Xbox, Artists and Ice-cream
Tuesday, June 16th, 2009 running time 39:38
Xbox releases full retail games downloadable on demand. Man wakes from brain surgery as an artist. Canon workers, forbidden to sit down. Ice-cream that doesn't melt and Star Wars: The Old Republic.
Xbox 360 getting full retail games delivered on demand.
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Man wakes from brain surgery as talented artist.
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Canon employees are forbidden to sit down, walk at normal pace.
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Sweet! Ice cream that doesn't melt!
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Star Wars: The Old Republic cinematic trailer, out now!
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" Wow. This weeks episode of Diggnation brought to you by the advance Adobe flash platform, Virgin America the first airline with fleet wide Wi-Fi , GoDaddy. And NBC's longest running daytime show. Days of our Pragers. Like the sands through an hour glass. So are the days of our Pragers."
" Everybody welcome to Diggnation at episode number two oh seven I'm Alex Albrecht and I'm Kevin Rose Diggnation covers some of the hottest users submitted stories on the social news site digg dot com thats D I double G Dot com. That's right and we are here. Here's here at the msnbc digital cafe yes we are in 30 Rockefeller thank you so much that we have some winners from the contest that we did at revision3 sitting in the audience"
" Say hi! What's up winners?"
" That's awesome. And not only that I have to say NBC has really rolled out the red carpet yeah I mean."
" We they supplied us with a bartender turns out Rachel Maddow from MSNBC you gotta be kidding me!"
" I'm great This is sort of like I'm having a hair the than dog moment I am laying out the buffet of breakfast liquors. I love it. Yeah."
" We did a live show last night so we can use the breakfast liquors. Well I'll hook you guys up I'm making some you know breakfasts cocktails. I love it. And you're going to make some stuff for the audience as well? Whats in the breakfast cocktail? Well, uh fruit, so its got your vitamins for the day we've got strawberries we're using we're making a cocktail thats called La Susset which is."
" Ah yeah!"
" Strawberries. And a little of le lay which is a little french thing which is which is which is liquor. And uh lemon juice its' it's cool and its good for you!"
" Revitalize. And then I have to say. Thanks to our old pal Jimmy Fallon for bringin us -- down some hot chocolate. This is the best that thing, we are literally on the way here."
" And I get a phone call from Prager and that was like uh yeah Jimmy Fallon just came down with like a whole bunch of stuff for you guys and was like "He hey guys. Where are the guys?"
" He's like nobodys here. So he ended up leaving but thank you Jimmy I really appreciate it Have a sip of that. I'm not gonna have a sip of that it looks like tar. Its thick. I love you Jimmy! Ill have it. Dude you wanna try it? are."
" I dont know it could be it could be not chocolate. I don't know. it being."
" It could be not chocolate like I don't want it."
" Looks too much like chocolate just to try a little taste. It might have to break through the surface. It might be mammoths in the bottom it's like chocolates soup."
" Yeah see I'm thinking he might have just melted chocolate."
" And like this will be funny Im gonna give the cups of chocolate No this is good you should try it. Its really good. Alright I cant be the guy who doesn't have Jimmy Fallon's chocolate. Now don't ruin your pallet for the strawberry smoothies. I'll be like like dude chocolates and strawberries That goes well actually. Hello. Its getting like creepy. seventies an -- romantic. Oh my Jesus. Yeah yeah. Is it thick? You gotta chew it a bit."
" Hot chocolate you gotta chew. I feel like I'm in again nineteen twelve Paris ."
" Its all chocolate and strawberries. Yeah I've just had a weird past life experience. Either that or a seizure. Alright shall we get into the stories? Lets do it. Alright, Let's first story. We'll first off last night. Just gonna say, live show."
" Maybe not the most informational show. Right."
" Live shows there could be great news. We had a guy I'd like"
" trying to get on stage. I barely remember that there was a guy who was just drunk and in like pajamas or not underwear or something like that sayibg hey guys and 'phew' I was like"
" We hired ninjas? When did this happen?"
" That was awesome. So theres a lot of news thats been popping from E3 which I was covering for the Totally Rad Show."
" Its hard to throw information out at a live show, so we saved a lot of that for now. Thusly, I give you thy stories. Begin. i dont know why I went back to the middle ages."
" Xbox 360s getting full retail game delivered on demand."
" Big deal I know theres been a smattering of applause and there wasn't even a smattering. At 1549 people dugg the story submitted by reckless 1280. Microsoft's keynote was so jam packed the company decided to wait until afterwards to announce what might be the biggest new feature of them all:"
" On demand access to full retail games."
" Now this big deal because usually when you do these on demand things you actually pay less for the game. You don't need to produce it. Its a digital download. you don't need them there's no plastic. My you Also talk about less impact on the environment."
" You know you could be those guys. Its always good to be green. You know lets be green. I dont need another cd to go in some hole somewhere. That's right. But this brings up a lot of issues because there have been certain companies, Wal Mart being one of them."
" Who have been very very adamantly against digital downloads for obvious reasons. They make money when you buy copies in the store. To the point when uh Warhawk. which is a PS3 S three. a PS3 game. Was offered for digital downloads they had they couldn't only offer it with digital downloads with it because they wal mart's said we'll just pull all of our PS3 stuff off of our. You know that will be good for your company. Can't buy anything from you in a Wal-Mart hows that sound. Basically like saying we're gonna pull your entire line of games and being but that's really shitty actually. well or smart. But in a bad way right it's like totally like I am a smart man who is kind of a dick."
" I can control what you do because I'm that big I mean it's like classic middle ages politics."
" My cave man larger than your cave man and that means I get your cave. Right exactly and that's what Wal-Mart has the biggest cave I think. And this is something this is another industry is gonna be affected by this stuff that's going to take a few years and theres going to be some pocket back and forth and its all going to be all digital. I mean you can get digital movies right now on the 360 and PS3. Right. So clearly they've fought that industry and been like hey I get it you can also have the dvds. but we're we're at bandwidth with wise that we're at the speeds we can. Receive like everyone's like at least 10 megabits except for you. You're at like 2 still right? 2? I think you mean 25. Oh did you upgrade? Yeah dude I have FIOS."
" That's right. Yeah suck it. Dammit. Don't go throwing around numbers when you don't have FIOS. I don't have FIOS."
" I have COMCASTic. after. Oh that sounds like something you need antibiotics for. No its not so hot. Yes I'm excited for this. Tere are some other things that came out of the press conference. Better that I thought really cool as far as that side goes 1080P. EP. downloads for your HD movies now. It was 720P for the HD rentals. 1080P is big. They they said now its an instant on play. where you basically say I'd like that on 1080P and it just starts playing. I dont know how they do that. Magic maybe they finally locks got Warlocks hired at Microsoft it's be like ah yeah we could try to figure it out technically or we have beelzebub over there and whip something really weird up. Nut we're going to need four donkeys, two -- virgins And a virgin daiquiri. They can work at wal mart. and it only works for five minutes. I have a feeling that Im still going to go to best buy if its a big ass game because some of these games are going to be like four or five gigs. and you're going to have to wait like two days. two. And thats the other thing -- that. You know unless its bi level and you can download it first and get the initial first couple first levels and then its like a progressive download after that. Oh wow I'll talk to the warlocks. How awesome is that? That's amazing! You could like start and as its downloading that when the other levels as its going in? Do you guys mind if I shake? Shake away."
" What are you shaking lets talk about the shaking. the platinum which Its just your liquor don't worry you're can fine keep going."
" Alright I like that. No reason not to shake your liquor thats what I say. Yeah."
" There's a lot of cool stuff. I mean theres a lot -- of the lot of really good potential stuff the last that last.fm I mean theres a lot of stuff did a lot of -- just go read it in the Blogosphere."
" Hahaha."
" Next story of the day this one is a good one. With want to 1441 diggs submitted by -- about -- gemstar38. Man wakes weeks from brain surgery as a talented artist. Yes. Everybody's gonna be lining it up for brain surgery thats all I'm saying. So that's all that you have to do? No it's actually a sad story. What? How is it a sad story? Let me explain. You're basically walking all over this man. Until the stroke Allen was unable to draw or paint the best he could do was draw simple 2d -- stick man. And then after sixteen hour operation following his stroke he -- became Michelangelo was able to draw and paint with incredible detail. Apparantly he's selling out all of his shows."
" Like he's -- meaning he's selling all of his paintings and whatnot. Like he's an artist like a full blown artist. Mr. Wright's."
" So the downside was that he had a stroke. Right. But the upside is now he's a talented artist. Holy shit! Thats not bad. That's pretty good right?"
" People who can see. Was he trying to be an artist before? And he was failing? Or he never had before and he's got newfound confidence thanks to the stroke? I think he was just doing stick men back then. What its probably like I mean I dunno I never I've"
" I have tried tried a couple times to be an artist. Have you? Yeah I mean my grandmother was a painter it."
" and sculptor. There's no paintings there's. none of your paintings in your house. Her sketches? No yours. Well yeah because I suck. My paintings just look like I'm having a stroke."
" Are you -- Are you macaroni man do you have like. Yes I've made I've made portraits out of macaroni. I went through a macaroni phase in my artwork. about a month ago. I actually heard that you know Beck? He was just doing like macaroni art like just for the fun of it -- and there were selling for something like 15000 dollars. That's the thing. That's when you know you've made it. When you're just like ah there's some macaroni on a piece of paper and someone is like I'll pay fifteen grand for that. That Wait, who did that? Beck and yeah exactly that's that we should do that. We should just draw weird stuff. and Glenn can do that kind of shit. Glenn! I cant draw worth shit. Well there you go Glenn. We're just waiting on a stroke. And then here we go. atmosphere of demand. -- I mean it look obviously strokes are horrible and that's not good but is one but if there is positive what the outcome its that the man is now an artist. there's any positive that it's coming out of"
" this it's that the man is now an artist rights."
" I wonder if he can draw stickmen now? Probably not. That would be awesome. Wouldnt it be shitty if he's like shitty if he's like I can't do my do my fucking stickmen anymore. I used to sell those so much. He's like, or how great would that be... whats that whats that one the with add with that one the stickman theatre or whatever that's on the internet? I haven't seen that. Wasn't it stickman theatre? XKCD. How great would that be if he was that guy. And he's like I can't do you my work anymore. The XKCD guy is like aww."
" Well it's good it's good that he's better and now even better yes although I will say it would have been cooler he had like gotten super strength or something."
" There are other things aren't there. Well yeah. Like those that that can read with both eyes at the same time. Yeah! One on each page? The one that Rainman is based off of him. Yeah Rainman is based off of him. Yeah, Kim ... Kim Peek. He like separates his eyes and then reads the down the pages. I know how crazy is that. He's like and it takes that Tuesday two on each. Alright this is happening. Ah what? This is epic. the."
" Its not meant to be immasculating."
" I was just about to say this might be the most masculine drink we've ever had on diggnation. Cheers. If the garnish tickles your nose you can take it off. I'm good with it. I thought that was what its supposed to do. Accentuate the effervescence. This is damn good. Its pretty good isnt it? you actually know how to make these things I know. Holy crap it's the only thing I do other than being on the."
" You should try drawing stick figures too. her."
" You may have a hidden talent. Now I heard you're creating your own shaker here though is that true true?"
" We actually have these that we don't have a T shirts or anything for the Rachel show but trouble we have cocktail shakers that just this is our first they've used it."
" You can buy them at the experience store at Rockefeller's center here at NBC. Sometime soon as soon as we get more than three of them."
" Oh we know how that works. Are we had we had some prototypes for a while. Glenn try a sip of this man. And its good for you its fruit. Oh that wasn't hard, oh I'll take a sip. I'll have it I'll take five. I'll make some more Likely for you guys. isn't it? You got something right here. Do I? Oh, thank you. Thank you Glenn, what was that? don't. Don't -- ask. Oh it was a strawberry. Alright next story your turn. a strawberry. know there is something to the hair of the dog. I have to say, that's good. it. Yeah right. I don't know where everybody else works but."
" Canon an employees forbidden to sit down. Or walk at normal paces."
" Yeah theres some pause but wait until I read the story. -- against -- 2078 people dugg the story submitted by of Ayers surferas. arrests. In the hallway if"
" An employee walks slower than five metres every three point six seconds and an alarm and flashing lights are set off."
" This isn't in the united states? of course not. Yeah are you kidding me? You know how much the unions would be like... uh fuck you."
" I'm taking another break just because you mention mentioned taking breaks the is a"
" And I love you unions I'm in two hey. it."
" Reminding the poor startled workers that he is an inefficient waste of air even better or worse"
" There is a sign on the floor said hallway that it reads let's rush if we don't the company and world parish."
" Wow. What? The world will parish? the I don't know I was like I could get the whole company thing. Like oh yeah man the companies going to go down if I don't skitter a little bit more. Or the world that's like saying babies are dying because you're reading this sign."
" Well why did you put the sign there? I didn't want to read it. But its there you have to read things."
" Where is Canon him out of where are they based out of? I don't want to make guesses. So here we go got first off. Corporate info. they also took out all of each the chairs the office that are so there chairs."
" And all the tables are like really high so like you can't even sit or lean on a table? Like really you're not going to let me sit or lean on a table? So the president of Canon electronics, guy who's name I'm not gonna try, it also author of the book proposing some of the same measures so I guess -- he wrote this big book"
" on how to super whip your guys and girls change into shape. now he's saying like oh look I back it up I'm put all this stuff into it. On the flipside the do makes some pretty damn good digital cameras. Not going to lie to you they are phenomenal phenomenal. Just get the mark II in my hands I that just got a Mark II its amazing. mean really Really? Does it have No. I haven't checked yet. You should check. Mike from TRS has had three. He's like there's a dead pixel and Canon literally goes there's 186."
" There are 20.1 Million fricking pixels 1 dead pixel? He's like yeah but its video."
" There's like this little dot on the guy he's like yeah. He's returned it and then he's gotten two back and they've all had dead pixels. Its a new technology. But they make a really fast really fast. And mainly because they don't sit. Well first off, I've gone on record a lot here saying the forty hour a week suit and tie in an office building was just not my speed. Did you ever do that stuff? The forty hour work week, yes. No but I mean like in an office. Digg is different you can go in there and its like bean bags and web 2.0 shit. like it here. Yeah but we still work like sixty hours a week. Its nuts. Yeah its crazy why do you do that? As you sip your little mimosa. This is work Jesus. Then How how well do they pay the employees though? Because if you're like a a couple hundred grand a year And you just have to bust ass, I'll do that shit. That's yet Right? You're basically just running around. Bro and I would give you and me maybe 20 minutes of a workday at a Canon experience before I would check out out. It would be kind of fun though at the same time. How is that fun?"
" That's like going to prison camp could be fun. Good excercise."
" You're always moving. to. Right? It's like two things at once you don't have to go to the gym, you're always moving around. Doing shit. Well I don't think that they're always moving. Its not like they would be standing at their workstation tapping before the alarm goes off. Well its not. I mean it at some point they have to get to the station where they work at. Its just when they are walking to the bathroom. I love how its just like, this is what they do this -- is your little. I'm looking at a picture and their all doing this. It's electronics. electronics. They're not going to be like errg kerk a bang! I I'm making a camera with a cricket frickin Of Kaplow. out like mark do. Mark II. Yeah its just one brick of a plastic like that it."
" I think thats how Detroit works. Where is it based? Japan. Uh it doesn't and say. It says Japan. I've looked on the website. Alright you made that up. Anyway elected good luck to -- And enjoy your jobs. they you know what they're not not going to grow clots in their legs. You know some people get the ergonomical chairs because they're. Someones phone. Is that it buzzing air in your ear? time you call. Them Its not me was it you? Uh it was probably me. Sorry Glenn, I'll turn off the phone. Airplane mode. Is it worse? Its probably getting worse because we all turned our phones on Glenn. Glenn's like someone's getting a text message be and he's like bloop de bloop de bloop. What are you doing? Turning on airplane mode. a picnic and that. We -- braverman on the area in our air here. Engaged engaged married. engaged. Alright your story. Alright. Nobody work at Canon unless you want really strict Canon stuff. Next story of the day I love their cameras. 1000 1493 diggs submitted by nice big spegman. sweets Sweet Ice Cream that Doesn't Melt. Now this. Now who's excited about that. that? Nobody. Alright Ron richards is excited about it in the back. I love it. Coldstone is about about to release cream that that doesn't melt. simply It or transforms into"
" Isn't theoretically that melting? Its really nasty. First off what kind of weird chemical crap needs to be in there in order for there... wouldn't at what happens when it's in your stomach."
" You probably shit a cone out."
" Like the same way that it came in. That would be awesome. That would be horrible. he's gonna be standing up and looking at it and"
" ask is that an ice cream cone? This is ice cream but wait in a minute it'll be slurry."
" Oh I love it."
" That's horrible. There's certain things I dont want done to my food. This seems like an extra additive or ten to make this happen."
" Or magic again."
" If they've been it'd be like wizards doing enu enu meh ah it'll turn into a frog after a while. It is coldstone though. out."
" The thing though is that the earth turns things into pudding. Yes. If you leave them in the sun. Yes. You know the earth turns enough stuff into pudding in a bad way. about way. To try to make, to try to harness science in order to turn other foodstuffs into pudding. and but. Its just like messing with the god of decomposition. And a also half of the fun of eating ice cream it trying to eat as fast as you frickin can before -- it melts right? An And I'll tell ,it is puddin ,it is puddin Glenn you Glenn, you, the and also when you have an ice cream cone the best part of the ice cream cone is that crap it's melting off that you have to catch. You know what I mean? Ice cream sucks at times. I'm not going to lie to you."
" It really artist Best ice cream? What's you're favorite ice cream? that. I'm going to blow your mind here for a second respect it McDonald's soft serve vanilla. No. Thank you. That's nasty as hell. How is that nasty? Its already... Its McDonald's everything they do is nasty. ought to know how."
" It's already."
" I man I've disagree. Although, their fries are damn good. You just proved my point. And the egg mcmuffins when you're hung over come on. See? See? Keep talkin'. What else? Okay god dammit. I had chicken nuggets the other day. What best barbeque sauce in the world. Okay the best ice cream is Thrifty, does anybody know Thrifty? Chocolate malted crunch that shit is good. Yes! Yes there we go yes! is yeah. Oh god."
" It the best the little white bars its the best. Its so good! You've never had Thrifty ice cream? Bro I don't know what you're talking about I thought Thrifty was a gas station. They are. I mean mart thing. Oh oh I'm sorry! odds aren't McDonald's is such a horrible way to get your ice cream but go to the frickin gas gas station. walking by the beef jerky and it chips and you're like I'll have a cone please. Well that Oh because that makes it better. Its a step up. I'm going to go process my hourlong photo and get some -- ice cream. Basically yes. Walgreens is actually a good company. There were some jokes in there but lets be serious. Heres the flavors that they have coming out. Butterscotch velvet. Doesn't sound too bad. the Butter finger Reeces peanut butter cup and caramel. Well that sounds like everything I like. Well you know coldstone right? They basically just throw a bunch of shit in there. Well right. Its where they chop the shit up on the stone in front of you. Yeah the cold stone. I gotta admit the first time I went to coldstone I was blown away. How could you not be blown away? -- do not want without the -- the Where they have the coldstone and they're just beating the shit out of the ice cream. beat I -- it on -- on. It. They're just like what do you want I don't know vanilla. I'm like alright, you could have not thrown it on the counter. I just don't understand why do they beat the shit out of it when you don't order any additional toppings? White guys in order. Like your like vanilla and they just start hitting the shit out of it and your not even adding anything you're just beating up the ice cream at this point. I'm pretty sure its just because the people who are trained there are like, the first thing you do, is you take whatever they say and you put it on the coldstone Hitler like -- and uncles and then beat the crap out of it. And then if they want anything added, you put it in, and then you beat the crap out of it some more. So the kids are like what do you want sir? it would happen. They get there and you luck Derek like that now."
" And then they ring the bell the when they were in the -- get the tips. And like you see somebody before you do it and then you're like fuck now I have to tip and because I look like the guy that didn't ring the bell. Because all of a sudden you like walk out and their like I didn't, I didn't hear any bells. Did you not, did I not beat the shit out of the ice cream for you? edit Or they just put their hand on it like they put their hand on a bell. They ring a bell to let everyone know whether or not you tipped?"
" Right exactly. It basically calling you out on whether your tipping or not. Yeah yeah yeah. Thats like a tip mugging. It is it really is. And if you just put a little bit its like a ting so you kinda want to have a girthy ring of the bell. Girthy didn't even make sense. Not at all its alright. Its alright I see what was happening. What they should do is ring the bell if you don't tip. They just hold the bell and are like ding ding ding ding, alright!"
" Jesus there. Fudge."
" Well they dont want it to be too bad though. Thats a good call. Alright coldstones, interesting. Ice cream that shant melt. I don't even know why I said shant. Alright."
" Oh well before we get to the last story right, sponsers first. Lets do some sponsers. So Adobe. Adobe flash platform provides everything you need to develop an application. in. Dude I love all of their AIR stuff its amazing."
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" With a beta available Of Adobe flash builder 4 formally formally flex builder. -- Adobe flash catalyst. And open source flex 4 framework so all you designers and video coders out there who just went, yes! And everybody else was like, cool. That's what happened literally. Revision 3 was at the Adobe flash camp. We interviewed a bunch of engineers and production managers who worked on the updated platforms so at the end of this episode we actually have a ton of video. So we're going over all the crazy new flash stuff thats coming out."
" There is a new. So we love you Adobe. at Adobe just came out with something really awesome. Writely And I remember I know that that that I agree is awesome there's something else with a little notifications. -- any They were creating a the public to publish notifications. Wave."
" Yeah Adobe Wave yeah thats a cool. You you gotta vheck out Adobe Wave. It is and really really cool. Adobe kills it dude. Seriously they do. There is certain stuff that you do. Like They're like the of graphics graphics stuff. mean mean they've got everything. Flash is everywhere. And the and the air stuff and a lot of it applications that we love are written on AIR. Like tweetdeck and Seesmic desktop. -- That's a"
" bunch of good stuff. Alright next sponser. Virgin America, Day in the Cloud by Google Apps with Virgin America is taking place on June 24 2009. Virgin America is the first airline to offer inflight Wi-Fi on every flight. And they are teaming up with Google to take cloud computing to new heights for the first ever online scavenger hunt to be played simultaneously in the air and on the ground. For one day June 24. Virgin American will be giving its guests free Wi-Fi that day encourage travelers to get their nerd on Google is gathering a small group of game that extraordinaire to come up with puzzles trivia and brain teasers. So basically, you go on this flight, sorry my brain was teased, what? Yes, you go on this flight you have to take place in this competition. Yes. Take place in this compitition? One more of these. It's gonna a last for twenty. 24 hours Its dayinthecloud.com here's what the winners receive though. If you complete all these puzzles and brain teasers,"
" and you actually are the winner of this package. 5 winners. Wait, is it a treasure hunt too? Its like like a rat scavenger treasure hunt. I."
" I don't know if there are a lot of things to fine find in airplanes. That you're allowed to take. Well on the Internet that so its like you chase the rabbit down the internet stuff. So you're fake"
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" How many people here are fans of Star Wars. How many people saw the star wars old republic cinematic trailer. One guy. I no! You are in for a treat this is perfect. How many times did you see it? 5. Me too I love it. Okay so here's the interesting news and then everybodys going to watch it on the giant frickin screen its amazing. Star Wars the old republic cinematic trailer. 2833 people dugg this story submitted by coddling. The sacking of corrisant on it's it was the crowning achievement of -- the sit Sith ambitious military strategy and the movement that changed the history of the old republic for ever. You may have read about it before but our first cinematic trailer after captures event would with breath taking action and beautiful geek detail. this is This trailer. Four trailer for old republic which will be out."
" sometime. Let's take a look."
" Our time has come."
" For three hundred years we've prepared. Three hundred years. Okay is he must. And risks. Of crude and Power! CEO. Louis. Prima tech show."
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" You trust turn to 200. Much we'll see. That's. Hours. It. Was she didn't do fools could -- Yeah. Have went yeah. Good to see. Now we'll call me."
" Oh. First off the audio worked whats up?"
" I am so over the moon and excited about this game it's not even funny. Okay. I was excited about this game before that happened. Come on. So -- that was an actual gameplay footage. That was gameplay footage its amazing. Actually its going to be a lot like dragonscape eight in dragon slayer. But with Jedis. He's kidding. But no so here's the thing, and this is what people will always talk about with those types of things because they because they showed that off at E3 and blew my mind. And everybody that I was like so excited about this game, its a new MMO and that is coming out from mom BioWare. And they were all like, you haven't seen anything it's all just you know a cool cut scene yes but this is what I say to that."
" That is better than any"
" of the new Star Wars movies in my opinion. As far as what I want out of Star Wars. right so that means that the guys and girls who were creating this game"
" understand what I want out of Star Wars. Your hoping. What do you mean hoping? all I saw it there's no way those guys that would make that and then the big game is like."
" derp derp derp derp derp wang."
" Right I mean that would be the worst ad campaign in history. It just turns into a weird slapstick game."
" Because that was the problem I had with a lot of the new stuff. It turns into a side scroller your like how did you get from there. That would actually be really funny. -- They should do that just as good viral marketing definitely."
" this really crappy side scroller where you're like one of those weird robots. Mer mer mer mer mer beep whoa there's a Jedi somewhere in here what? Wang."
" I mean literally it was like keystone cops. You can't even play the Jedi's you just play the robots. You're one of the robots and then a Jedi goes by and you're like aww dammit. You have to like service the Jedis. You have to bring them shit. That would be awesome. its like bonus points and your like here's breakfast sir. You're like fuck this game sucks. You're like I know I'm serving the rebellion but come on. line and I'm in my little way. way I get that. like it's like star speeder service man. due I'm in the"
" Wah wah wah, go back there and kick some butt woohoo!"
" Oh man that's my gun. I fixed that gun. So there's so much goodness in there and there's a lot of like, there's some interesting treats about that. They've announced I love that thank you so much, dude you are killing it out here. I love it. Extra liquor in that one."
" And and that's the. That's good. So they announced the bounty hunter class. Before but but there are some and in added trailor -- you. show that that their going to have flame throwers, that they're to be able to fly, I know that wasn't a big thing but bounty hunters getting a jet pack was a big deal in Star Wars Galaxies the old thing I saw. Took"
" seven thousand years to get."
" So I have a couple more thousand years to go and I'll get one. Why do and this is probably stupidest question in the world and the fans are going to hate me for this. Why do the bad guys just have red swords like why light sabers why like is there reason for the red color."
" Yes."
" There are different crystals. You're lying. No I'm not. Are you serious? There are different crystals that go into a Jedi's light saber and ever each crystal has different attributes to them."
" What is the red do?"
" Ah I have absolutely no idea. Evil yes the red does evil evil."
" But it can like boost your powers in some way and help channel energy. And all that stuff."
" Plus red is evil. Right. Red means bad. I wondered when they all lit up their swords I'm like the sword or light saber designer it was like this will look good. all You guys will all like like, you're all red, it matches your outfits. One guy has a pink, he's I dammit. He's like fuck why did I get pink this time? I brought my party sword I didn't realize there was a fight."
" Its like what? Why'd you bring your pink sword Bill? K sorry I thought I thought we were going to a rave."
" I, I have another theory though. Because I think that Star Wars is the mass consumption"
" uh guys in another land fighting each other thing even for people who don't otherwise enjoy those things. And having all of the bad guys have swords of one color and all of the good guys have of swords of different different"
" It's very easy for people who aren't used to looking at big fight scenes of aliens"
" To tell one side from the other yeah. Yeah it actually make it simpler thing to sort of absorb or visualize. I absorb visually. You can tell who's winning then too. they all wear black and then the good guys all wear this sort of brown tan colors. yeah it exports so like Star Wars sort super super serve who Star love Star and also offices has to serve people don't care well who will consume it because its Star Wars. Its interesting. I like that. It could very duty well be true. I'm it is. And as far as the lore its crystals."
" I did not. Alright. Alright. Haha."
" How'd that go? Everything get swept up I was like getting it trying to get an email. I could just read some of my work emails. Yeah why don't you do that? How's everything going? I should just check in onto my Virgin flight on the way home for tomorrow. Alright well if you would like to have your email read on the show when we pick one uh you can send them to diggnationfans@gmail.com We do want to thank"
" MSNBC for having us at the digital cafe. And Rachel Maddow. Yes Thank you so much. Thank you for making the drinks. Really appreciate it. That is it for this weeks episode of diggnation. I'm Alex Albrecht and I'm Kevin Rose."
" Until next time. Be well."
" I love it whats up? That's awesome!"
" The word that I would described today as is game changing. What we're working on and what's happened with flash is its really evolved as a technology. From being your original animation player on the web to really growing into a full platform now. We have three main"
" themes for this release. Basically most people start application either thinking about the design thinking about the data so we've really tried to enable that in flash builder four."
" The power lived in the wrong hands when it came to designing a really rich internet an application. The designer would hand off a static comp to a developer and then you lose all control over the actual final look and feel of an application."
" Flash builder four I think really enables a much better workflow between designers and developers."
" What this release does is it really puts that power back to the designers hands to own the visual appearance all the way into building an actual flex application."
" They can build out whatever to design they invision. they can import it into flash builder. You can add all your data connectivity and really keep your design the way the designer intended it."
" Im a developer so flash builder is his home for me the features that are more most important for are almost the silly. There's things like the package package view on a they they're things that will me be more."
" So all of the types of growing pains that we go through with a new designer or new project where we're fleshing out whats it's gonna look like when it's. how it's gonna work, having some sort of tool sort of support and facilitate good communication it's pretty awesome."
" All these tools they are going to save me like big time, and effort, and less code much easier to reduce the complexity of the work flow."
" And then you write all of your business logic and in flash builder and play a great application that. Just sort of gonna revolutionize the kinds of expressive exciting apps that you can build."
" Oh my god! Yeah."
" Wow. This weeks episode of Diggnation brought to you by the advance Adobe flash platform, Virgin America the first airline with fleet wide Wi-Fi , GoDaddy. And NBC's longest running daytime show. Days of our Pragers. Like the sands through an hour glass. So are the days of our Pragers."
" Everybody welcome to Diggnation at episode number two oh seven I'm Alex Albrecht and I'm Kevin Rose Diggnation covers some of the hottest users submitted stories on the social news site digg dot com thats D I double G Dot com. That's right and we are here. Here's here at the msnbc digital cafe yes we are in 30 Rockefeller thank you so much that we have some winners from the contest that we did at revision3 sitting in the audience"
" Say hi! What's up winners?"
" That's awesome. And not only that I have to say NBC has really rolled out the red carpet yeah I mean."
" We they supplied us with a bartender turns out Rachel Maddow from MSNBC you gotta be kidding me!"
" I'm great This is sort of like I'm having a hair the than dog moment I am laying out the buffet of breakfast liquors. I love it. Yeah."
" We did a live show last night so we can use the breakfast liquors. Well I'll hook you guys up I'm making some you know breakfasts cocktails. I love it. And you're going to make some stuff for the audience as well? Whats in the breakfast cocktail? Well, uh fruit, so its got your vitamins for the day we've got strawberries we're using we're making a cocktail thats called La Susset which is."
" Ah yeah!"
" Strawberries. And a little of le lay which is a little french thing which is which is which is liquor. And uh lemon juice its' it's cool and its good for you!"
" Revitalize. And then I have to say. Thanks to our old pal Jimmy Fallon for bringin us -- down some hot chocolate. This is the best that thing, we are literally on the way here."
" And I get a phone call from Prager and that was like uh yeah Jimmy Fallon just came down with like a whole bunch of stuff for you guys and was like "He hey guys. Where are the guys?"
" He's like nobodys here. So he ended up leaving but thank you Jimmy I really appreciate it Have a sip of that. I'm not gonna have a sip of that it looks like tar. Its thick. I love you Jimmy! Ill have it. Dude you wanna try it? are."
" I dont know it could be it could be not chocolate. I don't know. it being."
" It could be not chocolate like I don't want it."
" Looks too much like chocolate just to try a little taste. It might have to break through the surface. It might be mammoths in the bottom it's like chocolates soup."
" Yeah see I'm thinking he might have just melted chocolate."
" And like this will be funny Im gonna give the cups of chocolate No this is good you should try it. Its really good. Alright I cant be the guy who doesn't have Jimmy Fallon's chocolate. Now don't ruin your pallet for the strawberry smoothies. I'll be like like dude chocolates and strawberries That goes well actually. Hello. Its getting like creepy. seventies an -- romantic. Oh my Jesus. Yeah yeah. Is it thick? You gotta chew it a bit."
" Hot chocolate you gotta chew. I feel like I'm in again nineteen twelve Paris ."
" Its all chocolate and strawberries. Yeah I've just had a weird past life experience. Either that or a seizure. Alright shall we get into the stories? Lets do it. Alright, Let's first story. We'll first off last night. Just gonna say, live show."
" Maybe not the most informational show. Right."
" Live shows there could be great news. We had a guy I'd like"
" trying to get on stage. I barely remember that there was a guy who was just drunk and in like pajamas or not underwear or something like that sayibg hey guys and 'phew' I was like"
" We hired ninjas? When did this happen?"
" That was awesome. So theres a lot of news thats been popping from E3 which I was covering for the Totally Rad Show."
" Its hard to throw information out at a live show, so we saved a lot of that for now. Thusly, I give you thy stories. Begin. i dont know why I went back to the middle ages."
" Xbox 360s getting full retail game delivered on demand."
" Big deal I know theres been a smattering of applause and there wasn't even a smattering. At 1549 people dugg the story submitted by reckless 1280. Microsoft's keynote was so jam packed the company decided to wait until afterwards to announce what might be the biggest new feature of them all:"
" On demand access to full retail games."
" Now this big deal because usually when you do these on demand things you actually pay less for the game. You don't need to produce it. Its a digital download. you don't need them there's no plastic. My you Also talk about less impact on the environment."
" You know you could be those guys. Its always good to be green. You know lets be green. I dont need another cd to go in some hole somewhere. That's right. But this brings up a lot of issues because there have been certain companies, Wal Mart being one of them."
" Who have been very very adamantly against digital downloads for obvious reasons. They make money when you buy copies in the store. To the point when uh Warhawk. which is a PS3 S three. a PS3 game. Was offered for digital downloads they had they couldn't only offer it with digital downloads with it because they wal mart's said we'll just pull all of our PS3 stuff off of our. You know that will be good for your company. Can't buy anything from you in a Wal-Mart hows that sound. Basically like saying we're gonna pull your entire line of games and being but that's really shitty actually. well or smart. But in a bad way right it's like totally like I am a smart man who is kind of a dick."
" I can control what you do because I'm that big I mean it's like classic middle ages politics."
" My cave man larger than your cave man and that means I get your cave. Right exactly and that's what Wal-Mart has the biggest cave I think. And this is something this is another industry is gonna be affected by this stuff that's going to take a few years and theres going to be some pocket back and forth and its all going to be all digital. I mean you can get digital movies right now on the 360 and PS3. Right. So clearly they've fought that industry and been like hey I get it you can also have the dvds. but we're we're at bandwidth with wise that we're at the speeds we can. Receive like everyone's like at least 10 megabits except for you. You're at like 2 still right? 2? I think you mean 25. Oh did you upgrade? Yeah dude I have FIOS."
" That's right. Yeah suck it. Dammit. Don't go throwing around numbers when you don't have FIOS. I don't have FIOS."
" I have COMCASTic. after. Oh that sounds like something you need antibiotics for. No its not so hot. Yes I'm excited for this. Tere are some other things that came out of the press conference. Better that I thought really cool as far as that side goes 1080P. EP. downloads for your HD movies now. It was 720P for the HD rentals. 1080P is big. They they said now its an instant on play. where you basically say I'd like that on 1080P and it just starts playing. I dont know how they do that. Magic maybe they finally locks got Warlocks hired at Microsoft it's be like ah yeah we could try to figure it out technically or we have beelzebub over there and whip something really weird up. Nut we're going to need four donkeys, two -- virgins And a virgin daiquiri. They can work at wal mart. and it only works for five minutes. I have a feeling that Im still going to go to best buy if its a big ass game because some of these games are going to be like four or five gigs. and you're going to have to wait like two days. two. And thats the other thing -- that. You know unless its bi level and you can download it first and get the initial first couple first levels and then its like a progressive download after that. Oh wow I'll talk to the warlocks. How awesome is that? That's amazing! You could like start and as its downloading that when the other levels as its going in? Do you guys mind if I shake? Shake away."
" What are you shaking lets talk about the shaking. the platinum which Its just your liquor don't worry you're can fine keep going."
" Alright I like that. No reason not to shake your liquor thats what I say. Yeah."
" There's a lot of cool stuff. I mean theres a lot -- of the lot of really good potential stuff the last that last.fm I mean theres a lot of stuff did a lot of -- just go read it in the Blogosphere."
" Hahaha."
" Next story of the day this one is a good one. With want to 1441 diggs submitted by -- about -- gemstar38. Man wakes weeks from brain surgery as a talented artist. Yes. Everybody's gonna be lining it up for brain surgery thats all I'm saying. So that's all that you have to do? No it's actually a sad story. What? How is it a sad story? Let me explain. You're basically walking all over this man. Until the stroke Allen was unable to draw or paint the best he could do was draw simple 2d -- stick man. And then after sixteen hour operation following his stroke he -- became Michelangelo was able to draw and paint with incredible detail. Apparantly he's selling out all of his shows."
" Like he's -- meaning he's selling all of his paintings and whatnot. Like he's an artist like a full blown artist. Mr. Wright's."
" So the downside was that he had a stroke. Right. But the upside is now he's a talented artist. Holy shit! Thats not bad. That's pretty good right?"
" People who can see. Was he trying to be an artist before? And he was failing? Or he never had before and he's got newfound confidence thanks to the stroke? I think he was just doing stick men back then. What its probably like I mean I dunno I never I've"
" I have tried tried a couple times to be an artist. Have you? Yeah I mean my grandmother was a painter it."
" and sculptor. There's no paintings there's. none of your paintings in your house. Her sketches? No yours. Well yeah because I suck. My paintings just look like I'm having a stroke."
" Are you -- Are you macaroni man do you have like. Yes I've made I've made portraits out of macaroni. I went through a macaroni phase in my artwork. about a month ago. I actually heard that you know Beck? He was just doing like macaroni art like just for the fun of it -- and there were selling for something like 15000 dollars. That's the thing. That's when you know you've made it. When you're just like ah there's some macaroni on a piece of paper and someone is like I'll pay fifteen grand for that. That Wait, who did that? Beck and yeah exactly that's that we should do that. We should just draw weird stuff. and Glenn can do that kind of shit. Glenn! I cant draw worth shit. Well there you go Glenn. We're just waiting on a stroke. And then here we go. atmosphere of demand. -- I mean it look obviously strokes are horrible and that's not good but is one but if there is positive what the outcome its that the man is now an artist. there's any positive that it's coming out of"
" this it's that the man is now an artist rights."
" I wonder if he can draw stickmen now? Probably not. That would be awesome. Wouldnt it be shitty if he's like shitty if he's like I can't do my do my fucking stickmen anymore. I used to sell those so much. He's like, or how great would that be... whats that whats that one the with add with that one the stickman theatre or whatever that's on the internet? I haven't seen that. Wasn't it stickman theatre? XKCD. How great would that be if he was that guy. And he's like I can't do you my work anymore. The XKCD guy is like aww."
" Well it's good it's good that he's better and now even better yes although I will say it would have been cooler he had like gotten super strength or something."
" There are other things aren't there. Well yeah. Like those that that can read with both eyes at the same time. Yeah! One on each page? The one that Rainman is based off of him. Yeah Rainman is based off of him. Yeah, Kim ... Kim Peek. He like separates his eyes and then reads the down the pages. I know how crazy is that. He's like and it takes that Tuesday two on each. Alright this is happening. Ah what? This is epic. the."
" Its not meant to be immasculating."
" I was just about to say this might be the most masculine drink we've ever had on diggnation. Cheers. If the garnish tickles your nose you can take it off. I'm good with it. I thought that was what its supposed to do. Accentuate the effervescence. This is damn good. Its pretty good isnt it? you actually know how to make these things I know. Holy crap it's the only thing I do other than being on the."
" You should try drawing stick figures too. her."
" You may have a hidden talent. Now I heard you're creating your own shaker here though is that true true?"
" We actually have these that we don't have a T shirts or anything for the Rachel show but trouble we have cocktail shakers that just this is our first they've used it."
" You can buy them at the experience store at Rockefeller's center here at NBC. Sometime soon as soon as we get more than three of them."
" Oh we know how that works. Are we had we had some prototypes for a while. Glenn try a sip of this man. And its good for you its fruit. Oh that wasn't hard, oh I'll take a sip. I'll have it I'll take five. I'll make some more Likely for you guys. isn't it? You got something right here. Do I? Oh, thank you. Thank you Glenn, what was that? don't. Don't -- ask. Oh it was a strawberry. Alright next story your turn. a strawberry. know there is something to the hair of the dog. I have to say, that's good. it. Yeah right. I don't know where everybody else works but."
" Canon an employees forbidden to sit down. Or walk at normal paces."
" Yeah theres some pause but wait until I read the story. -- against -- 2078 people dugg the story submitted by of Ayers surferas. arrests. In the hallway if"
" An employee walks slower than five metres every three point six seconds and an alarm and flashing lights are set off."
" This isn't in the united states? of course not. Yeah are you kidding me? You know how much the unions would be like... uh fuck you."
" I'm taking another break just because you mention mentioned taking breaks the is a"
" And I love you unions I'm in two hey. it."
" Reminding the poor startled workers that he is an inefficient waste of air even better or worse"
" There is a sign on the floor said hallway that it reads let's rush if we don't the company and world parish."
" Wow. What? The world will parish? the I don't know I was like I could get the whole company thing. Like oh yeah man the companies going to go down if I don't skitter a little bit more. Or the world that's like saying babies are dying because you're reading this sign."
" Well why did you put the sign there? I didn't want to read it. But its there you have to read things."
" Where is Canon him out of where are they based out of? I don't want to make guesses. So here we go got first off. Corporate info. they also took out all of each the chairs the office that are so there chairs."
" And all the tables are like really high so like you can't even sit or lean on a table? Like really you're not going to let me sit or lean on a table? So the president of Canon electronics, guy who's name I'm not gonna try, it also author of the book proposing some of the same measures so I guess -- he wrote this big book"
" on how to super whip your guys and girls change into shape. now he's saying like oh look I back it up I'm put all this stuff into it. On the flipside the do makes some pretty damn good digital cameras. Not going to lie to you they are phenomenal phenomenal. Just get the mark II in my hands I that just got a Mark II its amazing. mean really Really? Does it have No. I haven't checked yet. You should check. Mike from TRS has had three. He's like there's a dead pixel and Canon literally goes there's 186."
" There are 20.1 Million fricking pixels 1 dead pixel? He's like yeah but its video."
" There's like this little dot on the guy he's like yeah. He's returned it and then he's gotten two back and they've all had dead pixels. Its a new technology. But they make a really fast really fast. And mainly because they don't sit. Well first off, I've gone on record a lot here saying the forty hour a week suit and tie in an office building was just not my speed. Did you ever do that stuff? The forty hour work week, yes. No but I mean like in an office. Digg is different you can go in there and its like bean bags and web 2.0 shit. like it here. Yeah but we still work like sixty hours a week. Its nuts. Yeah its crazy why do you do that? As you sip your little mimosa. This is work Jesus. Then How how well do they pay the employees though? Because if you're like a a couple hundred grand a year And you just have to bust ass, I'll do that shit. That's yet Right? You're basically just running around. Bro and I would give you and me maybe 20 minutes of a workday at a Canon experience before I would check out out. It would be kind of fun though at the same time. How is that fun?"
" That's like going to prison camp could be fun. Good excercise."
" You're always moving. to. Right? It's like two things at once you don't have to go to the gym, you're always moving around. Doing shit. Well I don't think that they're always moving. Its not like they would be standing at their workstation tapping before the alarm goes off. Well its not. I mean it at some point they have to get to the station where they work at. Its just when they are walking to the bathroom. I love how its just like, this is what they do this -- is your little. I'm looking at a picture and their all doing this. It's electronics. electronics. They're not going to be like errg kerk a bang! I I'm making a camera with a cricket frickin Of Kaplow. out like mark do. Mark II. Yeah its just one brick of a plastic like that it."
" I think thats how Detroit works. Where is it based? Japan. Uh it doesn't and say. It says Japan. I've looked on the website. Alright you made that up. Anyway elected good luck to -- And enjoy your jobs. they you know what they're not not going to grow clots in their legs. You know some people get the ergonomical chairs because they're. Someones phone. Is that it buzzing air in your ear? time you call. Them Its not me was it you? Uh it was probably me. Sorry Glenn, I'll turn off the phone. Airplane mode. Is it worse? Its probably getting worse because we all turned our phones on Glenn. Glenn's like someone's getting a text message be and he's like bloop de bloop de bloop. What are you doing? Turning on airplane mode. a picnic and that. We -- braverman on the area in our air here. Engaged engaged married. engaged. Alright your story. Alright. Nobody work at Canon unless you want really strict Canon stuff. Next story of the day I love their cameras. 1000 1493 diggs submitted by nice big spegman. sweets Sweet Ice Cream that Doesn't Melt. Now this. Now who's excited about that. that? Nobody. Alright Ron richards is excited about it in the back. I love it. Coldstone is about about to release cream that that doesn't melt. simply It or transforms into"
" Isn't theoretically that melting? Its really nasty. First off what kind of weird chemical crap needs to be in there in order for there... wouldn't at what happens when it's in your stomach."
" You probably shit a cone out."
" Like the same way that it came in. That would be awesome. That would be horrible. he's gonna be standing up and looking at it and"
" ask is that an ice cream cone? This is ice cream but wait in a minute it'll be slurry."
" Oh I love it."
" That's horrible. There's certain things I dont want done to my food. This seems like an extra additive or ten to make this happen."
" Or magic again."
" If they've been it'd be like wizards doing enu enu meh ah it'll turn into a frog after a while. It is coldstone though. out."
" The thing though is that the earth turns things into pudding. Yes. If you leave them in the sun. Yes. You know the earth turns enough stuff into pudding in a bad way. about way. To try to make, to try to harness science in order to turn other foodstuffs into pudding. and but. Its just like messing with the god of decomposition. And a also half of the fun of eating ice cream it trying to eat as fast as you frickin can before -- it melts right? An And I'll tell ,it is puddin ,it is puddin Glenn you Glenn, you, the and also when you have an ice cream cone the best part of the ice cream cone is that crap it's melting off that you have to catch. You know what I mean? Ice cream sucks at times. I'm not going to lie to you."
" It really artist Best ice cream? What's you're favorite ice cream? that. I'm going to blow your mind here for a second respect it McDonald's soft serve vanilla. No. Thank you. That's nasty as hell. How is that nasty? Its already... Its McDonald's everything they do is nasty. ought to know how."
" It's already."
" I man I've disagree. Although, their fries are damn good. You just proved my point. And the egg mcmuffins when you're hung over come on. See? See? Keep talkin'. What else? Okay god dammit. I had chicken nuggets the other day. What best barbeque sauce in the world. Okay the best ice cream is Thrifty, does anybody know Thrifty? Chocolate malted crunch that shit is good. Yes! Yes there we go yes! is yeah. Oh god."
" It the best the little white bars its the best. Its so good! You've never had Thrifty ice cream? Bro I don't know what you're talking about I thought Thrifty was a gas station. They are. I mean mart thing. Oh oh I'm sorry! odds aren't McDonald's is such a horrible way to get your ice cream but go to the frickin gas gas station. walking by the beef jerky and it chips and you're like I'll have a cone please. Well that Oh because that makes it better. Its a step up. I'm going to go process my hourlong photo and get some -- ice cream. Basically yes. Walgreens is actually a good company. There were some jokes in there but lets be serious. Heres the flavors that they have coming out. Butterscotch velvet. Doesn't sound too bad. the Butter finger Reeces peanut butter cup and caramel. Well that sounds like everything I like. Well you know coldstone right? They basically just throw a bunch of shit in there. Well right. Its where they chop the shit up on the stone in front of you. Yeah the cold stone. I gotta admit the first time I went to coldstone I was blown away. How could you not be blown away? -- do not want without the -- the Where they have the coldstone and they're just beating the shit out of the ice cream. beat I -- it on -- on. It. They're just like what do you want I don't know vanilla. I'm like alright, you could have not thrown it on the counter. I just don't understand why do they beat the shit out of it when you don't order any additional toppings? White guys in order. Like your like vanilla and they just start hitting the shit out of it and your not even adding anything you're just beating up the ice cream at this point. I'm pretty sure its just because the people who are trained there are like, the first thing you do, is you take whatever they say and you put it on the coldstone Hitler like -- and uncles and then beat the crap out of it. And then if they want anything added, you put it in, and then you beat the crap out of it some more. So the kids are like what do you want sir? it would happen. They get there and you luck Derek like that now."
" And then they ring the bell the when they were in the -- get the tips. And like you see somebody before you do it and then you're like fuck now I have to tip and because I look like the guy that didn't ring the bell. Because all of a sudden you like walk out and their like I didn't, I didn't hear any bells. Did you not, did I not beat the shit out of the ice cream for you? edit Or they just put their hand on it like they put their hand on a bell. They ring a bell to let everyone know whether or not you tipped?"
" Right exactly. It basically calling you out on whether your tipping or not. Yeah yeah yeah. Thats like a tip mugging. It is it really is. And if you just put a little bit its like a ting so you kinda want to have a girthy ring of the bell. Girthy didn't even make sense. Not at all its alright. Its alright I see what was happening. What they should do is ring the bell if you don't tip. They just hold the bell and are like ding ding ding ding, alright!"
" Jesus there. Fudge."
" Well they dont want it to be too bad though. Thats a good call. Alright coldstones, interesting. Ice cream that shant melt. I don't even know why I said shant. Alright."
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" and you actually are the winner of this package. 5 winners. Wait, is it a treasure hunt too? Its like like a rat scavenger treasure hunt. I."
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" How many people here are fans of Star Wars. How many people saw the star wars old republic cinematic trailer. One guy. I no! You are in for a treat this is perfect. How many times did you see it? 5. Me too I love it. Okay so here's the interesting news and then everybodys going to watch it on the giant frickin screen its amazing. Star Wars the old republic cinematic trailer. 2833 people dugg this story submitted by coddling. The sacking of corrisant on it's it was the crowning achievement of -- the sit Sith ambitious military strategy and the movement that changed the history of the old republic for ever. You may have read about it before but our first cinematic trailer after captures event would with breath taking action and beautiful geek detail. this is This trailer. Four trailer for old republic which will be out."
" sometime. Let's take a look."
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" You trust turn to 200. Much we'll see. That's. Hours. It. Was she didn't do fools could -- Yeah. Have went yeah. Good to see. Now we'll call me."
" Oh. First off the audio worked whats up?"
" I am so over the moon and excited about this game it's not even funny. Okay. I was excited about this game before that happened. Come on. So -- that was an actual gameplay footage. That was gameplay footage its amazing. Actually its going to be a lot like dragonscape eight in dragon slayer. But with Jedis. He's kidding. But no so here's the thing, and this is what people will always talk about with those types of things because they because they showed that off at E3 and blew my mind. And everybody that I was like so excited about this game, its a new MMO and that is coming out from mom BioWare. And they were all like, you haven't seen anything it's all just you know a cool cut scene yes but this is what I say to that."
" That is better than any"
" of the new Star Wars movies in my opinion. As far as what I want out of Star Wars. right so that means that the guys and girls who were creating this game"
" understand what I want out of Star Wars. Your hoping. What do you mean hoping? all I saw it there's no way those guys that would make that and then the big game is like."
" derp derp derp derp derp wang."
" Right I mean that would be the worst ad campaign in history. It just turns into a weird slapstick game."
" Because that was the problem I had with a lot of the new stuff. It turns into a side scroller your like how did you get from there. That would actually be really funny. -- They should do that just as good viral marketing definitely."
" this really crappy side scroller where you're like one of those weird robots. Mer mer mer mer mer beep whoa there's a Jedi somewhere in here what? Wang."
" I mean literally it was like keystone cops. You can't even play the Jedi's you just play the robots. You're one of the robots and then a Jedi goes by and you're like aww dammit. You have to like service the Jedis. You have to bring them shit. That would be awesome. its like bonus points and your like here's breakfast sir. You're like fuck this game sucks. You're like I know I'm serving the rebellion but come on. line and I'm in my little way. way I get that. like it's like star speeder service man. due I'm in the"
" Wah wah wah, go back there and kick some butt woohoo!"
" Oh man that's my gun. I fixed that gun. So there's so much goodness in there and there's a lot of like, there's some interesting treats about that. They've announced I love that thank you so much, dude you are killing it out here. I love it. Extra liquor in that one."
" And and that's the. That's good. So they announced the bounty hunter class. Before but but there are some and in added trailor -- you. show that that their going to have flame throwers, that they're to be able to fly, I know that wasn't a big thing but bounty hunters getting a jet pack was a big deal in Star Wars Galaxies the old thing I saw. Took"
" seven thousand years to get."
" So I have a couple more thousand years to go and I'll get one. Why do and this is probably stupidest question in the world and the fans are going to hate me for this. Why do the bad guys just have red swords like why light sabers why like is there reason for the red color."
" Yes."
" There are different crystals. You're lying. No I'm not. Are you serious? There are different crystals that go into a Jedi's light saber and ever each crystal has different attributes to them."
" What is the red do?"
" Ah I have absolutely no idea. Evil yes the red does evil evil."
" But it can like boost your powers in some way and help channel energy. And all that stuff."
" Plus red is evil. Right. Red means bad. I wondered when they all lit up their swords I'm like the sword or light saber designer it was like this will look good. all You guys will all like like, you're all red, it matches your outfits. One guy has a pink, he's I dammit. He's like fuck why did I get pink this time? I brought my party sword I didn't realize there was a fight."
" Its like what? Why'd you bring your pink sword Bill? K sorry I thought I thought we were going to a rave."
" I, I have another theory though. Because I think that Star Wars is the mass consumption"
" uh guys in another land fighting each other thing even for people who don't otherwise enjoy those things. And having all of the bad guys have swords of one color and all of the good guys have of swords of different different"
" It's very easy for people who aren't used to looking at big fight scenes of aliens"
" To tell one side from the other yeah. Yeah it actually make it simpler thing to sort of absorb or visualize. I absorb visually. You can tell who's winning then too. they all wear black and then the good guys all wear this sort of brown tan colors. yeah it exports so like Star Wars sort super super serve who Star love Star and also offices has to serve people don't care well who will consume it because its Star Wars. Its interesting. I like that. It could very duty well be true. I'm it is. And as far as the lore its crystals."
" I did not. Alright. Alright. Haha."
" How'd that go? Everything get swept up I was like getting it trying to get an email. I could just read some of my work emails. Yeah why don't you do that? How's everything going? I should just check in onto my Virgin flight on the way home for tomorrow. Alright well if you would like to have your email read on the show when we pick one uh you can send them to diggnationfans@gmail.com We do want to thank"
" MSNBC for having us at the digital cafe. And Rachel Maddow. Yes Thank you so much. Thank you for making the drinks. Really appreciate it. That is it for this weeks episode of diggnation. I'm Alex Albrecht and I'm Kevin Rose."
" Until next time. Be well."
" I love it whats up? That's awesome!"
" The word that I would described today as is game changing. What we're working on and what's happened with flash is its really evolved as a technology. From being your original animation player on the web to really growing into a full platform now. We have three main"
" themes for this release. Basically most people start application either thinking about the design thinking about the data so we've really tried to enable that in flash builder four."
" The power lived in the wrong hands when it came to designing a really rich internet an application. The designer would hand off a static comp to a developer and then you lose all control over the actual final look and feel of an application."
" Flash builder four I think really enables a much better workflow between designers and developers."
" What this release does is it really puts that power back to the designers hands to own the visual appearance all the way into building an actual flex application."
" They can build out whatever to design they invision. they can import it into flash builder. You can add all your data connectivity and really keep your design the way the designer intended it."
" Im a developer so flash builder is his home for me the features that are more most important for are almost the silly. There's things like the package package view on a they they're things that will me be more."
" So all of the types of growing pains that we go through with a new designer or new project where we're fleshing out whats it's gonna look like when it's. how it's gonna work, having some sort of tool sort of support and facilitate good communication it's pretty awesome."
" All these tools they are going to save me like big time, and effort, and less code much easier to reduce the complexity of the work flow."
" And then you write all of your business logic and in flash builder and play a great application that. Just sort of gonna revolutionize the kinds of expressive exciting apps that you can build."
" Oh my god! Yeah."
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Started discussion: June 16, 2009 @ 9:05pm GMT
Episode 207 - Xbox, Artists and Ice-cream (30 Rockefeller, NYC) [Discussion]
Xbox releases full retail games downloadable on demand. Man wakes from brain surgery as an artist. Canon workers, forbidden to sit down. Ice-cream that doesn't melt and Star Wars: The Old Republic.
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Watching it now, pretty entertaining from the start. Fallon, Maddow, chocolate soup, and lillet? Weird combo, but it works. Only about 10 minutes in, but loving it.
"Days of Our Prager?" Win!
opitica
8 months ago
i know i was hating on the last episode but i loved this episode. i have no idea who the woman is, but i did kind of like her side talks and whatnot. there were some good stories and there was just so much good chemistry and alot of jokes that hit well. very happy :)
HollowTip
8 months ago
I really like these live diggnation episodes done in unique new places, that arn't the "official live meetup episodes". It comes off as being more lively without having to cater to a huge audience like the meetups have.
Also picking a news story that would cater to the people around, where they could have valid input pertaining to the story would be amazing (ie: a tea story when at that tea shop, or a story about rachel maddow or NBC during this episode)
Also picking a news story that would cater to the people around, where they could have valid input pertaining to the story would be amazing (ie: a tea story when at that tea shop, or a story about rachel maddow or NBC during this episode)
Grayson
8 months ago
On the Star Wars thing, the sith have red sabers because they have synthetic crystals and synthetic crystals are only red.
I really liked the Maddow dynamic. I like it when they have guests. I don't know what everyone's problem is...
I really liked the Maddow dynamic. I like it when they have guests. I don't know what everyone's problem is...
averwo
8 months ago
Who was the dude making the drinks? I'd rather just have them hanging around Kevins place. I hate it when they have a small audience that won't shut up.
EricSusch
8 months ago
It was fun!
I was one of the few that were able to attend this episode. We had a great time! (Don't miss the shot of me acting like an idiot at 1min 20sec.)Behind the scenes pictures http://bit.ly/xrZ0x and video http://bit.ly/qnjh2
thing2
8 months ago
Nice!
Nice, Maddow making drinks for ya' - can't beat that. Actually....I suppose you can beat it in the "looks" section but who gives a rip about that - she's funny, insightful and intelligent!!! MAJOR WIN!!Fun Show, were there any geeks in that room though? I hardly heard laugher or enthusiasm from the crowd....assuming it's cause they just didn't get the subject matter.
hellhound
8 months ago
She is OK... I have insomnia lots and wake up 2 or 3 am (EST) and usually can catch her and Obermann's show on MSNBC. IMO she is good in small doses. She has an almost permanent smirk on her face during her show that gets old for me real quick.. and I generally like sarcastic smirky humor.
Seemed to me that the guys werent used to having someone pop in w/ a comment or question, as I bet she wasnt used to being silent for so long in front of a camera being a show host herself.. but I was happy to see guest participation as with the Jimmy F. and Gary V. eps.
More guests can be a good thing, especially on those "2 episodes in one day" shoots
yeah... I wondered if my Spidey sense (Gaydar) was right or not on her (not that there is anything wrong w/ that)
to EricSusch: great vid and pics... you sir, are my "alpha dog of the day"











