The guys get together for the final “regular” show before the final episode of the Mind of Men, which will be happening the third week of June.  If you have any questions, comments, and/or well wishes, get them to us before June 17 and we’ll talk about them on our last show.

This week, we talk about a bunch of things, but the most important is the announcement that we are approaching the end of the Mind of Men as a regularly scheduled podcast.  We invite everyone to get their questions and comments in and we’ll be talking about those (along with a bunch of other stuff) during our two week hiatus before the final episode, Episode 130, which will be our around June 23rd.

Interesting News

No Triple Crown again this year as Looking at Lucky steals Preakness from Derby winner Super Saver

Article on Getting the Drugs out of horse racing to fix Triple Crown

BP Oil spill continues to threaten America’s Shores and President Obama forms bipartisan commission to study ways to prevent this in the future

Arizona threatens to cut off power to L.A. in response to city’s boycott

Skydiver preparing for Supersonic Fall from 23 miles up

Tech News

Adobe targets Apple in ad campaign launched today, publishes open letter from founders

Are Digital Devices Like iPads Rotting Our Brains?

Politics

Primary Races Show further polarization between Left and Right

This week on the show, we revisit one of our favorite topics – the tech that we use everyday.  We’re light on front end stories, so we can make time to jump into the main segment.

Jim’s List

Filezilla

FeedDemon

Password Manager – Have traded Roboform in for LastPass

TweetDeck

For Firefox: Noscript and Ghostery

Microsoft Office 2010

Mozilla Thunderbird

Vipre from Sunbelt Software, but also Microsoft Security Essentials

Astaro Security Gateway

Secunia PSI

Google Chrome

Keepvault as a replacement for JungleDisk/Amazon S3

For my Blackberry - Notifysync

LogMeIn Pro

Mike

Filezilla

TweetDeck and Digsby

Viigo and Delicious

Shrewsoft VPN Client

7Zip

PDF Creator

Snag It

Microsoft Virtual Server

Avast and Microsoft Security Essentials

OpenDNS

Windows Gadgets

WeatherBug

Pandora

Ipad Apps

GoodReader

Pages

IMDB

SkyGrid

GoToMeeting

PaperDesk LT

Notes

RDP Lite

Calculator XL

Interesting News

U.K. Election Results Shows a Country Still in Serious Crisis

The Euro Zone is in Real Trouble

What the Heck is Up with the Financial Markets?

Tech News

Paul Thurrott’s retort to the story that the iPad is killing Netbook Sales

Julius Caesar of the Internet

Arizona to remove speed cameras along its highway

Technology Stuff

Apple Sells One Millionth iPad and releases 3G version

Cradlepoint PHS300 – Jim’s Solution to 3G Access for his iPad on Verizon

Politics

Illinois’s Budget Problems are a Lesson in the Politics of Fiscal Responsibility

Utah – First Incumbent Falls Victim to Voter Anger

In this show we cover our weekly round-up of interesting news, tech news, general stuff, but this week, no politics.

• Listener Bob points out that Engadget has solved the iPad printing problem

Interesting News

• Goldman Sachs Hit with Fraud Charges by SEC 
• Toyota takes another blow – This time to its Lexus division
• Lexus Reacts – This is how a responsible company should behave
• Census Safety Advice
• Utah Cigar Tax raises taxes to 85% of MSRP – Will force the closure of some cigar stores  – Story from Ed
• Oil Prices Headed Up Again – Could Threaten Economy

Tech News

• Israel Bans iPad
• Update on the story about the School District that secretly monitored students at home

Technology Stuff

• NFL Mobile for BlackBerry launches on Verizon Wireless
• Netflix streaming arrives on the Wii
• Zinio Reader for iPad 

In this show we cover our weekly round-up of interesting news, tech news, general stuff, and politics. Jim also gives us an update on his first week with his iPad

Interesting News:

• Link: Spirit Airlines to charge up to $45 for carry-ons
• Link: CNN runs another story on RapeLay and are it goes off the rails for them

Tech News:

• Link: Apple’s Different Approach to the iPad launch
• Link: Appeals Court Rules FCC cannot require “Net Neutrality”
• Link: Digg Founder Kevin Rose to replace CEO Jay Adelson at helm

• Link: Microsoft Update Enables USB Storage for Xbox 360
• Link: Cool use of Segways
• Link: RIM Releases Public Beta of its new Twitter App

Politics:

• Link: Obama orders the assassination of U.S. citizen

Interesting News

• Abuse Scandal Continues to Rock the Vatican & the claim of parallels to antisemitism enrage many
• RapeLay Video Game – Is the news coverage such a good thing?
• And Why is CNN dragging it out again, anyway?
• Dallas DJ accepts $100,000 offer to change name to texasmotorspeedway.com

Tech News

• Google’s April Fools’s Day Prank for 2010
• Topeka renames itself
• Adobe Touts Flash Applications that run on iPhone and iPad
• What kind of iPad buyer (or critic) are you?
• NYT, WSJ launching iPad applications over the weekend
• WSJ more expensive on iPad than online or print
• Amazon, publishers strike e-book pricing deal: report (Reuters)

Politics

• GOP under fire for “Census” mailing

Traffic Safety Notes

• Principles to Guide Efforts to Address D.C.’s New Revenue Shortfall
• Red Ink in the Rear View Mirror: Local Fiscal Conditions and the Issuance of Traffic Tickets
• Detroit News Article on Traffic Tickets
• The National Motor Vehicle Crash Causation Survey
• 6 Cities that Were Caught Shortening Yellow Light Times for Profit
• 2008 Red Light study in Florida
• 2009 Red Light study in Virginia
• Massachusetts imposes fees for fighting a traffic ticket
• Indianapolis assess additional fines up to $2,500 for fighting your traffic ticket