Smart Truck III combat vehicle unveiled at Singapore security fair - Engadget - www.engadget.com.
5 person family car with rocket Launchers and Machine guns? I want one, all I have to do is apply for the firearms license.

Darkcompass Podcast #38
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13mb, 31 mins
Reasons for this podcast being early, 9-5, Techy talk including Skype, music talk, Media aspects

Music from

The Smiths



Hybris

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | TV and Radio | Eccleston quits Doctor Who role: "Actor Christopher Eccleston has quit as Doctor Who after just one episode of the new series has been screened, the BBC has confirmed. "

DarkCompass Podcast #37 (So Soon?)
Get it here.
33mins, 15mb
Synopsis of the day, Doctor Who, the state of British Television, and the disenchantment of Cinema.
Music From The Venus Hunters, Artemis, and StarGarden

BBC NEWS | England | Jonathan King told to 'shut up': "King says he intends to resume his career in music"

Yeah right, as if anyone will be wanting him on their books.
If he was 100% innocent, why was he convicted?

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Arts | Children to crack Da Vinci Code


Now this just makes a farce of the whole RC/DVC thing doesn't it?
Will the RCs try to ban this childrens book?

BBC NEWS | Technology | 'Podcasters' look to net money

That man again.

DarkCompass #36
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64kbps., 32 minutes, 14.7mb
Recorded Monday 28th March 2005, 6am - 8am
Noisy late train, no power, no fun, Virgin complaints, the easter weekend and all that happens to me.
Train jumping with Gareth from London.
Music from
Mongolian DethKit - Shopping
Phantasm
Penquin Cafe Orchestra

DarkCompass #35
11.8mb, 29 mins. Download here
Laptop Woes, Intro Highs, Moral in the workplace and music from Artemis, and Chris Juergensen

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | TV and Radio | Doctor Who leak suspect is sacked

Podcast Soon, as laptop problems have restricted casting.
Done something on the DVR but quality is poor. Will post soon,
Rowley

Sky News : New Alarm Clock Plays Hide And Bleep: "Scientists have built an intelligent alarm clock that runs and hides after the snooze button is pressed so that the sleeper has to get out of bed to find it in the bedroom to turn it off again."

BBC NEWS | England | Manchester | Cathedral hosts a Da Vinci night: "A panel will field questions on The Da Vinci Code book"

DarkCompass #34
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29mins, 64kbps, 13.6mb
Weekend news, Doctor Who, and comments. Lost opening sequence forces alternatives, time for a change?
Music from Mongolian Dethkit
Falling You

Logic of Impossibility.

The Observer | Politics | Blair acts on Jamie's plan for schools
Why on earth did it take a "celeb" to mke these changes?

Weird language on phonebox in Birkenhead. Are people from Birkenhead aliens?

Darkcompass Podcast #33
30 mins, 14mb
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More remarks on things. Paper. Saint Patricks, Dick and Dom/Tiswas.
RCs backtrack, and other bits.
James from Digital Cast and his idea, streaming podcasts.
Music from
Sixpence None the richer

Gary Numan

American Headcharge

South Park - Make a character, who could ask for more?

we make money not art: Wearable hub for communications in the home

Next stop RFID communicators. This is not far off STNG.

BBC NEWS | Health | Obesity 'could cut US life spans'
Duh!

mmeiser blog: Beatles-Metallica (and Lars Ulrich!) vs. Sony/ATV - Lars Rules: "...it was like 'I can score some brownie points with my boss or something by like squashing these poor people like mesquitos'
-- Lars Ulrich on Sony vs. Beatallica"
More Beatallica, please.

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Arts | Bishop backs Da Vinci Code novel: "He said Cardinal Bertone's views on the best-seller were 'personal' and not official church views. "

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | TV and Radio | Complaints over Dick and Dom skit: "The BBC has reacted to complaints from around 40 viewers about a Dick And Dom In Da Bungalow skit in which a presenter pretended to be pregnant. "

Dick and Dom are the epitome of children's comedy, reminiscent of Tiswas, Long may they reign.

DarkCompass Podcast #32
15mb, 30mins, 64kbps
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My take on religion.
Celebdaq
Doctor Who
Music from Motorhead



and Cocteau Twins

Books mentioned:

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Arts | Church fights Da Vinci Code novel

If this book is a work of fiction, which is deemed it is, why are the RCs upset about it? I don't remember them getting upset about "Nuns on the Run", or the movie "The Pope must Die".

DarkCompass Podcast #31

12mb, 27 mins, 64kbps, Download here
Cast about the weekend, adverts in the uk, musical preferences, television
Music from Avril Lavigne

and New Order

Wi-Fi security is getting worse | The Register
Told you.

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | TV and Radio | Comedian Dave Allen dies aged 68

All the greats die young. He was so funny, I remember watching him when I was young, and his sketch about teenagers was spot on.

CompTIA HTI Training.
Something I am considering. I mentioned plumbing before, maybe I can be a digital plumber.

Oracle Films | A Film By Jason J. Tomaric | CL.ONE

With a budget of $20,000 this is set to be a good Scifi film, can't wait for it to hit here.

DarkCompass Cast #30
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22min, 8mb
Nothing to report, so this is a public information podcast.
Those evil wardrivers!

Darkcompass #29

64kbps, 11mb
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Intro

welcome

Date?

Work - backups

Software upgrade, install scripts

Phone call - home internet

Musical Interlude - Sisters of Mercy - Comfortably Numb

All computers are rubbish - resort to TV!

ClearChannel

WHY? You buy movies for the content.

Used to profanity - look them up in the The Oxford English Dictionary

Debbie....

Musical Interlude - Feeder - Seven days in the Sun, Reading 2001

Sign Off

Comments please, give me things to talk about.

Outro

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | TV and Radio | New Doctor Who 'leaked onto net': "The first episode of the new series of sci-fi drama Doctor Who has apparently been leaked onto the internet."

DarkCompass #28
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Intro
Welcome
Family
Train Anouncement
Sleeping family
Musical Interlude - Killing Joke

Jaz Coleman Dissapearance
Ticket rotation
Wifi on trains
Netstumbling - wartraining on friday

Move around at Work.
Musical Interlude -
The Sundays

Ebay sales
Delightful Foods
Thanks to Richard Vobes
Flaming podcasts
Rate Podcasts - US, UK
First Train to London.

Musical Interlude - Dreadzone


Sign off
Comment please to podcast@darkcompass.com
Promise of more podcasts this week.

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | TV and Radio | DJ Tommy Vance dies after stroke
The man of Rock will surely be missed from the airwaves.

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | TV and Radio | Evans to return to BBC airwaves
Oh my word, return of the Gingers!!

DarkCompass Podcast #27
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32 minutes, 64kbps, 14.6mb
Intro
Welcome
Bedsit life
Work tasks, backups.
Stiffness.
Home - Burp problems.
Musical Interlude - Sigue Sigue Sputnik Bootleg
Still Going - Euro Gigs 2005

Amazon Associates
Getting revenue
Decision on music - no Britney.
Bill Gates Knighthood.
More music - Collide.

Feedburner
Station Ripper
BBC podcasting, In our Time, Fighting Talk, Just a minute
More notes on Blog than in Podcast notes, keep abreast - news aggregator as well as a ipodder style program
Comments please
Few emails
Outro

A Scanner Darkly (2005)

I've always liked Phillip K Dick's stuff and this looks good. With Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder in Animation form this looks good.
Trailer here .
Due October

Bill Gates now Sir Bill Gates: official | The Register:


"And if that wasn't enough, Gates was also recognized for his 'contribution to enterprise, employment, education and the voluntary sector in the United Kingdom'. "

Darkcompass Podcast 26
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64kbps, 31 mins, 15mb

Intro
Train again
Paternity
Musical Interlude
Matthew Wadsworth

• 3 March : BlindArt gala evening at Henry Moore gallery, Royal College of Art 
  
• 4 March : National Portrait Gallery, 6.30 p.m.
  
• 7 March : Tate Gallery, St. Ives,
  
• 12-16 March : GUGLIELMO/Violin Tour
  

Carolyn Sampson

• March 18 – 20 : Concertgebouw, Amsterdam. Bach: St Matthew Passion
  
• March 25 : Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra / Philippe Herreweghe Bridgewater Hall, Manchester Handel: Messiah
  
• March 26 : Manchester Camerata / Nicholas Kraemer Pavilion Theatre, Rhyl Handel: Messiah
  

Musical Interlude
Death of Beatallica?
Definition of Podcasting?
Train Tickets - daylight robbery
Musical Interlude
Arrival at Bangor.
Buying the ticket.
Muller adverts.
Signoff
Outro
Music from
Wadsworth and Sampson - Woods, Rocks and Trees
Beatallica - I want to choke your Band
Kartoum

Wired News: New Browsers, Same Unwanted Ads

Looking at the logs for PodcastconUK, 40% of users hit it with Firefox.
Spyware stuff will only really work if you have scripting switched on. What do you think should be done to avoid this eh?