The Vatican has updated their website to include a section of papal texts and holy works - written entirely in Latin - and the navigation is in Latin as well, so let's brush up! Repeat after me: "Hic haec hoc...huis huis huis" Want to get every episode of WebbAlert automatically delivered to your iTunes software, or another great player? Click here!

(05-12-08) This old house just reached an all time high. Ventas, Inc. (VTR). Author: wallstrip Keywords: ventas inc. vtr health care insurance old people aging wonder years web video cbs news cbs.com howard lindzon closing Added: May 12, 2008

Can't see the video? Watch this video now in a browser or download this video now. Xeni visits the offices of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and speaks with Jake Appelbaum and Bill Paul, two of the authors of a security research paper that shows how your computer's memory can be tricked into revealing data you thought was safely encrypted, and out of the reach of others. One method involves using a can of compressed air to quickly cool the memory chip, but freezing the target isn't the only way to lull it into submission -- Paul shows us how to use an iPod or a USB thumb drive to do the same thing. These methods have been shown to defeat three popular disk encryption products commonly used to protect data on laptops: BitLocker (Windows Vista), FileVault (MacOS X), and dm-crypt (Linux). Here's the entire text of the report draft, released earlier this year: Lest We Remember: Cold Boot Attacks on Encryption Keys . Authors: J. Alex Halderman, Seth D. Schoen, Nadia Heninger, William Clarkson, William Paul, Joseph A. Calandrino, Ariel J. Feldman, Jacob Appelbaum, and Edward W. Felten. The team plan to research additional software tools and a final version of their report at Usenix Security Symposium in July/August. Special thanks to Seth Schoen and Peter Eckersley of the EFF.

Can't see the video? Watch this video now in a browser or download this video now. Xeni visits the offices of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and speaks with Jake Appelbaum and Bill Paul, two of the authors of a security research paper that shows how your computer's memory can be tricked into revealing data you thought was safely encrypted, and out of the reach of others. One method involves using a can of compressed air to quickly cool the memory chip, but freezing the target isn't the only way to lull it into submission -- Paul shows us how to use an iPod or a USB thumb drive to do the same thing. These methods have been shown to defeat three popular disk encryption products commonly used to protect data on laptops: BitLocker (Windows Vista), FileVault (MacOS X), and dm-crypt (Linux). Here's the entire text of the report draft, released earlier this year: Lest We Remember: Cold Boot Attacks on Encryption Keys . Authors: J. Alex Halderman, Seth D. Schoen, Nadia Heninger, William Clarkson, William Paul, Joseph A. Calandrino, Ariel J. Feldman, Jacob Appelbaum, and Edward W. Felten. The team plan to research additional software tools and a final version of their report at Usenix Security Symposium in July/August. Special thanks to Seth Schoen and Peter Eckersley of the EFF.

Three Arrested For "Skull Bong", which is kind of gross. Facebook´s New Privacy Laws and the Facebook Waterfight. The iPhone Cometh! Or so the rumours say. Al-Qaeda Recruit From The USA and we look at A Day In The Life Of A Storm Trooper. We´ve got Office "Unenvy" , and finally Doritos Make The World Go Round

iMovie is pretty cool but kinda limited on features, including those you may have seen us use on previous episodes. As part of our move to the Mac we needed a better video editing solution for creating the show. Previous episodes were done on a PC which felt wrong so to feel clean we moved to Final Cut Express. In this episode Nick show us its basic operation and how he uses it to put together the show.

On Saturday, I hung out at the My Home 2.0 studio, a technology makeover show. I got to see some really cool D.I.Y. projects, but I'm not allowed to show you those just yet. On Brief #360, I talk to one of the three gurus, Alison Lewis about how her interest in integrating technology into fashion. She gets her fashion cred from Parsons, and her tech cred from creating and installing interactive exhibits in children's and science museums.

Moblogic host Lindsay Campbell goes to jail to protest the Sean Bell verdict.

I love you guys, but there was no way I was going to spend $500 on a Psystar to try it out, even though it's deductible. John Biggs from CrunchGear.com did it, and I called him up to talk to him about it.

Twitter Virtualization, Britain's Got Talent, 50 Ways to Use Bacon, Realistic Bowser, Awesome Baseball Save, Mutant Black Squirrels, Crazy Artist Dangles

Can't see the video? Watch this video now in a browser or download this video now. Today on Boing Boing tv, part two of Xeni's visits with John Gaeta, the Academy Award-winning Visual Effects supervisor of the Matrix trilogy -- his new film, Speed Racer, opens today in theaters around the US. This latest Wachowski brothers project reinterprets the classic 1960s Japanese anime series of the same name. In this second part of BBtv's conversation with Gaeta, he reveals some of the art, anime, and pop culture elements that combine to form Speed Racer's "poptimistic photo-anime" feel. The live action Speed Racer is saturated in a candy-colored palette so rich, audiences may just leave the theater with a contact sugar high. View interactive samples of the digital building blocks behind the movie in a related online feature in VRMAG, "Speed Racer Uncovered." And Gaeta adds a special message for Boing Boing tv viewers, who are already well accustomed to all things digital -- "For optimal viewing experience, see Speed Racer at a digital cinema or IMAX theater." He's not kidding, with a feature like this, analog projection just doesn't do the work justice. (Special thanks: John Gaeta; Andy and Larry Wachowski; and David Pescovitz)